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Avital Ronell


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Avital Ronell at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.
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Avital Ronell giving her public lecture at the European Graduate School, August 2003.
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Avital Ronell in the garden of the Hotel Allalin in 2003.
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Avital Ronell teaching at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, August 2003.

Avital Ronell giving the commencement speech at the European Graduate School graduation, August 2003.

Avital Ronell in the giving the commencement speech at graduation, EGS, Saas-fee, 2003.


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Avital Ronell's video lecture
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See a Real Video™ clip of Avital Ronell's lecture:The Forbidden Body: On Stupidity.European Server or US mirror

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Avital Ronell's Lectures
2001 On the Unrelenting Creepiness of Childhood: Lyotard, Kid-Tested A lecture by Avital Ronell, August 2001
2001 Love and Community: A round-table discussion with Jean-Luc Nancy, Avital Ronell and Wolfgang Schirmacher August 2001
2002 Testing Your Love, or, Breaking Up: A lecture by Avital Ronell



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What is it about survival that it should become a matter of aptitude or intelligence? If one were to state the only possible ethical position, it would have to be this: I am stupid before the other.


Exhausted with the failure of models, identities, leaders, promise, so-called breakthroughs, vampirized by figures of exigence or ecstasy, the last century sees itself as standing out, if only in the sense that there is an outstanding debt to be paid — to whom? to what?


How can depropriation (not being identical to others, or even self-identical) become a politically powerful and compelling force?



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