December 3, 2013, by Tom Harding
Centre for Critical Theory Visiting Speaker Series
Modality and Difference.
Dr. Kevin Love, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Social Theory at Nottingham Trent University.
17:00 Wednesday December 4th. A39 Sir Clive Granger Building. All welcome.
Dr. Love, who works on issues in aesthetics, ethics and political philosophy – particularly those arising from the post-phenomenological and post-structuralist traditions – will present a paper on Modality and Difference. He is currently preparing a book-length monograph that examines logics and modalities of difference in continental philosophy.
Modality and Difference
A brief taxonomy of the conceptualisation of difference in Western thought leads to a discussion of differance. Difference thought in the allusionary mode is regarded as a culmination of the ontological bearing, but then subjected to a movement of extrusion or Œdenucleation that marks the trajectory of a non-participle indifference. in differance. This gerundial paranoia that afflicts the differantial orchestration, opening a trajectory of radical indifference, not only subtends conceptions of difference in the ontological mode, it is argued, but also facilitates a consideration of other (non-ontological) modalities of difference. Examining metaethics, politics and art from this perspective, the paper resists the common tendency towards ontological reduction and defends instead a non-formalistic inquiry into the particular comportment of differential modalities.
We hope to see you there.
Hello there!
My name is George Elerick. I am an academic cultural theorist. I have
recently been invited to Cambridge University to speak on the
psychoanalysis of Hegel’s Errata. I have been in conversation with
Bracha Ettinger, the Israel international visual artist and
psychoanalyst who is a professor at EGS and GCAS. Dr Peter Thompson has also
shown interest in joining our panel.
– A few subjects we were talking about are as follows;
— Art
— Lacanian/Freudian Psychoanalysis
— Cultural Identity & Pop-Culture
— Matriarchal Space
-Hebrew Linguistics & Equality — Most of these are interchangeable/Theology
We have others we have on offer. But these emerged out of a recent
conversation. We would love to see if there is a possibility to pursue
this with Oxford as a venue for the near future?
I look forward to hearing back!
George Elerick