[csaa-forum] Upcoming UNSW SAM Seminar: Henry Sussman, “Strange Loops”

[Michael Richardson]

Seminar by Professor Henry Sussman, Yale University
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[Henry Sussman presents Strange Loops on 24 April]<https://sam.arts.unsw.edu.au/events/featured/sam-seminars/?mc_cid=832c28c73c&mc_eid=[UNIQID]>

When Tuesday, 24 April, 3:30pm - 5pm
Where Cinema 327, Robert Webster Building, UNSW Sydney





This talk pivots around the figure of the "strange loop": how its dimension-expanding & meta-critical capabilities—always in the direction, like the Derridean brisure, of the open system, literally rebounds from one medium—literature, music, painting, cinema—to the next. Douglas Hofstadter foresaw this, and hence back in the breathless founding days of cybernetics there was an elective affinity between the giant steps taken at the time between philologically grounded theory & cybernetics that has not been fully recognized. The talk proceeds from basic definitions of analog, digital, and the loops themselves to some of the delightful examples that visually-oriented literature has come up with. These include Laurence Sterne’s digressions, Lewis Carroll’s and D. W. Winnicott’s squiggles, and the impossible literary figures of Jorge Luis Borges and Italo Calvino. This then extends into the proto-cybernetic sensibility infusing Buffalo language poet Steve McCaffery's experimental poetry.

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Henry Sussman is Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Yale University. The most recent of his many books are Idylls of the Wanderer: Outside in Literature and Theory and The Task of the Critic: Poetics, Philosophy, Religion (both Fordham University Press). Professor Sussman will present as a Distinguished Visitor to the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW.




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