Helmut Lethen: 'Pain has no meaning' (Paul Valéry)

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English - June 08, 2010 09:41 - 46 minutes - 650 MB Video - ★★★ - 1 rating
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Professor Helmut Lethen (The IFK, Vienna), ''Pain has no meaning' (Paul Valéry). Narratives of Anti-Therapeutic Realism as a Provocation of Cultural Studies'. Professor Lethen was delivering the second of two keynote addresses to the conference 'Pain in Performance and 'Moving Beauty' (21-22 May, 2010). The first keynote (available in the CRASSH collection) was by Professor Elaine Scarry (English, Harvard).