Avital Ronell and Judith Butler. Contemporaneity of Philosophy. 2006 1/3

http://www.egs.edu/ Lecture with Avital Ronell and Judith Butler focusing on contemporaneity of philosophy, Jacques Derrida, Georges Bataille, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, theory and trauma. Free public open lecture for the students of the European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2006

Judith Butler is the Maxine Elliot professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley and an American feminist and post-structuralist philosopher interested in feminism, queer theory, political philosophy, ethics, zionism, israel, oppression, academic freedom and cultural narrative. Judith Butler is the author of Giving An Account of Oneself; Undoing Gender; Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence; Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left (with Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj Žižek); Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death; The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection; Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative; Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex"; Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity; and Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France.

Avital Ronnell, is a Professor of German, comparative literature, and English at New York University. Her research interests include literary and other discourses, feminism; philosophy, technology and media, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, and performance art. She is the author of The Test Drive (2005), Stupidity (2003), Stupidity; The Test Drive (2001), French translation forthcoming by Galilee Press, France, The Telephone Book: Technology, Schizophrenia, Electric Speech (1989), Crack Wars: Literature, Addiction, Mania (1992), Dictations: On Haunted Writing (1986/1993), and Finitude's Score: Essays for the End of the Millenium (1994)

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[EebstertheGreat]

This is a false dilemma. Postmodernism is not the only alternative to modernism, as both have serious flaws. I don't need to hold a teleology to call bullshit on the call to avoid logic, for example.

And Henri's point remains pertinent: How can the deconstructionists claim language as a basis if they do not define their own terms?

Moreover, what is your alternative to logical positivism? Pure uncertainty, for no particular reason? That is not an especially profound epistemology.

[ChurchofMe88]

im pretty sure ronell has no idea what shes talking about in this video...

[MrDiceman9000]

The logical positivist project was destroyed by Godel.

[yamscafe]

I really don't understand why those kind of nearly confabulation symptom processing can be treat as Philosophy even in 21 century, There's loaded of them!!!!!

[dhakhair]

Without logic how can we acquire from her the information "logic is weak"? When she says 'science' she seems to be referring to some abstract construct of her own, not the constantly changing ideas produced by individual researchers. BORING.

[NEDM1991]

Avital Ronell..

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[NEDM1991]

spliterature

[RationalEmotive]

Hey, maybe we come up with some re-construction if you take Dawkins and Atkins, who are scientist and don't have the first clue about philosophy, on the leash who preach logical positivism and scientism unto the masses.

Logify existence to me, you left hemissphere of a whole brain.

[RationalEmotive]

"Once one says logic can not be applied then the result is anything goes and nonsense pervades:"

Hey, maybe we come up with something, if you take Dawkins, and Atkins on the leash, who preach logical positivism and scientism onto the masses and hound against post-modernism.

We don't have the time anymore to make people first modern and only then let them overcome the problems that come with it.

Logify existence to me, you left hemissphere of a whole brain.

[Henriamaa]

"logic is for the weak" Wow!! I could simply turn her argument on its head and say staying away from logic is for the weak because they are afraid they have no ideas and are afraid of being wrong. Once one says logic can not be applied then the result is anything goes and nonsense pervades. Which is exactly what has happened with this postmodernism or post structurilism. Terms are never clearly defined and yet they claim language to be the basis. They should read language, truth and logic