Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities Lecture: Avital Ronell

Using an historical, philosophical and cultural analysis, Avital Ronnel will explore the prevalent and ubiquitous use of testing in search of the truth.

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[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.

[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.