The Philosophy Department wishes to announce that Gregory Flaxman (UNC) will give a talk titled ³We Are All Autochthons²: Deleuze and The Abstract Line of Democracy² today at 3.30pm in the Refectory, Main Quad, USYD. Abstract: For all its pretensions to materialism, Gilles Deleuze's concept of geophilosophy is liable to inspire empty abstractions, silly personifications, or simple ridicule if we don't literally consider the relationship between thinking and the Earth. In response to such a challenge, this talk returns to the Athenian conceit of autochthony, the myth of being born from the earth, in order to cash out the material and mental contingencies of this relationship. Far from offering abstract coordinates or conditions of possibility, then, I argue that geophilosophy refers to the geographic vagaries of the Greek world, where and when the space (topos) of the city induces a philosophical milieu (topos noetos). Finally, the talk concludes by suggesting that Deleuze¹s concept of democracy, no less his political philosophy, is ³born of the earth.² Gregory Flaxman in an associate professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina. The editor of The Brain is the Screen (Minnesota, 2000), he is the author of Gilles Deleuze and the Fabulation of Philosophy: Powers of the False, Vol. 1 (due out next month, also from Minnesota). Currently, he is currently working with Lisa Trahair and Robert Sinnerbrink on a book about cinematic thinking.
All welcome! David Dr. David Macarthur Senior Lecturer Philosophy Department University of Sydney, 2006, Australia Ph: +61-2-9351-3193 http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/philos/staff/profiles/dmacarthur.shtml
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