Joanne Faulkner
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 492897 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Joanne Faulkner |
| NOMBRES | Joanne |
| APELLIDO | Faulkner |
| FIRMA | FAULKNER J |
| AFILIACIONES | Macquarie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5694-181X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2005 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
A Universal Father and Son Story'? The Representation of Father-Son Relationships in Zach's Ceremony , In My Blood It Runs , and Robbie Hood
First Nations boys and men are heavily freighted with colonial stereotypes that give them to be antisocial, drug-addicted, violent, and harmful to their own communities. While men are consistently represented as neglectful or abusive fathers, Aboriginal boys are depicted as potential criminals whose childhood is blighted, and who lack guidance from suitable father figures or male role models. This article addresses three depictions of father-son …
The child as mediator of racial ambivalence in Australia
In white settler-colonial Australian imagination, ‘the child’ historically has both signalled the colony’s flourishing and is charged with anxiety about belonging and identity. This article analyses a set of events in which children were the occasion through which Australians managed racial violence and/or publicly distanced the mainstream from endemic racism. Differences between the mediating power of ‘white’ childhood versus Indigenous childhoo…
Ghosts of eugenics’ past
While in modernity childhood was increasingly invested with emotional and intellectual energy, it also became a site of scrutiny and intervention, so that philosophers, scientists, and humanitarians pursued the improvement of humanity and the human condition through management of ‘the child’. In the first half of the twentieth century, such attention settled on children deemed to present both problems and opportunities for the improvement of the …
Gumnuts in the garden of good and evil
May Gibbs’s gumnut stories are central to the development of an Australian national imaginary. By connecting the natural ‘bush’ environment to settler-colonial social issues and scenes, Gibbs’s imagery and narrative reimagined the bush as a ‘home’ for colonizers, essentially ‘indigenising’ them in the image of white gumnut babies. The most comprehensive and influential interpretations of Gibbs’s work emphasize its currency to contemporaneous life…
‘I can’t stand the noise of it’
The presence in Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale of children, and of violence against them, has so far been little commented upon, as much commentary has focused on the film’s depiction of rape and colonial gender relations. Yet key plot points are articulated through violence against a child — and the exclamations at these points by the film’s antagonist, Lt. Hawkins, of “shut it up” and “I can’t stand the ... noise of it,” indicates a critical r…
"Suffer Little Children"
Contemporary Australia is plagued by scandals concerning Aboriginal children, which gesture to a broader injustice to First Nations peoples. The cycle of abuse and reaction prompts two questions: (1) why are wrongs to Indigenous peoples brought to crisis through the situation of children?; and (2) why does the situation remain unchanged? Drawing on Lacanian theory and Debord's account of the spectacle, this paper argues that colonial subjectivity…
"Settler-Colonialism's "Miscarriage
The relation between Australia's First Nations peoples and settler-colonial Australians may be characterised as having "miscarried" to the extent that colonial difference is unacknowledged, and Aboriginal peoples are expected to assimilate to white Australian culture. This paper brings Luce Irigaray's feminist thought into dialogue with Indigenous philosophy and activism to think through this "relation" – or absence of relation. For Irigaray the …
Young and Free
Tracing the complex yet intimate relationship between a present-day national obsession with childhood and a colonial past with which Australia as a nation has not adequately come to terms, Young and Free draws on philosophy, literature, film and testimony. The result is a demonstration of how anxiety about childhood has become a screen for more fundamental and intractable issues that vex Australian social and political life. Joanne Faulkner argue…
Our own Hurricane Katrina’
Since Prime Minister Howard's declaration in 2007 that child sex abuse in Northern Territory Aboriginal communities was Australia's ‘own Hurricane Katrina’, the trope of natural disaster has been a regular feature of print and television media coverage of Indigenous affairs in Australia. The effect of this rhetorical strategy is to separate what happens to Aboriginal people from the fabric of ‘mainstream’ Australian cultural and political life; t…
Disgust, Purity, and a Longing for Companionship
