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Conversation between Catherine Malabou and Emanuel de Carvalho Moderated by Michael Kurtz
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On January 19th 2023, Emanuel de Carvalho attended a lecture by Catherine Malabou at the Royal College of Art, where he was a student. He was struck that day by the affinities between his own practice and the veteran philosopher’s research. De Carvalho’s work is informed by his academic background in neuro-ophthalmology and sustained reading of twentieth-century continental philosophy. It is unsurprising therefore that he was interested in Malabou’s use of recent neurological findings to extend Derrida’s attack on semantic fixity to the realms of human biology and embodied experience. He emailed her soon after the lecture, asking if she might consider some kind of collaboration, and, to his surprise, she replied enthusiastically.
For this exhibition, Malabou agreed to contribute a sequence of drawings which might convey fundamental aspects of her thou…
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Conversation between Catherine Malabou and Emanuel de Carvalho Moderated by Michael Kurtz
These Horrors
On January 19th 2023, Emanuel de Carvalho attended a lecture by Catherine Malabou at the Royal College of Art, where he was a student. He was struck that day by the affinities between his own practice and the veteran philosopher’s research. De Carvalho’s work is informed by his academic background in neuro-ophthalmology and sustained reading of twentieth-century continental philosophy. It is unsurprising therefore that he was interested in Malabou’s use of recent neurological findings to extend Derrida’s attack on semantic fixity to the realms of human biology and embodied experience. He emailed her soon after the lecture, asking if she might consider some kind of collaboration, and, to his surprise, she replied enthusiastically.
For this exhibition, Malabou agreed to contribute a sequence of drawings which might convey fundamental aspects of her thou…
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