Rosalyn Diprose
Biographic Data
| ID | 165474 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rosalyn Diprose |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rosalyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Diprose |
| SIGNATURE | DIPROSE R |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 87 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Relationality and the Photographic Image: Of Sovereignty, Singularity, or Loneliness
This paper develops a political ontology of relationality that can account for the dramatic impact that photographs of the plight of others can have on the course of the political. The aim of this analysis is to develop a better understanding of the power of photographic images of the plight of others, particularly images that count as true, to mobilise the affectivity of a populace and direct relationality either toward fear, blame, and revenge …
Improving drug policy: The potential of broader democratic participation
Recasting Participation in Drug Policy
Calls for “evidence-based policy” and greater community “participation” are often heard in the drug policy field. Both movements are in different ways concerned with the same questions about how “drug problems” ought to be governed and the place of “expertise” and “engagement” in democratic societies. However, these calls rely on the assumption that knowledges, publics, expertise, and issues of concern are fixed and stable, waiting to be addresse…
Merleau-Ponty: Key Concepts
Corporeal Interdependence: From Vulnerability to Dwelling in Ethical Community
Corporeal Interdependence:From Vulnerability to Dwelling in Ethical Community Rosalyn Diprose (bio) In Violence and the Philosophical Imaginary, Ann Murphy is critical of a trend in recent feminist and political theory, including that of Judith Butler, of positing an ontology of shared vulnerability as the normative basis for an ethics of non-violence.1 While supportive of an ideal of non-violence, Murphy argues that there is no way that the appe…
The Hand that Writes Community in Blood
I propose this account of community formation, which finds bodies, ungraspable difference and the expression of meaning inextricably linked, in order to address a neglect of the sociality of the body in current models of community. That neglect, I submit, explains why some models of community, while keen to promote multiculturalism and tolerance of difference, can tend toward the opposite. This is true of communitarianism and related models that …
The Art of Dreaming: Merleau-Ponty and Petyarre on Flesh Expressing a World
I do not understand painting very well, and especially not Australian Indigenous painting, the dot painting of Western and Central Desert artists such as Kathleen Petyarre. I grew up without art on the wall, among gum trees, red dirt, dying wattle, and 'two thirds (blue) sky'. While this might suggest that I inhabit the same landscape as Petyarre, I also grew up without 'the Dreaming', the meaning that this dot painting is said to be about. How a…
Corporeal Generosity: On Giving with Nietzsche, Merleau-Ponty, and Levinas
Building and Belonging Amid the Plight of Dwelling
This paper re-examines the limits of the human in the wake of the cataclysmic destruction of built and living environments, along with their human and non-human inhabitants, by recent bushfires, floods, earthquakes, and tsunamis. The analysis involves reconceiving the human beyond notions of human agency assumed in disaster and risk theory. By examining the role of the built environment, things, the body, and community in what Heidegger calls the…
Dissensus, Melancholic Nationalism, and Biopolitics in the Work of Ewa Ziarek
Women's Bodies Giving Time for Hospitality
This paper explores the gendered and temporal dimensions of the political ontology of hospitality that Derrida has developed from Levinas's philosophy. The analysis revisits Hannah Arendt's claim that central to the human condition and democratic plurality is disclosure of “natality” (innovation or the birth of the new). This can be described as accounting for the “temporalisation of time”: the disruption of the past (cultural tradition) in the p…
Women's Bodies Between National Hospitality and Domestic Biopolitics
This paper develops a political ontology of hospitality from the philosophies of Arendt, Derrida and Levinas, paying particular attention to the gendered, temporal, and corporeal dimensions of hospitality. Women's bodies are thus caught within the dual poles of conservative government: regulation of the unpredictable expressions of 'natality' in the 'home' and management of the uniformity and 'security' of the nation. The limitations in Arendt's …