In his writings, Nietzsche often figured his relationship to his contemporaries using corporeal imagery evocative of disgust. For instance, in On the Genealogy of Morality Nietzsche declares himself (and a hypothetical “we”) to suffer from mankind—which he then proceeds to describe as “maggot”- or wormlike. Nietzsche's philosophical project can be interpreted as a visceral protest against, and attempt to overcome (“digest”), humanity. This articl…
Vulnerability of "Virtual" Subjects
There is perhaps no member of contemporary Western communities more valued than the child. Children are valued as future citizens, producers and consumers, and invested with adults’ hopes and fears for the future: regarding the environment, the economy, knowledge, and morality. Children are also valued, however, because of their precariousness, or vulnerability. Yet children’s vulnerability has become a privileged site of cultural anxiety, as wel…
My Journey Map”
Young people with substance misuse issues are at risk of harm from significant negative health and life events. Contemporary research notes both a historical failure to recognize the unique needs of adolescents, and the ongoing need for dedicated adolescent treatment programs and outcome measures. It is concerning that there is so little literature assessing the quality, availability, and effectiveness of adolescent-focused treatment programs, an…
Innocents and Oracles
This paper argues that the figure of the child performs a critical function for the middle-class social imaginary, representing both an essential "innocence" of the liberal individual, and an excluded, unconscious remainder of its project of control through the management of knowledge. While childhood is invested with affect and value, children's agency and opportunities for social participation are restricted insofar as they are seen both to rep…
Negotiating vulnerability through "animal" and "child
While ethics and justice are domains that concern the human, this paper argues that these spheres are organized and given meaning in terms of what lies at the limits of the human subject: children (excluded from political and economic life) and non-human animals. In this respect, the orientation to ethical life takes the form of a disavowal: in the attempt to negotiate human vulnerability, a subjectivity that defines itself in terms of the contro…
Dead letters to Nietzsche, or, The necromantic art of reading philosophy
Dead Letters to Nietzsche; or, the Necromantic Art of Reading Philosophy examines how writing shapes subjectivity through the example of Nietzsche's reception by his readers, including Stanley Rosen, David Farrell Krell, Georges Bataille, Laurence Lampert, Pierre Klossowski, and Sarah Kofman. More precisely, Joanne Faulkner finds that the personal identificition that these readers form with Nietzsche's texts is an enactment of the kind of identit…
The Innocence Fetish
Over the past century, a great deal of cultural energy has been invested in the ideal of childhood innocence, to the extent that innocence is frequently cited as our society's most valuable asset. More recently, however, the dominant sentiment - frequently represented in news and current affairs media - has been that childhood innocence is imperilled, and that the 'less responsible' aspects of our popular media are putting it at risk. This articl…
Innocence, Evil, and Human Frailty
The Eternal Jouissance of the Community
The paper considers the part of Thomas Hobbes's 'natural man' in the construction of a culturally shared fantasy regarding pre-social humanity (conceived of as outside obligation), and the marginalization of 'excluded' citizens who are seen in various ways to approximate that fantasy. While Hobbes did not valorize his hypothetical 'natural man,' I argue that his particularly dark elaboration of it lent an ambivalence to this ideal, which thereby …
“Keeping It in the Family”
This article examines Sarah Kofman's interpretation of Nietzsche in light of the claim that interpretation was for her both an articulation of her identity and a mode of deconstructing the very notion of identity. Faulkner argues that Kofman's work on Nietzsche can be understood as autobiographical, in that it served to mediate a relation to her self. Faulkner examines this relation with reference to Klein's model of the child's connection to its…
The Innocence of Victimhood Versus the “Innocence of Becoming”
The article explores competing significances of ‘innocence,’ and the effects of its attribution to U.S. citizens in the wake of the attacks of September 11, 2001. Because traditional conceptions of innocence downplay the innocent’s capacity for knowledge and decision, it is argued we should be wary of governments’ casting of their citizens as innocents to be protected. To illustrate the impact of conceptions of innocence on innocents’ capacities,…
Keeping It in the Family”
