Do I have some treats for you!

Robert Sinnerbrink
Hollywood in Trouble: David Lynch’s Inland Empire
Wednesday 28 July from 5-7pm in ib3.307

This Wednesday 28 July from 5-7pm in ib3.307 Dr Robert Sinnerbrink (Macquarie University) will present ‘Hollywood in Trouble: David Lynch’s Inland Empire’.

Please note that I listed the wrong date for Dr Sinnerbrink’s presentation in my email last week. The presentation is this Wednesday, not this Thursday.

Just for good measure, you’ll find a good synopsis/analysis of Lynch’s film at http://www.waggish.org/2006/12/28/david-lynchs-inland-empire-hypotheses-and-spoilers/. This should have you primed for Wednesday.

Coming presentation:
Professor Renata Salecl
Tyranny of Choice and the Desire to Control the Future: Subjectivity in Late Capitalism
Wednesday 11 August from 5pm in ib3.307

On Wednesday 11 August from 5pm in ib3.307 Professor Renata Salecl will present Tyranny of Choice and the Desire to Control the Future: Subjectivity in Late Capitalism.

Renata Salecl is Professor of Law at the London School of Economics and a Senior Researcher in the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She also teaches as a Visiting Professor at Cardozo School of Law in New York. She has been Fellow at Wissenschafts Kolleg in Berlin, Visiting Professor of Law at Humbolt University in Berlin, Visiting Humanities Professor at George Washington University in Washington, DC, Visiting Professor at Duke University in Durham, NC, and Fellow at Remarque Institute at NYU.

Her books include On Anxiety, Spoils of Freedom and Perversions of Love and Hate and the edited Sexuations. Her newly published Choice (Profile Books) is a brilliant study of the nature of choice, showing the despair to which limitless freedom can lead. Her work brings together law, criminology and psychoanalysis.

This promises to be another philosophically engaging trimester at Deakin.

Enjoy!

Dylan Nickelson,
President, Deakin Philosophical Society.

Inland Empire
Screening from 5-7pm
Wednesday 21 July in ib3.307

Wednesday 21 July from 5-7pm in ib3.307 the Deakin Philosophical Society will screen the first two hours of David Lynch’s Inland Empire in anticipation of Robert Sinnerbrink’s presentation to the DPS on the film next week.

Find a review of the movie here.

Dylan Nickelson,
President, Deakin Philosophical Society.

The first meeting of the Deakin Philosophical Society for the second trimester will take place this Wednesday 14 July from 5-6.30pm in ic1.108.

We’ve had to move for the first week back due to an AV upgrade in ib3.307. ic1.108 is on the first floor of the Arts and Education building, almost directly opposite Geoff Boucher’s office. Approaching the Arts building from the lake, enter the double doors and make a hard right hand turn. You’ll find ic1.108 half way down the hall on the left.

At this first meeting we’ll discuss potential topics for the trimester and take suggestions on ways to improve the Deakin Philosophical Society. Three weeks have already been set aside for bioethics and three weeks for the topic ‘violence and justice’. That leaves us with half of the trimester to fill.

If you have any suggestions for the second semester, feel free to raise them at the meeting or forward them on to Dylan Nickelson (President) via reply email, Mitch Cunningham (Secretary) or Daniel Connell (treasurer).

Here are some guidelines for suggestions, taken from the DPS mission statement:

The Deakin Philosophical Society is a society for philosophical discussion based at Deakin University’s Waurn Ponds campus, Australia. The society meets every Wednesday of the university year (except exam periods) for an exchange of truth, wisdom and red wine. Any undergraduates, postgraduates, faculty members, staff or interested persons (or non-persons) are welcome.

The society seeks to bring together students, staff and members of the community to foster philosophical dialogue and provide a place where people can engage philosophically and, hopefully, develop as philosophers. To achieve this aim the society provides fora for philosophical discourse on campus and throughout the community via weekly meetings, monthly philosophy cafés and other events.

We also have some special presentations lined up for this trimester. More details to come.

Regards,

Dylan Nickelson,
President, Deakin Philosophical Society.