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<h4 style="line-height:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The Philosophy Research Initiative invites you to a Research Seminar with<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
<h4 style="line-height:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Associate Professor Davide Panagia<span style="color:#1F497D">
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Rancière's Democratic Realism<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
<p style="line-height:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Wednesday 12 August</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">,
<b>2015</b>, <b>3.00 pm - 4.30 pm</b><span style="color:#1F497D"><br>
</span><b>University of Western Sydney, Room 3.G.27<span style="color:#454545">,</span></b><span style="color:#454545">
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</b></span><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Abstract</span></strong><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="line-height:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">In this talk I cast Jacques Rancière's oeuvre within the tradition of sentimental literature in order to get at his unique articulation of the relation between aesthetic realism and
democratic participation. The talk will focus on some of Rancière's recent writings, especially some select scenes from
<em><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Aisthesis</span></em>, and will offer an account of Rancière's notion of the "<em><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">farniente</span></em> of reverie" (quite literally, the "do-nothing of dreaming")
as the mode of political participation of the no-part, that odd form of political subjectivity that is the actant in Rancière's aesthetics of politics.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:12.0pt"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Bio</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:12.0pt"><a href="http://www.polisci.ucla.edu/content/davide-panagia" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Davide Panagia</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#454545"> </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">is
Associate Professor of Political Science at UCLA and Co-Editor of <em><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Theory& Event</span></em>. Prior to coming to UCLA he held the position of Canada Research Chair in Cultural Studies at Trent University, Canada.
He is a political and cultural theorist whose work specializes in the relationship between aesthetics and politics, with an ongoing curiosity about the diverse ways in which the sensation of value is generated and assembled in political societies. Along with
numerous articles in political theory, cultural aesthetics, and film and media studies, his monograph publications include
<em><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The Poetics of Political Thinking
</span></em>(Duke, 2006), <em><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The Political Life of Sensation (</span></em>Duke, 2009), and
<em><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Impressions of Hume: Cinematic Thinking and the Politics of Discontinuity
</span></em>(Rowman and Littlefield, 2013).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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