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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Research Centre for Writing and Society and Philosophy @ UWS</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Senior Lecturer</span><span style="color:black"><br>
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">School of Humanities and Communication Arts</span><span style="color:black"><br>
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">University of Western Sydney</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">TITLE: Rebel, Saint or Unexceptional? Coetzee’s Michael K.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">ABSTRACT: In this presentation I will consider how Michael K., Coetzee’s re-working of Heinrich von Keist’s famous rebel, Michael Kohlhaas,
can be understood as a biopolitical subject. I read Michael Kohlhaas in relation to the theory of racism that Foucault puts forward at the end of his lectures
<i>Society Must be Defended</i>. I will argue that traces of older configurations of power, both ancient and modern, are still present in the novella, turning it into a meditation on sovereignty.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">BIO: Dimitris Vardoulakis (UWS) is the author of
<i>The Doppelgänger</i> (Fordham University Press, 201) and the editor of <i>Spinoza Now</i> (University of Minnesota Press, 2011).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="mailto:philosophy@uws.edu.au">philosophy@uws.edu.au</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">For more information about Philosophy seminars at UWS see:
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