Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Location: 912 Sproul Hall
[Therefore]: a Talk by Akira Mizuta Lippit
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO SEE ONESELF IN THE EYES OF AN ANIMAL OTHER?
What kind of seeing is this, and what kind of
self is reflected in the eyes of animal others? Lippit considers the relationships between human beings and between humans and animals, following a line of thinking opened up by Derrida but left unfinished. This talk reflects on the conjunction “therefore” as it operates in Derrida’s revision of Descartes’ famous dictum, and on the particular spacing it opens up before the gaze of an animal.
Friday, November 6
10:00 – 11:30am
912 Sproul Hall
Akira Mizuta Lippit is the editor of Discourse and Professor of Comparative Literature, East Asian Languages and Cultures, and Cinematic Arts at USC. He is the author of Atomic Light (Shadow Optics) (2005) and Electric Animal: Toward a Rhetoric of Wildlife (2000).
This event is sponsored by Environmental Humanities Supercluster
For more information please contact: Michael Ziser (mgziser@ucdavis.edu)