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The Invention of Facts : Bentham’s Ethics and the Education of Public Taste
‘The Invention of Facts : Bentham’s Ethics and the Education of Public Taste’, a 9000 word article that will appear in autumn 2011 in Revue d’études benthamiennes in a special issue on ‘Utilitarian Ethics’. Revue d’études benthamiennes is the online journal of the Centre Bentham in Paris.
See information about this issue here
Art and Psychoanalysis (Among Other Discourses)
‘Art and Psychoanalysis (Among Other Discourses)’ an essay in Professor Naomi Segal and Dr Sharon Kivland (eds.) Vicissitudes: Histories and Destinies of Psychoanalysis. This essay, to be published in autumn 2011, is included in the concluding publication for the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies AHRC funded research network on Psychoanalysis and the Arts & Humanities. I was part of the Core Programme Committee for this network, which ran from November 2006 to January 2008, which involved me in convening seminars and chairing discussion at the concluding conference Vicissitudes: histories & destinies of psychoanalysis at the IGRS in January 2008.
See the research project website
Chigurh’s Haircut: Three Dialogues on Provocation
This 3000 word essay, due for publication in December 2011, is part of a publication on the subject of ‘Provocation’, part of the series ‘Transmission’ published by Sheffield Hallam University/Site Gallery. The subject of this essay is the dialogue between the provocateur and her audience. My central claim is that the dialogue between provocateur and audience is balanced between two very distinct modes that define ‘weak’ and ‘strong’ provocative art. In ‘weak’ provocative art, there is complicity with moral failure that is expressed in the mutual recognition of opposing positions or interpretations. In ‘strong’ provocative art, the artist assumes this moral failure as her personal cause or mission. In the first case, the provocateur interprets a structural problem of ethics in inter-subjective terms; in the second case, this inter-subjective solution is itself rejected as unethical, in favour of a personal commitment to the structural problem.
See the Transmission website