Linnell Secomb
Biographic Data
| ID | 238584 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Linnell Secomb |
| GIVEN NAMES | Linnell |
| FAMILY NAME | Secomb |
| SIGNATURE | SECOMB L |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Empire and the Ambiguities of Love
Colonialism is not only enforced through violence but facilitated also by economic, religious and social strategies and inducements. Amongst these, love has been exploited as a tool of empire to construct alliances, procure compliance and disguise the conquest of peoples and territories. Love has also, however, been the basis for an ethics and politics that contests imperialism. Friendship, affinity and amorous relations between coloniser and col…
Petyarre and Moffat
Moffatt's Up in the Sky series draws attention to the relation between sky and earth, through the content and camera angles of the images. Similarly, Kathleen Petyarre's Central Desert acrylic dot painting evokes this relation representing country and Dreaming from a celestial perspective-as she says 'looking from the sky'. Yet here any association between these artists seems to end with the urban artist refusing to engage Aboriginal tradition an…
Interrupting Mythic Community
If nation is increasingly perceived as a less than honourable institution formed through war, invasion and geo-political territorialisation, and government is widely denounced as the site of political intrigue and the means of subjectification of citizen-voters, community appears to escape this critique and to be viewed as an idyllic formation based on bonds of affinity. However, this romancing of community is disrupted by trans-cultural and sub-…
The Heart and Guts of Cultures
A review of Jean-Luc Nancy's A Finite Thinking (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2003
Philosophy and Love
Love and romance from Plato to Desperate Housewives
Philosophy and Love
Philosophy and Love
This book introduces historical and contemporary philosophical reflections on love. It brings together philosophy with cultural analysis to provide an account of conventional theories of love as well as the controversial reformulations evident in same-sex desire, cross-cultural love and internet romance. Starting with Plato, but focusing especially on contemporary European philosophy, the book introduces figures such as Nietzsche, Beauvoir, Iriga…
Philosophy and Love
Amorous Politics
Beginning and ending with Jacques Derrida's anecdote about kissing Jean-Luc Nancy, this essay traces the disparate, yet entwined, thought of Nancy and Derrida on the amorous and tactile basis of philosophy and politics. While Derrida acknowledges, via his reading of Nancy, the affective basis of the political, each develops this insight differently: Derrida analyses friendship and democracy, Nancy contentiously links love and community. Neverthel…
Killing Time
Simone de Beauvoir's conception of temporality in her novel 'She Came to Stay' is influenced by her reading of Hegel, Heidegger and Bergson. While not explicit in the novel these influences form a background for Beauvoir's original conceptions of time that emerge in the characterisation, the phenomenological descriptions, the focalisations, and the structural devices employed. This article discusses three aspects of this temporalisation: the diff…
Strange alliances
Autothanatography
Common sense suggests that we cannot testify to our own deaths, for death terminates existence and with existence the ability to give testimony. Yet philosophers Maurice Blanchot and Sarah Kofman, and novelist Kim Scott have all, in very different contexts, attested to the experience of a death that permeates life. For Kofman, Holocaust deaths cannot be relegated to the past but rather continue to devastate the present. Blanchot's death by firing…
Fractured Community
Unity, commonality, and agreement are generally understood to be the basis, or the aim, of community. This paper argues instead that disagreement and fracture are inherent to, and provide the expression of difference within, community. Drawing on the experience of race relations in Australia, this paper proposes that ongoing resistance and disagreement by Aboriginal groups against non-Aboriginal law and culture has enabled an unworking of homogen…
Fractured Community
Unity, commonality, and agreement are generally understood to be the basis, or the aim, of community. This paper argues instead that disagreement and fracture are inherent to, and provide the expression of difference within, community. Drawing on the experience of race relations in Australia, this paper proposes that ongoing resistance and disagreement by Aboriginal groups against non-Aboriginal law and culture has enabled an unworking of homogen…
Philosophical deaths and feminine finitude
