The university must be defended: collateral damage, part 37

The address takes as its leading point Foucault's well-known, Society Must Be Defended, and delivers an eloquent, passionate argument of why it matters that the 'arts and humanities' are central to the contemporary University. It develops the role of corporatism, protest and liberal arts as foundational to our future endeavours at the University

Poiesis and Politics as Ecstatic Fetish: Foucault's Ethical Demand

Taken from the text: “Seduction is not a passive form of incitement.” M. Foucault, History of Sexuality, pp. 95-6 Toward the end of his third volume on the History of Sexuality, where upon he expressly links the “art of living”with the care of oneself, Foucault invites us to think through the moral and ethical implications of such a connection. It is a troubled connection, indeed, a dangerous path, and we are forewarned of the trouble ahead. “...[A]s the arts of living and the care of the self are refined,” says Foucault, “some precepts emerge that seem to be rather similar to those that will be formulated in the later moral systems. But one should not be misled by the analogy. Those moral systems will define other modalities of the relation to self: a characterization of the ethical substance based on finitude, the Fall, and evil; a mode of subjection in the form of obedience to a general law that is at the same time the will for a personal god; [...] a mode of ethical fulfilment that tends toward self-re-nunciation. (Foucault, 1988: 239-40)

The University Must Be Defended: Collateral Damage No. 37

Taking as its referent Foucault's 'Society Must Be Defended', Golding delivers a hard-hitting analysis of the current government policies, protests, and the rise of corporatism. She presents three succinct analyses and one plea

Poiesis and Politics as Ecstatic Fetish: Foucault’s Ethical Demand

Relying on the form of the matter, as well as the content, this article is a playful and lyrical re-thinking of Foucault’s radical move to re-claim ‘otherness’ and the ‘other’ as ‘ecstatic’ fetish. Posed as such, ‘otherness’ and the technologies of identity this implies, neither stands as an opposition to Being/being nor as the ‘that’ which does not fit in. In this move, something rather peculiar also comes to light: a politics of the ethical that no longer relies on the mastery of logos. Indeed, it relies, on a radical ‘non-mastery’, a ‘beheaded mastery’; a kind of ‘coming’ without ‘be’. Could it be said that therein lies the beginning threads for a wholly different conception of freedom and democracy, not to mention the ‘I’ of this ‘me’?Relying on the form of the matter, as well as the content, this article is a playful and lyrical re-thinking of Foucault’s radical move to re-claim ‘otherness’ and the ‘other’ as ‘ecstatic’ fetish. Posed as such, ‘otherness’ and the technologies of identity this implies, neither stands as an opposition to Being/being nor as the ‘that’ which does not fit in. In this move, something rather peculiar also comes to light: a politics of the ethical that no longer relies on the mastery of logos. Indeed, it relies, on a radical ‘non-mastery’, a ‘beheaded mastery’; a kind of ‘coming’ without ‘be’. Could it be said that therein lies the beginning threads for a wholly different conception of freedom and democracy, not to mention the ‘I’ of this ‘me’

Of Clouds and Clocks: When Art Met the Web-Sciences: International launch symposium for ICAS, Oct 16-17, 2009

The Institute for the Converging Arts & Sciences (ICAS) links artists, scientists, designers, social theorists, legal scholars and inventive thinkers in a community directed at fostering transformational research and the dissemination of high impact knowledge Practice, and Performance both locally and globally. The historical setting of the Institute is without peer: the Royal Observatory on the hill overlooking the campus, the Cutty Sark Clipper at the edge of The Thames, the naval history stretching along the peninsula into the English Channel, mark out a territory where the convergence of the arts and sciences has been the standard. ICAS will draw from this rich historical legacy extending it into the future via Electronic & Media Arts Practice, Performance, Philosophy and the New Sciences! Located in King William Court, with strong ties to the Greenwich Maritime Institute and the Schools of Humanities & Social Sciences and Computing Mathematical Sciences, the Institute will create a network of Research Fellows focused on applied projects that will position the University at the centre of enterprises directly engaged with social, cultural, artistic, legal and creative events. Our launch, an international symposium entitled, Of Clouds and Clocks, will be held on the 16-17th October, in the Council Chamber Room (QA 063). Set up as an interactive Roundtable with 25 speakers over two intensive days, speakers will include Dame Wendy Hall (Director, Web-Science Research Institute, South Hampton), Sir Tim Berners-Lee (Founder of the Web, MIT, tbc) Professor Arthur Kroker (Director & Digital Arts Philosopher, Pacific Centre for Technology, Art and Culture, Victoria); Caroline Arscott (Prof of 19thC British Art, The Courtauld Institute), Olga Kisseleva (NANO-Artist, Plastik.Arts, The Sorbonne), Dick Rijken (Director: STEIM) and Joel Ryan (Composer & Physicist, STEIM), Norbert Finzsch (Historian, Univ of Cologne), Mary Bryson (Director, Centre for Cross-Faculty Education, Univ British Columbia), Art Clay (Composer/Mathematician, ETH, Zurich), Steve Gibson & Stefan Muller-Arisona (game arts/sound-light composers, Centre for Creative Technologies, De Montfort University and ETH, Zurich), Fox Harrell (robotics-games, Georgia Tech), Jackson 2 Bears (artist, Univ of Victoria, CA), Michaela Hampf (Historian, the JFK Institute, Frei Univ of Berlin), Ecke Bonk (Designer, ZKM Karlshrue), Pascal Brannan (Artist, London), Stephen Kennedy (Media-Arts Philosopher and DJ/composer, Univ Greenwich), Aya Walfaren (holographic technologies, UBC), Maureen Thomas (Media Arts/theatre Director, Cambridge), Ted Hiebert (media-arts-writer/Univ of Seattle)

Towards transformative practice in out of home care : chartering rights in recordkeeping

The CLAN Rights Charter asserts rights in records for Care leavers who were taken from their homes and families and communities, and placed in orphanages, children’s Homes, foster Care and other forms of institutions. The Australian Charter of Lifelong Rights in Childhood Recordkeeping in Out of Home Care is a response to the critical, largely unmet recordkeeping and archival needs of both children and young people in Care today, and Care leavers, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, young people and their families, and Stolen Generations. It focuses on their lifelong and diverse recordkeeping needs. The recordkeeping rights specified in both Charters are essential enablers for the exercise of human rights, including participatory, identity, memory and accountability rights. They provide a rights-based foundation for addressing the continuing recordkeeping failures, the major gaps in the archival record, and the weaponisation of data and records that plague the Care sector. In the paper, we discuss the research and advocacy contexts of the two interrelated Charters, and our mapping of the Charters aimed at cross-validation and identification of gaps. We then explore the challenge of translating the Charters into transformative practice, advocating for their adoption and developing guidelines for their implementation. © 2021 Frank Golding, Sue McKemmish and Barbara Reed

Sexing the mouth-breast: When philosophy met the oral tradition

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The Allergic Bodies Conference: Postgraduate/Postdoctoral Research Conference, 2010

This is the programme document for the annual Postgraduate/Postdoctoral Research Conference with Keynotes: Dr Jennifer Bajorek (Goldsmiths), Marianne Sjelsford (National Academy of Arts, Oslo, Sweden); Dr Maarten Vanvolsem (Lieven Gevaert Research Centre for Photography, Katholieke Universiteit, Brussels), Professor Pedro Lasch (Duke University)