Avital Ronell - Videos
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Laurence Arthur Rickels and Avital Ronell, talking about Queen Victoria, allergic, bodies, AIDS, enemy, parasites, struggle, mission, task, aufgabe, gift, give up, aporia, A Space Odyssey, technology, language, paleonymy, difference, dog, stoned, alien, clean, morality, fantasm. In the lecture Avital Ronell discusses the concepts of opium, drugs, parasite, referring to Karl Marx, Kathy Acker, William Borroughs, Lacoue-Labarthe, Heidegger, Benjamin, Derrida, Hume, Freud, Lacan.Free public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies Department Program in 2012
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Avital Ronell, talking about poison, toxicity, fiction, trance, drug, LSD, psychoanalysis, addictive, grafting, Nazi, simulacrum, racism, Frankenstein, maternal, stockholm syndrome, sacrifice. In the lecture Avital Ronell discusses the concepts of foreign bodies, immunity, Case of California, parasite, referring to Derrida, Heidegger, Freud, Philip K. Dick, Adorno, Nietzsche, Goethe, Eckermann, Melanie Klein, Kant.Free public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies Department Program in 2012. EGS, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, Avital Ronell 2012
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Avital Ronell and Laurence Arthur Rickels speaking about the eccentric, endorphine, drugs, Hashish, death drive, destruction, law, wolfman, hospitality, Emma Bovary, pharmacy, ego. In the lecture Avital Ronell discusses the concepts of inside, outside, high, writing, blindspots, Crack Wars, gift, share, referring to Holderlin, Benjamin, Baudelaire, Nietzsche, Freud. Free public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies Department Program in 2012. EGS, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe
08/14/2012
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Avital Ronell, talking about thanksgiving, thanks, rituals, and memory. In the lecture Avital Ronell discusses the concepts of forgetting, remembering, erinnerung, Gedächtnis, memorize, father, Archive Fever, referring to Larry Rickels, Shakespeare, Hamlet, Hegel, Plato, Derrida.Free public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies Department Program in 2012
08/14/2012
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Avital Ronell discusses the concepts of forgiveness, drugs, ontic, ontological, friendship, blush, nausea, otherness, alterity, referring to Heidegger, Holderlin, Levinas, Susan Sontag, Lyotard, Kleist, Nietzsche, Wagner, Derrida, Lacoue-Labarthe, Alfred Hitchcock, Hegel.Free public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies Department Program in 2012. EGS, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, Avital Ronell 2012. Avital Ronell is Professor of German, comparative literature, and English at New York University, where she directs the Research in Trauma and Violence project.
08/14/2012
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Avital Ronell, talking about pardoning, food, ok, snafu, fubar, eating, gift, divorce, violence, forgetting, trauma, exception. In the lecture Avital Ronell discusses the concepts of forgiveness, drugs, ontic, ontological, friendship, blush, nausea, otherness, alterity, linkage, difference referring to Derrida, Lacoue-Labarthe, Alfred Hitchcock, Hegel.Free public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies Department Program in 2012. EGS, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, Avital Ronell 2012. Avital Ronell is Professor of German, comparative literature, and English at New York University, where she directs the Research in Trauma and Violence project. She is a member of the faculty of the European Graduate School, interested in Literary and other discourses, feminism, philosophy, technology and media, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, performance art, and has also written as a literary critic, a feminist, and philosopher. Avital Ronell was born in Prague to Israeli diplomats and was a performance artist before entering academia. She received a BA in 1974 from Middlebury, studied with Jacob Taubes at the Hermeneutic Institute at the Free University of Berlin, received her Ph.D. under the advisement of Stanley Corngold at Princeton University in 1979. Avital Ronell taught at the University of California at Berkeley from 1984-1995 and at New York University from 1995 to the present. She served as Chair of ...
