- Daniel Ross (Australian philosopher and filmmaker)
Daniel Ross (born 1970) is an Australian philosopher and filmmaker. Ross is best known as the author of [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=Y4ogMAUlEksC&printsec=frontcover&dq=intitle:Violent+intitle:Democracy&lr=&as_brr=0&ei=FMgVSLrQI4KMsgPg1p2WCA&sig=nvy65s241WQ2iG2kArAQSRxPHuI "Violent Democracy"] (2004) and the co-director with David Barison of the film "The Ister" (2004).
Ross obtained his doctorate from
Monash University under the supervision of [http://arts.monash.edu.au/politics/staff/mjanover.php Michael Janover] . It was entitled [http://arrow.monash.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/monash:6201?start=61&expert=title%3a%22Heidegger+and+the+question+of+the+political%22 "Heidegger and the Question of the Political"] (2002) and focused in particular on two of Heidegger's lecture courses, "Plato's Sophist" and "Hölderlin's Hymn "The Ister" ".Ross's recent work is influenced by
Bernard Stiegler , and he is a co-translator of several texts by Stiegler.In addition to Stiegler and Heidegger, Ross has written on
Jacques Derrida ,Giorgio Agamben ,Stanley Cavell ,Irving Singer ,Leo Strauss ,Roger Scruton ,Isabelle Stengers , Noel Pearson,Gerald Murnane , Arakawa andMadeline Gins ,Yvonne Rainer ,Abbas Kiarostami , andIngmar Bergman , among others.Ross's father's uncle was
Charles Goren .Filmography
*"
The Ister " (2004). Co-directed with David Barison. [http://www.theister.com/ Official site] .Presentations and appearances
*"Transformations of
Aristotle in Bernard Stiegler," (July 1, 2008), [http://www.iapl.info/ International Association for Philosophy and Literature] ,RMIT University ; (July 11, 2008), [http://www.derridatoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/final-dt-conference-program3.pdf Derrida Today] ,Macquarie University .
* [http://www.sapo.org.au/event/event8004.html "Spirit, Technics and Politics in the Work of Bernard Stiegler"] (October 19, 2007), at theUniversity of Adelaide , as invited speaker.
*"Philosophical Approaches to the Northern Territory 'National Emergency': Giorgio Agamben, Stiegler and Noel Pearson" (October 10, 2007), at Monash University.
* [http://www.german.duke.edu/The%20Ister%20flyer.pdf "From Philosophical Cinema to Cinematic Politics"] (September 28, 2007), atDuke University , as invited speaker for a symposium devoted to "The Ister".
* [http://www.acis.org.au/NewEuropeDetails/Abstracts%20-%20New%20Europe%20Conference%20RELEASED%20(28Mar).pdf "Constitution and Motivation: Bernard Stiegler on the Invention of Europe"] (April 13, 2007), at the conference, "New Europe, New Governance, New Worlds?", Monash University.
* [http://www.architecturephilosophy.rmit.edu.au/2006.htm#june "On the Materiality of the Trace"] (June 8, 2006), Architecture + Philosophy Program, RMIT University, as invited speaker.
* [http://www.phil.mq.edu.au/events05.htm "Fishponds and Rivers: Heidegger, Stiegler, Murnane"] (November 8, 2005), Macquarie University, as invited speaker.
* [http://politicsofspace.tce.rmit.edu.au/Keynote.htm "Passages to Immortality: Arakawa and Gins, Stiegler, and September 11"] (July 1, 2005), keynote address at the symposium, "The Politics of Space in the Age of Terrorism," RMIT University.
* [http://sydneyseminar.org/promo/Seminar5.pdf "Thought, Image, America"] (June 22, 2005), contributor to seminar on "Is it Possible to 'Think' in Images Rather than Words?,"Sydney Film Festival .
* [http://www.blackjelly.com/nyc/features/wheretofromhere.htm "Where to From Here?"] (December 15, 2004), Trades Hall,Melbourne .
* [http://www.theister.com/news.html "Heidegger in Australien: Ein Film von den Antipoden über Heidegger und Hölderlin"] (November 28, 2004), episode of the German television program, "Prime Time" (Ross and Barison interviewed byAlexander Kluge ).
* [http://arts.monash.edu.au/cclcs/pgrad/colloquia/colloquia-2004.php#ross "Accompaniments: On "The Ister"] (November 17, 2004), Monash University.
* [http://www.abc.net.au/rn/latenightlive/stories/2004/1199122.htm "Violence and Democracy"] (September 14, 2004),Late Night Live .Bibliography
*"Politics, Terror, and Traumatypical Imagery," in Matthew Sharpe, Murray Noonan & Jason Freddi (eds.), [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=17mUKwAACAAJ&dq=trauma+history+philosophy&ei=4XoVSLavC5LKsQP9zoGaCA "Trauma, History, Philosophy"] ,
Cambridge Scholars Publishing , 2007. ISBN 1-847-18378-6
* [http://scan.net.au/scan/journal/display.php?journal_id=99 "The Cinematic Condition of the Politico-Philosophical Future"] , "Scan" 4:2, 2007.
