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Laurence A. Rickels. Alphaville. 2011
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Laurence A. Rickels. Alphaville. 2011 www.egs.edu Laurence A. Rickels, literary and media theorist, talking about the Jean-Luc Godard's film Alphaville. In this lecture Laurence A. Rickels discusses war neurosis, homosexuality, psychoanalysis, Philip K. Dick, the fool, Simularcon-3, androids in relation to secrets, Freud, Totem and Taboo, mourning, the Third Reich, 1984, words, representations, affects, signs, totalitarianism, James Bond, specters focusing on the cold war, the underworld, WWII, psy-fi. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2011. Laurence A. Rickels. Laurence A. Rickels is the Sigmund Freud Professor of Media and Philosophy at the European Graduate School (EGS) as well as a professor of Art and Theory at The Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe. Born in Cherokee Iowa in 1954, Rickels received a BA in English Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. Rickels received his Ph.D from Princeton University in German Literature in 1980 and later trained as a psychoanalyst under Lawton Smith earning a Masters of Clinical Psychology from Antioch University in Santa Barbara. Rickels work extends the project of the Frankfurt School into the 21st century by applying psychoanalytic theory to examine mass media culture, specifically examining the themes of mourning, Nazi Germany, science fiction and technology. Laurence A. Rickels many books include Aberrations of Mourning (1988 <b>...</b> From: egsvideo Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 32:44 More in Education
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Hubertus von Amelunxen. Archives and the Role of Art. 2011
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Hubertus von Amelunxen. Archives and the Role of Art. 2011 www.egs.edu Hubertus von Amelunxen, German theorist and art historian, lecturing on the function of archives, the context, uses and misuses of art. During the lecture, Amelunxen discusses the function of archives, the problems involved with archiving, the cultural value of archiving, and what Derrida termed 'archive fever'. Ameluxen then dwells on the place of art, the consequences of its placement, and then leads a class discussion on the social role of art, including its uses and misuses. Over the course of the lecture, Amelunxen also remarks on the problem of transmission and history, the ambiguity of history to education, and the difference between knowledge and the archive, or archiving. Amelunxen, thoughtout the lecture, also touches on the thought of Adorno and Derrida, and the work of Thomas Demand, and to a lesser extent, Andreas Gursky. Hubertus von Amelunxen (b. 1958) is a theorist, curator and artist. He studied Romance Languages and Literature, German and Art History at Marburg (Philipps-Universität) and Paris (École Normale Supérieure), he attained a Ph.D. With a thesis on 19th century French literature (Allegory and Photography) at the University of Mannheim. Amelunxen was a professor of cultural studies at Muthesius-Hochschule Kiel, and has been a visiting professor of art history at both the University of Basel and the University of California, Santa Cruz, while at Düsseldorf University, and the Institut Supérieur des Beaux-Arts (HISK) in Antwerp, he has <b>...</b> From: egsvideo Views: 81 2 ratings Time: 01:21:35 More in Education
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Samuel Weber. Bare Life and Life In General. 2011
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Samuel Weber. Bare Life and Life In General. 2011 www.egs.edu Samuel Weber, philosopher and author, talking about the notions of bare life and life in general within the juridical-political structure of Giorgio Agamben's description of camps. In this lecture, Samuel Weber discusses the death of God as the condition of possibility of camps, the inclusion of exclusion, political sovereignty, the relationship between life and death, the notion of enemy, Christianity and the possibility of legitimate killings in relationship to Giorgio Agamben, Carl Schmitt, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Thomas Hobbes, Saint Paul, Martin Luther, Alain Badiou and Sigmund Freud focusing on singularity, universality, Homo sacer, the state of exception, original sin, guilt, hubris, time, Christ, resurrection, redemption and violence.Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2011. Samuel Weber. Samuel Weber, Ph.D., is an American philosopher and professor. He is the Paul de Man Chair at the European Graduate School (EGS) and the Avalon Professor of Humanities at Northwestern University. Greatly influenced by the Frankfurt School, Samuel Weber is one of the leading American thinkers across the disciplines of literary theory, philosophy, and psychoanalysis. Born in New York, he has been a professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Director of their <b>...</b> From: egsvideo Views: 83 5 ratings Time: 01:08:36 More in Education
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Avital Ronell. The Shock of Puberty. 2011
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Avital Ronell. The Shock of Puberty. 2011 www.egs.edu Avital Ronell talking about the shock of puberty and the political impact of the call. In this lecture, she reads an excerpt of her latest book, Loser Sons, in which she discusses Jean-François Lyotard's "Emma, Between Philosophy and Psychoanalysis", the affective shock of having to submit to a call of submissive readiness, how these affective shocks work themselves into our political narratives, how modern politics depends on teenage mythologies, the brand of hysteria that cuts into puberty, puberty in general, Immanuel Kant, the aporia of the hysteria as an event, "excitation" in speech repression, Jacques Lacan's reading of Sigmund Freud on negation, unconscious judgment, the law, the childhood phrase-affect, Sarah's laughter, choosing immaturity, authority, the terror that resides in the untranslatability of childhood susceptibility into adult articulation, infantile cultures, letting go of Enlightenment fictions, and how childhood for Lyotard is not a historical developmental instance. Public open lecture for the students and staff of theEuropean Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe 2011 Avital Ronell. Avital Ronell, Ph.D., is the Jacques Derrida Professor of Media and Philosophy at the European Graduate School in Switzerland. She is also University Professor of the Humanities and a professor of German, English, and comparative literature at New York University, where she codirects the Trauma <b>...</b> From: egsvideo Views: 226 12 ratings Time: 01:03:23 More in Education
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Heiner Goebbels. The aesthetics of absence. 2011
Heiner Goebbels. The aesthetics of absence. 2011 www.egs.edu Heiner Goebbels, ...