Merleau-Ponty: Key Concepts
Governing the Future: The Paradigm of Prudence in Political Technologies of Risk Management
Increasingly, governmental responses to incalculable, but high-consequence, threats to life and security are framed by what has been described as the 'precautionary principle' (Ewald), 'preparedness' (Collier, Lakoff & Rabinow) or 'pre-emption' (Derrida). This article redescribes features common to these characterizations as the paradigm of prudence and examines how this approach to risk management is playing out in the context of fears that feat…
Arendt and Nietzsche on responsibility and futurity
This article compares Nietzsche's and Arendt's critiques of the juridical concept of responsibility (that emphasizes duty and blame) with the aim of deriving an account of responsibility appropriate for our time. It examines shared ground in their radical approaches to responsibility: by basing personal responsibility in conscience that expresses a self open to an undetermined future, rather than conscience determined by prevailing moral norms, t…
Where' Your People From, Girl: Belonging to Race, Gender, and PlaceBeneath Clouds
This article explores the impossibility and necessity of belonging to gender, race, and place. It does so against the background of Ivan Sen's Australian film Beneath Clouds (2001), with the specificities of Australian landscape and the rural/urban divide that it captures, and of race politics in contemporary Australia. In the context of the film, the question "Where' your people from, girl?" implies the recognition of the addressee's indigenous …
Biopolitical technologies of prevention
This paper examines the way some public health campaigns in Australia have been caught within a paradigm shift in the management of ‘risk society’. It details this paradigm shift in terms of an intensification of political technologies of ‘pre-emption’ in response to incalculable threats to physical security. The challenge this presents to public health programs, particularly those dealing with ‘life style’ health problems such as obesity, depres…
Derrida and the Extraordinary Responsibility of Inheriting the Future-to-come
This paper examines Jacques Derrida's account of the paradoxical structure of responsibility from two perspectives. First, in terms of the temporal dimension of responsibility as a responsiveness that affirms but also disrupts and critiques one's cultural heritage, and thereby constitutes the self as futural. Second, responsibility is examined in terms of its political dimension as a deconstruction of the opposition between determinism and absolu…
The Bodies of Women: Ethics, Embodiment and Sexual Differences
What sort of ethics do we need? Rosalyn Diprose argues that the usual approaches to ethics both perpetuate and remain blind to the mechanisms of the subordination of women. In Bodies of Women: Ethics, Embodiment and Sexual Differences, she claims that injustice against women is found in the social discourses and practices which both evaluate and constitute their modes of embodiment as improper in relation to men. Diprose critically analyses the a…
Community of Bodies: From Modification to Violence
Writing in Blood: Response to Helen Keane and Marsha Rosengarten, 'On the Biology of Sexed Subjects
Bearing Witness to Cultural Difference, With Apology to Levinas
What Is (Feminist) Philosophy?
What makes us think, and what makes us think as feminists? In seeking to answer these questions, this paper draws on both Deleuze and Guattari's account of the creation of concepts, and feminist thought on feminist thinking, before suggesting with Levinas that our relation to ideas is primarily affective. Via further engagement with Levinas, I argue that it is the relation to the other which provokes and produces thought; models of autonomous the…
What Is (Feminist) Philosophy
What makes us think, and what makes us think as feminists? In seeking to answer these questions, this paper draws on both Deleuze and Guattari's account of the creation of concepts, and feminist thought on feminist thinking, before suggesting with Levinas that our relation to ideas is primarily affective. Via further engagement with Levinas, I argue that it is the relation to the other which provokes and produces thought; models of autonomous the…
From Desire to Power
Governing the Future: The Paradigm of Prudence in Political Technologies of Risk Management
