[Ascp-news] Reminder PoD Seminar 19/8 6pm @ RMIT Rebecca Hill "To Speak of the Sea"

[Rebecca Hill]

A reminder that I am speaking on Tuesday 19/8 6pm at the PHILOSOPHIES OF DIFFERENCE AUGUST SEMINAR SERIES at RMIT City Campus. Please note the new paper title and abstract:

To Speak of the Sea
My paper is an effort to think in resistance to the hegemony of the settler colonial project, of global technicity, and capitalism, of the devastation of life-worlds on earth. In Specters of Marx, Jacques Derrida describes this world as space and time “out of joint.” For Derrida, this very dislocation intensifies the impossible desire to be present in place. I contrast this impossible desire to an effort to think with place in two modern European thinkers: Luce Irigaray and Friedrich Nietzsche. In Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche’s Zarathustra repeatedly insists on the fundamental teaching: “remain faithful to the earth.” In Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche Irigaray follows Nietzsche in elaborating a thinking and ethics that strives to remain faithful to the sea. To be faithful to the sea is not to make a possessive claim on the sea but to unfold a practice of desire that strives to listen and to participate in the becoming of the immemorial waters which overflow the marine lover's finitude. This is not thinking which happens in ‘any place whatever’ but thinking with rhythms of the sea. My paper concludes with a close reading of the speaking of the sea (parler la mère /mer) from the first part of Marine Lover. This is a speaking charged with rhythms of the sea.

BIO:
Rebecca Hill is Senior Lecturer in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT. Rebecca is codirector of the Luce Irigaray Circle and convener of the Philosophies of Difference Group. She conducts research in feminist philosophy, decolonial theory, and critical Indigenous studies. She is the editor of Topologies of Sexual Difference: Space in Philosophy and Art after Irigaray (with Louise Burchill and James Sares; forthcoming, SUNY, 2025).

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WHERE:
RMIT City Campus
Building 80 level 10 room 17
445 Swanston St

All are welcome





Dr Rebecca Hill (she/her)

Senior Lecturer

Responsible Practice Lead

School of Media and Communication, RMIT University

Convener, Philosophies of Difference

Co-Director, Luce Irigaray Circle





Building 9 Level 5 Room 42

City Campus

GPO Box 2476, Melbourne, VIC, 3001

School of Media and Communication

RMIT University



ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5573-3074



RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nations on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where it conducts its business.
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