Laurence Simmons
Biographic Data
| ID | 3635175 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laurence Simmons |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laurence |
| FAMILY NAME | Simmons |
| SIGNATURE | SIMMONS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Auckland |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2217-7248 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Christine Jeff’s Rain (2001) as an Allegory of Settlement
This article proposes a new reading of Christine Jeffs’ 2001 film Rain as an allegory of settlement. To do so it uses Stephen Turner’s essay ‘Settlement as Forgetting’ and makes reference to the work of Lorenzo Veracini and Patrick Wolfe in settlement studies. It takes Turner’s claim that settlement requires a forgetting in order to patch over the trauma of dislocation from the mother country and explores how structures of nostalgia, fetishism an…
Adam Smith’s ‘Impartial Spectator’ and John Webber’s Ship Cove
New Zealand’s South Island came into view on 10 February 1777 and for the fifth time in seven years James Cook made for a familiar location Ship Cove. It was a location from which he had observed the changes over time of its inhabitants and we can imagine the expedition artist, John Webber, busying himself with sketches of this new place and the people who lived in it. Eleven years later, in his London studio, in part from memory Webber composed …
A first meeting place
On 26 January 1777, on the first stage of his third voyage to the Pacific, James Cook anchored in Adventure Bay on what is now called Bruny Island, Tasmania. Cook encountered the local Nuonenne people on two occasions, the second of which was recorded in an unfinished drawing (possibly done on the spot) by the expedition’s artist, John Webber. Comments in their journals from officers and sailors on board Cook’s ships indicate that the European pe…
Author/Auteur
The concept of authorship seemed uncomplicated, or was at least unexplored, until the second half of the twentieth century; since then it has become the site of much theoretical discussion. Modern literary criticism has not simply underwritten the authority of authors. The American New Critics of the 1930s and 1940s, Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren, in their Understanding Poetry (Brooks and Warren, 1938), ruled out the study of biographical…
Comment ne pas trembler
Comment ne pas trembler?Derrida's Earthquake Laurence Simmons (bio) A secret always makes you tremble. —Jacques Derrida, The Gift of Death One night as he sat trembling head in hands from head to foot a man appeared to him and said, I have been sent by—and here he named a dear name—to comfort you. Then drawing a worn volume from the pocket of his long black coat he sat and read till dawn. Then disappeared without a word. —Samuel Beckett, Ohio Imp…
Jacques Derrida's Ghostface
Jacques Derrida's face appeared prominently on the covers of his books as well as inside them, on posters for his public lectures, on drawings and lithographs. Derrida was also a film star whose face appeared on screen, demonstrated by the fact that at least three films depict him in some depth and reveal his talents and charisma as a performer. In the first of these, in chronological order, Ghost Dance, directed by Ken McMullen in 1983, Derrida,…
Towards A Philosophy Of The Polyp
Non-medical polyps are microscopical forms of life consisting of a tubular body, ranging from 1mm to 20mm, secured by a simple adhesive foot. Indeed it was not until 1740 that polyps were known to be animals at all. This was discovered by Swiss naturalist Abraham Trembley. His obsession with the micro-organism led to the remarkable discovery that freshwater polyps could regenerate their heads and feet, and if cut into a few pieces, all of them wo…
Knowing Animals
Bestiary
Researchers in animal studies examine the cultural, philosophical, economic and social means by which humans and animals interact. The very idea of the human is closely tied up with ideas about animals. This is the introductory chapter of the book, which is a kind of mixed human-animal habitat into which diverse species have been introduced, to intermingle and interbreed, appropriately or not. The essays collected here track the cultural organism…
Author/Auteur
The concept of authorship seemed uncomplicated, or was at least unexplored, until the second half of the twentieth century, since when it has become the site of much theoretical discussion. Modern literary criticism has not simply underwritten the authority of authors. The American New Critics of the 1930s and 1940s, Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren in their Understanding Poetry (1938), ruled out the study of biographical materials as a subs…
Knowing Animals
In recent decades the humanities and social sciences have undergone an 'animal turn', an efflorescence of interdisciplinary scholarship which is fresh and challenging because its practitioners consider humans as animals amongst other animals, while refusing to do so from an exclusively or necessarily biological point of view. Knowing Animals showcases original explorations of the 'animal turn' by new and eminent scholars in philosophy, literary c…
Resistance film/resisting film
Resistance film/resisting film
After Titian
Knowing Animals
In recent decades the humanities and social sciences have undergone an 'animal turn', an efflorescence of interdisciplinary scholarship which is fresh and challenging because its practitioners consider humans as animals amongst other animals, while refusing to do so from an exclusively or necessarily biological point of view. Knowing Animals showcases original explorations of the 'animal turn' by new and eminent scholars in philosophy, literary c…