Heiner Goebbels. The aesthetics of absence. 2011 www.egs.edu Heiner Goebbels, German composer, lecturing on the aesthetics of absence. During the lecture, Heiner Goebbels, discusses the role of the spectator, his involvement and inscription into the scene, and the deconstruction of the traditional co-ordinates of theatre, opera, and performance art, in order to reveal the effects of gaps, inundation, silence and conflict. The result, is what he calls experimental theatre music. Over the course of the lecture, Goebbels shows a number of clips from his works -- in order to materialize his remarks -- including the 1998 performance 'Black and White'. Goebbels also discusses the actor -- his involvement, distinction from and collapse into the other elements of a performance, moreover, Goebbels discusses the separation of the actor from the set, narrative and even his own voice. Over the course of the lecture, Goebbels touches on the works of Heiner Miller, Bertolt Brecht, Holderlin, Hanns Eisler, Gertrude Stein and others. Biography Paragraph: Heiner Goebbels (b. 1952) is a German composer and director. Often characterized as not-so-subtly political, Goebells has often worked in collaboration with Heiner Muller. Artistically, his work is difficult to categorize, precisely because his concept has often been to deconstruct the conventions of opera, theatre and concert music. In the seventies, Goebbels started as a composer of 'incidental' music, as part of the Linksradikales Blasorchester . Later that decade, he became part of <b>...</b> From: egsvideo Views: 259 3 ratings Time: 50:18 More in Education
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Barbara Hammer. Meshes with Maya Deren. 2011
Barbara Hammer. Meshes with Maya Deren. 2011 www.egs.edu Barbara Hammer, ...
Barbara Hammer. Meshes with Maya Deren. 2011 www.egs.edu Barbara Hammer, experimental filmmaker, lesbian artist and feminist talking about Maya Deren. In this lecture she reads an excerpt from her book Hammer! in which she recounts her experience in discovering the cinema of Maya Deren, and talks about Deren's impact on her own work, gives some biographical data about Maya Deren as well as some background information on the making of Maya Deren's "Meshes in the Afternoon", which she screens back to back with her new film "Maya Deren's Sink". She then goes on to talk about her film "Generations", which she worked on with Gina Carducci, and opens up the floor for discussion.Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2011. Barbara Hammer is a lesbian filmmaker and widely held to be an originator of queer cinema. She was born on May 15, 1939 in Hollywood, California. A highly prolific filmmaker and videographer, Barbara Hammer has directed over eighty films and videos throughout her thirty-year career. Barbara Hammer made the world's first lesbian films in 1974 (Dyketactics) and 1976 (Women I Love). Since then she has made over three dozen films. Her most recent feature length films include Lover Other (2006) and Resisting Paradise (2003). Barbara Hammer's work has received international exposure and recognition. In 2007, The Chinese Cultural University, Taiwan, held a retrospective for Barbara <b>...</b> From: egsvideo Views: 81 2 ratings Time: 31:23 More in Education
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Giorgio Agamben. The Archaeology of Commandment. 2011
Giorgio Agamben. The Archaeology of Commandment. 2011 www.egs.edu Giorgio Agamben ...
Giorgio Agamben. The Archaeology of Commandment. 2011 www.egs.edu Giorgio Agamben talking about the results of his investigation into the archaeology of commandment. In this lecture he discusses the Greek word arko, the arkon, the beginning of the bible as commandment, beginning and commanding according to Martin Heidegger, the Anfang and Geschichte, the split between origin and commandment in Post Heideggerian philosophy, Reiner Schürmann's Le Principe d'anarchie, Jacques Derrida and the origin, the imperative, apophantic and non-apophantic discourse, is and ought, not sein but sollen, Hans Kelsen's theory of law, the linguistic work of Antoine Meilet and Emile Benveniste, JL Austin's speech acts, the commandment as non-apophantic logos, the ontology of assertion - the esti (be) - and the ontology of commandment - the esto (being), performative speech acts, the ontology of commandment vs ontology of assertion, the concept of will (Christian theology), potentiality (Greek theology), modal verbs, and Bartleby the Scrivener.Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland. Giorgio Agamben , 2011. Giorgio Agamben, Phd., Baruch Spinoza Chair at European Graduate School EGS, is a professor of aesthetics at the University of Verona, Italy and teaches philosophy at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris and at the University of Macerata in Italy. As a post graduate he participated in seminars with Martin Heidegger <b>...</b> From: egsvideo Views: 474 22 ratings Time: 01:05:28 More in Education
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Laurence A. Rickels. Alphaville. 2011
Laurence A. Rickels. Alphaville. 2011 www.egs.edu Laurence A. Rickels, literary ...
