Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy ASCP 2013 PROGRAMME

Day 1: Tuesday 3 December

9.20 - 9.30 Conference opening

EA.2.13 (LT02)

Professor Peter Hutchings, Dean of the School of Humanities and Communication Arts

Dimitris Vardoulakis, Chair of Philosophy@UWS 9.30 - 10.30 Keynote Address

EA.2.13 (LT02)

James Martel Anarchist all the way down: Walter Benjamin’s subversion of authority in text, thought and action

Chair: Charles Barbour 10.30 - 10.45 Morning Tea - Foyer Area Building EA 10.45 - 12.15 Parallel Session 1

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Hal Ginges Samuel Cuff Snow John Cleary Leah Carr Simone Drichel Nicholas Heron Thematic panel: Thematic panel: The Thing-in-itself is not a The Promise of Irony: Withered by the identical Nietzschean Perspectivism The Disaster of Postcolonial Theory of the instrumental cause Sartre reconsidered Spinoza’s Authority Thing: Kant, Goethe and the Kierkegaard and Schiller neutrality of the gulf” : The and Philosophical Therapy Narcissism Apprehension of Essences. concept of the Event in the Richard Colledge Russell Grigg Gregg Lambert Wojciech Kaftanski Philosophy of Alain Badiou. Hamish Pringle Joanne Faulkner Arche and Eschaton: Kearney Speaking for myself: Freedom On Spinoza and “signs” Daniel Wilson Plato’s and Kierkegaard’s Spinoza and Nietzsche The Coming Postcolonial and Desmond on God and Responsibility in Sartre and Reconciling contemporary Reading of Imitation Chris van Rompaey on Epistemology and Community: Political Ontology of Freud Dimitris Vardoulakis art with Kant’s principles of Jean-Luc Nancy’s Metaphysics Aboriginal Childhood in Bringing Chair: Daniel McLoughlin Inequality as a Critique of fine art Jeffrey Hanson Deconstruction of Christianity: Them Home Talia Morag Authority He Speaks in Tongues’: A Badiouian Critique Jean-Etienne Joullié Keeping psychology personal: Murray Robertson Hearing the Truth of Will to Power, Nietsche’s Last Chair: Simone Bignall Sartre, Bad Faith and the Chair: Justin Clemens Can a numinous noumenon Abraham’s Words of Faith Alexander Karolis Idol Unconscious exist? Ontological Intersections: Chair: Dalia Nassar Jean-Luc Nancy and Martin Chair: Diego Bubbio Chair: Jon Roffe Chair: Paul Alberts Heidegger

Chair: Alex Ling 12.15 - 13.00 Lunch 13.00 - 14.30 Parallel Session 2

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Ben Hjorth Valerijs Vinogradovs Alex Ling Jessica Whyte Book Panel: Tim Flanagan Thematic panel: Thematic panel: A strange kind of inbetween Lack of Productive Imagination in The Categorial Imperative: On Fail again: Fail better? The Dalia Nassar, Deleuze and Disquiet Sartre reconsidered Spinoza and Literature thing: Translating Hegel with Sellars’ Appropriation of Kantian Badiou’s Mathematics of the ‘weak state crisis’ and the The Romantic Absolute: Being Anne Carson Imagination Transcendental language of failure. and Knowing in German Hannah Stark Robert Sinnerbrink Moira Gatens Romantic Philosophy 1795-1804 Corn Man Walking: Deleuze and A Dangerous Mind: Sartre, Deliberative Fictions: Spinoza James Muldoon Gene Flenady Justin Clemens Timothy O’Leary Plants Huston and the Freud and the concept of an ars Would Hegel be a Foucaultian Making Sense in/of Discourse, Polemic as logic in the work of Get Over Yourself! Foucault’s Damion Buterin Screenplay Today? Figure: Lyotard’s Reading of Alain Badiou Critique of Ethical Experience Paul Redding Emma Shea Davies Anthony Uhlmann Hegel and our Reading of Simon Lumsden Who cries when a rock dies? David MacArthur Spinoza and Understanding and Michael Leininger-Ogawa Lyotard Chair: Alex Ling Chair: Miguel Vatter The connection between grief Sartre, Wittgenstein and the Meaning in Nature and in Art Paul Veyne’s Foucault Chair: Damian Buterin and ethics in the human- Logical Form of Language Lucian Green nonhuman relationship Chair: Dimitris Vardoulakis Chair: Richard Colledge Overturning Hegel’s experience Chair: Eleanor Kaufman of alienation through five-fold Chair: Craig Lundy humanities lenses

