Event overview
A symposium at the ICA exploring the writings of Maurice Blanchot
Starting from his late reflections on passivity in The Writing of the Disaster, we turn to the work of Maurice Blanchot to develop our ongoing exploration of writing as impossibility and madness, and extend it to a consideration of the image. Beginning with a workshop on passages from Writing the Disaster, and Blanchot's texts 'Reading' and 'The Narrative Voice', we will explore ideas of a radical passivity, reading situated before comprehension, the neutral, and the image as cadaver.
Paul Davies (University of Sussex) will guide the reading on passivity and reading mainly from The Writing of the Disaster
John Stezaker (artist) will talk on the image, for which the reading will be 'Two Versions of the Imaginary'.
Beth Guilding (Goldsmiths, ECL) will present a paper '"We do not come to the end with age": Blanchot's last word', for which the reading will be Blanchot's text 'Who?' from Who Comes After the Subject.
Reading extracts will be supplied to those who register with Eventbrite.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 2 Feb 2018 | 2:00pm - 6:00pm |
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