08/14/2012
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Avital Ronell, drug, text, arouse, emetic, vomit, throw up, non-representation, censor, fantasy. In the lecture Avital Ronell discusses the concepts of fiction, referring to Ulysses, Madame Bovary, James Joyce, Derrida, Flaubert, Lolita .Free public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies Department Program in 2012. EGS, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, Avital Ronell 2012. Avital Ronell is Professor of German, comparative literature, and English at New York University, where she directs the Research in Trauma and Violence project. She is a member of the faculty of the European Graduate School, interested in Literary and other discourses, feminism, philosophy, technology and media, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, performance art, and has also written as a literary critic, a feminist, and philosopher. Avital Ronell was born in Prague to Israeli diplomats and was a performance artist before entering academia. She received a BA in 1974 from Middlebury, studied with Jacob Taubes at the Hermeneutic Institute at the Free University of Berlin, received her Ph.D. under the advisement of Stanley Corngold at Princeton University in 1979. Avital Ronell taught at the University of California at Berkeley from 1984-1995 and at New York University from 1995 to the present. She served as Chair of the Department of German from Spring 1997 to Spring 2005. She taught an annual seminar in Literature & Philosophy ...
08/13/2012
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Avital Ronell, talking about authority, trauma, hospitality, phenomenology, coercion, persuasion, location, author, witness, auctoritas, augment, power,Telephone, and shooting blanks. In the lecture Avital Ronell discusses the concepts of greeting, contracts, legal, gifts, fatigue, aggression, frustration, hermeneutics, walking, law, exception, outlaw, dwelling, body, learning, non-arrival, history, examples, mourning, reading, complications, irritants, thinking, entzug, traces, retreat, destruction, devastation, toxin, withdrawal, and contamination, referring to Kant, Hegel, Freud, Plato, Socrates, Lacan, Nietzsche, Derrida, Levinas, Dostoyevsky, Kafka, Carl Schmitt and Heidegger. Free public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies Department Program in 2012. EGS, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe
08/13/2012
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Avital Ronell, talking about superego, mother, taste, authority, coercion, death penalty. In the lecture Avital Ronell discusses the concepts of greeting, contracts, legal, gifts, fatigue, aggression, frustration, hermeneutics, referring to Melanie Klein, Kant, Hegel, Freud, Hannah Arendt, Plato, Socrates, Lacan, Nietzsche.Free public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies Department Program in 2012. EGS, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, Avital Ronell 2012
08/13/2012
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Avital Ronell, talking about forgiveness, gift, speech-acts, aneconomy, punishment, crime. In the lecture Avital Ronell discusses the concepts of mourning, normalcy, referring to Derrida, Hegel, Lacan, Jankelevich. Free public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies Department Program in 2012. EGS, Saas-Fee, Switzerland
08/13/2012
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Avital Ronell, talking about impossibility, questioning, pedagogy, sublime, affirmation, thaumazein, stupidity, dosage, desire, fraternity, democracy, mistake, error, intoxication, brotherhood, suspicion. In the lecture Avital Ronell discusses the concepts of hospitality, forgiveness, awe, politics, paleonymy, Überwindung, Bewältigung, undecidability, referring to Derrida, Heidegger, Lacan, Blanchot, Lacoue-Labarthe, Nietzsche, Paul de Man, Friedrich Hölderlin, Odyssey, Lot, David Lynch, Freud.Free public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies Department Program in 2012. EGS, Saas-Fee, Switzerland
08/13/2012
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Avital Ronell, talking about trauma, responsibility, deconstruction, violence, inheritance, women, rape, gift, undecidability, madness. In the lecture Avital Ronell discusses the concepts of hospitality, forgiveness, awe, politics, paleonymy, Überwindung, Bewältigung, undecidability, referring to Dostoyevsky, Derrida, Heidegger, Lacan, Blanchot, Lacoue-Labarthe, Nietzsche, Paul de Man, Friedrich Hölderlin, Odyssey, Lot, David Lynch, Freud.Free public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies Department Program in 2012. EGS, Saas-Fee, Switzerland
