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Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy Annual Conference 2013 Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy Annual Conference 2013 Photo © John Hadley Organised by Philosophy@UWS and The School of Humanities and Communication Arts 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgment and Welcome 3 Conference Events and Hosts 4 Conference Information 6 Campus Map 7 Plenary Speakers 8 Program 10 Conference Abstracts 22 Hegel & Heidegger Symposium 86 2 Acknowledgment We would like to acknowledge the Darug people who are the traditional custodians of the land on which the University of Western Sydney at Parramatta stands. Welcome The Conference Organising Committee for 2013 extends a warm welcome to all our international and Australian participants, and all others associated with the conference. The ASCP conference is this year hosted by the University of Western Sydney for the first time, and marks another significant step in the growth of our university. The event has been planned and developed across this year by members of the philosophy@UWS research group. Conference Organizing Committee Dr. Diego Bubbio (Chair) Dr. Paul Alberts Dr. Charles Barbour Dr. Alex Ling Dr. Dimitris Vardoulakis Ms. Mariana Fragueiro (Project Officer) Thanks to Professor Peter Hutchings, Dean of the School of Humanities and Communication Arts Our student volunteers 3 AUSTRALASIAN SOCIETY FOR CONTINENtaL PHILOSOPHY ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2013 Conference Events Philosophy@UWS Conference Reception: www.uws.edu.au/philosophy Wednesday 4th Dec. 18.30 – 20.00 at The Boilerhouse Restaurant on Campus (registration required for this event) Philosophy@UWS gathers and publicly disseminates the work and activities of scholars in the University of Western Sydney The BOILERHOUSE and adjacent chimney stack, located on working in various sub-disciplines of philosophy, or in other UWS Parramatta Campus, were constructed in 1894 from finely disciplines in conversation with philosophy. The cross-disciplinary crafted sandstock brick. Containing fire boxes and a number of conversations cut across philosophy, literature, political theory, artefacts of historical significance, the restaurant serves modern music, history, and the visual arts. Australian cuisine. In order to foster the growth of a philosophically rich and lively ASCP Annual General Meeting: intellectual community, Philosophy@UWS stages a wide range th Wednesday 4 Dec, 12.00 – 13.00 EA.2.13 (LT02) of philosophical events, such as the Thinking Out Loud lecture series, the Encountering the Author seminars, The Sydney Seminar for the Arts and Philosophy and supports specialised Hosts workshops and conferences. The cross-disciplinary orientation of scholars affiliated The University of Western Sydney with Philosophy@UWS is anchored in, and amplified by, The 2103 ASCP conference is hosted by the University of their institutional location in the School of Humanities and Western Sydney on its Parramatta Campus, and organized by Communication Arts and Writing and Society Research Centre. staff in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts. The School of Humanities and Communication Arts The School offers both undergraduate and postgraduate programs, including research programs, in the following broad disciplinary fields: arts, communication, convergent media, design (visual communication), humanities, interpreting and translation, languages, music, and creative music therapy. Innovative subjects focus on contemporary debates, perspectives, methods and technologies. To support these disciplines, the School manages a broad technical infrastructure. 4 Stathis Gourgouris LESSONS IN SECULAR CRITICISM Peter Szendy Thinking Out Loud: The Sydney Lectures in Philosophy THEand Society AESTHETIC SUPERMARKET Thinking Out Loud: The Sydney Lectures in Philosophy and Society 5 SHL4062 Thinking Out Loud 2014 postcard_148x105_concepts.indd 1 14/10/13 1:43 PM CONFERENCE INFORmatioN Venue Parking The University of Western Sydney, Parramatta South Campus Campus parking fees have been waived for ASCP Conference delegates. Please only park in designated Blue bays in P7 Building EA Ground Level (conference sessions) and Level 2, (Please refer to annotated campus map). Parking in spaces for Room EA.2.13 (keynote addresses). drivers with disabilities without a permit, Red bays or outside of marked car spaces will be subject to traffic fines. The Campus Safety and Security Office is located on the Ground floor of Building EA. The evacuation point in case of an emergency is the oval in front of Building EA (behind the bus top). Catering An Automatic Teller Machine and public telephone are located in Welcome tea/coffee, morning/afternoon tea will be provided at the same area (EA Foyer). Building EA, foyer area through the conference as part of your package. There will be a number of food outlets open