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Christopher Fynsk - Videos

Length: 1:21:36

Christopher Fynsk and Avital Ronell 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 EGS 2010

Length: 1:14:29

Christopher Fynsk and Avital Ronell speaking 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

Fynsk speaks about Nancy's idea of gastronomic affirmation as well as the concept of the image of art revealing itself through the distended time of the meal. Referencing Mallarme, Roland Barthes and others, Fynsk attempted to draw a sketch of the coming forth of food into a play of revelation and withdrawal.

Fynsk discusses the importance of ontology and references Heidegger in reflection on the Western tradition of philosophical thought. He accesses Manuel Granell on Husserl in a critical self-reflection on why his post-phenomenological interests had better be pursued in Europe, rather than in America.

Length: 0:03:06

Fynsk discusses with Wolfgang Schirmacher, the death of the infant and Maurice Blanchot, who, in refusing to use the language of psychoanalysis to approach the death of the infant, asserts persistent acquiescence,