[show_more more=”Timothy Campbell – Attention, Ethos, Life: Practices of the Self in the Contemporary Milieu” less=”show less” color=”#0066cc” list=”\u00bb”] Timothy Campbell<\/strong><\/p>\n Is it possible to think practices of the self that are equal to the challenges of the contemporary milieu? In this seminar, we will attempt to do just that. We\u2019ll begin by sketching the most important features of the contemporary milieu, under the rubric of biopower. Through readings from Foucault, Agamben, and Deleuze (amongst others), we will size up the biopolitical and ethical situation we face, in order to see where fault lines may appear in present day biopower. Doing so will help set the scene for the second part of the seminar, when we\u2019ll consider potential practices of the self across a variety of thinkers and texts, including Foucault\u2019s later lectures as well as works from Kenneth Burke, D.W. Winnicott, Jacques Lacan, Lyotard, and Deleuze; practices that may actually prove capable of confronting biopower today. If we had to find names for such practices of the self, we could do worse than opt for\u00a0attention\u00a0and\u00a0ethos.<\/p>\n Indicative Reading List<\/strong> [show_more more=”Patricia Williams – Seeing and Surveillance: Law, culture and notions of justice” less=”show less” color=”#0066cc” list=”\u00bb”] Patricia Williams<\/strong><\/p>\n We live in a visual world.\u00a0 Yet for law, the printed word is foundational. Emphasis on \u201cthe book\u201d in legal culture shapes our notions of what is recognized as legitimate, and what sort of evidence deemed admissible in law.\u00a0 But just as the moveable printing press stretched the moral, religious, and governmental ligaments of how civilizations were constituted, so we face a radically new technological revolution,\u00a0grounded in a massive shift from print to pictograph.<\/p>\n The seminar will focus on how visual media contribute to the construction of legal knowledge as well as our sense of fairness and justice. From amateur streaming of police-citizen encounters\u00a0to CCTV, from selfies to surveillance drones, from biometrics to Google-earth,\u00a0we live in much-too-interesting times. Community is evolving within newly-imagined topologies of race, gender, identity and phenotype.\u00a0 Powerfully idiomatic visual\u2013often \u201cviral\u201d\u2013regimes are redirecting our affective relations to concepts of neighbor, neighborhood, nativism, citizenship, alienation and belonging.\u00a0 We will ask how knowledge and seeing are linked; and how our gaze is directed\u2014whether by cognitive capacity, social force (including tabloidization or terror), or algorithm. We will compare rhetorical conventions in verbal and visual accounts of the same cases. This will include study of the narrative elements of constructing \u201csides\u201d\u2014how heroes and villains are made, as well as the complexities of truth-telling and neutrality, of incitement, exposure, iconoclasm, and public order.\u00a0 We will discuss the comparative professional ethics of law and media, including the roles and representational responsibilities of lawyers, legislators, bloggers, photojournalists, filmmakers, cartoonists, graphic artists, politicians, police, and citizen-observers.