I recently came across an article that caught my attention. Written just last year. It draws a parallel between AI and psychoanalysis. Which seemed until now two completely divergent fields. It argues that we can psychoanalyze an AI. But how …
The Algorithmic Unconscious: Psychoanalyzing Artificial Intelligence
The symbolic world is the world of the machine.4 Lacan’s assertion seems almostto destabilize the nature of psychoanalysis itself. What are we to make of this if, asLacan also claims, psychoanalysts are essentially, “practitioners of the symbolicfunction”?5 What is the …
Integrated Circuits – Aberrant Forms: Scrolling TikTok with Jacques Lacan
I’m returning to Kittler more and more, and in fact trying to write about him… I hit on a treasure trove of material that I’ll say more about in future. But for the moment I wanted to post a few …
The quilting point was introduced in Jacques Lacan’s 1956 seminar on psychoses. He defined the quilting point as a kind of „anchor“ or „button“ that stitches together the flux of signification. We can understand this in both a general and specific …
Over the summer I read a lot of Lacan and revisited some influential Lacanian texts including Jacques-Alain Miller’s 1966 essay on „Suture“ published in the first volume of Cahiers pour l’Analyse. It’s an important essay, garnering key responses from Alain Badiou (and, …
I won’t bring up Lacan on Monday. But the non-encounter between Stiegler and Lacan recently struck me as important and I wanted to try to unravel the mystery… Stiegler wrote frequently about technology and technical objects. But how does he …
La plus-value c´est ça, c´est le plus de jouir… (Jacques Lacan, Milano 12.05.1972) Lacan gibt bekanntlich im Seminar 17 (1969/70) eine eigenwillige, von Hegels Herr-Knecht-Dialektik inspirierte (oder von Alexandre Kojève animierte) Begründung des Kapitalismus. Er behauptet dort, daß der Knecht …
Does the unconscious still have something to say to us? We have saddled it with so much that it seems to have resolved to keep silent. For a long time it was believed to be possible to interpret its messages. …
…quelque chose de follement astucieux, hein? J. Lacan, Mailand 12.5.1972 Es gibt zum Kapitalistischen Diskurs von Lacan mehr Literatur als man denkt. Allerdings, verglichen mit dem französisch-, vor allem aber englischsprachigen gibt es im deutschsprachigen Raum nur wenige Titel. …
Egocracy (Howard Rouse / Sonia Arribas) oder Kapitalmacht? Zu Lacans Kapitalistischem Diskurs
Howard Rouse/Sonia Arribas: Egocracy. Marx, Freud and Lacan 2011 II.2.2. Egokratie und der ‚Diskurs des Kapitalismus‘, oder Das Neu-Durchdenken des Symbolischen, des Imaginären und des Realen in Seminar XVII (210-271) In den beiden vorherigen Kapiteln haben wir gesehen, wie … …
Howard Rouse/Sonia Arribas: Egocracy. Marx, Freud and Lacan (4)
H. Rouse/ S. Arribas: Egocracy. Marx, Freud and II.2. Vom transzendentalen Symbolischen zur Historizität des Diskurses: Lacans „Rückkehr zu Marx“ (Zusammenfassung und Einleitung – Teilübersetzung; 161-63) Im vorherigen Abschnitt haben wir gesehen, wie Freuds revolutionäre Erkenntnis der Unbewusstheit des Ich …
Félix Guattari is widely discussed among philosophers, particularly feminists and specialists in ecology and technology. But in the Anglophone world, political organisers tend to ignore him. In part this is due to academic paywalls and university strictures confining his work, …
‘The Function of Autonomy’: Félix Guattari and New Revolutionary Prospects