This article examines Sarah Kofman's interpretation of Nietzsche in light of the claim that interpretation was for her both an articulation of her identity and a mode of deconstructing the very notion of identity. Faulkner argues that Kofman's work on Nietzsche can be understood as autobiographical, in that it served to mediate a relation to her self. Faulkner examines this relation with reference to Klein's model of the child's connection to its…
When Two Become One
When Two Become One: The Prism through Which Nietzsche Appears as Lacan Joanne Faulkner (bio) Alenka Zupancic. The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Two (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2003), 193 pages. There are an increasing number of books and articles that trace the relation of Nietzsche to psychoanalysis, most notably Ronald Lehrer's Nietzsche's Presence in Freud's Life and Thought, and Paul-Laurent Assoun's Freud and …
Negotiating vulnerability through "animal" and "child
While ethics and justice are domains that concern the human, this paper argues that these spheres are organized and given meaning in terms of what lies at the limits of the human subject: children (excluded from political and economic life) and non-human animals. In this respect, the orientation to ethical life takes the form of a disavowal: in the attempt to negotiate human vulnerability, a subjectivity that defines itself in terms of the contro…
Innocence, Evil, and Human Frailty
Vulnerability of "Virtual" Subjects
There is perhaps no member of contemporary Western communities more valued than the child. Children are valued as future citizens, producers and consumers, and invested with adults’ hopes and fears for the future: regarding the environment, the economy, knowledge, and morality. Children are also valued, however, because of their precariousness, or vulnerability. Yet children’s vulnerability has become a privileged site of cultural anxiety, as wel…
The Innocence Fetish
Over the past century, a great deal of cultural energy has been invested in the ideal of childhood innocence, to the extent that innocence is frequently cited as our society's most valuable asset. More recently, however, the dominant sentiment - frequently represented in news and current affairs media - has been that childhood innocence is imperilled, and that the 'less responsible' aspects of our popular media are putting it at risk. This articl…
Innocents and Oracles
This paper argues that the figure of the child performs a critical function for the middle-class social imaginary, representing both an essential "innocence" of the liberal individual, and an excluded, unconscious remainder of its project of control through the management of knowledge. While childhood is invested with affect and value, children's agency and opportunities for social participation are restricted insofar as they are seen both to rep…
The Innocence of Victimhood Versus the “Innocence of Becoming”
The article explores competing significances of ‘innocence,’ and the effects of its attribution to U.S. citizens in the wake of the attacks of September 11, 2001. Because traditional conceptions of innocence downplay the innocent’s capacity for knowledge and decision, it is argued we should be wary of governments’ casting of their citizens as innocents to be protected. To illustrate the impact of conceptions of innocence on innocents’ capacities,…
A Universal Father and Son Story'? The Representation of Father-Son Relationships in Zach's Ceremony , In My Blood It Runs , and Robbie Hood
First Nations boys and men are heavily freighted with colonial stereotypes that give them to be antisocial, drug-addicted, violent, and harmful to their own communities. While men are consistently represented as neglectful or abusive fathers, Aboriginal boys are depicted as potential criminals whose childhood is blighted, and who lack guidance from suitable father figures or male role models. This article addresses three depictions of father-son …
"Settler-Colonialism's "Miscarriage
The relation between Australia's First Nations peoples and settler-colonial Australians may be characterised as having "miscarried" to the extent that colonial difference is unacknowledged, and Aboriginal peoples are expected to assimilate to white Australian culture. This paper brings Luce Irigaray's feminist thought into dialogue with Indigenous philosophy and activism to think through this "relation" – or absence of relation. For Irigaray the …
When Two Become One
When Two Become One: The Prism through Which Nietzsche Appears as Lacan Joanne Faulkner (bio) Alenka Zupancic. The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Two (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2003), 193 pages. There are an increasing number of books and articles that trace the relation of Nietzsche to psychoanalysis, most notably Ronald Lehrer's Nietzsche's Presence in Freud's Life and Thought, and Paul-Laurent Assoun's Freud and …
Keeping It in the Family”
