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<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0"><font size="3">The next Philosophy Colloquium will be held on
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<font size="3"><b>4:00 p.m.</b></font><font size="3"> in </font><font size="3"><b>HH 373.
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</b></font><font size="3">I apologize for the short notice.<br>
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</font><a href="https://kristinrodier.wordpress.com/about-2/" target="_blank"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt; background-color:white"><b>Kristin Rodier</b></span></font></a><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt; background-color:white"><br>
University of Alberta</span></font></div>
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<div style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt; background-color:white"><b>Hold a Mirror up to Habit?: Feminist Failure, Félix Ravaisson, and Temporality</b></span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt; background-color:white"><b><br>
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</b></span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt; background-color:white">While feminist resistance to gender oppression is most often and perhaps most effectively</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt; background-color:white">
a collective political project, there is an important individual dimension as well.</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt; background-color:white"> Examining and changing our habits is thus an important political project, but it must be</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt; background-color:white">
taken on carefully. I argue that in the absence of an appropriate appreciation of habit, the</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt; background-color:white"> self-focus involved in individual resistance can lead to a pervasive feeling of self-reproach</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt; background-color:white">
and guilt for “failing” to self-liberate, a problem I call “feminist failure.” I</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt; background-color:white"> outline Félix Ravaisson’s work on habit because it offers ways of thinking about the time</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt; background-color:white">
and attention that go into habit formation, which changes the form that feminist resistance</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt; background-color:white"> takes. To illustrate this view, I focus on mirror-gazing as a feminine practice that
attracts</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt; background-color:white"> feminist critique. I analyze the resistance strategy of mirror fasting as an illuminating</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt; background-color:white">
practice of habit disruption that allows for resisting differently and avoiding the trap of</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt; background-color:white"> feminist failure.</span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri"><span style="color:#1f497d; font-size:8pt">Vicki Brett</span></font>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Calibri"><span style="color:#1f497d; font-size:8pt">Undergraduate Coordinator<br>
Philosophy Department – HH 365</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Calibri"><span style="color:#1f497d; font-size:8pt">University of Waterloo</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Calibri"><span style="color:#1f497d; font-size:8pt">Tel: 519-888-4567 (x 32449)</span></font></p>
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