Psychoanalysis was the most important intellectual development of the twentieth century, which left no practice from psychiatry to philosophy to politics untouched. Yet it was also in many ways an ...untouchable project, caught between science and poetry, medicine and hermeneutics. This unsettled, unsettling status has recently induced the philosopher Alain Badiou to characterise psychoanalysis as an ‘antiphilosophy’, that is, as a practice that issues the strongest possible challenges to thought. Justin Clemens takes up the challenge of this denomination here, by re-examining a series of crucial psychoanalytic themes: addiction, fanaticism, love, slavery and torture. Drawing from the work of Freud, Lacan, Badiou, Agamben and others, 'Psychoanalysis is an Antiphilosophy' offers a radical reconstruction of the operations and import of key psychoanalytic concepts and a renewed sense of the indispensable powers of psychoanalysis for today.
The theoretical writings of Jacques Lacan, Gilles Deleuze and Alain Badiou stand at the heart of contemporary European thought. While the combined corpus of these three figures contains a significant ...number of references to each other's work, such references are often simply critical, obscure - or both. Lacan Deleuze Badiou guides us through the crucial, under-remarked interrelations between these three thinkers, identifying the conceptual passages, connections and disjunctions that underlie the often superficial statements of critique, indifference or agreement. Working through the rubrics of the contemporary, time, the event and truth, Bartlett, Clemens and Roffe present a new, lucid account of where these three thinkers stand in relation to one another and why their nexus remains unsurpassed as a point of reference for contemporary thought itself.
In this essay, I examine the relatively little-known and commented-upon writings of Jeremy Bentham regarding the potentially beneficial uses of torture in a utilitarian frame. If, following Michel ...Foucault's extraordinarily influential work on Bentham's panopticism, the motifs of governmental surveillance, practical intervention into mass behaviours, and institutional diagrams have become some of the crucial themes of sociological and historical studies of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, these themes do not quite touch-for a number of reasons discussed below-the new sense that Bentham gives to torture. Moreover, Bentham does so precisely because his reasoning regarding the development of the panopticon reveals a certain limit to that dispositif, a limit at which its own logic is threatened; Bentham, accordingly, retreats that limit according to an ingenious reapplication of his utilitarian logic. In reconstructing Bentham's singular dialectic of panopticism/torture, this essay proposes that it has further fundamental historical effects, necessarily complicating received aspects of "modernity", embedding the discussion of Bentham in our own post-9/11 context.
These 14 essays examine Georges Perec's impact on architecture, art, design, media, electronic communications, computing and the everyday.
• What do Perec's descriptions of the minutiae of everyday ...life reveal about our use of information and communications technologies?
• What happens if we read Life: A User’s Manual as a toolbox of ideas for games studies?
• What light does the concept of the ‘infra-ordinary’ shed on social media?
• What insights does algorithmic writing generate for the digital humanities?
• What lessons can architects, artists, game-designers and writers draw from Perec's fascination with creative constraints?
Through an examination of such questions, this collection takes Perec scholarship beyond its existing limits to offer new ways of rethinking our present.
This is a unique collection presenting work by Alain Badiou and commentaries on his philosophical theories. It includes three lectures by Badiou, on contemporary politics, the infinite, cinema and ...theatre and two extensive interviews with Badiou - one concerning the state of the contemporary situation and one wide ranging interview on all facets of his work and engagements. It also includes six interventions on aspects of Badiou's work by established scholars in the field, addressing his concept of history, Lacan, Cinema, poetry, and feminism; and four original essays by young and established scholars in Australia and New Zealand addressing the key concerns of Badiou's 2015 visit to the Antipodal region and the work he presented there.
Cum on feel the noize Clemens, Justin
Cultural Studies Review,
09/2014, Volume:
20, Issue:
2
Journal Article, Book Review
Peer reviewed
Open access
Review(s) of: Noise matters: Towards an ontology of noise, by Greg Hainge, Bloomsbury, New York, 2013, ISBN 978441160461 (hb) 9781441111487 (pb), RRP $110 (hb) $36.99 (pb).
What is Education? Bartlett, A. J; Clemens, Justin
2017, 2017-07-31
eBook
What is education? This volume collects some of the foremost voices in contemporary thought to think through this question from their unique perspectives. Revealing the contentions and possibilities ...of a new engagement with the question of education, it provides fresh insights into education: what it is, what it is not, and what is to be done about it. At a time when education is so important as to be considered an essential 'human right', and yet is under attack from funding cuts, government policies and fundamentalists, this book will open the thinking on education onto new and important territory.
Badiou and philosophy Bowden, Sean; Bowden, Sean; Duffy, Simon
2012., 20120627, 2012, 2012-06-27, 2012-06-30
eBook
A range of critical engagements with the work of Alain Badiou. This collection of 13 essays directly addresses the work of Alain Badiou, focusing specifically on the philosophical content of his work ...and the various connections he established with both his contemporaries and his philosophical heritage. * The first reassessment of Badiou's work since the publication of the English translation of Logics of Worlds * Critiques how Badiou sources and responds to existing philosophical arguments and traditions as well as the arguments he employs to do so * Examines Badiou's work through the lens of a number of thinkers and themes, from Cantor and category/topos theory, through Lacan and Lautman, to Sartre and subject
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