The concepts of mortality and finitude are central to Hegel's and Heidegger's philosophical projects. They propose that the confrontation with, or the awareness of, death awakens us to self-consciousness or to authentic existence. Yet they both focus on an individualized encounter with a death which lies in our future. This paper argues that in addition to this atomistic mode of being-towards-death there is also a certain 'feminine' relation to d…
Beauvoir's Minoritarian Philosophy
Drawing on Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's elaborations of the project of philosophy and styles of minoritarian literature, it becomes possible to reveal new dimensions in Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex. In this work she uses a minoritarian philosophy, which is an accessible and collaborative mode of philosophizing, to create a concept of Woman as an incarnate-becoming. This concept overcomes the dichotomizing of transcendence and immane…
Thinking Through the Body Politic
Pheng Cheah, David Fraser and Judith Grbich (eds), Thinking Through the Body of the Law (Allen & Unwin) Australia, 1996. Paul A. Komesaroff (ed.), Troubled Bodies: Critical Perspectives on Postmodernism, Medical Ethics and the Body (Melbourne University Press) Melbourne, 1995. Catherine Waldby, AIDS and the Body Politic: Biomedicine and Sexual Difference (Routledge) London, 1996
The entombments of feminine being
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Fractured Community
Unity, commonality, and agreement are generally understood to be the basis, or the aim, of community. This paper argues instead that disagreement and fracture are inherent to, and provide the expression of difference within, community. Drawing on the experience of race relations in Australia, this paper proposes that ongoing resistance and disagreement by Aboriginal groups against non-Aboriginal law and culture has enabled an unworking of homogen…
Amorous Politics
Beginning and ending with Jacques Derrida's anecdote about kissing Jean-Luc Nancy, this essay traces the disparate, yet entwined, thought of Nancy and Derrida on the amorous and tactile basis of philosophy and politics. While Derrida acknowledges, via his reading of Nancy, the affective basis of the political, each develops this insight differently: Derrida analyses friendship and democracy, Nancy contentiously links love and community. Neverthel…
Empire and the Ambiguities of Love
Colonialism is not only enforced through violence but facilitated also by economic, religious and social strategies and inducements. Amongst these, love has been exploited as a tool of empire to construct alliances, procure compliance and disguise the conquest of peoples and territories. Love has also, however, been the basis for an ethics and politics that contests imperialism. Friendship, affinity and amorous relations between coloniser and col…
Killing Time
Simone de Beauvoir's conception of temporality in her novel 'She Came to Stay' is influenced by her reading of Hegel, Heidegger and Bergson. While not explicit in the novel these influences form a background for Beauvoir's original conceptions of time that emerge in the characterisation, the phenomenological descriptions, the focalisations, and the structural devices employed. This article discusses three aspects of this temporalisation: the diff…
Beauvoir's Minoritarian Philosophy
Drawing on Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's elaborations of the project of philosophy and styles of minoritarian literature, it becomes possible to reveal new dimensions in Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex. In this work she uses a minoritarian philosophy, which is an accessible and collaborative mode of philosophizing, to create a concept of Woman as an incarnate-becoming. This concept overcomes the dichotomizing of transcendence and immane…
The entombments of feminine being
Ivf
Thinking Through the Body Politic
Pheng Cheah, David Fraser and Judith Grbich (eds), Thinking Through the Body of the Law (Allen & Unwin) Australia, 1996. Paul A. Komesaroff (ed.), Troubled Bodies: Critical Perspectives on Postmodernism, Medical Ethics and the Body (Melbourne University Press) Melbourne, 1995. Catherine Waldby, AIDS and the Body Politic: Biomedicine and Sexual Difference (Routledge) London, 1996
Philosophical deaths and feminine finitude
The concepts of mortality and finitude are central to Hegel's and Heidegger's philosophical projects. They propose that the confrontation with, or the awareness of, death awakens us to self-consciousness or to authentic existence. Yet they both focus on an individualized encounter with a death which lies in our future. This paper argues that in addition to this atomistic mode of being-towards-death there is also a certain 'feminine' relation to d…
Beauvoir's Minoritarian Philosophy
Drawing on Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's elaborations of the project of philosophy and styles of minoritarian literature, it becomes possible to reveal new dimensions in Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex. In this work she uses a minoritarian philosophy, which is an accessible and collaborative mode of philosophizing, to create a concept of Woman as an incarnate-becoming. This concept overcomes the dichotomizing of transcendence and immane…