* [http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/21/feelings-are-facts.html "Review of Yvonne Rainer, "Feelings Are Facts: A Life"] , "Screening the Past" 21, 2007.
* [http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/20/10.html "Review of Geoff Andrew, "10"] , "Screening the Past" 20, 2006.
* [http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-22944749_ITM "Zarqawi: Taking Care of Business"] , "Arena Magazine" 84, 2006.
*"Empathy and Vanity: Review of Maria Tumarkin, [http://books.google.com/books?id=XcckAgAACAAJ&dq=inauthor:maria+inauthor:tumarkin&as_brr=0&ei=0Gg5R-bMOoKktAOm-vDyAQ "Traumascapes"] ," "Overland" 182, 2006.
* [http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/a-civil-war-by-any-other-name-would-be-the-same/2006/04/17/1145126052534.html "A Civil War by Any Other Name Would Be the Same"] , "The Age ", April 18, 2006.
* [http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/19/philosophy-day-after-tomorrow.html "Review of Stanley Cavell, "Philosophy the Day after Tomorrow"] , "Screening the Past" 19, 2006.
* [http://www.usyd.edu.au/contretemps/6January2006/ross.pdf "Democracy, Authority, Narcissism: From Agamben to Stiegler"] , "Contretemps" 6, 2006.
*"Haunting the World: Review of Farhad Khosrokhavar, [http://books.google.com/books?id=Zo3iAAAACAAJ&dq=intitle:suicide+intitle:bombers&as_brr=0&ei=b2k5R-qkF5rutAP7jPT7AQ "Suicide Bombers"] ," "Arena Magazine" 80, 2005/2006.
*"Review of Boris Frankel, [http://books.google.com/books?id=M0t-AAAACAAJ&dq=inauthor:boris+inauthor:frankel&as_brr=0&ei=ymk5R-bYLYPYsQOCyMjvAQ "Zombies, Lilliputians, and Sadists"] ," "Overland" 179, 2005.
*"Traumas of the Image," [http://wings.buffalo.edu/theory/archive/t@b10.html "theory@buffalo" 10] , 2005.
* [http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/reviews/rev_18/DRbr18a.html "Review of Irving Singer, "Three Philosophical Filmmakers"] , "Screening the Past" 18, 2005.
*"Making "The Ister"," "Inside Film", July 2004.
* [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=Y4ogMAUlEksC&printsec=frontcover&dq=intitle:Violent+intitle:Democracy&lr=&as_brr=0&ei=FMgVSLrQI4KMsgPg1p2WCA&sig=nvy65s241WQ2iG2kArAQSRxPHuI "Violent Democracy"] ,Cambridge University Press , 2004. ISBN 0-521-60310-2
* [http://arrow.monash.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/monash:6201?start=61&expert=title%3a%22Heidegger+and+the+question+of+the+political%22 "Heidegger and the Question of the Political"] (2002).
* [http://www.metromagazine.com.au/magazine/backisues.asp?keywords=daniel+ross&Submit=Search "Review of Ingmar Bergman, "Scenes from a Marriage"] , "Metro Magazine" 120 (1999).Co-translations of texts by Bernard Stiegler
*"Acting Out" (Stanford:
Stanford University Press , 2008, forthcoming). A translation of two short books, "Passer à l'acte" and "Aimer, s'aimer, nous aimer: Du 11 septembre au 21 avril". With David Barison and Patrick Crogan. ISBN 0-8047-5869-7
* [http://www.arsindustrialis.org/Members/pcrogan/disaffectedindividual "The Disaffected Individual"] . An extract from "Mécréance et Discrédit: Tome 2, Les sociétés incontrolables d'individus désaffectés". With Patrick Crogan.
* [http://www.arsindustrialis.org/Members/bstiegler/prendresoin-en "Take Care"] . With Suzanne Arnold.
* [http://www.arsindustrialis.org/Members/pcrogan/document.2007-02-05.7103137277/view "Desire and Knowledge: The Dead Seize the Living"] . With George Collins.Secondary literature
Note: see the entry on "The Ister" for secondary literature on the film.
*Carnahan, Kevin, "Review of "Violent Democracy"," "The Heythrop Journal" 49 (2008): 525–6.
*Sharpe, Matthew, [http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol4no1_2005/sharpe_democracy.htm "Democracy's Violent Heart"] , "borderlands" 4:1 (2005).
*Zurawski, Nils, "Violence and Democracy," "Ethnopolitics" 5 (2006): 191–8.External links
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