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Literature/Philosophy: vertigo, trauma, silence

Session 8 - Sunday 2:45-4:15pm
Henry Hall 202
Presiding Officer: 
David Sullivan
  1. Dead Silence: The Platonic Heritage of Esotericism in Continental Philosophy. Bruce Krajewski, Texas Woman's University

    I plan to explore what remains concealed in the post-Wittgensteinian philosophical world of Continental philosophy by thinkers who remained infamously silent about their relationship to National Socialism, and who seem attracted to the silences of esoteric literature.

  2. Mary Gaitskill's Masochistic Aesthetic. Kate Burton, Murdoch University

    Gaitskill's fiction invites Deleuzian analysis, chiefly the representation of the masochistic dynamic in Coldness and Cruelty. This paper situates the fictional exploration of S&M as being at the centre of the response to social and cultural concerns regarding the (re)construction of female identity.

  3. Let There Be No More Words: Art and Silence. Didier Maleuvre, University of California, Santa Barbara

    This presentation argues that art’s ability to take on religious functions stems from its ability, unique in human discourse, to make room for silence. The work of art has the unique ability to imitate the silence of nature in a human-made object.

Session Type: 
Special Session
Session Status: 
Closed