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Issue 16
Spring 2013
The Event, The Subject and The Artwork

Issue 16

The Event, The Subject and The Artwork

The Murder of Joytika Singh

Maebh Long
The University of the South Pacific
The introduction for this issue on the event was originally planned as a minor foray into various theorists' engagements with the event. But in the early hours of the 27th of June 2013 a violent event took place.

Mawlee’s Murder: A Minor Historical Event

Margaret Mishra
The University of the South Pacific
The purpose of this article is to recover a minor historical event – the event of murder. On Tuesday, March 11, 1890, eighteen year old Mawlee was brutally killed at the Rarawai Plantation in Ba, Fiji.

Surviving the Event of Death

Maebh Long
The University of the South Pacific
Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman tells the story of an event. The event of death. But an event of death that fails, because a dead man survives his death, and lives on, resolutely refusing to acknowledge his demise.

Event, Contingency, Repetition: Donnie Darko vs Eternal Sunshine

Russell Smith
Australian National University
The centrality of the concept of fidelity to Alain Badiou’s theory of the event suggests that – of the four domains of politics, science, art and love – the domain of love has a special place within the theorisation of the event.

Love, Politics, Time

Josephine Scicluna and Tom Kazas
Deakin University
The writing of ‘Conversation in an Air Raid Shelter’ first began as a response to a musical composition called ‘Dismantle’ by Tom Kazas. In the latter, rebellious piano notes erupt like fragments of speech from a two-chord structure.

The Ontology of Political Song: Some Ideas from Badiou

Christopher Norris
Cardiff University
My thinking for this essay involved a progressive narrowing of focus from ontology of art to ontology of music and thence, via ontology of song, to that even more specific or pared-down object-domain that I have dubbed 'the ontology of political song.

On The Road: An Event, a Narrative, a Correlation, a Practice

R.A. Goodrich
Deakin University
The popular reception of Cormac McCarthy’s 2006 novel, The Road, has been coloured by recollections of the aerial attack upon the cities of New York and Washington in September 2001.

‘The end is terrific! … I prefer the middle’: Badiou, Beckett and Oliphant’s Atomic Bomb

Kathryn Keeble
Deakin University
In the twenty-first century, although the main players are long dead, the mid-twentieth century dropping of the atomic bomb still has resonance. In particular, the figure of nuclear physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer looms large as the archetypal symbol.

The Secular as an Event: Religion, on the Other Hand…

Thomas A. J. White
Fiji National University
Against depictions of the secular as a hidden place, ready to be uncovered once modern reason pushed obscurantist religion back to its proper inward and otherworldly spaces, John Milbank positions the secular as a modern construction– an invention rather than a discovery.

The ‘Mad’ Minstrels of Bengal

Sutapa Dutta
University of Delhi
Madness in its myriad forms has been represented in art and literature across historical periods and within cultural and social contexts. Philosophers and psychologists have struggled to define, explore, and understand the complex critical and ethical implosions of normality and abnormality.

Appropriating Being: The Advent of the Event as the Second Beginning of Philosophy

Lehel Balogh
Kyungsung University
Martin Heidegger’s philosophy is a notoriously complicated one. In his earlier writings one has to struggle through the difficulties posed by his innovative usage of language and long, compound words.

Sholay: From Chaos to Super-Duper Event (in glorious 70 mm … with stereophonic sound)

Anurag Subramani
University of the South Pacific
In Jean Paul Sartre’s novel Nausea (1962) the protagonist, Antoine Roquetin, feels life and existence to be meaningless, a deep void or ‘nothingness’ which slowly threatens to consume him. This nothingness manifests itself physically in a sickening and strange sensation – nausea.

Contributors to Issue 16

Biographical Details

Guided by the coverage of 20th century events, ethics, and art found in Alain Badiou's Century, this issue of Double Dialogues opens up debates on art and philosophy in the twenty-first century.

Badiou saw the last hundred years as evincing a 'passion for the real', but in acknowledging its terror, horror and genocides he nevertheless asks his readers to acknowledge also its 'emancipatory politics'.

This issue explores response to this plea, and works to examine both the extent to which it can be applied to the first decade of the twenty-first century, and the extent to which the analyses of 'events' in the twentieth century can be re-thought from our current perspective.

 

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