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Judith Butler, Hélène Cixous, and Avital Ronell approach the notion of affinity through a discussion of disruptive kinship. Villa Gillet and The New School, School of Writing. October 24, 2011
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Avital Ronell talking about Kafka's Letter to His Father. In this lecture she discusses mastery, the call, indecency, vomiting and healing, the unwelcoming in the inhospitable space of the master-signifier mastery, what it means to achieve mastery, Heinrich von Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas, justice, history as a practice built upon what cannot be recalled, undecidability as a perpetuant testing out of things, retreat as a "re-tracing", melancholia as refusal of the other, reading in relation to loss, writing as a secondary and distressed activity, Kafka's "A Country Doctor" and The Castle, the architecture of decision in Kafka, the tone of a text, Kafka's mother, father and fate, hospitality, and anahistory. European Graduate School EGS
08/12/2011
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Avital Ronell talking about Kafka's "The Test" in relation to the figure of the guest. In this lecture, she discusses the idea of the guest-ghost, the economy of the impoverished, the gift vs. an economy, potlatch, Derrida and hospitality, invitations, coercive demands, insinuating hierarchies in Kafka, duplicity, Heidegger's thrownness, and passing the test. European Graduate School EGS
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Avital Ronell in a joint lecture with Anne Dufourmantelle talking about their book Fighting Theory. In this lecture they discuss the risks of engaging the other, the limits of questioning, philosophy and the other, curiosity, the women in Friedrich Nietzsche, Eve as primary scientist, Martin Heidegger's Was Heisst Denken?, Emmanuel Lévinas and the other, the principle of the unknown, the event of the encounter, the call of the other, the conditions of transference and countertransference, the obsessional neurotic, Fighting Theory, philosophy and theatre, war and the warzone, the cry, the scream, the polis, chaos and the other, the difference between the hysteric and the obsessional neurotic, and the phobic. European Graduate School EGS
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Avital Ronell talking about Kafka's The Test. In this lecture she discusses testing as the principle mode of scientific inquiry, the servant, the master--slave-servant dialectic, the question of being a servant, the call, Kafka's example of Abraham getting the call, the destination of the call, the prize, the reward, weakness, intelligence, the dumbest person takes the call, Bartleby, the artist-writer's position in the world, passivity and receptivity, what it means to be the receiver, Emmanuel Lévinas, waiting as the essence of man, testing the faith of theology students and Immanuel Kant. European Graduate School EGS
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Avital Ronell talking about tests and testing. In this lecture, she discusses her book The Test Drive, self-criticism, Stupidity, Edmund Husserl, the extreme power of testing, modalities of self-testing, Protestantism, the hypothetical, testing and destruction, biblical test narratives, Abraham and Job, the emergency broadcast system, George Bush and 9 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Friedrich Nietzsche, the phrase "just try me", Franz Kafka, Nietzsche's break-up with Richard Wagner, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and his secretary Johann Peter Eckermann, the parasital/patricidal path, the technological test of the Gulf War, the absence of tests, the test site, testing as a masculinist activity, Donna Haraway and lab culture. European Graduate School EGS
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Avital Ronell in a joint lecture with psychoanalyst and philosopher Anne Dufourmantelle talking about their book Fighting Theory. In this lecture they discuss the act of writing as fighting, war zones, the psychiatry of war, British wartime psychiatrist WH Rivers, the embodiment of the other in trauma zones, the multifaceted body, the fight complex, Immanuel Kant's abandoned text on perpetual peace, the devaluation of theoretical and philosophical work, theory bashing, the state murder of Socrates, the insurrection philosophizing and theorizing implies, daily warfare, military music, Heinrich von Kleist and his "mil-literary" strategy, Sigmund Freud's Rat Man, the koan, the test, the master and the disciple. European Graduate School EGS
08/10/2011
