Martin Hägglund

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Good evening my name is past summer employment doctoral students here the comparative literature department i'd like to welcome all of you to the roundtable discussion conditions that possibility that lazy jack in conversation with martin hatred adding jobs ke crowded center zone distinguished professor stanley toronto will be moderating this eating panel we are truly honored to have some of the most prominent and respected voice is in critical theory here tonight and it also wonderful to see facts excitement into the evidence such a large audience here for this events which is being given as part of the newly-created critical theory today lecture series it's really wonderful for us to see and we are absolutely delighted that critical theory is thriving here at the graduate center now i would like to introduce you to see you know david author essayist and the executive officer of the comparative literature department here at the graduate center doctor andrzej out the month welcome to all bank here in march claire uh... claire cellphones everybody their cell phone goes up sometimes uh... the standoff itself was when you can uh... claire is a wonderful student she's a third year student in our program handed brilliant classes and compare it is uh... every chair of every department would be lucky to have somebody like her in to help them among other things she sells problems or you need to know they had they needed attended to so tonight is a very special night i heard of the possibility of this event happening uh... we immediately so that it was an important moment for us leave basically jumped on it and we put it on our web and fifteen minutes later eubanks wants all cops i think make jagger i will say no more uh... but this is that is of special interests as claire said because of our critical theory uh... initiative called new criticism today last year we had harold bloom who gave two lectures here and we had martin had learned welcome back more martin them in fact we devote to the house of course to the work of power and this year we having jonathan color was going to discuss the later lectures of along but so or away and we also have among others michael hopeless to bt gene your whole seminar on boxy uh... tonight we have a happy to have as usual with us had learned and professor johnston and are very old and stand your honor words will be moderating the event i will not need bios i i think i distributed the bar machines and most of you know we are anyway this is very important to us uh... among other reasons because we're trying to create incineration critical theory and to put it through uh... we have many organizations to think it's very seldom that and he one department and but some such an architect even we have the uh... doctoral student council to thank the psychoanalytic othiri workshop their programming comparative literature and the writers institute and i also want to give a special word of thank you to david in gold you blanks team without whose help dissipation would have remained literally condition of possibility thank you very much i must confess that to be cast in the role of a moderator which is uh... stand of moderation is a strange experience for me but i will do the best i can we will be having largely uh... treat explains one of them is going to be uh... at the pre sentation spy martin program by a dream johnston and bryce robert g_g_ accrual uh... speak for approximately and a half an hour of peace and then we're going to have a conversation among the three of them which i will try in some respects to provoke uh... argo missus harriman extending their way provoke each other but i would hope that they uh... that they will be supply a very interesting conversation and the third thing obviously will be questions from the audience and you see that there are true microphones on either side of the auditorium please uses of the microphones because innate auditorium even though this moderate modest size uh... we do mean uh... people to be able to uh... uh... uh... amplified theory their questions the topic tonight conditions that possibility it is general enough to allow us to go and as many directions as the spirit wheeled but they dictate at the same time we hope that this discussion of conditions of possibility will asked a market the second-largest questions what the role of syria critical theory of philosophy especially quiz so i have read the papers in philosophy plays a very important role in beirut uh... meditations what philosophy and critical theory may contribute to our understanding of ourselves and to the possibility uh... a better life better world this is not to say that we have any fixed parameters of what constitutes appropriate uh... as subject matter of theory but it does implying that at some point we will want to or come down to that issue of white philosophy can teach us what the how philosophy can help us party reeking of course actress uh... practical as well as uh... directly problems i am not going to speak very law but the one thing that i think we should set is that we live in a car at least in the united states when the separation of theory from practice separation discourse from its object has ever been greater there is a tendency which is pervading both in the economy as well as in dick culture regard theory as abstract as in some sense irrelevant and in many senses uh... perhaps even an impediment to our really need to move ahead our position and basic position at this symposium is that without theory there is no effective practice and without philosophy there is no effective series and that is a prospective which you will find it it's uh... in hearing these gentleman these uh... these distinguished arm uh... practitioners of theory if you will find them to be months till enlightening and most i hope provocative without arab going any further i would like to