Robyn Ferrell

Biographic Data

ID196531
NAMERobyn Ferrell
GIVEN NAMESRobyn
FAMILY NAMEFerrell
SIGNATUREFERRELL R
AFFILIATIONSThe University of Melbourne
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1970
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
H-INDEX1

  • Pinjarra 1970

    Open AccessRobyn FerrellARTICLECultural Studies Review2013

    Pinjarra in 1970 lay on an extraordinary cusp. It lagged along a fault line between one order and another; or rather, it squatted at a precipice, over which its cherished values had already been dashed to pieces. In 1967, Aboriginal people were at last, by national referendum, declared citizens of Australia. In 1969, Alcoa began to prepare the site in the hills behind Pinjarra for the open-cut mining of the largest bauxite deposit so far discover…

  • Income Outcome

    Open AccessRobyn FerrellARTICLECultural Studies Review2011Cited by: 1

    Higher education on the corporate model imagines students as consumers, choosing between knowledge products and brands. It imagines itself liberating the university from the dictates of the State/tradition/aristocratic self-replication, and putting it in the hands of its democratic stakeholders. It therefore naturally subscribes to the general management principles and practices of global corporate culture. These principles - transparency, accoun…

  • Hume Reads Freud

    Robyn FerrellARTICLECritical Horizons2003

    The two competitive currents in French philosophy initiated by Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze tackle the difference between empiricism and idealism in contrary motion. In Derrida, the move is toward a critique of representation. In Deleuze, it is toward recovery of the real. Nevertheless, this paper nominates their meeting in a kind of ‘radical empiricism’. Both Derrida and Deleuze engage with empiricism at certain points in their work, altho…

  • Genres of Philosophy

    Robyn FerrellBOOKGenres of Philosophy2002

    Philosophy is textual - it is written and it is read -yet much of philosophy regards itself as a kind of science, sometimes reducing itself to a species of intellectual bureaucracy. This book explores genres through the history of philosophy, providing new ways of thinking about philosophical writing." "Exploring a wide range of both European and Analytic philosophers and their works - including Plato, Aristotle, Hume, Kant, Nietzsche, Deleuze, W…

  • Copula

    Open AccessRobyn FerrellARTICLEHypatia2000References: 1

    This paper argues that the slogans “A Woman's Right to Choose” and “The Personal is the Political” typify different traditions within feminist thinking; one emphasizing rights and equality, the other the unconscious and the personal. The author responds to both traditions by bringing together mind and body, and reason and emotion, via the figure of the copula. The copula expresses an alternative model of identity which indicates that value can be…

  • Copula

    Open AccessRobyn FerrellARTICLEHypatia2000Cited by: 1References: 6

    This paper argues that the slogans “A Woman's Right to Choose” and “The Personal is the Political” typify different traditions within feminist thinking; one emphasizing rights and equality, the other the unconscious and the personal. The author responds to both traditions by bringing together mind and body, and reason and emotion, via the figure of the copula. The copula expresses an alternative model of identity which indicates that value can be…

  • The Timing of Feminism

    Open AccessRobyn FerrellARTICLEHypatia1999

    Is history a category of reason, or is reason a category of history? These opposing questions have divided the structuralist from the materialist—but neither question is wrong. Analysis of the logic of oppositions challenges feminism, in particular, to find a logic—and a poetics—in which to render its values without historical or theoretical naiveté. I explore the question of the timing of feminism through Julia Kristeva and Luce Irigaray

  • Time

    Robyn FerrellARTICLEAustralian Feminist Studies1997References: 1

  • Cartographies

    Christoph Cox, Rosalyn Diprose et al.ARTICLESubStance1992

    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 Passion of the Signifier and the Body in Theory

    Open AccessRobyn FerrellARTICLEHypatia1991References: 2

    The paper argues that psychoanalysis and deconstruction offer more to feminist theory than contestation. The common feminist criticisms of the work of Lacan and Derrida are not as compelling as may be thought. Among the possibilities for feminist theory using psychoanalysis and deconstruction is the scrutiny of theory as theory—and this will inevitably include scrutinizing feminist theory itself

  • Translating Worlds

    Open AccessRobyn FerrellARTICLECultural Studies Review1970

    This article explores the work of Indigenous artist Kathleen Petyarre, particularly in how modern (abstract) techniques and aesthetics intersect with traditional approaches