Chair: Peter Banki 14.30 - 14.45 Break 14.45 - 16.15 Parallel Session 3

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Tiffany Plotzza Louise Richardson-Self Tessa Clews Fiona Jenkins Mathew Abbott Craig Lundy Book panel: Thematic panel: Animal Voices Subjectivity and the Other: Demanding Respect: Rainer The Emasculating Angel: Law’s Deformability and the Cinematic Scepticism: Abbas Bergson, History and Ontology Genevieve Lloyd, The founding role of the Other Forst’s Reflections on An Anti-Oedipal Reading of Politics of Address Kiarostami and Film-Philosophy Enlightenment Shadows Christopher Peterson in the formation of the subject Tolerance and Luce Irigaray’s Castrations in Film Sean Bowden The Monolingualism of the in the ethics of Emmanuel Philosophy of Sexuate Marcelo Svirsky Laurence Simmons Ontological Relativity and Indirect Anik Waldow Human Levinas. Difference Thierry Jutel Subjectivity and Profanation The Unfilmable Discourse: A Potted History with Dalia Nassar Location, locality and place: a Deleuzian Coda Max Deutscher Chris Danta Lisa Slater Jeff Stewart Pacific Rim, The Hobbit and Chair: Sarah Sorial Chair: Robert Sinnerbrink “Might sovereignty be Waiting at the border: Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Global Hollywood Chair: Jon Roffe Chair: Paul Patton devouring?” Derrida and the impossibility, generosity and Heidegger, Luce Irigaray, and Fable settler Australian amnesia the no-longer-book Aleksandr Andreas Wansbrough Chair: Dinesh Wadiwel Liz Dean Rebecca Hill The Banality and The Ethics of an Encounter; Fold: on the Implication of Transcendence of Evil: the habits and change Ideas and Becoming Tragic Hero as a grovelling Nazi in Lars von Trier’s Images of a Chair: Lubica Ucník Chair: Elizabeth Stephens Relief

Chair: Saige Walton 16.15 - 16.30 Afternoon Tea - Foyer Area Building EA 16.30 - 17.30 Keynote Address

EA.2.13 (LT02)

Elizabeth Rottenberg Jacques Derrida and the “Question” of the Death Penalty

Chair: Dimitris Vardoulakis ASCP 2013 PROGRAMME

Day 2: Wednesday 4 December

09.00 - 10.30 Parallel Session 4

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Emma Wilson Astrid Lorange Amy Stefanovic Thomas Ryan Onni Hirvonen Knox Peden Goetz Richter Thematic panel: Deleuze’s The Psyche of the Spectacle: An aesthetic account of new Democracy is Common Nietzsche’s cure from the The possibilities of Hegelian The Irony of Equality: Rancière Heidegger’s Music Dramatic Concepts: The Dark Kristeva’s Theory of Revolt in a materialisms and dissonant Knowledge metaphysical need group recognition and History Precursor and the Spiritual Post-Revolutionary Age feminisms Sally Macarthur Automaton Janice Richardson Paul Alberts Mirjam van der Heide Matheson Russell Deleuzianising the Composer Emma McNicol Martyn Lloyd Spinoza, Information and Nietzsche: Relationality and the Struggles for dignity The Politics of the Third Person Identity Simone Bignall Insights gained from Simone Re-Reading Wahl: Le Malheur Privacy Conditions for Naturalism The Obscure Drama of the Political de Beauvoir’s (recently de la conscience dans la Andrea Mattia Marcelli Chair: Dimitris Vardoulakis Chair: Greg Hainge Idea published) diaries philosophie de Hegel and Ozgur Yalcin David Rowe Hermeneutics as epistemic French Hegelianism’s ‘First The constitution of democratic Nietzsche’s Negative View of ground: A Foucauldian trail Gregory Flaxman Chair: Marguerite La Caze Wave’ society: Rawls or Habermas? Freedom Thinking/Cinema Chair: Heikki Ikäheimo Amanda Third Chair: Daniel McLoughlin Chair: Joanne Faulkner Eleanor Kaufman Contracting Pleasures: Sex, The Dark Precursor and What Infidelity and Gender in Erotic Follows Fiction Chair: Paul Patton Chair: Fiona Jenkins 10.30 - 10.45 Morning Tea - Foyer Area Building EA 10.45 - 11.45 Parallel Session 5