This article examines Sarah Kofman's interpretation of Nietzsche in light of the claim that interpretation was for her both an articulation of her identity and a mode of deconstructing the very notion of identity. Faulkner argues that Kofman's work on Nietzsche can be understood as autobiographical, in that it served to mediate a relation to her self. Faulkner examines this relation with reference to Klein's model of the child's connection to its…
“Keeping It in the Family”
This article examines Sarah Kofman's interpretation of Nietzsche in light of the claim that interpretation was for her both an articulation of her identity and a mode of deconstructing the very notion of identity. Faulkner argues that Kofman's work on Nietzsche can be understood as autobiographical, in that it served to mediate a relation to her self. Faulkner examines this relation with reference to Klein's model of the child's connection to its…
The Innocence of Victimhood Versus the “Innocence of Becoming”
The article explores competing significances of ‘innocence,’ and the effects of its attribution to U.S. citizens in the wake of the attacks of September 11, 2001. Because traditional conceptions of innocence downplay the innocent’s capacity for knowledge and decision, it is argued we should be wary of governments’ casting of their citizens as innocents to be protected. To illustrate the impact of conceptions of innocence on innocents’ capacities,…
The Eternal Jouissance of the Community
The paper considers the part of Thomas Hobbes's 'natural man' in the construction of a culturally shared fantasy regarding pre-social humanity (conceived of as outside obligation), and the marginalization of 'excluded' citizens who are seen in various ways to approximate that fantasy. While Hobbes did not valorize his hypothetical 'natural man,' I argue that his particularly dark elaboration of it lent an ambivalence to this ideal, which thereby …
Dead letters to Nietzsche, or, The necromantic art of reading philosophy
Dead Letters to Nietzsche; or, the Necromantic Art of Reading Philosophy examines how writing shapes subjectivity through the example of Nietzsche's reception by his readers, including Stanley Rosen, David Farrell Krell, Georges Bataille, Laurence Lampert, Pierre Klossowski, and Sarah Kofman. More precisely, Joanne Faulkner finds that the personal identificition that these readers form with Nietzsche's texts is an enactment of the kind of identit…
The Innocence Fetish
Over the past century, a great deal of cultural energy has been invested in the ideal of childhood innocence, to the extent that innocence is frequently cited as our society's most valuable asset. More recently, however, the dominant sentiment - frequently represented in news and current affairs media - has been that childhood innocence is imperilled, and that the 'less responsible' aspects of our popular media are putting it at risk. This articl…
Innocence, Evil, and Human Frailty
Innocents and Oracles
This paper argues that the figure of the child performs a critical function for the middle-class social imaginary, representing both an essential "innocence" of the liberal individual, and an excluded, unconscious remainder of its project of control through the management of knowledge. While childhood is invested with affect and value, children's agency and opportunities for social participation are restricted insofar as they are seen both to rep…
Negotiating vulnerability through "animal" and "child
While ethics and justice are domains that concern the human, this paper argues that these spheres are organized and given meaning in terms of what lies at the limits of the human subject: children (excluded from political and economic life) and non-human animals. In this respect, the orientation to ethical life takes the form of a disavowal: in the attempt to negotiate human vulnerability, a subjectivity that defines itself in terms of the contro…
My Journey Map”
Young people with substance misuse issues are at risk of harm from significant negative health and life events. Contemporary research notes both a historical failure to recognize the unique needs of adolescents, and the ongoing need for dedicated adolescent treatment programs and outcome measures. It is concerning that there is so little literature assessing the quality, availability, and effectiveness of adolescent-focused treatment programs, an…
Disgust, Purity, and a Longing for Companionship
In his writings, Nietzsche often figured his relationship to his contemporaries using corporeal imagery evocative of disgust. For instance, in On the Genealogy of Morality Nietzsche declares himself (and a hypothetical “we”) to suffer from mankind—which he then proceeds to describe as “maggot”- or wormlike. Nietzsche's philosophical project can be interpreted as a visceral protest against, and attempt to overcome (“digest”), humanity. This articl…
Vulnerability of "Virtual" Subjects
