On a crisp autumn night, Paul Carter presented a paper on ‘dry thinking’ as a contribution to the Southern Perspectives series. There was a complex North-South dynamic at play in Carter’s talk. Although published in German, Carter’s paper had never before been presented in English before. And although invoking the broad trajectory of Western philosophy, [...]
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Paul Carter ‘Dry Thinking and Human Futures’
image image An opportunity to hear one of Australia’s leading thinkers reflect on the philosophical challenges of living in a recalcitrant environment: Australia’s natural water body is, as it were, too humid to be relied upon. It spreads out and refuses to solidise. It collects in billabongs and necklaces of ponds that do not communicate [...]
Maghrebi Intellectual: Thinking Jacques Derrida as African Philosopher
The Transforming Cultures Research Centre is hosting a Public Lecture with Prof. Grant Farred (Cornell University) Maghrebi Intellectual: Thinking Jacques Derrida as African Philosopher Thursday, 23rd July, 6:00-8:00, UTS Building 2, Lecture room 4.11 Lecture Abstract It was not "the Nazis, but Vichy France," Jacques Derrida insists in "Monolingualism and the Other," that disenfranchised him. [...]
