ASCP 2013 CONFERENCE 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 @UWS

9.30 - 10.30 Keynote Address EA.2.13 (LT02) James Martel Anarchist all the way down: '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 EA.G.10 EA.G.15 EA.G.26 EA.G.27 EA.G.32 EA.G.33 EA.G.36 EA.G.38 Hal Ginges Samuel Cuff Snow John Cleary Toby Juliff Simone Drichel Book Panel: Dalia Nassar, The Romantic Thematic panel: Sartre reconsidered Thematic panel: Spinoza's Authority The Thing-in-itself is not a Thing: Kant, The Promise of Irony: Kierkegaard and “Withered by the identical neutrality of ‘If I contend with thee’: Hopkins and The Disaster of Postcolonial Narcissism Absolute: Being and Knowing in Goethe and the Apprehension of Essences Schiller the gulf” : The concept of the Event in Derrida, in a field in Yorkshire German Romantic Philosophy 1795- Russell Grigg Gregg Lambert the Philosophy of . Joanne Faulkner 1804 Speaking for myself: Freedom and On Spinoza and “signs” Daniel Wilson Wojciech Kaftanski Maebh Long The Coming Postcolonial Community: Responsibility in Sartre and Freud Reconciling contemporary art with Kant’s Plato's and Kierkegaard's Reading of Chris van Rompaey Absolute Nonabsolute Singularity: Political of Aboriginal Damion Buterin principles of fine art Imitation Jean-Luc Nancy’s of Derrida and Fragmentation Childhood in Bringing Them Home Talia Morag Inequality as a Critique of Authority Christianity: A Badiouian Critique Simon Lumsden Keeping psychology personal: Sartre, Murray Robertson Jeffrey Hanson Terri Bird Chair: Simone Bignall Bad Faith and the Unconscious Chair: Justin Clemens Can a numinous noumenon exist? He Speaks in Tongues’: Hearing the Truth Alexander Karolis Flesh to frame: reconsidering material Chair: Damian Buterin of Abraham’s Words of Faith Ontological Intersections: Jean-Luc relations through practices of Chair: Jon Roffe Chair: Nancy and contemporary art Chair: Richard Colledge Chair: Alex Ling Chair: Matheson Russell

12.15 - 13.00 Lunch 13.00 - 14.30 Parallel Session 2 EA.G.10 EA.G.15 EA.G.26 EA.G.27 EA.G.32 EA.G.33 EA.G.36 EA.G.38 Ben Hjorth Valerijs Vinogradovs Alex Ling Jessica Whyte Paul Macovaz Tim Flanagan Thematic panel: Sartre reconsidered Thematic panel: Spinoza and Literature A strange kind of inbetween thing': Lack of Productive Imagination in Sellars' The Categorial Imperative: On Badiou’s Fail again: Fail better? The ‘weak state The Plastic Screen : Cinema's corporeo- Deleuze and Disquiet Translating Hegel with Anne Carson Appropriation of Kantian Imagination Mathematics of the Transcendental crisis’ and the language of failure. cognitive foil Robert Sinnerbrink Moira Gatens Hannah Stark A Dangerous Mind: Sartre, Huston and Deliberative Fictions: Spinoza and the James Muldoon Gene Flenady Justin Clemens Timothy O'Leary Cameron Ironside Corn Man Walking: Deleuze and Plants the Freud Screenplay concept of an ars Would Hegel be a Foucaultian Today? Making Sense in/of Discourse, Figure: Polemic as logic in the work of Alain Get Over Yourself! Foucault’s Critique of Film and the Metaphysics of Possible Lyotard's Reading of Hegel and our Badiou Ethical Experience Worlds Emma Shea Davies David MacArthur Anthony Uhlmann Michael Leininger-Ogawa Reading of Lyotard Who cries when a rock dies? The Sartre, Wittgenstein and the Logical Spinoza and Understanding and Paul Veyne's Foucault Chair: Alex Ling Chair: Miguel Vatter Conall Cash connection between grief and ethics in Form of Language Meaning in Nature and in Art Lucian Green Immediacy and Representation in the the human-nonhuman relationship Chair: Paul Alberts Overturning Hegel’s experience of Cinema of Lee Chang-dong Chair: Eleanor Kaufman Chair: Dimitris Vardoulakis alienation through five-fold humanities Chair: Craig Lundy lenses Chair: Greg Flaxman

