Alien

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“In this talk I want to invite you to close your eyes, pinch your nose, and palpate the dripping, pulsing morass of Ridley Scott’s Alien with me. This phenomenological meditation will turn us inside out, illuminating and expanding upon Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s ontology of the Flesh. I will describe how the experience of body horror exposes an ongoing existential ordeal, confounding questions of individuality and revealing a profoundly ambiguous sense of selfhood. We will thus find ourselves excised from the mythic sanctuary of private subjectivity, provoking an unsettling sense of bodily vulnerability churning deep in our guts.”

Dr Jordan Adshead,

Honorary Associate of Philosophy at Durham University