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Avital Ronell talking about Kafka and the sublime in relation to his father. In this lecture she discusses Immanuel Kant's dynamic and mathematical sublime, the Alps, Frankenstein, Edmund Burke's sublime, the distinction between the beautiful and the sublime, the call, the strategic motivation behind beauty and the sublime, Jacques Derrida and the text, taste, Kant's aesthetics, Chantal Mouffe, Derrida and the frame, Heidegger on Nietzsche's destruction and devastation, and Kafka's "Letter to His Father" which he wrote in 1919. European Graduate School EGS
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Avital Ronell talking about laws of encounters and the greeting. In this lecture, she discusses laws of encounter, Jacques Lacan's sujet-supposé-savoir, pedagogy, the rights of nerves, Martin Heidegger, Friedrich Hölderlin, the gift of the other, pernicious forms of the greeting, missiles in the Gulf War, the Nietzschean transvaluation machine, good values, pernicious values, the coerced greeting, and the salute in terms of health and redemption. European Graduate School EGS
08/09/2011
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Avital Ronell talking about the shock of puberty and the political impact of the call. In this lecture, she reads an excerpt of her latest book, Loser Sons, in which she discusses Jean-François Lyotard's "Emma, Between Philosophy and Psychoanalysis", the affective shock of having to submit to a call of submissive readiness, how these affective shocks work themselves into our political narratives, how modern politics depends on teenage mythologies, the brand of hysteria that cuts into puberty, puberty in general, Immanuel Kant, the aporia of the hysteria as an event, "excitation" in speech repression, Jacques Lacan's reading of Sigmund Freud on negation, unconscious judgment, the law, the childhood phrase-affect, Sarah's laughter, choosing immaturity, authority, the terror that resides in the untranslatability of childhood susceptibility into adult articulation, infantile cultures, letting go of Enlightenment fictions, and how childhood for Lyotard is not a historical developmental instance. European Graduate School EGS
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Avital Ronell, Judith Butler and Laurence Rickels talking about paternal authority and psychoanalysis in Kafka's writings. In this lecture, Laurence Rickels, psychoanalyst and author, discusses the role of libido in judgment, the impossibility of writing, the Oedipus complex and the imperative to enjoy in relationship to Franz Kafka, Jacques Lacan, Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, Martin Luther, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari focusing on parables, paradoxes, commandments, desire, death drive, sexual difference, the superego, performativity and minor literature. European Graduate School EGS
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Avital Ronell, Judith Butler, and Laurence Rickels talking about Kafka and the collapse of metaphysics. In this lecture, Avital Ronell, philosopher and author, discusses the play of presence and absence, the politics of friendship, the problem of departure and arrival, the relationship between psychoanalysis and literature, and the reciprocity of calling and being called in relationship to Franz Kafka, Jacques Lacan, Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, Martin Luther, Michel Foucault and Martin Heidegger focusing on the letter, destiny, Gesicht, history, authority, law, the panopticon, the Event, Abraham, hope, impossibility and laughter. European Graduate School EGS
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Avital Ronell, professor and philosopher at New York University, writing about politics, violence, drug addiction, technology and stupidity. Avital Ronell speaking about the impact of disasters and the recent turmoil in the Middle East. Villa Gillet cultural forum in Lyon
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Avital Ronell and Christopher Fynsk talking about Heidegger, greeting, friendship, Dostoyevsky, technology, art, equipment, production, being, and addiction. In this lecture, Ronell and Fynsk discuss abbreviation, Antigone, uncanny, biography, Nietzsche, anxiety, suffering, and timidity, in relationship to Levinas, Blanchot, exposure, truth, usage, powerlessness, and language. European Graduate School 2010
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Avital Ronell and Christopher Fynsk talking about Heidegger, courage, call, philosophy, and art. In this lecture, Ronell and Fynsk discuss task, freedom, technology, truth, negativity, and language, in relationship to humour, demand, poet, naming, authority, risk, and inspiration. European Graduate School EGS 2010