Increasingly, governmental responses to incalculable, but high-consequence, threats to life and security are framed by what has been described as the 'precautionary principle' (Ewald), 'preparedness' (Collier, Lakoff & Rabinow) or 'pre-emption' (Derrida). This article redescribes features common to these characterizations as the paradigm of prudence and examines how this approach to risk management is playing out in the context of fears that feat…
Biopolitical technologies of prevention
This paper examines the way some public health campaigns in Australia have been caught within a paradigm shift in the management of ‘risk society’. It details this paradigm shift in terms of an intensification of political technologies of ‘pre-emption’ in response to incalculable threats to physical security. The challenge this presents to public health programs, particularly those dealing with ‘life style’ health problems such as obesity, depres…
Recasting Participation in Drug Policy
Calls for “evidence-based policy” and greater community “participation” are often heard in the drug policy field. Both movements are in different ways concerned with the same questions about how “drug problems” ought to be governed and the place of “expertise” and “engagement” in democratic societies. However, these calls rely on the assumption that knowledges, publics, expertise, and issues of concern are fixed and stable, waiting to be addresse…
Derrida and the Extraordinary Responsibility of Inheriting the Future-to-come
This paper examines Jacques Derrida's account of the paradoxical structure of responsibility from two perspectives. First, in terms of the temporal dimension of responsibility as a responsiveness that affirms but also disrupts and critiques one's cultural heritage, and thereby constitutes the self as futural. Second, responsibility is examined in terms of its political dimension as a deconstruction of the opposition between determinism and absolu…
Bearing Witness to Cultural Difference, With Apology to Levinas
Building and Belonging Amid the Plight of Dwelling
This paper re-examines the limits of the human in the wake of the cataclysmic destruction of built and living environments, along with their human and non-human inhabitants, by recent bushfires, floods, earthquakes, and tsunamis. The analysis involves reconceiving the human beyond notions of human agency assumed in disaster and risk theory. By examining the role of the built environment, things, the body, and community in what Heidegger calls the…
Women's Bodies Giving Time for Hospitality
This paper explores the gendered and temporal dimensions of the political ontology of hospitality that Derrida has developed from Levinas's philosophy. The analysis revisits Hannah Arendt's claim that central to the human condition and democratic plurality is disclosure of “natality” (innovation or the birth of the new). This can be described as accounting for the “temporalisation of time”: the disruption of the past (cultural tradition) in the p…
Generosity: Between Love and Desire
“Safe sex” discourse attempts to protect women from dangers assumed inherent in erotic life, such as domination, submissiveness, and loss of freedom and self-control. However, Beauvoir's and Merleau-Ponty's revision of Sartre's ontology suggests that erotic life involves a kind of generosity that transforms existence; sex neither liberates personal existence nor poses a necessary threat to women's freedom. I also reconsider the conditions under w…
Arendt and Nietzsche on responsibility and futurity
This article compares Nietzsche's and Arendt's critiques of the juridical concept of responsibility (that emphasizes duty and blame) with the aim of deriving an account of responsibility appropriate for our time. It examines shared ground in their radical approaches to responsibility: by basing personal responsibility in conscience that expresses a self open to an undetermined future, rather than conscience determined by prevailing moral norms, t…
Community of Bodies: From Modification to Violence
In Excess: The Body and the Habit of Sexual Difference
Through a re-reading of Antigone, I offer a critique of Hegel's use of the story to illustrate the unity which emerges from the representation of sexual difference in ethical life. Using Hegel's own account of habits, as the mechanism by which the body becomes a sign of the self, I argue that the pretense of social unity assumes the proper construction and representation of one body only. This critique is brought to bear upon contemporary moves t…
Corporeal Interdependence: From Vulnerability to Dwelling in Ethical Community