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Book panel: Book Panel: Response panel: Response panel: Response panel: ASCP Postgraduate Charles Barbour, Max Deutscher, William Franke Jeff Malpas, Robyn Ferrell Professional Development The Marx-Machine: Politics, In Sensible Judgement The New Apophatic ‘We Hyperboreans’: Towards a Free Stuff: The Cost of Culture Session Polemics, Ideology Universalism: Deconstruction, Nietzschean Topography Michael Carey Negative Theology, and Open Respondent: Jess Whyte James Martel Michelle Boulous Walker Togetherness in the European Respondent: Paul Alberts Chair: Allison Weir Anna Yeatman Tradition Chair: Paul Crittenden Chair: Peg Birmingham Chair: Dimitris Vardoulakis Respondent: Chris Hackett

Chair: Diego Bubbio 11.45 - 12.00 Break 12.00 - 13.00 ASCP Annual General Meeting - EA.2.13 (LT02) 13.00 - 13.30 Lunch 13.30 - 15.00 Parallel Session 6

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Damion Buterin Dimitri Vouros Mike Grimshaw Pat McConville Valeria Pashkova Severin Staalesen Book panel: Justin Clemens, Thematic panel: Animal Studies Hegel’s Rejoinder to Reinterpreting Hegelian Totality Hermeneutic capitalism? A Truths The Hand Can Touch: Hannah Arendt and the tradition Something’s got to give: Psychoanalysis is an Nominalism and Abstract Universality in precursor to Vattimo & Zabala Towards A Bioconservative of Western thought phenomenology, cognitive Antiphilosophy Derrida’s animals Adorno’s Philosophy Existentialism science, and consciousness Emily Finlay Nicholas Smith Daniel Brennan Sigi Jottkandt Eva Birch Animals, Women and Writing Hegelian Understanding and Jack Isherwood Interpretation Does Critical Theory move Payman Tajalli Collapsing the Private Public Gavin Smith Knox Peden Impurity: From Joy to Compassion the Politics of Representation and Public Reason beyond Hermeneutics? Circularity of Argument in Dichotomy Mimetic Rapport: Embodied Mark Kelly Marcel’s Authentic Humanism Meaning-Making Through Art Chair: Heikki Ikäheimo Joel Graham Chair: Jack Reynolds Magdalena Zolkos Chair: Russel Grigg Dinesh Wadiwel Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: Marx, The Problem of Consent: A Juliet Bennett Politica of Marginality: the Brook Michael Novak legitimate Paradox Panentheism: Reframing the Question of Jewish Belonging in The Dissolution of the Hand: Derrida and the Animal as God Debate the Thought of Jean Amery Pragmatism and Digital Commodity. Chair: Geoff Boucher Fabrication Technologies Chair: Diego Bubbio Chair: Max Deutscher Rowena Braddock Strange Copula: Poematic Chair: Terri Bird Hospitality and Animal Catachresis

Chair: Rhiannon Galla 15.00 - 15.15 Break 15.15 - 16.45 Parallel Session 7

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Glenn Stewart Max Deutscher Emily Hughes Stephen Abblitt James Hill Amanda Teo Thematic panel: Thematic panel: Animal Studies Samuel Beckett and the After Foucault: Descartes’ Thrown Impossibility: The I have nothing to say about After Meillassoux The Pathology of Modern Space: Mendacity and the Law Kantian Cogito madmen Ontological Structure of Despair love Escaping the Sartrean Paradigm Animality and Sense Bryan Cooke of Hell Marguerite LaCaze Arka Chattopadhyay Elliot Patsoura Rodger Watson David Fiorovanti Nihilism, Nature and Truth: Or Sincerity and Lying in Politics in Simone Gustafsson Mathematical Anatomy of Imagination in The Order of Hermeneutic Phenomenology in The Despair of Moral Reality in what can Hamilton-Grant and Alison Beale Derrida and Arendt Between Heidegger’s Fundamental Thinking: Samuel Beckett in Things reflective practice The Sickness unto Death Brassier tell us about Deleuze, Beauty and Art in Wilde and Concepts of Metaphysics and Merleau- Company with Philosophy and Badiou and the Prospects of a Sartre: A New Interpretation Charles Barbour Ponty’s Concept of Animal Life Psychoanalysis Wendyl Luna Lubica Ucnik Francesco Paradiso Contemporary Rationalism? The Hazard of Truth: Perjury and Practical Critique: Foucault’s Heretical Reading of Arendt: The Double Reading & Jazz Michaela Baker Oath in Derrida’s Later Work Rhiannon Galla Russell Smith Connection to Kant Space of Thinking Improvisation Alexander James Gillett ‘Oedipus is free. Antigone and Troubling the Animal Image: Art, ‘Passions of the Soul’ in The needd for a more Prometheus are free’: The role of Peg Birmingham Difference and Becoming Chair: Sally Macarthur Samuel Beckett’s The Chair: Paul Alberts Chair: Nicholas Smith speculative Naturalism freedom in Sartre’s conception of Can Political Authority be Jacqueline Dalziell Unnamable a ‘theatre of situation’ Founded on a Ruse: Derrida Chair: Christopher Watkin and Lefort on Machiavelli’s Use Rationalising Matter with Physarum Chair: Simone Drichel Chair: Talia Morag of Political Deception polycephalum: What if Nature Thinks?

