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Rotman Institute Speaker: Feminist Neo-Materialism And The Future Of Phenomenology, Dorothea Olkowski
Rotman Institute Speaker: Feminist Neo-Materialism And The Future Of Phenomenology, Dorothea Olkowski
Future Directions in Feminist Phenomenology
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Infanticide And The Anxious Silence Of “Language As Such”, Kevin Godbout
Infanticide And The Anxious Silence Of “Language As Such”, Kevin Godbout
Modern Languages and Literatures Annual Graduate Conference
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Georges Bataille, Philosopher Of Laughter, Troy M. Bordun
Georges Bataille, Philosopher Of Laughter, Troy M. Bordun
Modern Languages and Literatures Annual Graduate Conference
Why is it that when we laugh – not at jokes or to patronize – but when we laugh ecstatically and drift away from the self that seemed to constitute the majority of waking life, we feel free, at ease? And why is it, asked Georges Bataille, that after this ecstatic moment we come back to the mundane everyday with the feeling of a new and ineffable knowledge about human existence?
In this paper I present Bataille on laughter and its merits as a philosophical project. Laughter is an experience to be theorized and a praxis aiding in our pursuit …