David Marriot: The Crisis of Truth, Part I

ABOUT THE TALK
Abstract: "In these two linked presentations I consider the various meanings of crisis: as truth, judgement, and law. I put forward two propositions--on truth and lie; and on social death--in my exploration of what gets excluded from the term, krisis. In a reading of object relations theory, I will also ask why blackness, in respective works by Frantz Fanon and Jared Sexton, say, is deemed to be neither an object nor a relation, but a n'est pas."
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
David Marriott teaches Philosophy at Emory University. He previously taught at the Uniiversity of California and of London and is the author of several works, including Whither Fanon? (Stanford UP, 2018), On Black Men (Columbia, 2000), and Of Effacement (forthcoming, 2023).
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