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In the final paper of our Cormac McCarthy workshop, Will Large, of the University of Gloucestershire and former BSP President, gives a critique of Cormac McCarthy’s Kekulé Problem for its reliance on scientific methodology. The chair is Dr David Deamer.

Dan O’Hara (New College of the Humanities) speaks about the aesthetic implications of Cormac McCarthy’s concept of the unconscious in the Kekulé Problem at our July 2017 workshop. The chair is Katja Laug, another speaker at the conference whose paper is available in a previous podcast episode.

Julius Greve examines the concept of nature at work in Cormac McCarthy’s Kekulé Problem and his literature, most emphatically in comparison with F. W. J. Schelling. The chair is Keith Crome, president of the BSP.

Matt Barnard draws comparisons between Cormac McCarthy’s Kekulé Problem and Heidegger’s Being and Time in our July 2017 workshop. The chair is Adonis Frangeskou, member of the BSP executive.

Katja Laug speaks on physicality and dreaming in the work of Cormac McCarthy at our July 2017 workshop. The chair is Patrick O’Connor, convenor of the workshop and BSP Executive Member.

Chris Thornhill discusses Benjamin, Agamben and McCarthy’s Kekulé Problem at our July 2017 Cormac McCarthy workshop. The chair is Will Large, former President of the BSP.

Dr Patrick O’Connor, convenor of our July 2017 workshop on Cormac McCarthy’s Kekulé Problem, opens the day with discussions of the philosophical themes of the author’s first essay. The chair is Matt Barnard, Secretary to the BSP.

This is an interview with BSP Executive Member Dr Patrick O’Connor discussing Cormac McCarthy and philosophy, the upcoming workshop Patrick is hosting in association with the BSP and Nottingham Trent University on 26th July 2017 in Manchester. Information about this workshop can be found at www.britishphenomenology.org.uk

This is one of the papers from our 2016 Annual Conference, the Future of Phenomenology. Information and the full conference booklet can be found here on our society website.

Abstract

Sam Riviere’s 2015 collection “Kim Kardashian’s Marriage” is an example of Post-Internet poetry. Post-internet poetry is the practice of using Web content as the basis of poetry. This paper will attempt to show that a Heideggerian analysis can shed light on contemporary texts in a way that renews Heidegger’s poetic thought and calls it into question in the light of new poetic practices. Specifically, Rivierie’s collection will be considered in terms of Heidegger’s opposing accounts of both technology and poetry. Social media is often understood in terms of enframing and thus it contributes to the “extreme danger” of the information age and the marginalization of art.  However, this danger is accompanied by a saving power. Can a collection like Rivierie’s succeed in make the ‘danger’ of social media explicit?

This is one of the papers from our 2016 Annual Conference, the Future of Phenomenology. Information and the full conference