Psychoanalysis, AI, and Cybernetics
February 2014 – May 2014 – with Atle Kjosen
Readings:
- Lydia Liu, The Freudian Robot: Digital Media and the Future of the Unconscious. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010.
- Luciana Parisi, Contagious Architecture: Aesthetics, Computation and Space. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2013.
- Jacques Lacan, “Logical Time and the Assertion of Anticipated Certainty,” Ecrits, 161-175 + a lesson with Lacanian topologist Jeanne Lafont.
- Jacques Lacan, “The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis,” Ecrits, 197-268.
- Jacques Lacan, Seminar II, The Ego in Freud’s Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis (1954-1955)
Toronto Lacan Study Group
October 2011 – November 2013 | once in 3 weeks- with Ines de Anderson, Judith Hamilton, Reine-Marie Bergeron
Readings:
- Lacan, Jacques. Seminar XX: Encore. On Feminine Sexuality, The Limits of Love and Knowledge (1972-1973)
Lacan / Media / Capitalism
Fall 2012 – Spring 2013 – Summer 2013 (bi-weekly) – with Allan Pero, Nick Dyer-Witheford, Atle Kjosen, Vince Manzerolle, and Bernd Frohmann
Primary reading:
Jacques Lacan, Seminar II, The Ego in Freud’s Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis (1954-1955)
Readings:
Fall 2012
- Mark Bracher, “On the Psychological and Social Functions of Language” Lacanian Theory of Discourse: Subject, Structure, and Society, edited by Mark Bracher, Marshall W. Alcorn, Francoise Massardier-Kennedy, Ronald J. Corthell
- Jacques Lacan, “On Psychoanalytic Discourse”
- Friedrich Kittler, ”The World of the Symbolic—The World of the Machine,” in Literature, Media, Information Systems, ed. John Johnston (Amsterdam: G þ B Arts International, 1997)
- John Johnston, “Inmixing of Machines: Cybernetics and Psychoanalysis” from The Allure of Machinic Life: Cybernetics, Artificial Life, and the New AI
- Frederic Declercq, “Lacan on the Capitalist Discourse: Its Consequences for Libidinal Enjoyment and Social Bonds,” Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society 11 (2006): 74–83
Winter 2013
- Luca Bosetti, “Three Questions on Prosthetic Technology and A-(d)iction,” Paragraph: The Journal of Modern Critical Theory Group 33 (2010)
- Fredric Jameson, “Imaginary and Symbolic in Lacan: Marxism, Psychoanalytic Criticism and the Problem of the Subject”
- Steffen Bohm, Aanka Batta, “Just doing it: enjoying commodity fetishism with Lacan,” Organization 17 (2010)
- Veronique Voruz, “Psychoanalysis at the Time of the Posthuman: Insisting on the Outside-Sense,” Paragraph: The Journal of Modern Critical Theory Group 33 (2010)
- Louis Armand, “Language and the Cybernetic Mind,” Theory, Culture & Society, Vol. 25.2 (2008): 127–152
- Louis Armand, “Symptom in the Machine: Lacan, Joyce, Sollers”
- Ellie Ragland, “Counting from 0 to 6: Lacan and the Imaginary Order” – A lecture delivered at the Center for 20th Century Studies
Summer 2013
- Samo Tomšič, “Homology: Marx and Lacan” S: Journal of the Jan van Eyck Circle for Lacanian Ideology Critique 5 (2012): 98-113
- Pietro Bianchi, “From Representation to Class Struggle (A Response to Samo Tomšič)” S: Journal of the Jan van Eyck Circle for Lacanian Ideology Critique 5 (2012): 114-126
- Stephanie Swales, Perversion: A Lacanian Psychoanalytic Approach to the Subject (Introduction, Chapters 1-3)
- Werner Bonefeld, “Capital as Subject and the Existence of Labour” in Open Marxism (182-212)
- Ellie Ragland, “Stealing Material: The Materiality of Language according to Freud and Lacan,” in Lacan & the Human Sciences ed. Alexandre Leupin, Un of Nebraska Press, 1991.
Speculative Realism
with Ben Woodard, Karen DM, Matthew Toth
Spring-Summer 2013
Gilles Chatelet – a selection from Les Enjeux du mobile and from De Visione Stellarum
Fall 2012 (weekly)
A. Prehistory: The CCRU and Non-philosophy
- Week 1 – “Cyber Positive” – Nick Land and Sadie Plant (5 pp)
- Week 2 – “What can Non-Philosophy Do?” – Francois Laruelle (22 pp)
- Week 3 – “Introduction,” – Bryant, Harman, Srnicek in The Speculative Turn (18 pp)
B. Speculative Realism: The Four Original Thinkers
- Week 4 – “Potentiality and Virtuality,” by Quentin Meillassoux in The Speculative Turn (13 pp)
- Week 5 – “The Revival of Metaphysics in Continental Philosophy” by Graham Harman” in Towards Speculative Realism (16 pp)
- Week 6 – “Concepts and Objects” by Ray Brassier in The Speculative Turn (19 pp)
- Week 7 – “Does Nature Stay What it Is?” by Iain Hamilton Grant in The Speculative Turn (18 pp)
C. Satellite Thinkers and The Future of Speculative Realism
- Week 8 – “X, Welcome!” – Michael O’Rourke and Stanimir Panayotov in Identities v8 n2 (34 pp)
- Week 9 – “Contingency and Complicity”- Reza Negarestani in The Medium of Contingency (8 pp); “Solar Inferno and the Earthbound Abyss (4 pp)
- Week 10 – “Objects and Systems,” – Jane Bennett at The Nonhuman Turn Conference – (35 Minutes); “A Response to Graham Harman’s ‘Marginalia and Radical Thinking’,” – Alexander Galloway (5 pp)
- Week 11 – “The Project of Non-Marxism,” – Katerina Kolozova (20 pp)
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