jeudi 29 novembre 2018
Critical | Cinema | Critique : The Truman Show
Série Cinéma critique Series
Engager la philosophie avec le film
Engage philosophy through film
Un événement de l'Association des étudiant(e)s diplômé(e)s en philosophie de l'Université d'Ottawa
An event of the Graduate Philosophy Student Association of the University of Ottawa
The Truman Show
Peter Weir, 1998
Presented by Philippe-Antoine Hoyeck (University of Ottawa)
The “Truman Show Delusion” (or “Truman Syndrome”) is a kind of schizophrenic delusion in which patients believe that their lives are a staged reality show, or that they are otherwise being taped, watched, and commented upon by a large audience. Although this nightmarish scenario is a cause of torment to some patients, it is at the same time a source of joy for others, who relish the attention and experience it as a source of meaning. Once the stuff of science-fiction films and paranoid delusions, the scenario gains worrying topicality in the age of social media when all of us are, in fact, being watched — and when, far from being tormented, most of us happily volunteer information about ourselves to be browsed by friends and strangers alike in the construction of an online personal brand.
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Le « délire Truman » (aussi appelé « syndrome Truman ») est un type de délire schizophrène dans lequel un patient se croit la vedette d’une téléréalité, ou se pense autrement filmé, observé, et commenté par un grand nombre de spectateurs. Bien que ce scénario cauchemardesque soit une source de tourments pour certains patients, il apporte en même temps de la joie à d’autres, qui se ravissent de l’attention et qui l’éprouvent comme une source de sens. Ce scénario, qui ne fût autrefois que le sujet de films de science-fiction et de délires paranoïaques, acquiert une actualité troublante dans l’ère des médias sociaux, où nous sommes tous observés — et où, loin d’être tourmentés, nous fournissons volontiers des renseignements sur nous-mêmes à être parcourues par des amis comme par des étrangers afin de nous construire une marque personnelle en ligne.
Philippe-Antoine Hoyeck is a graduate student at the University of Ottawa. His research has nothing to do with either the internet or social media, but he is prone to having fits of existential angst when he thinks about them.
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Le « délire Truman » (aussi appelé « syndrome Truman ») est un type de délire schizophrène dans lequel un patient se croit la vedette d’une téléréalité, ou se pense autrement filmé, observé, et commenté par un grand nombre de spectateurs. Bien que ce scénario cauchemardesque soit une source de tourments pour certains patients, il apporte en même temps de la joie à d’autres, qui se ravissent de l’attention et qui l’éprouvent comme une source de sens. Ce scénario, qui ne fût autrefois que le sujet de films de science-fiction et de délires paranoïaques, acquiert une actualité troublante dans l’ère des médias sociaux, où nous sommes tous observés — et où, loin d’être tourmentés, nous fournissons volontiers des renseignements sur nous-mêmes à être parcourues par des amis comme par des étrangers afin de nous construire une marque personnelle en ligne.
Philippe-Antoine Hoyeck is a graduate student at the University of Ottawa. His research has nothing to do with either the internet or social media, but he is prone to having fits of existential angst when he thinks about them.
University of Ottawa
Desmarais Hall (55 Laurier East)
Room 8161
Herder's Concept of Force (N. DeSouza)
Conférence | Talk
(University of Ottawa)
Herder's Concept of Force
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Force (Kraft) is perhaps the most important concept in Herder’s philosophy as a whole. The talk will explore both what Herder means by force and the ways it informs his accounts of the soul-body relationship, morality, and the phenomenon of life, showing how, in its many guises, this concept constitutes the key to understanding his anti-dualism(s).
Friday, November 30th, 2018
10:30
University of Ottawa
Hamelin Hall
Room 509
mercredi 28 novembre 2018
mardi 20 novembre 2018
Heidegger, Morality and Politics (S.Sikka / R. Polt)
Conférence | Talk
Heidegger, Morality and Politics
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Book discussion
Sonia Sikka: What has continued to engage me about “the Heidegger controversy” and led to my writing Heidegger, Morality and Politics is a set of polarities within the argumentative discourse on this topic. As conceived by one side of the divide, values such as reason, universalism, cosmopolitanism and objectivity are pitted against the alleged moral and political hazards of irrationalism, relativism, and identitarian parochialism, with Heidegger’s Nazism being a prime example of the latter dangerous set. I argue, by contrast, that there is something worthwhile in precisely those elements in Heidegger’s philosophy that evoke such accusations among his detractors and that these elements do not inevitably lead to fascism or some other calamitous form of politics. My discussion focuses on three themes: relativity, reason and cultural identity.
Sonia Sikka: What has continued to engage me about “the Heidegger controversy” and led to my writing Heidegger, Morality and Politics is a set of polarities within the argumentative discourse on this topic. As conceived by one side of the divide, values such as reason, universalism, cosmopolitanism and objectivity are pitted against the alleged moral and political hazards of irrationalism, relativism, and identitarian parochialism, with Heidegger’s Nazism being a prime example of the latter dangerous set. I argue, by contrast, that there is something worthwhile in precisely those elements in Heidegger’s philosophy that evoke such accusations among his detractors and that these elements do not inevitably lead to fascism or some other calamitous form of politics. My discussion focuses on three themes: relativity, reason and cultural identity.
Friday, November 23rd, 2018
14:30
University of Ottawa
Hamelin Hall
Room 509
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