Corporeal Interdependence:From Vulnerability to Dwelling in Ethical Community Rosalyn Diprose (bio) In Violence and the Philosophical Imaginary, Ann Murphy is critical of a trend in recent feminist and political theory, including that of Judith Butler, of positing an ontology of shared vulnerability as the normative basis for an ethics of non-violence.1 While supportive of an ideal of non-violence, Murphy argues that there is no way that the appe…
The Hand that Writes Community in Blood
I propose this account of community formation, which finds bodies, ungraspable difference and the expression of meaning inextricably linked, in order to address a neglect of the sociality of the body in current models of community. That neglect, I submit, explains why some models of community, while keen to promote multiculturalism and tolerance of difference, can tend toward the opposite. This is true of communitarianism and related models that …
Giving corporeality against the law
Women's Bodies Between National Hospitality and Domestic Biopolitics
This paper develops a political ontology of hospitality from the philosophies of Arendt, Derrida and Levinas, paying particular attention to the gendered, temporal, and corporeal dimensions of hospitality. Women's bodies are thus caught within the dual poles of conservative government: regulation of the unpredictable expressions of 'natality' in the 'home' and management of the uniformity and 'security' of the nation. The limitations in Arendt's …
Where' Your People From, Girl: Belonging to Race, Gender, and PlaceBeneath Clouds
This article explores the impossibility and necessity of belonging to gender, race, and place. It does so against the background of Ivan Sen's Australian film Beneath Clouds (2001), with the specificities of Australian landscape and the rural/urban divide that it captures, and of race politics in contemporary Australia. In the context of the film, the question "Where' your people from, girl?" implies the recognition of the addressee's indigenous …
Writing in Blood: Response to Helen Keane and Marsha Rosengarten, 'On the Biology of Sexed Subjects
The generosity of feminism
The use of pleasures in the constitution of the body
Michel Foucault, The Use of Pleasure, trans. R. Hurley (Vintage), New York, 1986
The use of pleasures in the constitution of the body
Michel Foucault, The Use of Pleasure, trans. R. Hurley (Vintage), New York, 1986
Foucault, derrida and the ethics of sexual difference
In Excess: The Body and the Habit of Sexual Difference
Through a re-reading of Antigone, I offer a critique of Hegel's use of the story to illustrate the unity which emerges from the representation of sexual difference in ethical life. Using Hegel's own account of habits, as the mechanism by which the body becomes a sign of the self, I argue that the pretense of social unity assumes the proper construction and representation of one body only. This critique is brought to bear upon contemporary moves t…
Cartographies: Poststructuralism and the Mapping of Bodies and Spaces
Part 1 The mapping: Richard Rorty and the poet's utopia, robyn Ferrell desiring production itself - notes on the invention of photography, Geoffrey Batchen dot, circle, difference - translating central desert paintings, Jennifer Biddle. Part 2 Of bodies 1: Nietzsche and the body of the philosopher, Paul Patton life itself, Cathryn Vasseleu a Genethics that makes sense, Rosalyn Diprose. Part 3 Of bodies 2: corporeal representation in/and the body …
The Bodies of Women: Ethics, Embodiment and Sexual Difference
What sort of ethics do we need? Rosalyn Diprose argues that the usual approaches to ethics both perpetuate and remain blind to the mechanisms of the subordination of women. In Bodies of Women: Ethics, Embodiment and Sexual Differences, she claims that injustice against women is found in the social discourses and practices which both evaluate and constitute their modes of embodiment as improper in relation to men. Diprose critically analyses the a…
Giving corporeality against the law
The generosity of feminism
Leaky Bodies and Boundaries: Feminism, Postmodernism and (Bio)ethics
Generosity: Between Love and Desire
“Safe sex” discourse attempts to protect women from dangers assumed inherent in erotic life, such as domination, submissiveness, and loss of freedom and self-control. However, Beauvoir's and Merleau-Ponty's revision of Sartre's ontology suggests that erotic life involves a kind of generosity that transforms existence; sex neither liberates personal existence nor poses a necessary threat to women's freedom. I also reconsider the conditions under w…
From Desire to Power
What Is (Feminist) Philosophy?
