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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Philosophy Seminars 2013<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">The Writing and Society Research Centre and Philosophy@UWS</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">present:</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Professor Desmond Manderson<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Future Fellow, ANU College of Law / Research School of Humanities & Arts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Australian National University, Canberra Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Title:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> <b>Three episodes from the scopic regime of sovereignty<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Date/Time:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> Wednesday 7 August, 3.30 pm - 5.00 pm</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Place:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> University of Western Sydney, Bankstown Campus, Building 3, Room 3.G.54</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D"> <a href="http://www.uws.edu.au/campuses_structure/cas/campuses/bankstown" target="_blank">[How
to get to Bankstown Campus]</a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Abstract: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:black">‘The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses’—Walter Benjamin.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Visual culture is subject to ‘scopic regimes’ which, at different times and places, govern how we read and make sense of images. Since the US Civil War, the photography of war has played a pivotal role in constructing
these regimes. But the relationships between image, spectator, and subject have not remained static. Tracing these structural and aesthetic transformations allows us to understand how changing scopic regimes differently frame the justification, implications,
and limits of the exercise of sovereign power and more generally organize our on-going relationship to legal authority and our own legal subjectivity. How violence and death abroad is depicted and mediated is not unrelated to how it is depicted and mediated
in everyday life; the images that present the exercise of sovereign power in war are not unrelated to the terms on which it may be questioned at home. This essay focuses on three episodes from that history, focusing on the sharpest contrasts and developments
in the visual discourse of sovereignty—between the US Civil War and World War I, on the one hand, and between those two periods and contemporary representations of war on the other. Together the dimensions of temporality, affect, and judgment position the
viewer in relation to sovereign violence and help to construct social norms around sovereignty, accountability, and responsibility. In particular the function and structure of war imagery has notably modified in recent years, implicating us in profoundly new
relationships to politics, technology, and sovereignty.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Biography:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Desmond Manderson is a pioneering figure in interdisciplinary scholarship in law and the humanities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">He is the author of several books including From Mr Sin to Mr Big (1993); Songs Without Music: Aesthetic dimensions of law and justice (2000); Proximity, Levinas, and the Soul of Law (2006); Essays on Levinas and
Law (2009); and Kangaroo Courts and the Rule of Law—The legacy of modernism (2012).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">For the entire 2013 program of the Philosophy seminar series at UWS see:
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.uws.edu.au/philosophy/philosophy@uws/events/research_seminars_2013" target="_blank">http://www.uws.edu.au/philosophy/philosophy@uws/events/research_seminars_2013</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>Mariana Fragueiro<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Administration Coordinator, Philosophy Research Initiative<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">University of Western Sydney<o:p></o:p></p>
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