Chair: Peter Banki

14.30 - 14.45 Break 14.45 - 16.15 Parallel Session 3 EA.G.10 EA.G.15 EA.G.26 EA.G.27 EA.G.32 EA.G.33 EA.G.36 EA.G.38 Tiffany Plotzza Louise Richardson-Self Demanding Tessa Clews Fiona Jenkins Mathew Abbott Craig Lundy Book panel: Genevieve Lloyd, Thematic panel: Animal Voices Subjectivity and the : The founding Respect: Rainer Forst’s Reflections on The Emasculating Angel: An Anti-Oedipal Law's Deformability and the Politics of Cinematic Scepticism: Abbas Bergson, History and Ontology Enlightenment Shadows role of the Other in the formation of the Tolerance and ’s Philosophy Reading of Castrations in Film Address Kiarostami and Film-Philosophy Christopher Peterson in the ethics of . of Sexuate Sean Bowden Anik Waldow The Monolingualism of the Human Thierry Jutel Marcelo Svirsky Laurence Simmons Ontological Relativity and Indirect Dalia Nassar Lisa Slater Jeff Stewart Location, locality and place: Pacific Rim, Subjectivity and Profanation The Unfilmable Discourse: A Potted History with a Max Deutscher Chris Danta Waiting at the border: impossibility, Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Heidegger, Luce The Hobbit and Global Hollywood Deleuzian Coda "Might sovereignty be devouring?" generosity and settler Australian amnesia Irigaray, and the no-longer-book Chair: Sarah Sorial Chair: Robert Sinnerbrink Chair: Paul Patton Derrida and the Fable Aleksandr Andreas Wansbrough Chair: Jon Roffe Liz Dean Rebecca Hill The Banality and Transcendence of Evil: Chair: Dinesh Wadiwel The Ethics of an Encounter; habits and Fold: on the Implication of Ideas and the Tragic Hero as a grovelling Nazi in change Becoming Lars von Trier’s Images of a Relief

Chair: Lubica Ucník Chair: Elizabeth Stephens 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 and the "Question" of the Death Penalty

Chair: Dimitris Vardoulakis Day 2: Wednesday 4 December 09.00 - 10.30 Parallel Session 4 EA.G.10 EA.G.15 EA.G.26 EA.G.27 EA.G.32 EA.G.33 EA.G.34 EA.G.36 Emma Wilson Astrid Lorange Amy Stefanovic Thomas Ryan Onni Hirvonen Knox Peden Goetz Richter Thematic panel: Deleuze’s Dramatic The Psyche of the Spectacle: An aesthetic account of new Democracy is Common Knowledge Nietzsche's cure from the metaphysical The possibilities of Hegelian group The Irony of Equality: Rancière and Heidegger's Music Concepts: The Dark Precursor and Kristeva's Theory of Revolt in a Post- materialisms and dissonant need recognition History the Spiritual Automaton Revolutionary Age feminisms Janice Richardson Sally Macarthur Spinoza, Information and Privacy Paul Alberts Mirjam van der Heide Matheson Russell Deleuzianising the Composer Identity Simone Bignall Emma McNicol Martyn Lloyd Nietzsche: Relationality and the Struggles for dignity Kojève's Phenomenology of Right The Obscure Drama of the Political Insights gained from Simone de Re-Reading Wahl: Le Malheur de la Ozgur Yalcin Conditions for Naturalism Chair: Greg Hainge Idea Beauvoir's (recently published) conscience dans la philosophie de The constitution of democratic Andrea Mattia Marcelli Chair: Dimitris Vardoulakis diaries Hegel and French ’s society: Rawls or Habermas? David Rowe as epistemic ground: Gregory Flaxman ‘First Wave’ Nietzsche's Negative View of Freedom A Foucauldian trail Thinking/Cinema Daniel Mafe Chair: Daniel McLoughlin A notional ekphrasis: describing the Amanda Third Chair: Joanne Faulkner Chair: Heikki Ikäheimo Eleanor Kaufman unimaginable, Pontormo and Contracting Pleasures: Sex, The Dark Precursor and What Lyotard’s affect phrase Infidelity and Gender in Erotic Follows Fiction Chair: Marguerite La Caze Chair: Gregg Lambert Chair: Fiona Jenkins

