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mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span lang="EN-US">The Centre for Ideas</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><a name="_GoBack"></a><span lang="EN-US">Tuesday
24 April and Tuesday 1 May<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US">Time: 6.00-7.30<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US">Venue: Federation Hall<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US">Free event<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>-<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>No bookings required.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span lang="EN-US">From Fear to Instability: On the Philosophy of
Photography</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US">The
two lectures on the fear of photography that accompanies its
presence within the 19th and early 20th Centuries.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US">Presented by <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">Andrew Benjamin</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p>Andrew Benjamin
is Professor of Philosophical Aesthetics at Monash. He was previously Professor
of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Research in Philosophy and
Literature at Warwick University. An internationally recognised authority on
contemporary French and German critical theory, he has been Visiting Professor
at Columbia University in New York and Visiting Critic at the Architectural
Association in London.His many books include: <em>What is Deconstruction?</em>
(1988), <em>Art, Mimesis and the Avant-Garde</em> (1991), <em>Present Hope:
Philosophy, Architecture, Judaism</em> (1997), <em>Philosophy's Literature</em>
(2001) and <em>Disclosing Spaces: On Painting</em> (2004) Writing Art and
Architecture (2010) and Of Jews and Animals (2010) <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-US">Lecture 1 : Tuesday 24 April<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US">In the first lecture
special attention will be given to Baudelaire's argument that photography
could not be the work of the imagination. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US">As such photography could
not be inventive. However as the history of photography develops what
emerges is the possibility on invention and experimentation. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US">What experimentation
reveals is a founding instability within the photographic image - an
instability that allows the image to be both a document and a work of
art. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-US">Lecture 2 : Tuesday 1 May<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US">The second lecture will be
concerned with the away this instability revels the truth of the
photographic image.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span> </p><p class="MsoNormal">These
lectures form part of the Centre for Ideas Art & Philosophy project funded
by the Sidney Myer Foundation.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p>
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<div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dr. Ashley Woodward<br>The Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy <br><a href="http://www.mscp.org.au">www.mscp.org.au</a><br>Editor, Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy <br>www.parrhesiajournal.org<br>website: http://users.tpg.com.au/phallacy/ashleywoodward/ashley_woodward.html</div>
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