Jacques Derrida's Ghostface
Jacques Derrida's face appeared prominently on the covers of his books as well as inside them, on posters for his public lectures, on drawings and lithographs. Derrida was also a film star whose face appeared on screen, demonstrated by the fact that at least three films depict him in some depth and reveal his talents and charisma as a performer. In the first of these, in chronological order, Ghost Dance, directed by Ken McMullen in 1983, Derrida,…
After Titian
Resistance film/resisting film
Resistance film/resisting film
Knowing Animals
Bestiary
Researchers in animal studies examine the cultural, philosophical, economic and social means by which humans and animals interact. The very idea of the human is closely tied up with ideas about animals. This is the introductory chapter of the book, which is a kind of mixed human-animal habitat into which diverse species have been introduced, to intermingle and interbreed, appropriately or not. The essays collected here track the cultural organism…
Author/Auteur
The concept of authorship seemed uncomplicated, or was at least unexplored, until the second half of the twentieth century, since when it has become the site of much theoretical discussion. Modern literary criticism has not simply underwritten the authority of authors. The American New Critics of the 1930s and 1940s, Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren in their Understanding Poetry (1938), ruled out the study of biographical materials as a subs…
Knowing Animals
In recent decades the humanities and social sciences have undergone an 'animal turn', an efflorescence of interdisciplinary scholarship which is fresh and challenging because its practitioners consider humans as animals amongst other animals, while refusing to do so from an exclusively or necessarily biological point of view. Knowing Animals showcases original explorations of the 'animal turn' by new and eminent scholars in philosophy, literary c…
Towards A Philosophy Of The Polyp
Non-medical polyps are microscopical forms of life consisting of a tubular body, ranging from 1mm to 20mm, secured by a simple adhesive foot. Indeed it was not until 1740 that polyps were known to be animals at all. This was discovered by Swiss naturalist Abraham Trembley. His obsession with the micro-organism led to the remarkable discovery that freshwater polyps could regenerate their heads and feet, and if cut into a few pieces, all of them wo…
Jacques Derrida's Ghostface
Jacques Derrida's face appeared prominently on the covers of his books as well as inside them, on posters for his public lectures, on drawings and lithographs. Derrida was also a film star whose face appeared on screen, demonstrated by the fact that at least three films depict him in some depth and reveal his talents and charisma as a performer. In the first of these, in chronological order, Ghost Dance, directed by Ken McMullen in 1983, Derrida,…
Comment ne pas trembler
Comment ne pas trembler?Derrida's Earthquake Laurence Simmons (bio) A secret always makes you tremble. —Jacques Derrida, The Gift of Death One night as he sat trembling head in hands from head to foot a man appeared to him and said, I have been sent by—and here he named a dear name—to comfort you. Then drawing a worn volume from the pocket of his long black coat he sat and read till dawn. Then disappeared without a word. —Samuel Beckett, Ohio Imp…
Author/Auteur
The concept of authorship seemed uncomplicated, or was at least unexplored, until the second half of the twentieth century; since then it has become the site of much theoretical discussion. Modern literary criticism has not simply underwritten the authority of authors. The American New Critics of the 1930s and 1940s, Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren, in their Understanding Poetry (Brooks and Warren, 1938), ruled out the study of biographical…
Adam Smith’s ‘Impartial Spectator’ and John Webber’s Ship Cove
New Zealand’s South Island came into view on 10 February 1777 and for the fifth time in seven years James Cook made for a familiar location Ship Cove. It was a location from which he had observed the changes over time of its inhabitants and we can imagine the expedition artist, John Webber, busying himself with sketches of this new place and the people who lived in it. Eleven years later, in his London studio, in part from memory Webber composed …
A first meeting place
On 26 January 1777, on the first stage of his third voyage to the Pacific, James Cook anchored in Adventure Bay on what is now called Bruny Island, Tasmania. Cook encountered the local Nuonenne people on two occasions, the second of which was recorded in an unfinished drawing (possibly done on the spot) by the expedition’s artist, John Webber. Comments in their journals from officers and sailors on board Cook’s ships indicate that the European pe…
Christine Jeff’s Rain (2001) as an Allegory of Settlement
This article proposes a new reading of Christine Jeffs’ 2001 film Rain as an allegory of settlement. To do so it uses Stephen Turner’s essay ‘Settlement as Forgetting’ and makes reference to the work of Lorenzo Veracini and Patrick Wolfe in settlement studies. It takes Turner’s claim that settlement requires a forgetting in order to patch over the trauma of dislocation from the mother country and explores how structures of nostalgia, fetishism an…
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