Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities Lecture: Avital Ronell

[kingofaikido]

ellipsis... without repetition.

[kingofaikido]

cont'd.. condition of self-knowledge as the no-longer given and yet what is known to a degree and yet where more is to come.. I see myself as object of your gaze and subject of my own sight.. and you as someone who stands beside me and thus another objective subject, another question, another test seeking an answer.. but why should you be ephemeral, urgent, eager to pass me by without greeting me..to, at the very least, acknowledge our mutual passing, and mutuality of recognition, seeing this..

[kingofaikido]

Wonderful about 'testing' and 'Jewish evanescent sensibility' but I wonder if this isn't contradicted to a degree. I mean, Jewish Diaspora notwithstanding, how do we understand the bond that contrary coherence around Israel...the chosen people, etc. Couldn't testing be a kind of appeal? A form of beggary? Begging to know, out of ignorance, the frustration of the desire for knowledge, clarity, knowing who and what belongs to where, and with whom.. that is to say, 'the test' might be the basic..

[thegreeensky]

interesting topic..

[sumausa]

The whole thing about unintelligibility as a justifiable approach relates to her role as a continental philosopher rather than an analytical one. I can presume she measures her success as a thinker, and believes we should do the same, by the amount of thinking she has incited and not by an "absolute truth" she is aiming toward. Unintelligibility would certainly be accepted as a literary device, and literature and philosophy share a certain incitement of thought as their most immediate influence.

[grinbergcolastra]

Why clarity of speech is something "red winged"?? Maybe because deconstructionists often relates "intelligibility" to a "enlightned rationality" ??

What a nonsense.

[starsassy]

.Ultimate proof that liberals are complete nutjobs

[agamagon]

@starsassy Right. So being a "liberal" automatically presumes that we completely buy in to this kind of thing? Not this liberal. I do buy into evolution, however. Throw in the idea that Obama is not a fascisto-socialist and that health care is not a luxury for the rich and what do you get? Complete nut job.

[ThisSentenceIsFalse]

@Krelianx,

It's not only Kant, it's Foucault as well. Is obscurity and voids always so bad? Thought I don't see how those two criticisms apply to this talk. I must be stupid, I guess, because I thought the lecture was explicated clearly, full of content, and had a little humour too.

[redetrigan]

Suddenly I know where my pomo polisci professor got her haircut and sense of style

[putter069]

The great tsunami of arrogance that is 21st century academics. Quite the treat!

[Krelianx]

Good old Foucaultean in reference to 'conditions of posibility'? That's Kant, Avital.

This is enjoyable as a performance; utterly void as philosophy. I am not ashamed to question her accolades; Avital is an obscurantist.

[minskithenkr]

Thanks for posting this. Fabulous.

[crassconversational]

she's the Jacques Derrida professor of deconstruction at the European Graduate School and a university professor at NYU, which is the highest distinction of a professor at NYU. I don't know why you're AHAHA!-ing but it's pretty ridiculous.

[booriis]

What's wrong with her?

is she realy a professor at NYU?

AHAHAH! oh! wow.

She remind me someone which you guy use to fight against.

Don't tell me you use to listen to what this old crazy women say.

Ho shi-