[SydPhil] Critical Antiquities Workshop – Kishore Saval

[Andrew Poe]

Dear all,



At the next Critical Antiquities Workshop, we are very excited to host *Dr.
Kishore Saval (ACU)* for his paper, “Broken Reversibilities: Echo and
Merleau-Ponty”.


Here is the abstract:



“I’m here!” “I’m here!” The philosophical promise of the ancient myth of
“Echo and Narcissus” is inexhaustible, and critical philosophers of the
last two centuries have explored some of its most fruitful implications.
Perhaps the most famous of these voices is Jacques Derrida, whose early
essay, Voice and Phenomenon, can be read as an extended meditation on the
myth itself. However, Derrida is not the first philosopher to see a problem
in the fact that, to myself, I am hearable from the place that I speak,
visible from the place that I see, and touchable from the place that I
touch. There is an echo of Derrida in Merleau-Ponty, who also perceptively
explores the delay, hiatus, or spacing between these different
vantage-points on necessarily connected experiences. Echo and Narcissus
reveal that, perversely, I myself can never inhabit the double of my
speaking and being heard, or my seeing and being seen, at one and the same
moment, even though all the promise and risk of meaning and desire emerges
from this incapacity to be absolutely present to myself. My talk explores
the critical philosophical implications of the ancient Echo and Narcissus
problem in its contemporary rethinking by Merleau-Ponty, whose work is
animated by the reversibility of visibility and seeing, and tangibility and
touching, no less than the dangerous capacity of his speech to be
transformed by its own overhearing. I am particularly interested, however,
in the way that these reversibilities always come to be broken and
shattered, so that philosophy takes and loses new shape in the breakdown of
such reversibility.



This event will be held in a hybrid format in the Vere Gordon Childe Centre
Boardroom at the University of Sydney and on Zoom on *Wednesday, April 1,
09:00-11:00 am (Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne time)*.



Here is the time in other locations:



   - Los Angeles/Vancouver: *Tuesday, March 31, 3:00-5:00 pm*
   - Chicago/Mexico City: *Tuesday, March 31, 5:00-7:00 pm*
   - New York: *Tuesday, March 31, 6:00-8:00 pm*
   - Santiago/Buenos Aires/Rio de Janeiro: *Tuesday, March 31, 7:00-9:00 pm*
   - Dublin/Belfast/London: *Tuesday, March 31, 11:00 pm-1:00 am*
   - Paris/Berlin/Rome: *Wednesday, April 1, 12:00 midnight-1:00 am*
   - Johannesburg/Athens/Cairo: *Wednesday, April 1, 1:00 - 2:00 am*
   - Beijing/Singapore/Perth: *Wednesday, April 1, 6:00-8:00 am*
   - Tokyo: *Wednesday, April 1, 7:00-9:00 am*
   - Darwin: *Wednesday, April 1, 7:30-9:30 am*
   - Brisbane: *Wednesday, April 1, 8:00-10:00 am*
   - Adelaide: *Wednesday, April 1, 8:30-10:30 am*



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We hope to see you there,



Tristan Bradshaw (UoW)

Ben Brown (USyd)

Tom Geue  (ANU)

Andy Poe (ACU)


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