Date: Tuesday 6 August Time: 1 p.m. Venue: Morven Brown 310, University of NSW (map reference C20: (1.7MB)<http://www.facilities.unsw.edu.au/Maps/pdf/kensington.pdf>)
Dr Dimitris Vardoulakis (UWS) The Unsaveables: Sovereignty and Biopolitics in the 18th Brumaire I approach the 18th Brumaire from a double trajectory. First, I examine its relation to how the exception was thought in the work of Carl Schmitt and Walter Benjamin’s response to it. Second, I analyze the ways in which the rise of Bonaparte to power was carried out through forms of regulating the behaviour of those sections of the population who supported him. A key insight in Marx’s analysis, according my reading, is that every time society is “saved” the circle of power contracts. The question I pose, then, is whether it is possible to identify anyone who is “unsaveable” – in other words, anyone who resists the workings of sovereign power. Dimitris Vardoulakis is senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of Western Sydney. His books include the monographs The Doppelganger: Literature’s Philosophy (2010), and Sovereignty and its Other: Toward the Dejustifications of Violence (2013), both with Fordham UP. He is also the editor of the volume Spinoza Now (U of Minnesota P, 2011). Coordinator: Dr Joanne Faulkner, [email protected] Philosophy, School of Humanities and Languages Dr Joanne Faulkner ARC DECRA Research Fellow School of Humanities Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Room 338, Morven Brown Building University of New South Wales Kensington, NSW 2052 Australia [email protected] +61 2 9385 2287 https://hal.arts.unsw.edu.au/about-us/people/joanne-faulkner/<http://humanities.arts.unsw.edu.au/staff/joanne-faulkner-633.html> http://unsw.academia.edu/JoanneFaulkner Co-Government/Institutional Representative, Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy: http://www.ascp.org.au Ordinary Member of Council, Australasian Association of Philosophy: http://aap.org.au/ Branch Vice-President, UNSW Branch of the NTEU, National Tertiary Education Industry Union: http://www.nteu.edu.au NTEU Office Tel: +61 2 9385 2479, email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
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