introduce our first speaker mind-boggling thank you very much for florida introduction and uh... it's personal center purple impact of in mid-may and often struck by enormous intellectual energy and and i'm very excited because they probably would be really happy too uh... however mostly people to contribute something to this the ongoing process to get uh... thanks pacific feel so to declare uh... who working really hard into the pockets most well who was involving incidents at me and everyone kept uniqueness made this possible not that figure is bob lanier i'm real excited every be able to uh... uh... havoc on fishing together tonight and just one prefeito remark about my paper now uh... is uh... incomes they consider a dose of it earlier we we did we were talking about one one of the things about the style and using it got some great social critic reflect upon on the revival all realism in the terrorism include a brief period falsity and then with a couple was around with them to be able to expand the conversation but but but but but starting point at cell separately i want to that focus on that topic by adam frosting on the revival of life a central category in contemporary europe lottery which belongs to this more general turn away from questions and of language and this forest in the name of a return to the real immaterial and the biological excelsior in linguistics once when a bigot or reference point darden and evolutionary theory have increasingly company depart estimates it at alongside of development the status of deconstruction has been downgraded tear duct work is hard to see nest mired s limited questions of language west mortgage to an ethical a religious party there in my book underdog radically different such a assessment of the construction is keeping the seating one of the public fathered into the realm apology to find and articulating skills with the trade if in terms of not only linguistics ophthalmology couple from natural science and eat data defines the structure of the trace as a general colin petition of time space after becoming space of time and become kind of space which he abbreviated espace as possible such facing is the condition for both the animate and unanimous both the ideal and the material the crucial question then is how it can lead to the mate such a generalized station of the structure of the trades what is that method multiple justification to speak of the trace as condition for not only language an experienced but also the policies that extend beyond the living beyond the human and even the lip is a question that's been posing in various persons since the publication about make use them the one that they may be a very dot must answer distinction is required i've come to contend six one between the logical and the old logical trace is known all political stipulation but rather a political structure and makes explicit was implicit in the concept of succession succession to begin not because they did with the chronology opening your time brother succession accounts for two fifty delay in the for all is inherent in any temple event anything that will have happen imply successor whether retrospectively the prospect of being and use the structure of the event but that analyzes in terms of unnecessary spacing or tracing of time to care for the logic of the trace oedipus about to demonstrate how the necessity of spacing can be deduced from the philosophical problem of succession is about to close at the concept of time showing that you cannot think any concept of time without the supposing the computational time and space but they're docket place in terms of structure of the traits consist of the multiple status of the structure is not a post-it to apology entomology or science but insist that the traces the medically radical notion they lose face prison tailed by commitment by the commitment to succession in by the one of these registers logical structure of the traces expressive of any concept of succession weather holds multiple from twelve o'clock was scientific inspect works of this multiple expressed its that is that the structure of allies such a license in the book justice in the form of an old political assertion at being is facing abroad if one of the method theoretical claim namely that any disclosure depends on those of success in the senate pencil emotional spacing deconstruction on my camp is dedicated to making explicit was implicit in this condition or spacing it is just like any other legacy of darwinism comes in daredevil with made clear the darwinism was not only a scientific it also philosophical event emphasizing in class for example but on the street from us to human narcissism recounted by freud once infected by could print this dorgan afford himself the most significant and the one that appointed a dog will have been the sense that for the longest time is the one inflicted a dog before immersion of the strong listings captured by the lady who said in response to doris discovery that let's hope it's not true and if it's true that's hope it's not because of the come by the mill over the past commits a crime electric cars of the media realism when u materialism whoever legal structure does not authorize this relation to darwinism by constructing on political repeating the scientific realism but what about u plaguing logical infrastructure that's compatible with its findings that's the argument date up to the most part meant to be in santa barbara so but the living is essential dependent on the non living but animated intentions impossible that mindless deborah petition and if they can be no essential demarcation of humans from other animals these departments and a half fallout from the multiple choice the sex that is the logic of the trace definite units they did and that's what i was about to do tonight but the point x for the purpose of such solicitations s_t_s_-sixty and remain repaired addresses the relation between