Dr Nina Williams1 1UNSW, Canberra, Australia   Artistic practices are often understood as a form of communication, an act of denoting or connoting a message. Yet we often find that precisely what is felt in an aesthetic moment is irreducible...

Miss Breeze Mojel1 1UNSW Canberra, Campbell, Australia, 2The Difference Lab   For over a century, thinkers of fashion have theorised the collective as being bound together by forces and ideas external to their members with the role of ideology seen...

Dr Thomas Keating1 1UNSW Canberra   In his book Neo-finalism, the French philosopher Raymond Ruyer (1952 [2016]) describes a crisis of contemporary thought – a moment brought about by a false analogy between the ‘thinking’ computer and the ‘thinking’ human...

A/Prof. Michelle Duffy1 1University Of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia   The Encounter (2011) is a solo theatre performance based on Petru Popescu’s book Amazon Beaming (1993), which in turn is an account of Loren McIntyre, a National Geographic photographer who found himself...

Prof. J-D Dewsbury1, Dr Scott Sharpe1 1UNSW Canberra, Canberra, Australia   This paper theorises the relationship between desire and the unconscious by recasting a major theme of this session; namely behaviour. At least in some versions of social theory, behaviour...