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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Next week at the Critical Antiquities workshop, we have the great pleasure of hosting Victoria Wohl (University of Toronot) for her paper, ‘Autobiography of a Daimon.’ The event will be held on<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Wednesday,
April 20 10-11:30am (Sydney time)</b>. That translates to the following times elsewhere:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Singapore: Thursday, 8-9:30am<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Tokyo: Thursday, 9-10:30am<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Los Angeles: Wednesday, 5-6:30pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Mexico City: Wednesday 7-8:30pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Chicago: Wednesday, 7-8:30pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">New York City: Wednesday, 8-9:30pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="color:black">To receive a Zoom link, please sign up for<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Critical<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Antiquities Network announcements<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/CFNOC5QPXJi00G68OfzREls?domain=signup.e2ma.net/" title="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/zeDaCoV1kpfrBPnvyF1CtMk?domain=signup.e2ma.net/"><span style="color:#0563C1">here</span></a>.
If you have already subscribed to the mailing list, you will receive the Zoom link and need not sign up again</span></b><span style="color:black">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Here is the abstract:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Regular" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN">Empedocles’
<i>Purifications</i> begins with an exceptional statement. Greeting his fellow citizens of Acragas he proclaims “I come to you, an immortal god, no longer mortal” (B112.4 KA). He goes on to tell of his thirty-thousand year exile as a “daimon,” a narrative likewise
recounted in the first person. This extraordinary first-person narrative invites us to read the poem as an autobiography in the root sense of the word, the written account (<i>graphē</i>) of the life (<i>bios</i>) of a self (<i>autos</i>). Empedocles’ philosophy
explodes each component of the word and scrambles the relation among them. Empedocles’ cosmos is composed of four “roots” (earth, water, fire, and air) that combine and separate continually under the alternating force of Love and Strife. This system of elemental
transformation destabilizes the <i>autos</i> and reconfigures the metaphysical syntax of autobiography: in place of a masterful self that rises above life to write it, in Empedocles self, life, and writing coexist in a dynamic assemblage in which each is equally
material and equally alive. Taking his poem as an example of what Deleuze and Guattari call a “rhizomatic” text, my paper examines Empedocles’ “radical” experiment in materialist poetics and the paradoxes it produces. His wildly innovative poetic style, I
propose, enacts the vibrant ontology of the roots as they live out their “unstable life” (<i>ou …empedos aiōn</i>, B17.11) but also indicates the limits of his materialist project, as Empedocles himself – the author as stabilizing point of origin – is figured
as the one exception to Empedoclean ontology. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Regular"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN">We hope to see you there,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Regular"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN">Tristan and Ben</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Tristan Bradshaw</span></b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><br>
Lecturer, School of Liberal Arts | Co-director, Critical Antiquities Network<br>
Faculty of the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities | Building 19 Room 1085</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><br>
</span><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">University of Wollongong</span></b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> NSW 2522 Australia<br>
<b>T </b>+61 2 4221 3850</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0028C9;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">uow.edu.au</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Honorary Associate</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The University of Sydney<br>
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University of Wollongong CRICOS: 00102E</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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