his concept of time and one proposed by tiger in his destruction of traditional apology in being in time on the one hand there darling painful because the heidi gerry m breakthrough as the only fall in excess of metaphysics as such but barry dot this breakthrough consistent recognizing that the meaning of being always has been determined in terms of precedents and challenging disinformation by raising the question of time when we assume that to be means to be processed we're going to temple category to determine the meaning of the year without the applause from the status of thoughts turn parameter and had to get him breakthrough persistent questioning this link between persons in time on the other hand there does the data tiger concerns precisely how the metaphysical determination appealing as persons should be understood and how it relates to the concept of time according to hyder the metaphysical determination of being a person's stems from a bulger possible time misunderstands time with a succession of mouse he distinguishes inauthentic or improper all night and fish concept of time from authentic proper identity understanding of time as ecstatic temp relative for dared applicants have it is precisely the problem succession that allows them to challenge the termination of being asked process the demonstrators they're down takes a close reading of the two philosophical texts but i did a single south of the most important influential aberrations of the boulder police at the time as dole's physics and people skills to make sure are still holds but to be used to be present is all the count of succession shows that is incompatible with presence in the south for one moment to be succeed by another account first because something itself and then seems to be robert every temple moment ceases to be as soon as it comes to be hegel intermixed is explicit out lined up to now itself negating activites and get on the beach the now is needed to the contrary of itself the active on the dating itself developing disinfectants multimeter take a look at that time was indeed nothing but negativity the past is no longer the future is not yet and the present itself can come into being only by ceasing to be yes to insist on the negativity of time is far from sufficient by the passage of time requires negation has intrinsic to succession also requires the something survive to record the passage of time indeed a successful time could it be marked up the synthesis eliminates the past in the future depressing for any philosophical account of time is does have the synthesis of succession it's possible disgraceful solution is to anchor the synthesis in the consciousness eliminates the past the path to the future through structural memory anticipation yet the solution must assume the consequence itself is given in the form of the press on and their bikes them from the activity of time in contrast ratio in detail about late december the structure of the trace allows them to account for the sands of time without cramming it in the process that is exempt from the activity given that every temple moment ceases to be as soon as it comes to be it must be described as a trace know to be at all this is the become space of time the traces necessary spatial since pati alec is characterized by the ability to remain in spite of temple succession the space shuttle traces of condition for the sands of time since the naval supposed to be retained for the future suspicious-looking traits however is itself temporal we don't comply say she would be impossible for trace remain across time and retain the pass for the future this movement of the playstation is to become kind of space which entails the synthesis kemp there cannot be exempt from the negativity of time on the space leslie sometime makes the since as possible become price itial space nixon impossible for distances to be grounded in the process that is exempt from the activity rather the since is always a trace of the past that is left for the future and also sense next post office to make the racist let me emphasize that the structure of the tracer bullets optimist that has a temple pulsars but im becomes space and space becomes time but all the destination multiple politic asian of time and space this political point cations already implicit in the basic formulation of the problem succession namely at the moment comes into being at the same time as it ceases to be affair dot without this the fusion at the same time aur hum national its first neither spatial more temporal abroad articulates the complicity the common origin of time and space for close reading of household an exposition pagal daredevil seeks to show how the necessity of a tree structure can be ready in their only carries of how the moment is negated at the same time succumbed seed comes to beat i would not address the specificity of these meetings today a rustic to formalize between sites the yield concerned the relation between because of the process in the cause of the time would be a great mistake to think of the metaphysics suppressants is limited to the idea of a punctual castles both are stolen hegel clearly understood but now cannot be point since it is never given itself immediately passes away but they're the spread of the metaphysical movies from the subordination of the negativity of time to pass those on the dynamic movement the self negation of the now stuff about us integral to submission in the movement itself is still seem to be indivisible holding beginning and end together in a single stretch for the same reason and now it's all good regardless inadequate for thinking the being of time since it is near potentiality but only comes into being for the actuality of the movements but it's a proper precedence of time things of this argument diana proposes a formal rules for how to read the problem of time and it is too flustered on the one hand i don't know kids in the south mediating