When: 4 October 2017, 14:00 —
16:00
Venue: Birkbeck, University of
London, Room B01, Clore Management Centre, London WC1E 7JL
Booking details: Payment and
booking required
Speaker: Slavoj Žižek,
International Director, Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities
With the recent turn towards
realism, the notion of transcendental subjectivity is (again) dismissed as
philosophically outdated and politically harmful. Furthermore, the progress in
brain sciences seems to render this notion irrelevant. But what if we still
have to learn a lot from the transcendental approach? The two classes will
examine how Lacan's teaching enables us to grasp sexual difference as the
constitutive feature of transcendental subjectivity, plus how recent advances
in brain sciences continue to rely on transcendental presuppositions. The
question to be discussed is: how will the new results of brain sciences, as
well as the digitalization of our lives, affect subjectivity, especially in its
political dimension?
The Masterclass will be spread
over two sessions:
1. Wednesday
4 October, 2-4pm
2. Friday 6
October, 2-4pm
You are welcome to join us for
one or both of the sessions.
Standard tickets: £10 per
session
Birkbeck Staff & All Students:
Free
Contact name: Madisson Brown
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