Lecture by multi-lingual writer and scholar Adania Shibli

The talk highlights methods of visibility and visuality that depart from treating otherness’ as an essential requirement for self-perception; an approach that was largely instigated by Lacan’s concept ‘mirror stage’. Instead, we revisit proposals that locates the self within otherness, by perceiving the self as a reflection of everything. These proposals, spanning from al-Ghazali to Joyce (via Thomas Aquinas), maintain inherent links between nature and culture, and the human and the natural, rather than opposition.