You are warmly invited to register to attend a two-day international workshop titled: *The alterity and excess of the relationscape*, which has been organised around Erin Manning’s visit to Australia. Please see the workshop website <https://sites.google.com/view/therelationscape?usp=sharing> for information, including the schedule. To register directly, please visit the registration page <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe_j56Se_HiGKBoJqD6jNlMxn06IgAPYz429B6EwkLNUymvmw/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=112953703547971736969>. This event is in person only.
Date: 11th and 12th of December 2025 Location: 330+331 Function Room, 17 Wally’s Walk (Michael Kirby Building) Macquarie University, Wallumatta (North Ryde), Wallumattagal Campus Confirmed Speakers: Erin Manning, Claire Colebrook, Chloe Anastasia, Lorna Collins, Mads Dengso, J-P Deranty, Joe Hughes, Linda Luke, Annie Sandrussi, Jason Tuckwell, Marilyn Stendera and Emily Hughes. Theme: Throughout a series of works, philosopher, cultural theorist, and artist Erin Manning develops an interpretation of immediate embodied experience as being enmeshed in the *relationscape*: the interconnected field of affective intensities and sensory perceptions that exists prior to the differentiation of self and other, subject and object. Resonant with the *pre-personal* in Merleau-Ponty and the *pre-individual* in Simondon, the relationscape constitutes the anonymous excess or ‘more than’ within lived experience that gives rise to a process of individuation. While the intertwining forces and movements of the relational field underpins all embodied experience, its pre-reflective ambiguity often eludes our attempts to grasp, represent or understand it. In a striking interpretation of neurodivergence, Manning suggests that Autistic perception is uniquely attuned toward the relationscape, as it exists prior to its neurotypical ‘chunking’ of subject and object, and thus to the alterity and excess that is intrinsic to human existence. Organised around Erin Manning’s visit to Australia, the aim of this workshop is to bring together emerging and leading scholars working in the traditions of phenomenology, process philosophy, psychoanalysis, post-structuralism, literature and aesthetics to theorise pre-reflective embodied experience as enmeshed in the pre-individual This workshop is organised by Emily Hughes ([email protected]) and Marilyn Stendera ([email protected]) and is funded in part by Hughes’s ARC Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) project ‘A lone or lonely life: Lived experiences of Loneliness in Autistic Women’ (DE250100368). *Dr Emily Hughes *(she/her) ARC Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) Fellow in Philosophy School of Humanities, Faculty of Arts Michael Kirby Building, 17 Wally's Walk Level 2, Room 233 Macquarie University – Wallumattagal Campus, Dharug Country NSW 2109 Australia E: [email protected] W: https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/emily-hughes *I acknowledge that Macquarie University stands on the land of the Dharug Nation, land that was never ceded. I pay my respects to the Dharug people, the Wallumattagal clan, and their Elders past and present. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land.* --------- SydPhil mailing list To unsubscribe, change your membership options, find answers to common problems, or visit our online archives, please go to the list information page: https://mailman.sydney.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/sydphil