Chair: Dimitris Vardoulakis Chair: Dinesh Wadiwel 16.45 - 17.00 Afternoon Tea - Foyer Area Building EA 17.00 - 18.20 Keynote Address

EA.2.13 (LT02)

Introduction: Professor Andrew Cheetham, Deputy Vice Chancellor Research

Gianni Vattimo Is There a New Need for Metaphysics?

Chair: Diego Bubbio 18.30 - 20.00 Conference Reception - The Boiler House Restaurant ASCP 2013 PROGRAMME Day 3: Thursday 5 December

09.00 - 10.30 Plenary Panel

EA.2.13 (LT02)

Rosalyn Diprose Panel

James Arvanitakis The Gesture of the Handshake

Simone Drichel Defending Vulnerability

Sarah Sorial Embodiment, bioethics and community in Ros Diprose’s work

Chair: Joanne Faulkner 10.30 - 10.45 Morning Tea - Foyer Area Building EA 10.45 - 12.15 Parallel Session 8

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James Banwell Margaux Portron Thomas Sutherland Toby Juliff Yoni Molad James Kent Thematic panel: Australian Thematic panel: Giorgio Thematic panel: Screen Being-Where? Realism and Reading Michel Foucault in The Law of Becoming: On ‘If I contend with thee’: Nietzsche’s philosophical Socratic Truth in the Girard Seminar Agamben: Economics, Ontologies: Technology, Idealism in Heidegger’s 2013 the Question of Heraclitean Hopkins and Derrida, in a counseling Philosophy of David Foster Theology and the Use of Relation, Sensation Thought Flux field in Yorkshire Wallace: on making the Diego Bubbio the Common John Dalton Trish Nowland ‘head throb heartlike’. Girard and Vattimo on Elizabeth Stephens James Garrett Biopolitics and Evolution Christopher Watkin Maebh Long Vulnerability in Absence: Politics Steven DeCaroli Screen Organology: Formal Indication vs the Imitation of the divine: Absolute Nonabsolute Phenomenological Norma Lam-Saw Poverty as a Way of Life: Rereading the French Pre- Theoretical Attitude Christopher Mayes Meillassoux as Oedipus Singularity: Derrida and Contextualism and Real Bartleby’s Passive Heroism Chris Fleming Giorgio Agamben and Cinematic Screen Through Continental Philosophy Fragmentation Negation Desire Violence and the Economy Canguilhem John Kaye and Bioethics: A Mutually Jon Roffe Tracy Llanera Philosophical Tradition: The Death as a Possibility Beneficial Relationship? Meillassoux on material Terri Bird Nick Trakakis On Rorty and the Work of René Girard Miguel Vatter Saige Walton and as a Problem in the inscription Flesh to frame: Slow Philosophy Redemptive Power of Franciscan Poverty and Folds in the Soul: Philippe philosophies of Martin Chair: Paul Alberts reconsidering material Literature Round table with Gianni Trusts: Agamben and the Grandrieux’s Cinema of Heidegger and Gilles Chair: Brian Cooke relations through practices Chair: Damion Buterin Vattimo Biopolitical Critique of Matter Deleuze of contemporary art Chair: Magdalena Zoklos Corporations Chair: Joel Hodge Greg Hainge Chair: Ingo Farin Chair: Matheson Russell Daniel McLoughlin Juxtaposition(s): Reading From Sovereignty to new media and the cinema government: On Giorgio side by side Agamben’s The Kingdom and the Glory Chair: Laurence Simmons Chair: Simone Bignall 12.15 - 13.00 Lunch 13.00 - 14.30 Parallel Session 9