10.30 - 10.45 Morning Tea Foyer Area Building EA 10.45 - 11.45 Parallel Session 5 EA.G.10 EA.G.15 EA.G.26 EA.G.27 EA.G.32 EA.G.33 EA.G.34 Book panel: Charles Barbour, The Book Panel: Max Deutscher, In Response panel: William Franke Book panel: Jeff Malpas, ‘We Response panel: Robyn Ferrell Free ASCP Postgraduate Professional Marx-Machine: Politics, Polemics, Sensible Judgement The New Apophatic Universalism: Hyperboreans’: Towards a Stuff: Development Session Deconstruction, Negative Theology, and Nietzschean Topography The Cost of Culture Michael Carey Open Togetherness in the European James Martel Michelle Boulous Walker Tradition Respondent: Paul Alberts Respondent: Jess Whyte Anna Yeatman Chair: Paul Crittenden Respondent: Chris Hackett Chair: Peg Birmingham Chair: Allison Weir Chair: Dimitris Vardoulakis 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 EA.G.10 EA.G.15 EA.G.26 EA.G.27 EA.G.32 EA.G.33 EA.G.34 EA.G.36 Damion Buterin Dimitri Vouros Mike Grimshaw Pat McConville Valeria Pashkova Severin Staalesen Book panel: Justin Clemens, Thematic panel: Animal Studies Hegel's Rejoinder to Nominalism Reinterpreting Hegelian Totality Hermeneutic capitalism? A Truths The Hand Can Touch: Towards A and the tradition of Something's got to give: Psychoanalysis is an Antiphilosophy and Abstract Universality in precursor to Vattimo & Zabala Bioconservative Western thought phenomenology, cognitive science, Derrida's animals Emily Finlay Adorno's Philosophy and consciousness Sigi Jottkandt Hegelian Understanding and the Nicholas Smith Payman Tajalli Daniel Brennan Knox Peden Eva Birch Politics of Representation Jack Isherwood Does move beyond Circularity of Argument in Marcel’s Collapsing the Private Public Gavin Smith Mark Kelly Animals, Women and Writing Interpretation and Public Reason Hermeneutics? Authentic Humanism Dichotomy Mimetic Rapport: Embodied Impurity: From Joy to Compassion Chair: Jean-Phillipe Deranty Meaning-Making Through Art Chair: Russel Grigg Joel Graham Chair: Jack Reynolds Juliet Bennett Magdalena Zolkos Dinesh Wadiwel The Problem of Consent: A Panentheism: Reframing the God Politics of Marginality: Jewish Brook Michael Novak Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: Marx, legitimate Paradox Debate Pariah in the the Thought of The Dissolution of the Hand: Derrida and the Animal as Hannah Arendt and Jean Améry Pragmatism and Digital Fabrication Commodity. Chair: Geoff Boucher Chair: Diego Bubbio Technologies Chair: Max Deutscher Rowena Braddock Chair: Terri Bird Strange Copula: Poematic Hospitality and Animal Catachresis

