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Papers by Robyn Ferrell
TEXT, 2013
is a poet, journalist, academic and fiction writer. She has had a long career in journalism resea... more is a poet, journalist, academic and fiction writer. She has had a long career in journalism researching and writing for mainstream magazines (Vogue, Mode, Cleo, HQ, Elle, New woman), metropolitan daily newspapers (Sydney morning herald, The daily telegraph, Australian financial review) and national radio (ABC Radio National, AWA Radio Network). Jill's poetry has appeared in Meanjin, Overland, Aspect, Your friendly fascist and Womanspeak. Her PhD (UWS) thesis examined fictocriticism through a work entitled 'The glossary' and its novel 'Through glass'.
Contents: Introduction genres of philosophy Love and writing The theatre of human nature Faith in... more Contents: Introduction genres of philosophy Love and writing The theatre of human nature Faith in Hume The pathology of reason Thus spake Nietzsche The truth in Heidegger Philosophy without history Why bother? What is philosophy? Bibliography Index.
Cartographies: poststructuralism and the mapping of …, 1991
... In R. Diprose, & R. Ferrell (Eds.), Cartographies: poststructuralism and the mapping of b... more ... In R. Diprose, & R. Ferrell (Eds.), Cartographies: poststructuralism and the mapping of bodies and spaces (pp. 3-12). Sydney: Allen & Unwin., Cartographies: poststructuralism and the mapping of bodies and spaces, 3-12, Terms and Conditions: Copyright in works deposited in ...
Hypatia Reviews Online, 2019
She has written several books of philosophy and creative writing; the latest, Free Stuff: Freedom... more She has written several books of philosophy and creative writing; the latest, Free Stuff: Freedom and Commodity in the Internet Age, is forthcoming from Lexington Books. Quote: "Scholarly and visionary, Arendt, Natality and Biopolitics constitutes a wholly inspiring intervention into the ongoing questions of biopolitics and feminist theory." *** This excellent monograph presents a striking new reading of Hannah Arendt's concept of natality, arguing that through the concept, a prescient Arendt provides a convincing account of biopolitics ahead of successors Foucault, Nancy, and Agamben. Comparative discussions of these theorists, who are often more familiar citations in the discussion of biopolitics, bring clarity to the differences among them, and to previous readings of Arendt.
Social alternatives, 2019
Bob Le Bricoleur. ... Ferrell, RM, Bob Le Bricoleur, Atelier: Australian Artists in Paris, 1980-2... more Bob Le Bricoleur. ... Ferrell, RM, Bob Le Bricoleur, Atelier: Australian Artists in Paris, 1980-2000. Irene Briant, Stephen Bush, Anne MacDonald, Daniel Moynihan & Debra Phillips, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Holmes, JH (ed), Hobart, pp. 34-39. ...
Philosophia, 2012
There is a metaphor made famous in the analytic philosophical literature by John Searle et al.: “... more There is a metaphor made famous in the analytic philosophical literature by John Searle et al.: “Sally is a block of ice.” I met this metaphor f irst as an undergraduate student in philosophy of language classes. I remember, then, feeling a wordless anxiety for Sally, for the “tone” of this example interrupting, but not interrogated by, the discussion it was recruited to illustrate. Later, I met Sally again, in papers given at philosophy conferences on metaphor in which, each time, this mention of Sally struck me as pointed but not observed. John Searle claims that to say “Sally is a block of ice” is to mean “Sally is an extremely unemotional and unresponsive person,” But this seems disingenuous, since the color in the metaphor comes from innuendo of a sexual character, the echoes of the Ice Queen, etc. And no doubt this is one reason why Searle would have adopted it, because it introduces the rhetorical color of sexual intrigue into an apparently technical discourse in the philosophy of language. But in his paper, this metaphor, “Sally is a block of ice,” features along with other metaphors only as an example of the trope. She is there in the text to illustrate Searle’s thesis that metaphor has meaning only because what he calls “speaker’s meaning” and “sentence meaning” are two very different things. On this view, “words have only the meanings they have,” and it is speakers uttering them “in a way that departs from what they actually mean” that allows the metaphor to operate. reflections
On Literary Theory and Philosophy, 1991
The semantic field of the border is a rich one. It opens out onto edge, margin, embroidered decor... more The semantic field of the border is a rich one. It opens out onto edge, margin, embroidered decoration.
Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 00048409512346941, Jun 2, 2006
Images in Global Context, 2012
Images in Global Context, 2012
TEXT, 2013
is a poet, journalist, academic and fiction writer. She has had a long career in journalism resea... more is a poet, journalist, academic and fiction writer. She has had a long career in journalism researching and writing for mainstream magazines (Vogue, Mode, Cleo, HQ, Elle, New woman), metropolitan daily newspapers (Sydney morning herald, The daily telegraph, Australian financial review) and national radio (ABC Radio National, AWA Radio Network). Jill's poetry has appeared in Meanjin, Overland, Aspect, Your friendly fascist and Womanspeak. Her PhD (UWS) thesis examined fictocriticism through a work entitled 'The glossary' and its novel 'Through glass'.
Contents: Introduction genres of philosophy Love and writing The theatre of human nature Faith in... more Contents: Introduction genres of philosophy Love and writing The theatre of human nature Faith in Hume The pathology of reason Thus spake Nietzsche The truth in Heidegger Philosophy without history Why bother? What is philosophy? Bibliography Index.
Cartographies: poststructuralism and the mapping of …, 1991
... In R. Diprose, & R. Ferrell (Eds.), Cartographies: poststructuralism and the mapping of b... more ... In R. Diprose, & R. Ferrell (Eds.), Cartographies: poststructuralism and the mapping of bodies and spaces (pp. 3-12). Sydney: Allen & Unwin., Cartographies: poststructuralism and the mapping of bodies and spaces, 3-12, Terms and Conditions: Copyright in works deposited in ...
Hypatia Reviews Online, 2019
She has written several books of philosophy and creative writing; the latest, Free Stuff: Freedom... more She has written several books of philosophy and creative writing; the latest, Free Stuff: Freedom and Commodity in the Internet Age, is forthcoming from Lexington Books. Quote: "Scholarly and visionary, Arendt, Natality and Biopolitics constitutes a wholly inspiring intervention into the ongoing questions of biopolitics and feminist theory." *** This excellent monograph presents a striking new reading of Hannah Arendt's concept of natality, arguing that through the concept, a prescient Arendt provides a convincing account of biopolitics ahead of successors Foucault, Nancy, and Agamben. Comparative discussions of these theorists, who are often more familiar citations in the discussion of biopolitics, bring clarity to the differences among them, and to previous readings of Arendt.
Social alternatives, 2019
Bob Le Bricoleur. ... Ferrell, RM, Bob Le Bricoleur, Atelier: Australian Artists in Paris, 1980-2... more Bob Le Bricoleur. ... Ferrell, RM, Bob Le Bricoleur, Atelier: Australian Artists in Paris, 1980-2000. Irene Briant, Stephen Bush, Anne MacDonald, Daniel Moynihan & Debra Phillips, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Holmes, JH (ed), Hobart, pp. 34-39. ...
Philosophia, 2012
There is a metaphor made famous in the analytic philosophical literature by John Searle et al.: “... more There is a metaphor made famous in the analytic philosophical literature by John Searle et al.: “Sally is a block of ice.” I met this metaphor f irst as an undergraduate student in philosophy of language classes. I remember, then, feeling a wordless anxiety for Sally, for the “tone” of this example interrupting, but not interrogated by, the discussion it was recruited to illustrate. Later, I met Sally again, in papers given at philosophy conferences on metaphor in which, each time, this mention of Sally struck me as pointed but not observed. John Searle claims that to say “Sally is a block of ice” is to mean “Sally is an extremely unemotional and unresponsive person,” But this seems disingenuous, since the color in the metaphor comes from innuendo of a sexual character, the echoes of the Ice Queen, etc. And no doubt this is one reason why Searle would have adopted it, because it introduces the rhetorical color of sexual intrigue into an apparently technical discourse in the philosophy of language. But in his paper, this metaphor, “Sally is a block of ice,” features along with other metaphors only as an example of the trope. She is there in the text to illustrate Searle’s thesis that metaphor has meaning only because what he calls “speaker’s meaning” and “sentence meaning” are two very different things. On this view, “words have only the meanings they have,” and it is speakers uttering them “in a way that departs from what they actually mean” that allows the metaphor to operate. reflections
On Literary Theory and Philosophy, 1991
The semantic field of the border is a rich one. It opens out onto edge, margin, embroidered decor... more The semantic field of the border is a rich one. It opens out onto edge, margin, embroidered decoration.
Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 00048409512346941, Jun 2, 2006
Images in Global Context, 2012
Images in Global Context, 2012