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The Case and the Signifier:Generalization in Freud’s <i>Rat Man</i>
Get PDFExploring Freud’s Rat Man case, this piece analyses the chain of signification that emerges in Freud’s articulation of the rat-related signifiers through which his patient’s neurosis is expressed. Two central concerns guide my reflection: (i) to question the divide between the individual and the social by showing how signifiers are one of the ways in which the symbolic inscribes itself onto the subject; (ii) to discuss how the case study as method proposes generalizations based on a singularity
Nothing Beyond the Name:Towards an Eclipse of Listening in the Psychotherapeutic Enterprise
Get PDFWhat are the different kinds of reduction that take place in a psychotherapeutic discipline? This article looks at the agonistic relations between the two types of reduction that fundamentally constitute a psychotherapeutic paradigm: naming and listening. At any given moment in the history of psychological theory, various schools and theories are in contention with each other over an institutional and state legitimation that will only be granted to one or some of them. It is argued that these disciplinary contentions for a dominant status subordinate the names and concepts that populate a particular psychotherapeutic paradigm to a property regime, thereby obscuring or compromising the attention paid to forms of listening that occur on the edge of naming and meaning
How to Bake X Cake:Notes on the Recipe
Get PDFWhat kind of reduction does a recipe perform? This short piece considers the recipe as a purpose-oriented list. Based on a recipe for baking cakes of different flavours by following a similar procedure, it reflects on experience, time, chance, generalization, and secrecy
Trans:Here, Now, and Hereafter
Get PDFThis event will address how global ideas of gender are changing in the contemporary world and examine the ways in which ‘gender‘ can be understood as an artifact of the biocentrism that structures the modern Eurocentric worldview. The discussants will also comment on the ‘transing‘ of gender as a practice of freedom and analyze the backlash of the global anti-gender movement—its political nature, funding, and dissemination—as well as responses to this movement from feminist and LGBTQIA* activists and academics. Tamara Adrian is a Venezuelan lawyer who graduated with highest honors from the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, with a doctoral degree with highest honors from the University Paris 2. She also has degrees in comparative law (Paris), economics and law (HKS), and management (HKS). Adrian is currently a professor of law at the Universidad Central de Venezuela and the Universidad Metropolitana, and a guest professor in the doctoral program in the Universidad de Antioquia (Colombia). Adrian is the first transgender woman elected as National Parliamentarian in Venezuela (2015) and the second on the American continent. An international human-rights activist in women’s rights and LGBTI rights, she has vast experience with the UN, OAS, and other international bodies. Adrian is the international president of the 17 May (IDAHOT) and co-president of the BOD of Global Action for Trans Equality. She is member of the BOD of WPATH, All Out, Plafam, and ICASO, as well as a member of the steering committee of the World Movement for Democracy. She is also a member of the scientific committee of the Unesco Chair on Sexual Health and Human Rights and of the legal committee of the World Association of Sexual Health (WAS). Julia Ehrt (she/her) became the executive director at ILGA World in November 2021. She previously served as the organisation’s director of programs, developing ILGA World ‘s programmatic work and managing the program team. A widely respected LGBTI activist and community leader, Ehrt served previously as the executive director of Transgender Europe, where she contributed significantly to how trans issues are perceived and debated today in Europe and beyond. She served as a founding steering committee member of the International Trans Fund (ITF) until 2019 and is currently a board member of the Association for Womens’ Rights in Development (AWID). Ehrt is a signatory to the Yogyakarta Principles plus 10. Susan Stryker is Professor Emerita of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona. Since retiring, she has been Presidential Fellow and Visiting Professor of Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University (2019-2020) Barbara Lee Distinguished Chair in Women’s Leadership, Mills College (2020-2022), and Stanford University Humanities Center External Faculty Fellow (2022-23). She continues to serve as executive editor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, and as co-editor of the Duke University Press book series ASTERISK: gender, trans-, and all that comes after. Stryker is the author of Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution (2008, 2017), co-editor of the two-volume Transgender Studies Reader (2006, 2013) and The Transgender Studies Reader Remix (2022), as well as co-director of the Emmy-winning documentary film Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria (2005). She is currently working to complete her book manuscript, Changing Gender, and developing a variety of film and television projects. Moderated by Moira Fradinger, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Yale University, and Alumna, American Academy in Berlin; and Berit Ebert, Vice President of Programs, American Academy in Berli
Politics of Nature:Philosophical Perspectives on the Anthropocene
Get PDFIt is obvious that human forms of life have affected the earth system to such an extent that one has to consider the possibility that a new geological age has emerged. More importantly, the severe changes underway in this new age, often called the ‘Anthropocene’, seem to undermine the very conditions of survival on this planet: Climate change, a severe reduction of biodiversity, the increasing exploitation and devastation of the environment, and new diseases based on cross-species virus transmission are only some of the most visible forms in which human activities have seriously undermined the habitability of this planet for human and non-human species. It is the dire irony of the term ‘Anthropocene’ that it is named after the very species that is heading for self-extinction in this age. This situation does not just underline the fact that the present capitalist forms of life are unviable, it also poses a challenge to some of the constitutive ideals that have guided the critique of these forms of life – notions of growth and transformation, liberation and invention, freedom and self-determination, care and responsibility, justice and equality. Against this background, the conference seeks to articulate the ‘Anthropocene’ as a philosophical problem that requires a deep revision of our self-understanding and a new conception of politics
Speculative Writing:Unfilmed Scripts and Premediation Events
Get PDFThis article investigates and proposes the concept of speculative writing, which is a disruptive sort of dramaturgy mediated by artificial intelligence. What are the kinds of events created by speculative writing? What might its history and genealogy be? What might the duration of an alphanumeric reenactment be? Guided by these questions, the article details its search for speculative writing in unfilmed script history as well as in premediation events. According to these concepts, this essay concludes that speculative writing will enact potential, abstract, and premediated events, which have never become material media
UNFOLD:The Strategic Importance of Reinterpretation for Media Art Mediation and Conservation
Get PDFUNFOLD: Mediation by Reinterpretation is a research project and interdisciplinary network initiated by LIMA, Platform for Media Art in Amsterdam, that examines reinterpretation as an emerging practice for artistic production, presentation, and preservation of media works. New elements stretch the boundaries of traditional preservation methods and require insights from both the artist and the curator to decide how pieces can be restaged. This essay investigates how to deal with the changes of digital/media artworks over time, and how to preserve and mediate their performative aspects
The Animism of Modern Property
No full textIn 1842, Karl Marx denounced a new law prohibiting the poor from pilfering fallen wood in the forests of the Rhineland. He saw in this apparently local case a major transformation of modern societies. By identifying which new anthropology serves as the basis for the legal invention of property rights, which make things face the wills of owners, Marx affirms a strange proximity between human beings and inanimate things. On the side of the legislators, to prohibit ‘poverty’ from collecting brushwood for heating and to price this wood to make the poor pay for it, means to adore ‘wooden idols’; it amounts to a primitive religion, which Marx will later call fetishism. For the poor, collecting fallen wood means, by law, to identify with a new form of social and political exclusion. Their identification with the dead twigs is much more than a metaphor as it is the matter of an animist experience. It is a paradoxical animism, an animism of the inanimate. This is why Marx compares the savageness of the nobles and the bourgeois to that of the Cubans colonized by the Spaniards in the sixteenth century. If all societies are animistic, is the modern animism invented by property rights worse than that of non-modern societies, and in any case more unconscious of itself? This talk will compare Marx’s diagnosis with Marilyn Strathern’s affirmation that ‘property is our myth’
