| Victor Vitanza on Jean-François Lyotard's The Differend. In this lecture he discusses linkages, catechism, production of description derived from prescription, the human desire to connect, Puritans, Sodom and Gomorrah, incest taboo, hemophilia, the Harmonites, politics as threat to the differend, equity, Gorgias and Gertrude Stein, Heraclitus' teachers, Sibyls, signs, counting systems, painting, John Cage's Seminar on Nothing, genre, politics, democracy, residue of differends, species and genus analytics, nothing, the unconscious mind, destruction, Blanchot's The Writing of the Disaster, community, Joyce Carol Oates, and Ovid. European Graduate School EGS |
