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Abstract Booklet 2016 ABSTRACTS BOOK 5th Derrida Today Conference 8th – 11th June 2016 Goldsmiths, University of London Conference Directors: Dr Lynn Turner (Goldsmiths) and Prof. Nicole Anderson (Macquarie University) Welcome Welcome to the 5th Derrida Today Conference, hosted by Goldsmiths, University of London, and Macquarie University, Sydney. The conference was co-founded by Nicole Anderson & Nick Mansfield in 2008 in Sydney to coincide with the launch of the Derrida Today Journal of which they are the co-editors in chief. The conference has since been co- directed by Nicole Anderson and a colleague from a host institution. So far the conference has been held in Sydney, London, Irvine California, New York and now London once more. The aim of the conferences is to form a community of scholars from around the world, bringing them together to share, develop and be supported in their work on Derrida. In gathering you together the conference also aims to continue the relevance of Derrida’s work for today, and therefore tomorrow. In other words, as we state in the journal, one of our goals is to see Derrida’s work in its broadest possible context and to argue for its keen and enduring relevance to our present and future intellectual, cultural and ethical-political situations’. While at the conference we hope that you meet new colleagues, and develop productive relationships and enduring friendships. conference directors: Dr. Lynn Turner is Senior Lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her books include The Animal Question in Deconstruction (edited, Edinburgh University Press, 2013); Visual Cultures As… Recollection (co-authored, Sternberg, 2013); The Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies (co-edited, Edinburgh University Press, 2017). She has published widely on deconstruction and animal studies, psychoanalysis, feminism, film and science fiction, including in the journal Derrida Today. Prof. Nicole Anderson is Head of Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. She is the co-founder and editor of the journal Derrida Today published by Edinburgh University Press. She is the co-founder, and with various international hosts the co-Director, of the biennial Derrida Today Conference. As well as numerous articles in various journals, she is also the sole author of Derrida: Ethics Under Erasure (Continuum 2012, Bloomsbury 2014); co-editor of Cultural Theory in Everyday Practice (Oxford University Press 2008), and is writing a book, under contract for Routledge, entitled Culture which explores the intersection between, and co-implications of, science, biology and culture (2016). 2 Contents Keynotes 4 Abstracts and Bios 9 Conference Paper Submission to Derrida Today Journal 189 Thanks 190 3 KEYNOTES 4 _________________________________________________ Day 1 – Wednesay 8 June 2.30 – 4.00pm Kelly Oliver W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University, US. Keynote Title: Humanitarian Aid International humanitarian aid and international military forces operate as two sides of the same sovereign, a sovereignty rooted in religion, specifically Christianity. In response to contemporary challenges to its authority, this sovereignty takes a defensive position, building walls, fences, and checkpoints in the name of both humanitarian space and state-sovereignty. Today’s refugees are the “collateral damage,” caught in the crossfire in these battles over sovereignty. Bio and Selected Publications: Among Kelly Oliver’s recent books are Hunting Girls: Sexual Violence from The Hunger Games to Campus Rape, Columbia University Press, 2016); Earth and World: Philosophy After the Apollo Missions (Columbia University Press, 2015); Technologies of Life and Death: From Cloning to Capital Punishment (Fordham University Press, 2013) and Animal Lessons: How They Teach us to be Human (Columbia University Press, 2009). She is about to publish her first murder mystery, Wolf (Kaos Press, 2016). __________________________________________________________________________________________ Day 2 – Thursday 9 June 5.30 – 7.00pm Julian Wolfreys Professor of English, Portsmouth University, UK. Keynote Title: ‘The look that gropes the objects’:!Derrida’s Photographs In his introduction to Copy-Archive-Signature: A Conversation on Photography published in 2009, Gerhard Richter observes that while photography is concerned, ‘like deconstruction’, with ‘questions of presentation, translation, techné, substitution, deferral, dissemination, repetition, iteration, memory, inscription, death, and mourning’, relatively little attention has been given to those texts that specifically address photography and the work and thought of the photograph: ‘Althea,’ Rights of Inspection, Athens, Remains, to name the most obvious. Things