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Models:World Picture Conference
Get PDFThe keyword for this year’s World Picture Conference is ‘models’. Organized in cooperation with the ICI Berlin, it stages a collaboration with the current ICI Research Project, which reflects upon modelling practices across different fields, with a particular focus on the role of reduction and its critical potentials. A model can be an object of admiration, a miniature or prototype, an abstracted phenomenon or applied theory, a literary text — practically anything from a human body on a catwalk to a mathematical description of a system. It can elicit desire, provide understanding, guide action or thought. Despite the polysemy of the term, models across disciplines and fields share a fundamental characteristic: their effect depends on a specific relational quality. A model is always a model of or for something else, and the relation is reductive insofar as it is selective and considers only certain aspects of both object and model. The literary examples of maps made to the scale of a territory described by Lewis Carroll and Jorge Luis Borges humorously point to the absurdity of thinking that models keep improving by becoming less reductive until they eventually coincide with their target. For further details of the ICI Focus ‘Models’, please see https://www.ici-berlin.org/projects/models
Die unvollendete kopernikanische Revolution:Psychoanalyse und das mehr-als-menschliche Andere
Get PDFMit der Entdeckung des Unbewussten und der damit einhergehenden Dezentrierung des Subjekts hatte sich Freud in die großen umstürzenden Theorien der Menschheit eingereiht und sich in eine Linie mit Kopernikus und Darwin gesetzt. Der französische Psychoanalytiker Jean Laplanche versteht diese kopernikanische Revolution bei Freud jedoch als unvollendet. Er radikalisiert Freud und bringt das menschliche Andere als weiteres dezentrierendes Moment im Subjekt ein. Insbesondere in Zusammenhang mit der Klimakrise, der unhintergehbaren Abhängigkeit von unserem Planeten, der Tatsache, dass wir diesen auch mit nicht-menschlichen und mehr-als-menschlichen Anderen teilen, dass wir als Subjekte auch durch andere Bedingungen als ausschließlich menschliche bestimmt sind, wird die Frage aufgeworfen, ob wir nicht auch und gerade die Psychoanalyse weiter im Sinne eines in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften bereits breit diskutierten posthumanen bzw. postanthropozentrischen Denkens erweitern müssen. Dabei wird es auch um die Frage gehen, ob dieser Fokus auf das Nicht-Menschliche und Mehr-als-Menschliche das Ende der Psychoanalyse markiert, oder deren Weiterbestehen garantiert. Esther Hutfless ist Philosoph:in und Psychoanalytiker:in, Mitglied im Wiener Arbeitskreis für Psychoanalyse und der Internationalen Psychoanalytischen Vereinigung. Hutfless lehrt an der Universität Wien sowie an der Sigmund Freud Privatuniversität Linz. Forschungsschwerpunkte beinhalten: Körper, Geschlecht, Alterität, Dekonstruktion und poststrukturale Theorien, das Verhältnis von Queer Theory, Psychoanalyse und Philosophie sowie die Verschränkung von Psyche/Psychoanalyse und Gesellschaft. Neueste Publikationen: Von Identität zu Differenz zu Alterität. Jean Laplanche und das Denken nicht-normativer Geschlechtlichkeit in der Psychoanalyse (2022); Of Traces, Translations and Deconstruction. Reading Laplanche with Derrida (2021) sowie Queering Psychoanalysis: Psychoanalyse und Queer Theory – Transdisziplinäre Verschränkungen (2017, mit Barbara Zach)
In and Out of the Studio:Lessons of Post-Studio Art
No full textAround 1970 artists grew increasingly critical of the idea of the studio, the role it played in their quotidian life as well as its ideological and economic functions. They often abandoned their studios and developed new modes of practice. Instead of autonomous works that could circulate on the art market, they began producing site-specific artworks on location and in response to the concrete parameters of each individual exhibition – thereby opposing and critiquing the art market. Or so the canonical narrative goes. In recent years, however, the common practice of artists’ traveling across the globe from one gig to the next or outsourcing production to contractors and fabricators has taken on different valences. Not only has this mode of art production proven perfectly compatible with more traditional forms such as painting, but it also appears to fit rather neatly into a broader neoliberalization of the art system. Such observations have prompted some to speak of the ‘everywhere studio’, while others have raised the question whether post-studio art ever really was opposed to ‘the market’ in the first place, or whether it rather presented one particular market strategy. The discussion will explore historical cases of post-studio practice and its debates to ask: What lessons can be drawn from post-studio art today
Race, Power, and the Psyche:Violence at the Corridors of Psychoanalysis
Get PDFBlack death remains a lateral exigency in its most capricious and predictable disclosures: policing and punishment. Neither loss of the mythical subject nor the seemingly prosaic matrix of race and power account for the mundanity of antiblack violence. A requisite, spectacularized initiation where psycho-politics indexes the symbolic’s presumed usurpation of the real, Blackness appears as a prohibition to any affirmative claim of a right to life. The intimacy of this carceral abyss sediments as psyche wherein jouissance, in relation to pleasure and policing, functions as predictive rather than simply a posteriori. Foundational to myriad forms of law rendering notions of guilt as gratuitous and irrelevant, the danger of the metonymic traversing of algorithms, codes, data systems, and languages into the accoutrements of contemporary policing cement the constructed Black body from a mythic revisionist past into metaphysical reality. Specifically, conditioning to antiblack violence, in and through various modes of jouissance, inflects strategies that the clinical and political spheres deem liberatory. Reading the development of Lacan, and Jacques-Alain Miller’s, paradigms of jouissance with one of the newest policing technologies developed as a counterinsurgency and disciplining apparatus, predictive policing, race, and (anti)blackness in particular, are rendered as modes of divination. Selamawit D. Terrefe specializes in Global Black Studies, Critical Theory, psycho-politics, and violence as an Assistant Professor of African American Literature and Culture in the Department of English at Tulane University and as the 2022-2024 Williams College Faculty Fellow for the Mellon ‘Just Futures’ project. Previously, Terrefe was a postdoctoral fellow in Black Atlantic Studies at the University of Bremen, and has presented internationally at workshops such as the Tate Modern in London and the Max Planck Institute in Göttingen. She is currently completing her manuscript, Impossible Blackness: Violence and the Psychic Life of Slavery, and has publications in The Feminist Wire, Theory and Event, Rhizomes, Critical Philosophy of Race, Psychoanalysis and History, and forthcoming in Political Theology, Philosophy Today, Society and Space, and for the Palgrave Lacan volume, Afropessimism, Antiblackness, and Lacan