River Place

 Philosophies of Difference Group

 August 2025 POD Seminars 

 Tuesday 19/8 6-7:30pm at RMIT City Campus 

Rebecca Hill (RMIT)

River Place

ABSTRACT:

This paper is an effort to think in resistance to the hegemony of the settler colonial project, of global technicity and capitalism, of the devastation of life-worlds on earth. In Specters of Marx, Jacques Derrida describes this world as space and time “out of joint”. I offer a reading of Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s “Assimilation No!” and her teaching “There is only the river.” This paper suggests that the dislocated, out of joint of consciousness of modernity/coloniality encounters an irreducible limit in listening to Oodgeroo’s poem and the teaching of Country – “There is only the river.”

BIO:

Rebecca Hill is Senior Lecturer in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT. Rebecca is codirector of the Luce Irigaray Circle and convener of the Philosophies of Difference Group. She conducts research in feminist philosophy, decolonial theory, and critical Indigenous studies. She is the editor of Topologies of Sexual Difference: Space in Philosophy and Art after Irigaray (with Louise Burchill and James Sares; forthcoming, SUNY, 2025).

This is an in person seminar at the RMIT City Campus, Building 80 Level 10 Room 17

445 Swanston Street Melbourne

 All welcome!