[Usyd_Classics_Events] Critical Antiquities Workshop – Kishore Saval

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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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