The conversation between artist Ioanna Sakellaraki and Jonathan Miles, Tutor in Critical and Historical Studies at the Royal College of Art, will traverse the relationship between literary language and philosophical thought, focusing on how philosophy attempts to pursue an ontological inquiry in its effort to bring to language an understanding of the meaning or nature of being. By looking at thinkers such as Heraclitus, Heidegger and Blanchot, in their attempts to recapture the possibility of a ‘’logos’’ not grounded in presence, the discussion will focus on the spectre of fragmentary writing and the exteriority, dispersion and otherness it affirms, bringing the question of literature back to its very essence as a passage between times; a caesura detachable from a possible past, present, or future whole.

This event is part of a series of discussions, performances and screenings created by graduating students of the MA Photography programme at the Royal College of Art.

For the first time in its history, the RCA's renowned graduate show will this year take place online as a digital discovery platform – RCA2020. Visit 2020.rca.ac.uk from 16-31 July to see more.

Please note: This event will take place on Zoom:

https://zoom.us/j/6765039121?pwd=UXdNTjZuOW5ZUjladzhIR095TDFnQT09

Meeting ID: 676 503 9121

Passcode: fragment

Image: Front Cover of book 'The Writing of the Disaster' by Maurice Blanchot, University of Nebraska Press, 1986