There is perhaps no member of contemporary Western communities more valued than the child. Children are valued as future citizens, producers and consumers, and invested with adults’ hopes and fears for the future: regarding the environment, the economy, knowledge, and morality. Children are also valued, however, because of their precariousness, or vulnerability. Yet children’s vulnerability has become a privileged site of cultural anxiety, as wel…
Our own Hurricane Katrina’
Since Prime Minister Howard's declaration in 2007 that child sex abuse in Northern Territory Aboriginal communities was Australia's ‘own Hurricane Katrina’, the trope of natural disaster has been a regular feature of print and television media coverage of Indigenous affairs in Australia. The effect of this rhetorical strategy is to separate what happens to Aboriginal people from the fabric of ‘mainstream’ Australian cultural and political life; t…
Young and Free
Tracing the complex yet intimate relationship between a present-day national obsession with childhood and a colonial past with which Australia as a nation has not adequately come to terms, Young and Free draws on philosophy, literature, film and testimony. The result is a demonstration of how anxiety about childhood has become a screen for more fundamental and intractable issues that vex Australian social and political life. Joanne Faulkner argue…
"Suffer Little Children"
Contemporary Australia is plagued by scandals concerning Aboriginal children, which gesture to a broader injustice to First Nations peoples. The cycle of abuse and reaction prompts two questions: (1) why are wrongs to Indigenous peoples brought to crisis through the situation of children?; and (2) why does the situation remain unchanged? Drawing on Lacanian theory and Debord's account of the spectacle, this paper argues that colonial subjectivity…
"Settler-Colonialism's "Miscarriage
The relation between Australia's First Nations peoples and settler-colonial Australians may be characterised as having "miscarried" to the extent that colonial difference is unacknowledged, and Aboriginal peoples are expected to assimilate to white Australian culture. This paper brings Luce Irigaray's feminist thought into dialogue with Indigenous philosophy and activism to think through this "relation" – or absence of relation. For Irigaray the …
‘I can’t stand the noise of it’
The presence in Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale of children, and of violence against them, has so far been little commented upon, as much commentary has focused on the film’s depiction of rape and colonial gender relations. Yet key plot points are articulated through violence against a child — and the exclamations at these points by the film’s antagonist, Lt. Hawkins, of “shut it up” and “I can’t stand the ... noise of it,” indicates a critical r…
Gumnuts in the garden of good and evil
May Gibbs’s gumnut stories are central to the development of an Australian national imaginary. By connecting the natural ‘bush’ environment to settler-colonial social issues and scenes, Gibbs’s imagery and narrative reimagined the bush as a ‘home’ for colonizers, essentially ‘indigenising’ them in the image of white gumnut babies. The most comprehensive and influential interpretations of Gibbs’s work emphasize its currency to contemporaneous life…
The child as mediator of racial ambivalence in Australia
In white settler-colonial Australian imagination, ‘the child’ historically has both signalled the colony’s flourishing and is charged with anxiety about belonging and identity. This article analyses a set of events in which children were the occasion through which Australians managed racial violence and/or publicly distanced the mainstream from endemic racism. Differences between the mediating power of ‘white’ childhood versus Indigenous childhoo…
Ghosts of eugenics’ past
While in modernity childhood was increasingly invested with emotional and intellectual energy, it also became a site of scrutiny and intervention, so that philosophers, scientists, and humanitarians pursued the improvement of humanity and the human condition through management of ‘the child’. In the first half of the twentieth century, such attention settled on children deemed to present both problems and opportunities for the improvement of the …
A Universal Father and Son Story'? The Representation of Father-Son Relationships in Zach's Ceremony , In My Blood It Runs , and Robbie Hood
First Nations boys and men are heavily freighted with colonial stereotypes that give them to be antisocial, drug-addicted, violent, and harmful to their own communities. While men are consistently represented as neglectful or abusive fathers, Aboriginal boys are depicted as potential criminals whose childhood is blighted, and who lack guidance from suitable father figures or male role models. This article addresses three depictions of father-son …
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