Veronika Cheplygina, ‘7 things I’m glad I did during my PhD’
See also ‘7 things I wish I had done during my PhD’, which I shared back in September.
While these thoughts are from the perspective of a scientist, there are things here relevant to other disciplines.
Elisabetta R. Bertolino, Adriana Cavarero: Resistance and the Voice of Law, forthcoming with Routledge in 2018.
Critical legal scholars have made us aware that law is made up not only of rules but also of language. But who speaks the language of law? And can one lawfully speak in one’s voice? For the Italian philosopher Adriana Cavarero, to answer these questions we must not separate who is speaking from the very act of speaking; moreover, we must recuperate the material singularity and relationality of the mouth that speaks. Drawing on Cavarero’s work, this book focuses on the potentiality of the voice for resisting law’s sovereign structures. For Cavarero, it is the voice that expresses one’s living and unrepeatable singularity in a way that cannot be subsumed by the universalities and standards of law. The voice is essentially a material and singular passage of air and vibration that necessarily reveals one’s uniqueness in relationality. Speaking discloses this uniqueness, and so one’s vulnerability. It therefore leads to possibilities of resistance that, here, bring a fresh approach to longstanding legal theoretical concerns with singularity, ethics and justice.
Unfortunately only a very expensive hardback is currently listed – £115 for 178 pages! – but other books in that series have ended up in paperback eventually.
A great (non-)review of Binet’s novel – I also found this book really disappointing, despite its great potential.
I was a big a fan of Laurent Binet’s novel HHhH, so I was excited when I heard about his follow up, The Seventh Function of Language. I was especially excited when I learned that The Seventh Function took the death of Roland Barthes as its starting point and post-structuralism in general as its milieu. I audited the audiobook (translated by Sam Taylor and read with dry wry humor by Bronson Pinchot).
The audiobook is twelve hours. If it had been six hours I might have loved it. But twelve hours was a bit too much.
Wait. Sorry. What is the novel about though? you may ask. This is not a review and I am feeling lazy and not especially passionate about the book, so here is the publisher’s-blurb-as-summary:
Paris, 1980. The literary critic Roland Barthes dies – struck by a laundry van – after lunch with the presidential…
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Georges Canguilhem, Œuvres complètes Tome V : Histoire des sciences, épistémologie, commémorations 1966-1995 will appear in January 2018 [update: the Vrin site now says March].
Quelque cent vingt écrits publiés de 1966 à 1995 composent ce tome V des Œuvres complètes de Georges Canguilhem.
Une cinquantaine furent de ceux qui établirent sa réputation comme historien des sciences et comme épistémologue. D’autres, souvent passés plutôt inaperçus, éclairent les voies par lesquelles, instruit des avancées de la biologie moléculaire, Canguilhem crut devoir mener le réexamen de sa philosophie biologique. Plusieurs écrits montrent combien Canguilhem, à contre-courant des naturismes en vogue, avait le souci de mener et de poursuivre une réflexion éthique sur les questions de la technique et de la médecine. Dans nombre de notices ou de discours touchant des collègues ou d’amis disparus, nombreux dans ce tome V, il relève les exigences intellectuelles et morales qui animèrent leur vie. Le lecteur reconnaïtra que ces exigences furent également les siennes, loin des facilités de la mondanité philosophique.Textes édités, introduits et annotés par Camille Limoges
Derrida Today conference at Concordia, Montreal
The 6th Derrida Today Conference will be held at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada from May 23-26th 2018. The Conference is being co-organised by Matthias Fritsch (Concordia University), Nicole Anderson (Macquarie University) and Stella Gaon (Saint Mary’s University).
Keynotes: *Tom Cohen (University at Albany, State University of New York, USA) *Drucilla Cornell (Rutgers University, USA) *Alexander Garcia-Düttmann (Berlin University of the Arts, Germany) *Ginette Michaud (Université de Montréal, Canada) *Elizabeth Rottenberg (De Paul University, USA).
The conference will be broadly interdisciplinary and invites contributions from a range of academic, disciplinary and cultural contexts. We will consider papers and panel proposals on any aspect of Derrida’s work, or deconstruction, in relation to various topics and contemporary issues. For further information download the CFP.