What makes us think, and what makes us think as feminists? In seeking to answer these questions, this paper draws on both Deleuze and Guattari's account of the creation of concepts, and feminist thought on feminist thinking, before suggesting with Levinas that our relation to ideas is primarily affective. Via further engagement with Levinas, I argue that it is the relation to the other which provokes and produces thought; models of autonomous the…
What Is (Feminist) Philosophy
What makes us think, and what makes us think as feminists? In seeking to answer these questions, this paper draws on both Deleuze and Guattari's account of the creation of concepts, and feminist thought on feminist thinking, before suggesting with Levinas that our relation to ideas is primarily affective. Via further engagement with Levinas, I argue that it is the relation to the other which provokes and produces thought; models of autonomous the…
Bearing Witness to Cultural Difference, With Apology to Levinas
Writing in Blood: Response to Helen Keane and Marsha Rosengarten, 'On the Biology of Sexed Subjects
The Bodies of Women: Ethics, Embodiment and Sexual Differences
What sort of ethics do we need? Rosalyn Diprose argues that the usual approaches to ethics both perpetuate and remain blind to the mechanisms of the subordination of women. In Bodies of Women: Ethics, Embodiment and Sexual Differences, she claims that injustice against women is found in the social discourses and practices which both evaluate and constitute their modes of embodiment as improper in relation to men. Diprose critically analyses the a…
Community of Bodies: From Modification to Violence
Derrida and the Extraordinary Responsibility of Inheriting the Future-to-come
This paper examines Jacques Derrida's account of the paradoxical structure of responsibility from two perspectives. First, in terms of the temporal dimension of responsibility as a responsiveness that affirms but also disrupts and critiques one's cultural heritage, and thereby constitutes the self as futural. Second, responsibility is examined in terms of its political dimension as a deconstruction of the opposition between determinism and absolu…
Merleau-Ponty: Key Concepts
Governing the Future: The Paradigm of Prudence in Political Technologies of Risk Management
Increasingly, governmental responses to incalculable, but high-consequence, threats to life and security are framed by what has been described as the 'precautionary principle' (Ewald), 'preparedness' (Collier, Lakoff & Rabinow) or 'pre-emption' (Derrida). This article redescribes features common to these characterizations as the paradigm of prudence and examines how this approach to risk management is playing out in the context of fears that feat…
Arendt and Nietzsche on responsibility and futurity
This article compares Nietzsche's and Arendt's critiques of the juridical concept of responsibility (that emphasizes duty and blame) with the aim of deriving an account of responsibility appropriate for our time. It examines shared ground in their radical approaches to responsibility: by basing personal responsibility in conscience that expresses a self open to an undetermined future, rather than conscience determined by prevailing moral norms, t…
Where' Your People From, Girl: Belonging to Race, Gender, and PlaceBeneath Clouds
This article explores the impossibility and necessity of belonging to gender, race, and place. It does so against the background of Ivan Sen's Australian film Beneath Clouds (2001), with the specificities of Australian landscape and the rural/urban divide that it captures, and of race politics in contemporary Australia. In the context of the film, the question "Where' your people from, girl?" implies the recognition of the addressee's indigenous …
Biopolitical technologies of prevention
This paper examines the way some public health campaigns in Australia have been caught within a paradigm shift in the management of ‘risk society’. It details this paradigm shift in terms of an intensification of political technologies of ‘pre-emption’ in response to incalculable threats to physical security. The challenge this presents to public health programs, particularly those dealing with ‘life style’ health problems such as obesity, depres…
Women's Bodies Giving Time for Hospitality
This paper explores the gendered and temporal dimensions of the political ontology of hospitality that Derrida has developed from Levinas's philosophy. The analysis revisits Hannah Arendt's claim that central to the human condition and democratic plurality is disclosure of “natality” (innovation or the birth of the new). This can be described as accounting for the “temporalisation of time”: the disruption of the past (cultural tradition) in the p…
Women's Bodies Between National Hospitality and Domestic Biopolitics
This paper develops a political ontology of hospitality from the philosophies of Arendt, Derrida and Levinas, paying particular attention to the gendered, temporal, and corporeal dimensions of hospitality. Women's bodies are thus caught within the dual poles of conservative government: regulation of the unpredictable expressions of 'natality' in the 'home' and management of the uniformity and 'security' of the nation. The limitations in Arendt's …
Dissensus, Melancholic Nationalism, and Biopolitics in the Work of Ewa Ziarek
Sociology (25 works) · Political science (20 works) · Epistemology (19 works) · Philosophy (17 works) · Politics (17 works) · Law (16 works) · Law (13 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Gender Studies (10 works)