I'll be speaking at the "Inhuman Gaze" conference, to be held June 6-9 in Paris at the Centre Culturel Irlandais. I'm very grateful to the organizers, Anya Daly, James Jardine, Dermot Moran, Fred Cummins, and Brendan Kelly for the kind invitation.
You may click the following link to Download 27 May Inhuman Gaze (12MB) of my presentation, entitled "The Inhuman Gaze of the Berserker."
I think it will be in accord with the conference themes, which take off from this passage of Merleau-Ponty:
In the gaze …. ‘the other person transforms me into an object and denies me, I transform him into an object and deny him, it is asserted. In fact, the other’s gaze transforms me into an object and mine him, only if both of us withdraw into the core of our thinking nature, if we both make ourselves into an inhuman gaze, if each of us feels his actions to be not taken up and understood, but observed as if they were an insect’s’.
As my previous work on berserkers was from a more or less 3rd person perspective, in keeping with the conference, the current work incorporates 1st and 2nd person perspectives alongside neuroscience in an attempt at a neurophenomenological treatment.
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