Event overview
Chaired by Emily Rosamund, followed by a drinks reception.
Erotics of Deconstruction takes advantage of over a decade of publications from Derrida’s seminars to creatively demonstrate the deep material range of deconstruction and emphasise its under-recognised erotic nature. It activates psychoanalysis without the long-embedded philosophical trajectory that forged the human, psychic life and sexuality as categorically distinct from ‘the animal’ (inherent to dialectics and psychoanalysis). It generates new conversations with Derrida’s feminist contemporaries as they encounter pressing questions in current critical thought. From the larger frame of ‘life death’ and the broadest auto-affective relation of inside to outside to the difficult to grasp interface of conceptual and sensible, Erotics of Deconstruction does not retreat to a reparative life force or erotics of the good but includes the unsettling friction of an originary relation to violence. Parsed by means of case studies from literature, philosophy and visual culture, erotics in this volume lap at every edge.
‘I have never been so moved by a book about Derrida, or about sex. It moves, you could say. It dazzles and moves. It moves animal or biological, dorsal, secret, violent, bloody, nonbinary, masturbatory, vocal or spoken in tongues, historical, artistic, maternal, decomposing, technological and more. Just brilliant.’ - Gil Anidjar, Columbia University.
Lynn Turner is a Reader in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is the author of Poetics of Deconstruction: on the threshold of differences (Bloomsbury, 2020); co-editor, with Undine Sellbach and Ron Broglio, of The Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies (EUP, 2018); editor of The Animal Question in Deconstruction (EUP, 2013); and co-author, with Astrid Schmetterling, of Visual Cultures As… Recollection (Sternberg, 2013).
Book launch discount code: EROTICS45, when purchasing from EUP directly (https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-erotics-of-deconstruction.html)
This will remain active until 31st December 2024.
Erotics of Deconstruction: Auto-affection after Derrida
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| 12 Dec 2024 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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