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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="color:black">Dear all,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="color:black"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="color:black">You are invited to attend the next philosophy
<span class="markkdeqljkrf">seminar</span> Tuesday 18 July 2023 from 1:00 to 2:00pm.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="color:black"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="color:black">Attend in-person at 25C Wally's Walk, Room C326.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm">Attend online: <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/rWWbC3QNPBiXYYKvzfg_b-N?domain=macquarie.zoom.us">
https://macquarie.zoom.us/j/85801112874?pwd=SjBqaEp0MnNJOThLRGdTbnRLRlR6QT09</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Password: Seminar<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="color:black"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="color:black">Speaker: </span></b><span style="color:black">Dr Yarran Hominh (Bard College)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Title: </span></b>Affective Misdirection and the Stability of Unfreedom<span style="mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Abstract: </span></b>Systems of unfreedom like the global system of racial capitalism are self-stabilising. They maintain themselves in the face of concerted action to transform them. How might we understand
their capacity to do so? In this paper I examine one mechanism by which such systems stabilise themselves: what I call “affective misdirection”. Affects are powerful agential forces that potentially serve as a means of social transformation. They are both
epistemically powerful (they help us understand our situation and what is going wrong) and practically powerful (they motivate action). Systems of unfreedom
<i>misdirect</i> these potentially transformative energies in ways that maintain those systems. For example, anger that should be directed against capitalist institutions for economic ills is redirected, through racism and xenophobia, toward other groups within
the system. And hope that might help us imagine freer and more just social forms is redirected under capitalism towards individual success. These misdirected affects both engender support for systems of unfreedom and disrupt potential sources of collective
action. The larger methodological claim this paper advances is that systemic and structural forms of understanding should be combined with individual-level moral psychological analysis.<span style="mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Speaker Bio: </span></b>Yarran Hominh is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Bard College. His research sits at the intersection of social and political philosophy with moral psychology. He draws liberally
from a variety of traditions of thought and practice, including the pragmatist tradition, the Black radical tradition, Buddhist modernism, and anti-racist, anti-colonial, and anti-imperial praxis from around the globe. He is working on a book entitled
<i>The Problem of Unfreedom</i> and has papers recently published or forthcoming in
<i>Philosophers’ Imprint</i>, <i>The Pluralist</i>, the <i>Journal of Legal Philosophy</i>,
<i>Comparative Philosophy</i> and the <i>Journal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture</i>. He is also the Associate Editor of the
<i>APA Studies on Asian and Asian American Philosophers and Philosophies</i> and is on the editorial board of
<i>The Philosopher</i>.<span style="mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="color:black"> For any queries relating to Macquarie Philosophy work-in-progress
<span class="markkdeqljkrf">seminar</span>s please contact <foa.philseminars@mq.edu.au>. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="color:black"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="color:black">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="color:black">Regina</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3.75pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Dr Regina Fabry
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">(she/her)<br>
ARC Discovery Early Career Research Awardee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/9JC5C4QOPEizAA5xKux0i9Q?domain=philosophymindscience.org/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0563C1;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Philosophy and the Mind Sciences</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">
(Diamond Open Access)</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Department of Philosophy</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><br>
Level 7, 25B Wally’s Walk<br>
Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia<br>
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