subject and object

It is a rude practice to rip a dialectician's work out of context, but nevertheless:

In the face of nature at rest, a nature from which all traces of anything resembling the human have been eradicated, the subject becomes aware of its own insignificance.

Adorno, 'On Lyric Poetry and Society'

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Libidinal Philosophy Research Day:

A special event hosted by the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy

9am - 5pm
Friday, 6 February 2009
The Gryphon Gallery, 1888 Building
The University of Melbourne

Participants and Paper Titles:

James Williams (University of Dundee): "Lyotard's critique of 'the natural': on the simulacrum and the phantasm in Libidinal Economy"

Justin Clemens (University of Melbourne): "Desire in Lacan"

Graham Jones (Independent Scholar): "Dis/figuring Lacan, Re-configuring Lyotard: Discourse, figure, and the libidinal"

Jon Roffe (MSCP; University of Tasmania; LaTrobe University): "Desire in Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus"

Ashley Woodward (MSCP): "Klossowski's Nietzsche and Lyotard's Freud"

***This is a FREE event and all are welcome.