Louise Burchill on Badiou, Irigaray, and Sexual Difference

  Wed 31 January, 4-6pm Dalhousie Building, Room 1S05 University of Dundee All welcome.   “Of a Universal No Longer Indifferent to Difference: Badiou (and Irigaray) on Woman, Truths and Philosophy” In a startling inflexion of his core tenet of truths’ trans-positionality, or the neutrality of the universal, Badiou’s 2011 paper ‘Figures of Femininity in …

Darshana Jayemanne on Virtual Reality

    “The Body Eclectic: Mimesis and Play in Contemporary V.R.” Darshana Jayemanne (Abertay University) 4 – 6pm, Wednesday 24 January Dalhousie Building, Room 1S05, University of Dundee All welcome! This talk extends Walter Benjamin’s concept of mimesis in order to challenge discourses of ‘immersion’ that are often used to understand contemporary virtual reality technologies. …