<\/p>\n Indicative Reading List<\/strong> We will also consider a number of court cases, movies and law review articles[\/show_more]<\/span><\/p>\n [show_more more=”Timothy Campbell – The Comic Self” less=”show less” color=”#0066cc” list=”\u00bb”]Timothy Campbell<\/strong><\/p>\n In this lecture I will use two frames for making sense of Foucault\u2019s notion of care of the self: the comic and the biopolitical, with the latter understood principally in terms of health. For the comic, I employ a (Kenneth) Burkean reading of comedy as corrective in order to read care of the self with and against Foucault, especially where he thinks care of the self and parrhesia together in The Courage of Truth. What does a techne associated with a comic self look like? Once done, I\u2019ll turn to the biopolitical frame to read care of the self as constituted by an immanent notion of health. By bringing comedy and (biopolitical) health together in terms of practices of the self, we can, I hope, begin to pry apart the grip that biopower holds over both care and the self.<\/p>\n [\/show_more]<\/span><\/p>\n [show_more more=”Patricia Williams – Litigating without Words: visible apprehensions and the legislation of fear” less=”show less” color=”#0066cc” list=”\u00bb”]Patricia Williams<\/strong><\/p>\n TBA<\/p>\n [\/show_more]<\/p>\n [show_more more=”Roundtable – Law, Life, Culture and Naturer” less=”show less” color=”#0066cc” list=”\u00bb”]Roundtable<\/strong><\/p>\n In collaboration with Sciences Po Law School, this roundtable will feature the participation of<\/p>\n [\/show_more]<\/p>\n [show_more more=”Roundtable – Making Postcolonial Worlds” less=”show less” color=”#0066cc” list=”\u00bb”]Roundtable<\/strong><\/p>\n With the participation of<\/p>\n [\/show_more]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Seminars [show_more more=”Timothy Campbell – Attention, Ethos, Life: Practices of the Self in the Contemporary Milieu” less=”show less” color=”#0066cc” list=”\u00bb”] Timothy Campbell Is it possible to think practices of the self that are equal to the challenges of the contemporary milieu? 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\nGiorgio Agamben,\u00a0The Highest Poverty;\u00a0Means without End;\u00a0The Use of Bodies.<\/em>
\nHannah Arendt,\u00a0The Human Condition<\/em>
\nKenneth Burke,\u00a0Attitudes Toward History;\u00a0A Grammar of Motives<\/em>
\nJudith Butler,\u00a0Giving an Account of Oneself<\/em>
\nEmanuele Coccia,\u00a0Sensible Life<\/em>
\nGilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari,\u00a0Anti-Oedipus<\/em>
\nGilles Deleuze,\u00a0Foucault<\/em>
\nForti, Simona.\u00a0The New Devils<\/em>
\nMichel Foucault,\u00a0The Courage of Truth;\u00a0The Government of Self and Others<\/em>; \u201cNietzsche, Genealogy, History\u201d;\u00a0Security, Territory, Population<\/em>; \u201cWhat is an Author?\u201d; \u201cWhat is Critique?\u201d; \u201cWhat is Enlightenment?\u201d
\nJacques Lacan,\u00a0Anxiety;\u00a0The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960<\/em>
\nMichael Lambek, ed.\u00a0Ordinary Ethics: Anthropology, Language, and Action<\/em>
\nJean-Fran\u00e7ois Lyotard,\u00a0Driftworks<\/em>
\nPlato,\u00a0Apology;\u00a0Laches<\/em>
\nD.W. Winnicott,\u00a0Playing and Reality<\/em>[\/show_more]<\/span><\/p>\n
\nSimone Brown,\u00a0Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness<\/em>, Duke University Press, 2015
\nColin Dayan,\u00a0The Law Is a White Dog: How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons,<\/em> Princeton University Press, 2013
\nDiane Dufour, ed.,\u00a0Images of Conviction: The Construction of Visual Evidence<\/em>, Le Bal, Paris, 2015
\nRoberto Esposito,\u00a0Persons and Things<\/em>, Theory Redux, 2015
\nShoshana Felman,\u00a0The Juridical Unconscious: Trials and Traumas in the Twentieth Century<\/em>, Harvard Press, 2002
\nThomas Keenan and Ayal Weizman,\u00a0Mengele\u2019s Skull: The Advent of a Forensic Aesthetics<\/em>, Sternberg Press, 2012
\nNicholas Mirzoeff,\u00a0The Right to Look:\u00a0 A Counterhistory of Visuality<\/em>, Duke University Press, 2011
\nSusan Sontag,\u00a0Regarding the Pain of Others<\/em>,\u00a0Picador, 2004
\nVictor Navasky,\u00a0Naming Names<\/em>, Hill and Wang, 1980<\/p>\nLectures<\/h2>\n
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