Fractured Community
Unity, commonality, and agreement are generally understood to be the basis, or the aim, of community. This paper argues instead that disagreement and fracture are inherent to, and provide the expression of difference within, community. Drawing on the experience of race relations in Australia, this paper proposes that ongoing resistance and disagreement by Aboriginal groups against non-Aboriginal law and culture has enabled an unworking of homogen…
Fractured Community
Unity, commonality, and agreement are generally understood to be the basis, or the aim, of community. This paper argues instead that disagreement and fracture are inherent to, and provide the expression of difference within, community. Drawing on the experience of race relations in Australia, this paper proposes that ongoing resistance and disagreement by Aboriginal groups against non-Aboriginal law and culture has enabled an unworking of homogen…
Autothanatography
Common sense suggests that we cannot testify to our own deaths, for death terminates existence and with existence the ability to give testimony. Yet philosophers Maurice Blanchot and Sarah Kofman, and novelist Kim Scott have all, in very different contexts, attested to the experience of a death that permeates life. For Kofman, Holocaust deaths cannot be relegated to the past but rather continue to devastate the present. Blanchot's death by firing…
Amorous Politics
Beginning and ending with Jacques Derrida's anecdote about kissing Jean-Luc Nancy, this essay traces the disparate, yet entwined, thought of Nancy and Derrida on the amorous and tactile basis of philosophy and politics. While Derrida acknowledges, via his reading of Nancy, the affective basis of the political, each develops this insight differently: Derrida analyses friendship and democracy, Nancy contentiously links love and community. Neverthel…
Killing Time
Simone de Beauvoir's conception of temporality in her novel 'She Came to Stay' is influenced by her reading of Hegel, Heidegger and Bergson. While not explicit in the novel these influences form a background for Beauvoir's original conceptions of time that emerge in the characterisation, the phenomenological descriptions, the focalisations, and the structural devices employed. This article discusses three aspects of this temporalisation: the diff…
Strange alliances
Philosophy and Love
Love and romance from Plato to Desperate Housewives
Philosophy and Love
Philosophy and Love
This book introduces historical and contemporary philosophical reflections on love. It brings together philosophy with cultural analysis to provide an account of conventional theories of love as well as the controversial reformulations evident in same-sex desire, cross-cultural love and internet romance. Starting with Plato, but focusing especially on contemporary European philosophy, the book introduces figures such as Nietzsche, Beauvoir, Iriga…
Philosophy and Love
Empire and the Ambiguities of Love
Colonialism is not only enforced through violence but facilitated also by economic, religious and social strategies and inducements. Amongst these, love has been exploited as a tool of empire to construct alliances, procure compliance and disguise the conquest of peoples and territories. Love has also, however, been the basis for an ethics and politics that contests imperialism. Friendship, affinity and amorous relations between coloniser and col…
Petyarre and Moffat
Moffatt's Up in the Sky series draws attention to the relation between sky and earth, through the content and camera angles of the images. Similarly, Kathleen Petyarre's Central Desert acrylic dot painting evokes this relation representing country and Dreaming from a celestial perspective-as she says 'looking from the sky'. Yet here any association between these artists seems to end with the urban artist refusing to engage Aboriginal tradition an…
Interrupting Mythic Community
If nation is increasingly perceived as a less than honourable institution formed through war, invasion and geo-political territorialisation, and government is widely denounced as the site of political intrigue and the means of subjectification of citizen-voters, community appears to escape this critique and to be viewed as an idyllic formation based on bonds of affinity. However, this romancing of community is disrupted by trans-cultural and sub-…
The Heart and Guts of Cultures
A review of Jean-Luc Nancy's A Finite Thinking (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2003
Sociology (14 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Political science (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Art (5 works) · Critical Theory and Philosophy (5 works) · History (5 works) · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (5 works)