for lunch during the Registrations conference. They include: During the conference, the registration/information desk will Bakehouse 8.00am–8.00pm operate from 8.00 to 17.00 in Building EA, foyer area. Café 1898 11.00am–7.00pm Please wear your registration (name) badges throughout the conference. River Café 8.00am–3.00pm Subway 8.00am–4.00pm Bookstall Boilerhouse Restaurant 11.00am–3.00pm Recent titles by ASCP 2013 keynote speakers will be available For your convenience, additional commercial catering services for purchase at a pop-up bookstall run by the UWSConnect are also available at UWS Retail (building between EA and EG). Bookshop located next to the registration desk in the Foyer Area, Building EA. Internet/Computer Access Shuttle Service from Parramatta CBD Free Wi-Fi access has been enabled for all ASCP delegates. Non-UWS delegates will need to log in with the username and A free shuttle service will operate in the mornings and password to be provided at registration. UWS delegates are afternoons/evenings specifically for ASCP Conference delegates. asked to use their own usernames. The three pick up/drop off points are: » In front of the Novotel Hotel (350 Church St, Parramatta) » In front of Rydges Parramatta (116-118 James Ruse Drive, Rosehill) » UWS Shuttle bus stop on campus (please refer to annotated campus map) Operating times: Mornings: 8.00 to 11.00 Wednesday evening: 17.00 to 21.00 Thursday: 16.00 to 19.00 6 JAMES RUSE DR COLLETT PDE Parramatta campus VINEYARD CREEK BARHAM ST P9 P8 ANDERSON AVE PENNANT ST P13 P7 NE4 LL P6 LR LP P5 FIRST AVENUE PEMBERTON ST LN P4 P3 LZ LNxb UWS PARRAMATTA CAMPUS MAP ANDERSON AVE P2 LY P10 P11 SECOND AVENUE P1 P12 LX RIPPON AVE Sydney Bus V I C T O R I A R O A D Pedestrian Crossing BRIDGE ST ONE WAY EDa E V R E P1 S E R Oval RESERVE Rydalmere FIFTH ST Station Shuttle Bus THE AVENUE PEMBERTON ST P5 IRVING ST Tennis Court BRODIE ST CROWN LAND FIFTH ST PEMBERTON LN P6 ED P2 Building EA P17 P16 ESa EB DEM 08 J A M E S R U S E D R I V E PEMBERTON ST EF BRODIE ST EA EG EH IRVING ST P7 TENNYSON ST RAILWAY ST TENNYSON ST EJa EE MURIEL AVE EI ER EJd EJc Parking P7 UWS Retail EKb Shuttle Bus EQ ES P12 P13 PEMBERTON ST EKa BRODIE ST EO P19 P11 Boilerhouse EM P3 EZ THOMAS ST EK EN P8 RESERVE ET EY EZa H E P10 ALAN ST R I T P9 A PEMBERTON ST G VINEYARD CREEK E BRODIE ST C IR C L E EV P14 Cycleway ENb P A R R A M A T T A R I V E R Date created : 26 September 2013 7 JAMES RUSE DR RIVER RD WEST P ARTHUR ST PLENARY SPEAKERS Professor James Martel Professor Elizabeth Rottenberg Anarchist All the Way Down: Walter Jacques Derrida and the “Question” of the Benjamin’s Subversion of Authority in Text, Death Penalty Thought and Action Tuesday 3rd Dec. 16.30 – 17.30 in EA.2.13 (LT 02) Tuesday 3rd Dec. 9.30 – 10.30 in EA.2.13 (LT 02) Abstract: This paper will address the “question” of the death Abstract: In this talk I will discuss Walter Benjamin’s radical penalty in Derrida’s The Death Penalty Seminars: the question of anarchism. I argue that Benjamin’s approach to anarchism the death penalty, if there is one, that is, if there is “la” question happens on multiple levels. On the level of text, Benjamin defies de la peine de mort. For nothing is less certain. Not only must his own authorial voice, the command that the author has we speak of a proliferation of questions in both seminars, and over meaning and truth. Benjamin subverts this authority, for not only must we speak of the transformation or mutation of the example, by often beginning his texts with an apparent--often question of the death penalty from one seminar to the other (in fairly conservative seeming--set of arguments only to utterly The Death Penalty I, the question of the death penalty is primarily undermine those arguments at some point (and often without the question of the political onto-theology of sovereignty; in foreshadowing). This has the effect of lessening the reader’s The Death Penalty II, it becomes the question of reason as the ability to rely on the author for interpretation. It forces the reader principle of reason). But we must also, in the end, speak of onto her own devices, radically undermining standard traditions Derrida’s question about the question (about the authority of of how a text is to be interpreted. In theoretical terms, Benjamin the question or the questioning form, etc.). Indeed, at the very takes aim at Carl Schmitt’s claim that anarchism is impossible end of The Death Penalty II, Derrida will point to the future of because to be an anarchist, in his view, is to “decide against the the question. How do the possibility and the reality of the death decision.” Benjamin evades this construction by demonstrating, penalty, how does the question of the death penalty force us to in The Origin of German Tragic Drama, among other places, that ask a question not only about what comes before the question decision is actually impossible.
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