Chair: Rhiannon Galla

15.00 - 15.15 Break 15.15 - 16.45 Parallel Session 7 EA.G.10 EA.G.15 EA.G.26 EA.G.27 EA.G.32 EA.G.33 EA.G.34 EA.G.36 Glenn Stewart Max Deutscher Emily Hughes Stephen Abblitt James Hill Amanda Teo Thematic panel: Mendacity and the Law Thematic panel: Animal Studies Samuel Beckett and the Kantian After Foucault: Descartes' madmen Thrown Impossibility: The I have nothing to say about love After Meillassoux The Pathology of Modern Space: Cogito Ontological Structure of Despair Escaping the Sartrean Paradigm of Marguerite LaCaze Animality and Sense Elliot Patsoura David Fiorovanti Bryan Cooke Hell Sincerity and Lying in Politics in Derrida Arka Chattopadhyay Imagination in The Order of Things Rodger Watson The Despair of Moral Reality Nihilism , Nature and Truth: Or and Arendt Simone Gustafsson Mathematical Anatomy of Thinking: Hermeneutic Phenomenology in what can Hamilton-Grant and Alison Beale Between Heidegger’s Fundamental Samuel Beckett in Company with Wendyl Luna reflective practice Francesco Paradiso Brassier tell us about Deleuze, Beauty and Art in Wilde and Sartre: Charles Barbour Concepts of Metaphysics and Philosophy and Psychoanalysis Practical Critique: Foucault's Double Reading & Jazz Improvisation Badiou and the Prospects of a A New Interpretation The Hazard of Truth: Perjury and Oath in Merleau-Ponty’s Concept of Animal Connection to Kant Lubica Ucnik Contemporary Rationalism? Derrida's Later Work Life Russell Smith Patocka and Dostoyevsky: The Chair: Sally Macarthur Michaela Baker ‘Passions of the Soul’ in Samuel Chair: Paul Alberts Crisis of Meaning Alexander James Gillett ‘Oedipus is free. Antigone and Peg Birmingham Rhiannon Galla Beckett’s The Unnamable The needd for a more speculative Prometheus are free’: The role of Can Political Authority be Founded on a Troubling the Animal Image: Art, Chair: Nicholas Smith Naturalism freedom in Sartre’s conception of a Ruse: Derrida and Lefort on Difference and Becoming Chair: Simone Drichel ‘theatre of situation’ Machiavelli's Use of Political Deception Chair: Christopher Watkin Jacqueline Dalziell Chair: Talia Morag Chair: Dimitris Vardoulakis Rationalising Matter with Physarum polycephalum: What if Nature Thinks?

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 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 EA.G.10 EA.G.15 EA.G.26 EA.G.27 EA.G.32 EA.G.33 EA.G.34 EA.G.36 EA.G.38 James Banwell Margaux Portron Thomas Sutherland Leah Carr Yoni Molad James Kent Thematic panel: Australian Girard Seminar Thematic panel: : Thematic panel: Screen : Being-Where? Realism and Reading in 2013 The Law of Becoming: On the Nietzschean Perspectivism and Nietzsche's philosophical Socratic Truth in the Philosophy of Economics, Theology and the Use of Technology, Relation, Sensation Idealism in Heidegger’s Thought Question of Heraclitean Flux Philosophical Therapy counseling David Foster Wallace: on making Paolo Diego Bubbio the Common John Dalton the 'head throb heartlike'. Girard and Vattimo on Politics Elizabeth Stephens James Garrett Biopolitics and Evolution Christopher Watkin Hamish Pringle Trish Nowland Steven DeCaroli Screen Organology: Rereading the Formal Indication vs the Theoretical Imitation of the divine: Meillassoux Spinoza and Nietzsche on Vulnerability in Absence: Norma Lam-Saw Chris Fleming Poverty as a Way of Life: Giorgio French Pre-Cinematic Screen Attitude Christopher Mayes as Oedipus Epistemology and Metaphysics Phenomenological Contextualism Bartleby's Passive Heroism Desire Violence and the Philosophical Agamben and Economy Through Canguilhem and and Real Negation Tradition: The Work of René Girard John Kaye Bioethics: A Mutually Beneficial Jon Roffe Jean-Etienne Joullié Tracy Llanera Miguel Vatter Saige Walton Death as a Possibility and as a Relationship? Meillassoux on material inscription , Nietsche's Last Idol Nick Trakakis On Rorty and the Redemptive Round table with Franciscan Poverty and Trusts: Folds in the Soul: Philippe Problem in the of Slow Philosophy Power of Literature Agamben and the Biopolitical Grandrieux’s Cinema of Matter Martin Heidegger and Gilles Chair: Paul Alberts Chair: Brian Cooke Chair: Vanessa Lemm Chair: Joel Hodge Critique of Corporations Deleuze Chair: Damion Buterin Chair: Magdalena Zoklos Greg Hainge Daniel McLoughlin Juxtaposition(s): Reading new Chair: Ingo Farin From Sovereignty to government: media and the cinema side by side On Giorgio Agamben's The Kingdom and the Glory Chair: Laurence Simmons