have changed a little 5 since 2009, but it remains the case that photography, with its strange logic and uncanny temporalities, situates itself in Derrida’s publications as, possibly, the most performative of tropes in Derrida’s writing. As Richter argues, it is available to our view as a ‘metalanguage’, through which all other questions are brought into focus. I will therefore be attempting to focus on the photograph: the photograph in Derrida’s writings and photographs of Derrida. Bio and Selected Publications: Among Julian Wolfreys’ recent publications are a collection of essays and poetry, Draping the Sky for a Snowfall (Triarchy, 2016), a novel, Silent Music (Triarchy, 2014), and a difficult to classify volume The Derrida Wordbook, co-authored with Maria- Daniella Dick (Edinburgh University Press, 2013). He has written and edited many more. Julian is also a musician and plays with The Nightwatchmen. Their digitally released album The Intelligence of Crows is available here: https://thenightwatchmen.bandcamp.com/ __________________________________________________________________________________________ Day 3 – Friday 10 June 5.30 – 7.00pm David Wills Professor of French Studies and Comparative Literature, Brown University, US. Keynote Title: The Solicitation of Deconstruction (If I never see the English...) In a number of texts from the mid 1970s, and in particular in the recently edited seminar, Heidegger: la question de l'Être et l'Histoire, Derrida proposes using the word 'solicitation' for what will effectively become deconstruction. My paper follows some implications of a deconstruction 'shaken' by or 'trembling' in solicitation, in particular the examples of the passage on trembling from the beginning of the Kierkegaard chapter of The Gift of Death, and what is more or less Derrida's last text, 'Comment ne pas trembler?' Along the way of that investigation, my talk toys with, or heeds the possibility of being solicited by something entirely else. Bio and Selected Publications: Among David Wills’ recent publications are Inanimation: Theories of Inorganic Life (Minnesota University Press, 2016) and Dorsality: Thinking Back Through Technology and Politics (Minnesota University Press, 2008). He has translated various works by Jacques Derrida including The Animal That Therefore I Am (2008). 6 __________________________________________________________________________________________ Day 4 – Saturday 11 June 1.30 – 3.00pm Paola Marrati Professor of Humanities with a joint appointment in the Department of Philosophy, and Director of the Program for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Johns Hopkins University. Keynote Title: Tba Bio and Selected Publications: Among Paola Marrati’s principal publications are: Genesis and Trace. Derrida Reading Husserl and Heidegger (Stanford University Press, 2005), Gilles Deleuze. Cinema and Philosophy (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008). She is currently completing a book manuscript entitled The Event and the Ordinary: On the Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Stanley Cavell. 5.00 – 6.30pm Paul Patton Scientia Professor of Philosophy, University of New South Wales, Australia. Keynote Title: Deconstruction and the problem of sovereignty Derrida’s discussions of the phenomenon and the concept of political sovereignty in Rogues and in The Beast & The Sovereign Volume I show that these pose a problem for deconstruction as practised in his analyses of other political concepts such as justice, hospitality, and forgiveness. Sovereignty as it has been understood in modern political thought is absolute, indivisible and unconditioned. How then does one deconstruct the unconditioned and therefore apparently undeconstructible concept and institution of sovereignty? This presentation will critically examine two elements of Derrida’s response to this problem: first, his efforts to distinguish between what he Bio and Selected Publications:calls the ‘exigency of sovereignty in general’ and the ‘unconditional exigency of the unconditioned’ with which he aligns deconstruction. What kinds of condition are at issue here and are they always comparable? Second, it will examine his qualified defence of the principle of sovereignty and his reluctance 7 to unconditionally oppose this principle on the grounds that it is implied in the ‘classical principles of freedom and self-determination.’ I argue that there are no good reasons to defend either the classical principle of sovereignty or the associated principles of freedom and self-determination. Sovereignty in its classical early modern form can and should be unconditionally rejected. Bio and Selected Publications: Among Paul Patton’s publications are Deleuze and the Political (Routledge, 2000) and Deleuzian
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