WEEK 2: HOSTED BY DANIEL FOGARTY

An online conversation between students of the BA Fine Art and MArt courses at Sheffield Hallam University.

Begun at 9.00PM on Monday October 20th.

Hosted by Daniel Fogarty, on an excerpt from Maurice Blanchot's Death Sentence (L'Arrêt de mort).

In attendance: Luke Chapman, Jamie Crewe, Luke Dilnot, Daniel Sean Fogarty, Jonny Fox, Luiza Holub, Natalie Mortimer, Sarah Smizz, Joanne Storey

TRANSCRIPT:
http://www.box.net/shared/7zmg0g8e2g#E-Crit_20102008

POSTSCRIPTS:

Madeleine Walton

Having read the text you gave us and the e-crit text I would like to make two comments.
Firstly that if you speak more than one language you have a different identity for each of those languages. When I speak Spanish I am not the same person as when I speak English.My personality alters as the language shapes me and how I can express myself in that language.
Secondly, I spent the weekend in Aberdeen with my daughter who is deaf at a Deaf Swimming Camp. Everyone signed and it was the strangest experience being in a room of some thirty people mostly young all communicating at great neck speed in silence. I have only recently started to learn to sign and so I felt an outsider. It struck me that signing is an interesting mode of communication as there is no voice that can be heard and yet there are regional variations in signing.
Thanks
Madeleine

Martyn Cashmore

Disscussion about the role of language in relation to the other, in relqation to the 'Autrui' text.
A few things came to mind out of the transcript and the reading.
firstly, Identify the effect of difference.
Did the encounter happen or was it imaginary?
It's about not understanding the other through the failure of language because we cannot say what we actually intend because of S/s. Language only expresses the symbolic and not the reality. Is language just a futile endeavour or is it a protest against sertainty
The impossibility of understanding what it would be like to be the other.


RESOURCE:
http://www.box.net/shared/pe6bm3i7s1#Death_Sentence