0:00-5:00
5:00-14:00
- talking around paragraph 21 of the preface
- totalizing impulse in Hegel
- maintaining distinctions, identity, branding in scholarship
- Barad and branding in academia
- external pressures, publishing industry
- deconstruction
14:00-23:00
- Deleuze and identity
- Deleuze and Foucault (“anti-dialectical”) vs Hegel
- Why do certain thinkers (such as Deleuze and Foucault) resist Hegel so fiercely?
- the ethics of negation vs the ethics of affirmation
23:00-30:00
- why are we invested, respectively in Hegel and/or Deleuze?
- what does each thinker offer for the rhetorical theorist?
- Deleuze’s emphasis on experimentation
- Hegel’s anti-utopianism
- the relentless march of negation
30:00-44:30
- how to read theorists in the field of rhet / comp
- criticism vs response
- inhabiting the text
- endorsements / dogmatisms
44:30-55:00
- “resting” in certain concepts or ontologies
- implicit moralisms in philosophy and theory
- the relentless criticisms of Hegel, Adorno
55:00-67:00
- the potential dangers of Enlightenment thinking
- styles of appropriation
- eating / taste / vulgar “appropriation”
- John doesn’t like beer
67:00-end
- habits, desires
- theory’s discomforts
- the difficulty of “embracing” difference
- facilitating self-consciousness or self-awareness
- various shapes of self-awareness
- “glom on” or “latch on” ?