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Avital Ronell, philosopher and professor at EGS, talking about philosophy, origins, deconstruction, hermeneutics, psychoanalysis, genocide, broadcasting, television, technology. In this lecture, Ronell discusses media, Scum Manifesto, Valerie Solanas, Hamlet, Derrida, patriarchy, and Bataille, in relationship to depaperization, drugs, security, surveillance, and Julia Scher. European Graduate School EGS 2010
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Avital Ronell lecturing about philosophy, reading, transference, learning, anxiety, abbreviation, Heidegger, resistance, Freud, and Lacan. In this lecture, Ronell discusses television, petite a, self, contract, and law, in relationship to authority, respect, being, superego, eating, remorse, hospitality, Derrida, and performativity. European Graduate School EGS 2010
08/15/2010
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Avital Ronell, philosopher and professor at EGS, talking about constats, performativity, promises, contracts, architecture, location, speech act, documenting, hospitality, Derrida, and violation. In this lecture, Ronell discusses agreement, Nietzsche, violence, offer, conditions, in relationship to resistance, mountainscape, sublime, withdrawal, act, and futurity. European Graduate School EGS 2010
08/08/2009
Ronell disusses her text Have I Been Destroyed? Authority, an Emergency Supply in the Absence of God, Ronell concentrates on whether the possibility of authority still exists, and if so what good it can be, now, after Derrida, the categories or disciplines of Western though have been rendered permeable and diffuse.
Avital Ronell and Slavoj Žižek lecturing about "Hegel, Antigone and Literature" at New York University, Slavoj Zizek speaking about the Poet, Lover and Madman in "Midsummer Nights Dream", Avital Ronell introducing Barbara Johnson, Jacques Derrida and Jacques Lacan on Poe's "Purloined Letter".
Avital Ronell, Judith Butler and Laurence Rickels conducting a joint seminar in which they discussed Martin Heideggers essay What is Thinking? and how it relates to Hannah Arendt and her ideas on judgement. They spoke about Arendts feeling of not being welcome in the league of male philosophers and Arendts view that she was a political theorist and therefore public versus Heideggers solitary philosophy.
08/06/2008
Ronnel reads from her introduction to on Idiocy which explores the figure of Christ, through Dostoevsky, as a transcendental idiot. Her text emerges also in preparation for a discussion with Werner Herzog evoking their shared love of the inscribed outbursts of others, lunatics, maniacs.
03/12/2008
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Lecture by Ronell about the necessary instability of transmission systems, the information and deformations inherent therein. Ronell begins with a problematization of the reception of Nietzsche's "work" in particular and of the philosophical work in general. Ronell then considers the methods of allegorical transmission used by GW Bush to justify his wars.
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Ronell attempts to help filmmaker Astra Taylor develop her film "Examined Life" (2008). She remembers that Heidegger 'ditched philosophy for thinking' and attempts to explain how to live an ethical life without life having a final meaning.
Lecture with Avital Ronell and Judith Butler focusing on contemporaneity of philosophy, Jacques Derrida, Georges Bataille, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, theory and trauma. Free public open lecture for the students of the European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2006
Ronells commentary on Kafka's Letter to the Father explores the notion of a Kafka that we could know through his writings and posits that Kafka, for us may only begin, where the person who bore the name in life, ends.
11/05/2005
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Interview with philosopher Avital Ronell on Freud's notion of "death drive" (Todestrieb) Philosophy on Stage by Susanne Granzer and Arno Böhler / GRENZ-film Vienna.
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Fragment from Avital Ronell's lecture "On friendship" where she reflects on her friendship with Derrida,, Kathy Acker, and Aristotle.
Ronnell discusses and reads from her upcoming book "Stupidity", another attempt to treat an 'unworthy', minoritized subject, following her works on crack, the telephone, Goethe's secretary. Her meditation on stupidity begins with the case of Dostoevsky.