David L. Clark
David L. Clark, "I do not know how to teach"
David L. Clark, "I do not know how to teach"
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David L. Clark, “Quarantine Theory,” World Picture 14 (2023).
David L. Clark, “Quarantine Theory,” World Picture 14 (2023).
David L. Clark, "Less"
David L. Clark, "Less"
Leo Bersani is well known for making a case for the pleasures of sameness. But “to circulate within sameness,” he notes, “we must first of all welcome [ . . . ] lessness.” This essay explores that hospitable gesture in Bersani’s work, focusing on the self-abnegating practice of willing ourselves “to be less than who we are.” What does it mean to be “uncontaminated by a psychology of desire” and “unaccompanied by an essentially doomed and generally anguished interrogation of the other’s desire”? There can be no single answer to that ethically consequential question, which explains the jubilant restlessness of Bersani’s oeuvre. The author concludes with a reading of Freud’s infamous fort/da game, arguing that the child lessens his stake in a magisterial and anxious identity so as to extend himself, or parts of himself, joyfully and impersonally, into the world.
Rebecca Gagan, "A Love letter To Students"
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Rebecca Gagan, "A Love letter To Students"
Introduction to Astra Taylor's "What is Democracy" (for the National Film Board of Canada)
Introduction to Astra Taylor's "What is Democracy" (for the National Film Board of Canada)
Perhaps nothing could be more democratic than asking the question “What is democracy?”
Opinion | ‘Vagrant:’ A label from early life that never left me
Opinion | ‘Vagrant:’ A label from early life that never left me
Special Episode Part 2: David Clark on Building the Sanctuary Campus by UVic Bounce: Waving, Not Drowning
Special Episode Part 2: David Clark on Building the Sanctuary Campus by UVic Bounce: Waving, Not Drowning
Thank you to Izzy Almasi and Madison James for their wonderful work on this episode. This podcast is supported by a President's Strategic Framework Impact Fund grant and by the Faculties of Humanities, Social Sciences, Law, and Engineering and Computer Science. For more information about UVic Bounce or to leave a comment or question about this podcast, please email us: uvicbounce@uvic.ca Follow us on Instagram @uvicbounce Cover Art: Madison James Music: Frazey Ford, "Azad," U Kin B the Sun frazeyford.com We acknowledge and respect the lək̓ʷəŋən peoples on whose traditional territory the University of Victoria stands, and the Songhees, Esquimalt and WSÁNEĆ peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.
“Waving, Not Drowning” podcast with Rebecca Gagan and David L. Clark: “Finding a Path through Shame.” Part 1/2
“Waving, Not Drowning” podcast with Rebecca Gagan and David L. Clark: “Finding a Path through Shame.” Part 1/2
The Transformative Power of Uncertainty: Interview with Patricia Martin about the legacy of Marion Woodman (for the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago)
The Transformative Power of Uncertainty: Interview with Patricia Martin about the legacy of Marion Woodman (for the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago)
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Abolish the University: Build the Sanctuary Campus
Abolish the University: Build the Sanctuary Campus
Man on the moon: a near-death experience on the path of my life
Man on the moon: a near-death experience on the path of my life
It was not to the arid moon that I needed to look but to the dusty and unforgiving world of the here and now, David L. Clark writes.
Given to tears: Getting a shot in an unequally vaccinated world
Given to tears: Getting a shot in an unequally vaccinated world
The discovery of the remains of Indigenous children is a horror. The fact that teachers committed these crimes makes matters worse
The discovery of the remains of Indigenous children is a horror. The fact that teachers committed these crimes makes matters worse
My experience as a lab rat has left me feeling sick about how we treat animals
My experience as a lab rat has left me feeling sick about how we treat animals
Knowing that professors were robbing kittens of their sight left a deep impression on me
We Do Not Know What a Body of Theory Can Do: Romanticism in the Pandemic
We Do Not Know What a Body of Theory Can Do: Romanticism in the Pandemic
My grandfather's hands delivered death but they also caressed the face of his wife and children
My grandfather's hands delivered death but they also caressed the face of his wife and children
The Canadian University and the War Against Omar Khadr
The Canadian University and the War Against Omar Khadr
Tyler J. Pollard interviews David L. Clark about inviting Omar Khadr to his university and Canada’s vilification of the young man.
Ann Coulter and Blowhard Politics
Ann Coulter and Blowhard Politics
The reduction of politics today to the simple matter of ensuring that blowhards can utter stupid things is truly pervasive.
Goya’s Scarcity
Goya’s Scarcity
On animal faith
On animal faith
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