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Ingo Farin Ben Glasson Paul Macovaz Rhonda Siu Tomoe Nakamura Book panel: Thematic panel: Nature, Thematic panel: More Book panel: Interpreting Heidegger Efficient catachresis: The Plastic Screen: Cinema’s Music, language and A dream of synthesising Dimitris Vardoulakis, Theory, Practice Things in Heaven and Earth: Allison Weir, Identities and Discourse post-nature corporeo-cognitive foil expression in Merleau- truth, beauty and art with a Sovereignty and Its Other: The Work of Roland Boer Freedom Ruth Irwin Ponty’s philosophy redemption of aisthesis: Re- Toward the Dejustification Jean-Philippe Deranty Poetic Natur and Ek-stasis Meera Lee Cameron Ironside examination of Alexander of Violence Feuerbachian moments in Geoff Boucher Jess Whyte The Politics of Resentment Film and the Metaphysics of Julian Raxworthy Gottlieb Baumgarten’s the critical theory project A dialectical theory of the Joanne Faulkner Chair: James Garrett Possible Worlds Spring Shoots: ”Anti- conceptualisation of ‘the Nick Mansfield religious instance: the work Andrew Sims Andrew Dunstall Chair: Moira Gatens Fragility” and Growth aesthetic’ James Martel of Roland Boer Jacques Lacan and the Conall Cash Miguel Vatter Derrida’s naturalism (with post-Cartesian Subject Immediacy and Greg Leaney Peter Banki reference to Merleau-Ponty) Rory Jeffs Representation in the Cinema Flourishing in the Flesh Humor as the Inverted Chair: Peg Birmingham Marxism turns back into Chair: Knox Peden Heikki Ikäheimo of Lee Chang-dong of the Interworld: Sublime: On Jean Paul Theology? The Attachment Ecophenomenological Recognition and human of Marxism to Political Myth Chair: Greg Flaxman Intertwining and Rory Dufficy nature in the early Marx in the work of Roland Boer Environmental Virtue Ethics ‘The World is Purely Chair: Sean Bowden Parodic’: Georges Bataille Matt Sharpe Chair: Goetz Richter and the Theory of the Roland Boer’s Theology Avant-Garde and Marxism

Chair: Sabrina Achilles Respondent: Roland Boer Chair: Rory Jeffs 14.30 - 14.45 Break 14.45 - 16.15 Parallel Session 10

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Anoop George Karl Nicholas Moll Helen Ngo Christopher Conti Christopher Oakey Andrew Inkpin Thematic panel: Martin Black The Enticing Distress: Marx’s Hegelian Anti- Racism and the Habitual Body: Aporia or am-ha’aretz? Heidegger and Lyric Poetry Merleau-Ponty: Derrida: ethical and political Nietzsche’s Political Teaching: Heidegger, Modernity and philosophy Phenomenological Reflections Kafka’s theatre of gesture. A transcendental implications Its Intention and Significance the Global South on Racism through Merleau- Warwick Mules phenomenologist? Monte Pemberton Ponty and Heidegger Lana Starkey The Limits of Heidegger’s Elaine Kelly Vanessa Lemm Marilyn Stendera Rhythmanalysis 101 Montaigne, identity, and the Earth Jack Reynolds Beyond Hospitable Nietzsche: Truth, embodiment The Unready-to-Hand: A Kirk Zwangobani problem of self-hood Merleau-Ponty’s Gordian Horizons? and probity Heideggerian Response to William Hebblewhite Excess and lack - where do I Chair: Goetz Richter Knot: Transcendental Michael Wheeler Althusser, Ranciere and the belong? Cindy Lee Zeiher Philosophy, Science, and Nick Mansfield Chair: Dimitris Vardoulakis Division of Labour. Theorising Desire in the 21st Naturalism Derrida, Sovereignty, Chair: Ruth Irwin Chloe Gill-Khan Century Violence Chair: Jean-Phillipe Deranty The subject in European and Chair: Matheson Russell Islamic philosophical traditions Chair: Chris Peterson Chair: Nicole Anderson Leah Carr

Chair: Elizabeth Stephens 16.15 - 16.30 Afternoon Tea - Foyer Area Building EA 16.30 - 17.30 Keynote Address

EA.2.13 (LT02)

Graham Harman A Compact Account of Object-Oriented Philosophy

Chair: Alex Ling 17.30 - 17.35 Closing Remarks

Diego Bubbio, Chair of the Conference Organising Committee

ASCP President