structure of the now but he calls it hit 'em passageway that leads from the problem process structure of the tracks i think in time on the basis of the now even the text of the peer to privilege pass those open the passageway to thinking the structure of the trace and now suffocating independent myspace inspection of the trace on the other hand any attempt to formulate another conception of time which would not be far from the base of the now will turn out to be produced a conception of a dynamic movement the discuss something itself its formal rule is in my view very tough most important contribution to our understanding of history philosophy never left his own articulation and demonstration of the formal ruled remains incomplete there dot i'll show the self condition of the now holds the key to american destruction of the tracing the text of are stolen pagal he does not demonstrate however politics i think to be behind enough to six of our stolen hegel as examples are bursting on tighter and upbeat producing a person of the concept of time less than an ic movement subordinating suppressing possibly their the problem of the matter your mission if business is frightened about hyder since they're not as easy organized around the claim i want to know the pose a proper or authentic conception of time to the following a concept of succession yet date of birth of the vote any space for analyzing or even quoting hide his conception of authentic static and relative neither embassy in grahmeen or anywhere else in the south but then i would need to show that's exactly how hide his conception within two temp relatively reproduces abortion the metaphysical conception of time as dynamic movement which is what i was about to do here with regard to the question of life just as the state of the argument however it is instructive to turn first to bergson with the other seven vote but a rebound but again without any sustained attention devoted to this has turned to conception of time aspiration now works as instructed example since the explicitly starts out from the problem the relation between success and synthesis on the one hand there is no time to others without distinction between before and after succession on the other hand there's no time without relations between before and after synthesis in accounting for the synthesis personal repudiation traditional solution to the problem which would reminiscence of time and act against those but itself is not temporal person without agreement is that there is no such acronym stands for the six m from todd for the more he clearly understands the passage of time cannot be thought in terms of transition from one discrete state to another even the most immediate temple st is itself in transition and is therefore with already passing away roberto however this passage of time before involving the geisha negativity several moments houses away but it doesn't disappear will cease to be on the contrary it immediately belongs to the continues movement observation in brussels words frustration is a perpetual precedent although this perpetuity has nothing in common with in newt's ability it is an undivided crescent although this invisibility has nothing to do williamson's nation what we have is oppressive which indoors unquote robertson projects the idea but they could be a moment but its present itself it lessens up reconstituting a metaphysical no suppressants as dynamic duration is the racial provides an absolute ground for the sins of succession since it includes all of the past in income divided prasanth and continues to simulate everything that happens in a perpetual precedent but never ceases to be the broader constitutes a person calls and eternity of life bypass denying negativity bergson effectively denies time if the path assault seems to be it is a path oppressive and by the same token there is no pasa which of time to be shorter coming close to the perpetual presence of the racial immutable since it is always a process of change but given that nothing ceases to be in duration there's nothing that can distinguish the past from the press them person himself ground for the constitutional time requires a distinction between a before and after since time is succession if the racial work absolutely continuously with effort given it a very condition of time since that would eliminate the defense that distinguishes before from after this necessary differences on the positive spatial difference but the negativity of time which undermines both the idea of discrete moment and the idea of an absolute continuity only if something is no longer but is only thursday captivity can there be a difference between before and after this negativity must be at work and presents itself to that to be successful if the moment is not negated in being succeeded by another moment the relation of local temple succession but of spatial co-existence despite this invite with a philosophical accounts a confused time and space parts of most of the racial dust eliminates a succession of time at absolute ices spatial attributes of cook systems person himself confirms this by emphasizing that all of the past co-exist with the press and in duration of course the emphasizes that this co-existence is not actually spatial is before the panel in the external material support to retain the past brother the court systems of past and present is of little correct systems that internal duration itself given that the past never ceases to be if the serbs itself in everything that happens without relying on anything other than itself for the same reason i'll ever the duration of the conflict employable internal substance utexas absolutely itself and it's not susceptible to destruction brussels vital ism is in effect of this conception of time second commits interpreted sing dynamic vital movement over any form of negativity to make a dependent on mediation the material support in contrast the