Laurence A. Rickels. Alphaville. 2011 www.egs.edu Laurence A. Rickels, literary and media theorist, talking about the Jean-Luc Godard's film Alphaville. In this lecture Laurence A. Rickels discusses war neurosis, homosexuality, psychoanalysis, Philip K. Dick, the fool, Simularcon-3, androids in relation to secrets, Freud, Totem and Taboo, mourning, the Third Reich, 1984, words, representations, affects, signs, totalitarianism, James Bond, specters focusing on the cold war, the underworld, WWII, psy-fi. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2011. Laurence A. Rickels. Laurence A. Rickels is the Sigmund Freud Professor of Media and Philosophy at the European Graduate School (EGS) as well as a professor of Art and Theory at The Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe. Born in Cherokee Iowa in 1954, Rickels received a BA in English Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. Rickels received his Ph.D from Princeton University in German Literature in 1980 and later trained as a psychoanalyst under Lawton Smith earning a Masters of Clinical Psychology from Antioch University in Santa Barbara. Rickels work extends the project of the Frankfurt School into the 21st century by applying psychoanalytic theory to examine mass media culture, specifically examining the themes of mourning, Nazi Germany, science fiction and technology. Laurence A. Rickels many books include Aberrations of Mourning (1988 <b>...</b> From: egsvideo Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 32:44 More in Education
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Laurence A. Rickels. Alternative Worlds. 2011
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Laurence A. Rickels. Alternative Worlds. 2011 www.egs.edu Laurence A. Rickels, literary and media theorist, talking about alternative worlds or possible worlds in science fiction. In this lecture, Laurence A. Rickels discusses "Dark City" and "Simulacron-3", "Metropolis," Judge Schreber, aliens, systems theory, inside/outside, California, "Blade Runner," in relation to memory, psychoanalysis, fetish, trauma, Stan Douglas, "Sandman," German cybernetics, Freud, westward expansion, Adorno, Benjamin, Christian fantasy focusing on Philip K. Dick, castration, ghosts, time travel. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2011. Laurence A. Rickels. Laurence A. Rickels is the Sigmund Freud Professor of Media and Philosophy at the European Graduate School (EGS) as well as a professor of Art and Theory at The Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe. Born in Cherokee Iowa in 1954, Rickels received a BA in English Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. Rickels received his Ph.D from Princeton University in German Literature in 1980 and later trained as a psychoanalyst under Lawton Smith earning a Masters of Clinical Psychology from Antioch University in Santa Barbara. Rickels work extends the project of the Frankfurt School into the 21st century by applying psychoanalytic theory to examine mass media culture, specifically examining the themes of mourning, Nazi Germany, science fiction and technology. Laurence <b>...</b> From: egsvideo Views: 87 1 ratings Time: 01:16:00 More in Education
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Laurence A. Rickels. Zombies and Vampires. 2011
Laurence A. Rickels. Zombies and Vampires. 2011 www.egs.edu Laurence A. ...
Laurence A. Rickels. Zombies and Vampires. 2011 www.egs.edu Laurence A. Rickels, literary and media theorist, talking about mourning in zombie and vampire fiction. In this lecture, Laurence A. Rickels discusses Melanie Klein, DW Winnicott, and Freud's theories of loss and mourning in relation to doubles, the underworld, reality-testing, Surrogates, Simulacrum 3, the culture industry, true and false selves, masks, psychosis focusing on transitional objects, Dracula, 30 Days of Night, gadgets and Friedrich Kittler. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2011. Laurence A. Rickels. Laurence A. Rickels is the Sigmund Freud Professor of Media and Philosophy at the European Graduate School (EGS) as well as a professor of Art and Theory at The Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe. Born in Cherokee Iowa in 1954, Rickels received a BA in English Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. Rickels received his Ph.D from Princeton University in German Literature in 1980 and later trained as a psychoanalyst under Lawton Smith earning a Masters of Clinical Psychology from Antioch University in Santa Barbara. Rickels work extends the project of the Frankfurt School into the 21st century by applying psychoanalytic theory to examine mass media culture, specifically examining the themes of mourning, Nazi Germany, science fiction and technology. Laurence A. Rickels many books include Aberrations of Mourning (1988 <b>...</b> From: egsvideo Views: 159 1 ratings Time: 58:07 More in Education
