Human Sciences Seminar
Dept. of History, Politics and Philosophy Manchester Metropolitan University
Programme Spring Term 2012
All meetings take place on Thursdays during term time and begin at 5.10 pm
Room 3.03
Sandra Burslem Building
Lower Ormond St.
Manchester
M15 6HB
26th Jan. Craig Lundy (University of Exeter)
Deleuze and Guattari’s Historiophilosophy: Philosophical Thought and its Historical Milieu
2nd Feb. Stella Baraklianou (University of Portsmouth)
Figures of the Neutral: intensities and suspensions within art practice
Roland Barthes’ last series of lectures, published in English under
the title of “The Neutral” are like a set of impossible exercises: to
resist the importance of meaning, of signification. At the heart of
this attempt lies the desire for a neither/or, a philosophy of ninisme
(neither-norism). By looking at examples from a wide range of art
practices, as well as by exploring the motives of my own photographic
practice, I will attempt to posit the “figures” as a working
methodology.
Stella Baraklianou is a photographic artist and lecturer at the
University of Portsmouth, UK. She completed her PhD research by
practice from the Department of Visual Arts, Goldsmiths in 2007.
During 2008-10 she lived and worked in Los Angeles, CA. Other
residencies include Sydney College of Arts, Sydney, Australia (2008).
She has given papers at international conferences (most recently,
Bergson and his post-modern and imminent legacies, Courtauld Institute
of Art, London, February 2011) whilst her photographic work has also
been exhibited internationally.
Personal website: www.stellabaraklianou.com
University page:
http://www.port.ac.uk/departments/academic/adm/staff/title,122491,en.html
9th Feb. Varieties of Excess: Ecstasy and Excription
Joanna Hodge (Manchester Metropolitan University)
23rd Feb. Minor Literature and Unimagined Communities
Margaret Littler (University of Manchester)
This paper introduces a book project that reads the work of three Turkish-German writers as minor literature in the sense of Deleuze and Guattari. Minority writing still inhabits a very marginal position in German literature, and the limited academic engagement with it within the German speaking countries is informed by intercultural hermeneutics and a representational approach to literature. Even attempts to invoke minor literature in this context rarely do justice either to the quality of the writing or the radical implications of Deleuze’s thinking. The paper attempts to sketch out a non-representational approach to literature and to demonstrate it in readings of two short stories by Feridun Zaimoğlu and Zafer Şenocak.
1st Mar. The Ethics of Taxonomy
Stephen Clark (University of Liverpool)
8th Mar. Philosophy and the search for truth
Lloyd Strickland (Manchester Metropolitan University)
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