structure of the trace may before the think what i call the or committee reality of time precisely because every temple no mitigates itself the racial time committed to give in itself the details of the material support space inscription without the latter inscription nothing could persist and that would be no movement or passage of time by the same token however even the most vital dynamic movement would always be compromise from within but he did not in the competition and that makes it possible as they're emphasizing the dental jayme the structure of the trace quote marks the dead time within the process of the live it though of the living precedent within the general forum award process to divert public what materiality them it is not enough to repudiate any biking this notion of life on the fourth on the company notion of an inherent dynamism of life hikers here the most sophisticated sample since is thinking of temper allocated unlike other bergson articulates negativity of death ask instituted of life how did this notion of a proper time for our team ultimately commits into emotional temperament to as dynamic movement which suppresses the necessity of tracing time to see exactly how this happens it is instructive considered assemble paragraph seventy-two seventy-five of being in time how to get most of the problem of the synthesis of succession in terms of the course the connection of life so someone comes this year because after having emphasized that the being we are das un is always being toward taft high-tech recognizes that the department is one-sided if it does not take into account that we are always between life and death those critics who claim to try to privileges death over both completely disregard this argument has had his point is precisely the thing the quotation a birth and death practical bassline x's af born he writes and boring it is already done the real problem them just have to think the connection of life if dobson by virtue of its own temper ality is constantly ceasing to be how could sustain itself across time is precisely the question of downside invited his words constantly somehow holds itself and stretches along between birth and death it is this problems since the time but hyderabad address tons of these paragraphs he now has promised follows and housing connect i think it will remove the patient uh... midfield uh... or that uh... investment funds bomb itself so setup but yes at high causing problems what seems more simple than the nature of the connection online between britain dot consists of a successful experiences inline him anemometer on here only yet now easy if are no longer not b uh... inspired mansfield alumina appalled uh... uh... stuff case now if or out it the uh... uh... in after now what about mid or not hyperactive provides of other people but deposits summary of how the problem the relation between succession of synthesis has been articulated in the district most of them the success of time before by itself use any form of the systems since it is needed negated into being no longer past and being not yet future sirs the question them it's how they can be a synthesis allows for relation between past and future a connection of life across time either intimates here and i felt under tier the traditional solutions to anchor distances in the process that in the process of of a self reliance but because the power anticipates the future get the solution must assume that life the process in itself is precedent and their breaks them from the negativity of time but i did get a striped bass something object to the present in time but of course i think that the most radical stomatitis argument is is insistent about so i can not provide such a ground as temporal beings we had never given in ourselves never present us lots but the stitches in the ecstatic outside often ahead of ourselves and after the after the clear ecstatic temporal can hide it has nothing to do with a mystical xa cdl transport us to be on time on the contrary to be ecstatic and hide yourself is to be temporal and finite never knew from but rather essentially susceptible to mutation and corruption is just like in this sense of aristotle first introduces the term xd optical instruction of time in two six four namely as the cost of corruption and dispersal impossibility a preference in itself yet if the stuff out of their presence is impossible aside assist that is all the more toward into account for how the cynicism time is possible without being grounded in the form of precedence heightens the fact that control t with this for seem to open the prophets wait for the sinking of the trades since the latter allows one to account for the sands of time without grounding it in the process of his sampling activity brother opening the passageway however howdy to declare as throat problem of synthesis stems from an improper conception of time according to hide ur the question of how about some components up together out of the dispersion of time is inadequate and only arises because of the inconstancy in authentically existing docent which is unable to hold itself together because it is the rest of it in contrast authentic doubts on how to dress in business but in dallas but the steadiness and stability shindig type that stretches itself along without being dispersed how to get out front and i want reducing type of businesses get to some for the movies michael the question about that how about the choir the unity of connection leading stock broking uh... unisys but convinced of the day rather in out in which of the film part of being dr her looks up phone you know and then so unit which gender break for haha whose along on it which is not lol not me line and history to sell against important theory for and itself spending in fact mood edition the senate obtained incorporate include system broken-down me in subsequent buttons the hope of the it is in the moment uh... f involvement