Chair: Jess White

12.15 - 13.00 Lunch 13.00 - 14.30 Parallel Session 9 EA.G.10 EA.G.15 EA.G.26 EA.G.27 EA.G.32 EA.G.33 EA.G.34 EA.G.36 EA.G.38 Ingo Farin Karl Nicholas Moll Nicholas Heron Rhonda Siu Tomoe Nakamura Book panel: Dimitris Vardoulakis, Thematic panel: Nature, Theory, Practice Thematic panel: More Things in Book panel: Allison Weir Book, Interpreting Heidegger Marx's Hegelian Anti-philosophy Theory of the instrumental cause Music, language and expression in A dream of synthesising truth, Sovereignty and Its Other: Toward Heaven and Earth: The Work of Identities and Freedom Merleau-Ponty's philosophy beauty and art with a redemption the Dejustification of Violence Jean-Philippe Deranty Roland Boer Ruth Irwin Monte Pemberton Richard Colledge of aisthesis : Re-examination of Feuerbachian moments in the critical Jess Whyte Poetic Natur and Ek-stasis Rhythmanalysis 101 Arche and Eschaton: Kearney and Julian Raxworthy Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten’s Nick Mansfield theory project Geoff Boucher Joanne Faulkner Desmond on God Spring Shoots: "Anti-Fragility" and conceptualisation of ‘the aesthetic’ James Martel A dialectical theory of the religious Chair: James Garrett William Hebblewhite Growth Miguel Vatter Andrew Dunstall instance: the work of Roland Boer Chair: Moira Gatens Althusser, Ranciere and the Chair: Daniel McLoughlin Peter Banki Derrida's naturalism (with reference to Division of Labour. Greg Leaney Humor as the Inverted Sublime: On Chair: Peg Birmingham Merleau-Ponty) Rory Jeffs Flourishing in the Flesh of the Jean Paul turns back into Theology? Chair: Heikki Ikaheimo Interworld: Ecophenomenological Heikki Ikaheimo The Attachment of Marxism to Intertwining and Environmental Rory Dufficy Recognition and human nature in the early Political Myth in the work of Roland Virtue Ethics ‘The World is Purely Parodic’: Marx Boer and the Theory of Chair: Goetz Richter the Avant-Garde Chair: Charles Barbour Matt Sharpe Roland Boer's Theology and Chair: Jessica Whyte Marxism

Respondent: Roland Boer

Chair: Rory Jeffs

14.30 - 14.45 Break 14.45 - 16.15 Parallel Session 10 EA.G.10 EA.G.15 EA.G.26 EA.G.27 EA.G.32 EA.G.33 EA.G.34 EA.G.36 Anoop George Ben Glasson Helen Ngo Christopher Conti Christopher Oakey Andrew Inkpin Thematic panel: Derrida: ethical and Martin Black The Enticing Distress: Heidegger, Efficient catachresis: Discourse Racism and the Habitual Body: Aporia or am-ha’aretz? Kafka’s Heidegger and Lyric Poetry Merleau-Ponty: A transcendental political implications Nietzsche's Political Teaching: Its Modernity and the Global South post-nature Phenomenological Reflections on theatre of gesture. phenomenologist? Intention and Significance Racism through Merleau-Ponty and Warwick Mules Elaine Kelly Marilyn Stendera Meera Lee Heidegger Lana Starkey The Limits of Heidegger's Earth Jack Reynolds Beyond Hospitable Horizons? Vanessa Lemm The Unready-to-Hand: A The Politics of Resentment Montaigne, identity, and the Merleau-Ponty's Gordian Knot: Nietzsche: Truth, embodiment and Heideggerian Response to Michael Kirk Zwangobani problem of self-hood Nir Fresco Transcendental Philosophy, Nick Mansfield probity Wheeler Andrew Sims Excess and lack - where do I Instructional Information and Science, and Naturalism Derrida, Sovereignty, Violence and the post- belong? Cindy Lee Zeiher Cognitive Agents Chair: Dimitris Vardoulakis Joseph Tolomei Cartesian Subject Theorising Desire in the 21st Chair: Matheson Russell Chair: Nicole Anderson Being-toward-Death, Being-toward Chloe Gill-Khan Century Chair: Goetz Richter Limitlessness: Approaching Chair: Knox Peden The subject in European and Islamic Heidegger’s Horizon philosophical traditions Leah Carr Chair: Chris Peterson

Chair: Ruth Irwin 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