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<span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Philosophy Seminars 2012</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">The Writing and Society Research Centre and Philosophy @ UWS</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">A. Kiarina Kordela <br>
Professor of German and Director of the Critical Theory Program, Macalester College</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Honorary Adjunct Professor, 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: Gaze, or, The Limit to Boundary</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">TIME: August 01, 2-4pm</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">PLACE: UWS Bankstown Campus, 3.G.55</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">ABSTRACT: The title’s pun on Kant’s notorious distinction between limit (Schranke) and boundary (Grenze) means to indicate that the gaze is a function that renders any boundary—the marker of the difference between something
and its other—unlimited, that is, incapable of finding completion. This analogy to Kant, however, ends here, as the way in which the gaze corrodes boundaries—to the point, in fact, that the distinction (boundary) between self and other collapses—is not that
of the limit, understood in the Kantian sense of an indefinite progress in the series of experience. More relevant to the gaze’s ‘limitations’ are rather concepts such as Deleuze’s “out-of-field” or Sartre’s “body” and Lacan’s the “gaze.” Instead, however,
of engaging in a direct dialogue with the above thinkers, in this talk I will focus on the exemplary unraveling of the structure of the gaze, as the inherent condition of the boundary’s impossibility, presented in Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville’s
<i>Ici et ailleurs </i>(“Here and Elsewhere”; 1976). In spite of all relevant footage, the film goes far beyond the specific historical event of the Palestinian revolution of 1970 to suggest that one’s “heres” and “elsewheres” are very complex aggregates whose
dimensions range from space, time, and one’s geo-political position within a mediatized capitalist world, to language, habit, desire, and above all, the interplay between the boundary of gender and the gaze that corrodes it. This interplay permeates all other
boundaries staged in <i>Here and Elsewhere</i> as a form of their primary matrix, thereby rendering difficult to define the title’s
<i>et/and </i>that is supposed to express the relation between “here” and “elsewhere.” It is ultimately as an essay on
<i>Et/And</i> that Godard and Miéville’s film remains timely and central to discussions on topics that range from any specific difference to ontology itself.
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">BIO: A. Kiarina Kordela is professor of German and director of the Critical Theory Program, at Macalester College, and honorary adjunct professor at the University of Western Sydney, Australia.
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">She is the author of </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">$urplus: Spinoza, Lacan</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> (SUNY Press, 2007),
<i>Being, Time, Bios: Capitalism and Ontology </i>(SUNY Press, forthcoming 2013), and co-editor, with Dimitris Vardoulakis, of
<i>Freedom and Confinement in Modernity: Kafka’s Cages</i> (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2011). She has published on a wide range of topics
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">in several collections and journals, including
<i>Angelaki, Cultural Critique, Political Theory, Parallax, Rethinking Marxism</i>, and
<i>Umbr(a)</i>. Her “Biopolitics: Transhistorically and Historically” is forthcoming in
<i>Differences</i>.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Please note that the presentation by A. Kiarina Kordela on August 01 will be preceded by film screening of Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville’s
<i>Ici et ailleurs </i>(“Here and Elsewhere”; 1976) on July 31 at 5pm in room 02.6.05 (co-organized by Philosophy @ UWS and UWS Student Philosophy Society).
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