from the crime problem that witnesses possum because because it exemplifies the heiniger throughout being on time rounds distances of time in instances like anticipatory resolution the moment and the stretching itself along with the proper das i'm was characterized by steadiness and stability how to get us distinguishes the close to a few precedent missing gathering of papa da sign permit from the inconstancy irresolute missing dispersion of improper downside in effect by claiming to think ecstatic and proud as essential original how big a daily basis improper the very treats the full of from text optical of time inconstancy irresolute miss dispersion and is that promotes something else not ecstatic as being in the moment proper temperament first distinction between proper and improper how to get us close above the passageway thinking of the trade who plan to uh... like that returning to the pilot about not notified because the outside a subordinate to pullman succession sorry about that to republicans that sometimes astronomical event which he describes outs the primordial stretching itself along with the whole uvic systems which is dog dot which is not lost and does not need a connection is even more emphatic in the german how do you speak to the bush from michelle one fellow women by missiles some unprincipled adults to get a strict right the gums mixes that's but that's claiming the bass lincoln pulled myself together and sustain itself across time synthesize itself without any external support high ticket sales force decides temporal iti into a dynamic movement that stretches itself lol by virtue of its own power by the same token transforms tap into it to you all stopped if resolutely anticipated gives you it is a precedent allow style signed to be in the moment and here had a request to they could be some response before the californication miss faulkner just in a moment man uh... or the ideas about that now elitism but who knows how ecstatic that relative to the fact lead one to refute the possibility of being in the moment and a supposed integrity of a dynamic movement if kemper ality is the primordial outside of itself and it's not the complex along aside if a missing maintains that we cannot sustain itself even for a moment and it certainly can't be in the moment aspects that a complex lost the temporal being about signed is already ceasing to be and being read many outside of itself it already the panels on spatial material support sustain itself is this i think this serves the pics topical of succession opens the possible a into thinking betrays although this passageway which heidi does not do the relation to death is not the relation to the future attorney wrestling p anticipated and provide unity too depressing indeed the relation to death as a ceasing to be of every moment the comes to be as the one who was born is already dying its relation to death is not something i can appropriate test mail but what this appropriation from the beginning in cutting me off from any internal spontaneity or dynamic and making me dependent on external support for male assistance even the most elementary auto affection of time presupposes the protection of space and a concomitant dependence immaterial traced to be in principle to remain will be repeated without oneself and without any animated intention already in the bronco o_j_ their dances the destruction of the trace quote must be fought before the opposition a matron culture out-and-out singer menacing going today about all living things are capable of all affection but this all effects of presupposes the structure of the traced by this quote the opening for the first exterior or it in general enigmatic relation of the living to its other an oven inside to an outside spacing well there does software to pilates the coeducation of the animate in development he never to my knowledge team at times unnecessary a cemetery of this competition assume if there is animation it is inhabited from within but unanimity but the inverse argument let's not hold if they were animation assume if there is the amount of mint we would be back another bike misconception where life before we get work in matter in contrast the notion of park materiality enough time to account for the minimal synthesis of time which may meet the minimum recording of temple passage seductress opposing the album what's the status of my life the key point here is the praises of general multiple structure extricate the time must be spaced in stride but does not decide on the nature of the necessary material substrate lata maybe human greed and umum organic or inorganic following the logic of art material to see them want to make explicit the destruction of the trace is implicit both in our understanding of the temp relative living prophecies an enormous down the all-time misreported immaterial structures that's how i can fit thumped restructure expressive not only of the was taken to the local experience but also the temper of the evolutionary processes and material structures in addressing the philosophical problems synthesis of time the notion of the tray scandals accommodate the asymmetry between the living in the normal living both integral to darwinian materialism the animate the palestinian animate the popular way around indiana's decisive ever to this account of temper ality but the notion of our committee reality is not that theoretically compatible with the most significant philosophical implications of darwinism but living is essentially depends on the mall living animeid intention impossible without my best of repetition and applied is an awfully contingent indestructible phenomenal to pursue the fault of our committee realities the flood on not only with the by telephone but also dispose dynamism of life and instead begin to think the movement of survival things the simpson dependence on the likeness inorganic mechanical repetition apart material temperament