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The Hegelian “Night of the World”: Žižek on Subjectivity, Negativity, and UniversalityInternational Journal of Žižek Studies 2 (2). 2008.This article explores the Hegelian ‘night of the world’ that plays such an important role in Žižek’s theorisation of the subject. In the first part, I examine how the themes of the “pre-synthetic imagination” and “abstract negativity" are crucial to understanding Žižek’s theorisation of the Hegelian subject. In the second part, I consider how this Hegelian model of the subject is decisive for understanding Žižek’s conception of Hegelian “concrete universality,” and how the latter concept figures…Read more
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24Cognitivist Turn in Film TheoryIn James Williams (ed.), Postanalytic and Metacontinental: Crossing Philosophical Divides, Continuum. pp. 173. 2010.
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24Re-enfranchising Film: Towards a Romantic Film-Philosophy.”In Havi Carel & Greg Tuck (eds.), New Takes in Film-Philosophy, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 25--47. 2011.23 page
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78Cinematic Belief: bazinian cinephilia and malick's the tree of lifeAngelaki 17 (4). 2012.Given the so-called ?crisis? in film theory, the digital mutations of the medium, and the renewed interest in historicism, cinephilia, and film philosophy, André Bazin's thought appears ripe for retrieval and renewal. Indeed, his role in the renaissance of philosophical film theory, I argue, is less epistemological and ontological than moral and aesthetic. It is a quest to explore the revelatory possibilities of cinematic images; not only their power to reveal reality under a multiplicity of asp…Read more
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Areas of Specialization
Aesthetics |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Continental Philosophy |
European Philosophy |