The most recent volume of Foucault’s lectures in English, Lacan’s Autre Ecrits, Heidegger’s Zollikoner Seminare, the edited collection on Foucault/Derrida: Fifty Years Later and Marijn Nieuwenhuis and David Crouch’s The Question of Space: Interrogating the Spatial Turn between Disciplines. The last was sent by the publisher, and the Foucault course was recompense for review work.
Update: this workshop will be held in room 1.006 of Warwick Business School.
On 1 December 2017, the Territory subgroup of the ICE-LAW project will hold its second workshop, Territory, Law and the Anthropocene,
in the Department of Politics and International Studies (Room E2.02) at University of Warwick (UK).ICE LAW is both a question – do we need a law of ice, just as we have laws about territory on land and the UN convention on the Law of the Sea – and an acronym – Indeterminate and Changing Environments: Law, the Anthropocene, and the World. As such the project has broadened its focus to look at the interrelation of geophysical features of the Earth and legal-political questions more generally. This specific workshop thus contributes to ICE LAW’s work by looking at how specific territories are being transformed as a result of anthropogenic climate change – coastlines, mountains and glaciers, deserts and rivers. More generally it asks how do we need to rethink our way of theorising territory, and the legal-political regimes that govern it, in the light of these changes?
The format of the workshop will be of 20 minute presentations with lots of time for discussion, a longer presentation from the Italian Limes project, and then a closing roundtable with Dora Kostakopoulou, Phil Steinberg and Davor Vidas reflecting on the day’s presentations and how the themes connect to their work.
Programme
9.45am welcome
10-11.30am – Session 1: Law, Security and the Anthropocene (chair Klaus Dodds)
- Nigel Clark (Lancaster Environment Centre) – The Paleopolitics of Climate Change
- Madeleine Fagan (PAIS, University of Warwick) – Security in the Anthropocene: Environment, Ecology, Escape
- Timo Koivurova (Law, University of Lapland) – What is the Role of International Law in Coping with Climate Change Consequences?
11.30am-12noon coffee
12noon-1pm – Session 2: Italian Limes project (http://www.italianlimes.net/) (chair Stuart Elden)
- Marco Ferrari and Andrea Bagnato, Italian Limes: Mapping the Shifting Border across Alpine Glaciers
1-2pm lunch (speakers and discussants only)
2pm-3.30pm – Session 3: Shifting Territories (chair Phil Steinberg)
- Isla Forsyth (Geography, University of Nottingham) – Genealogies of the desert: Imaginaries, Materialities and Mobilities of violence in the Second World War
- Ingrid Medby (Social Sciences, Oxford Brookes University) – The Arctic State in the Anthropocene: From Anthropolitics to Geopolitics and Back Again?
- Klaus Dodds (Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London) – The Polar Regions strike back? Fissuring, Rising and Shrinking in International Law and Geopolitics
3.30pm-4pm coffee
4pm-5pm – Session 4: roundtable discussion (chair Stuart Elden)
- Dora Kostakopoulou (Law, University of Warwick)
- Phil Steinberg (Geography, Durham University)
- Davor Vidas (Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway/University of Leicester)
5pm – close/drinks
7pm – Dinner for speakers and discussants
The conference is open to all – further enquiries can be directed to the workshop convenor, Stuart Elden (stuart.elden@warwick.ac.uk).
Full details including abstracts here.
Jacques Rancière interviewed
Here discussing his new book (Les Bords de la fiction [Seuil, 2017]) on literature, the sensible, and the notion of a common world. In French (though the pacing is easy enough for those who have lost fluency). (Also, the pic makes him look half dead–but is five years old.)
Academics’ top tips for publishing success in The Times Higher Education. As long as you read with attention to different disciplines and academic systems, and treat all of this as advice, there are some useful suggestions here.
Histories of Violence: Affect, Power, Violence — The Political Is Not Personal – Brad Evans speaks with Canadian philosopher and social theorist Brian Massumi. A conversation in Brad Evans’s “Histories of Violence” series in the Los Angeles Review of Books.
