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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="http://www.uws.edu.au/philosophy/philosophy@uws/events/research_seminars_2014/charlotte_epstein">Charlotte Epstein</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">DATE/TIME:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> Wednesday, 6 August, 3.30-5.00pm<br>
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<b>PLACE:</b> University of Western Sydney, Bankstown Campus, Building 3, Room 3.G.27 [How to get to Bankstown Campus]
<a href="http://www.uws.edu.au/campuses_structure/cas/campuses/bankstown" target="_blank">
http://www.uws.edu.au/campuses_structure/cas/campuses/bankstown</a><br>
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<b>All welcome<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">ABSTRACT:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> In this paper I consider how our
experiences of bodily privacy are changing in the contemporary surveillance society. To this end I use biometric technologies as a lens for tracking the changing relationships between the body and privacy that underwrite our modern democratic polities. Adopting
a broader genealogical perspective, however, I begin by retracing the role of the body in the constitution of the modern liberal political subject. I consider successively two quite different understandings of the subject, the Foucauldian political subject
as theorized by Michel Foucault, followed by the subject of psychoanalysis analysed by Jacques Lacan. My genealogy of the modern political subject begins with the habeas corpus, and observes a classically Foucauldian periodization, the historical succession
of a regime of sovereignty¹ with a regime of governmentality¹ within which our surveillance societies are currently taking shape. In the final part of the article, instead of the unidirectional Foucauldian gaze, I switch to a two-way scopic relationship, by
way of Lacan¹s analysis of the mirror stage. I locate both the place of the body and the function of misrecognition in the constitution of the psychic subject. The psychoanalytic perspective, in which the powerful gaze is revealed as that of the Other, serves
to appraise the effects upon the subject of excessive exposure. I conclude to the importance of the subject¹s being able to hide, even when she has nothing to hide. By considering these two facets of subjectivity, political and psychic, I hope to make sense
of our enduring, and deeply political, passionate attachment to privacy, notwithstanding the increasing normalization of surveillance technologies and practices.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Visit Philosophy @ UWS on Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/philosophyuws" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/philosophyuws</a><br>
For future research seminars on Philosophy, please visit: <a href="http://www.uws.edu.au/philosophy/seminars2014">
http://www.uws.edu.au/philosophy/seminars2014</a><br>
For further information in Philosophy@UWS, please visit: <a href="http://www.uws.edu.au/philosophy">
http://www.uws.edu.au/philosophy</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Siobhain O’Leary<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Administration Coordinator, Philosophy Research Initiative<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">University of Western Sydney
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Bankstown Campus Building 5
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Locked Bag 1797<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Penrith NSW 2751<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">+61 2 9772 6190<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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