Event overview
Whether one settles for an objective or subjective perspective, writing always seems to secretly posit an abstract, intuited, and hidden time. This hidden time is not the present. It is the time of thought, a mono-logical time that drags the past and projects into the future from a single viewpoint. The author is this viewpoint, sitting alone in front of his or her screen and in the fullness of this abstract and intuited time. Why is this always the case? Why do we always rely on this one hidden time in our scientific inquiries or subjective undertakings? This paper will explore this topic at the confluence of two lineages of thought: continental and African philosophies, and more specifically, the work of Martin Heidegger and Bourahima Ouattara. Through such confluence, the aim is to put forward a different approach to writing, one that will rekindle this task to the fact of being mortal on earth and under the sky.
Jean-Paul Martinon is a writer based in London. He is currently Reader in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths. He has written monographs on a Victorian workhouse (Swelling Grounds, Rear Window, 1995), the idea of the future in the work of Derrida, Malabou and Nancy (On Futurity, Palgrave, 2007), the temporal dimension of masculinity (The End of Man, Punctum, 2013), and the idea of peace after the Rwandan genocide (After “Rwanda,” Rodopi, 2013). He is also the editor of The Curatorial: A Philosophy of Curating (Bloomsbury, 2014). http://www.jeanpaulmartinon.net
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28 May 2015 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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