Slought Foundation, an organization rethinking contemporary arts, presents My Lacan is Burning: Revisiting 'Television' (Wednesday, June 02, 2004, 6:30-8:30pm)
- In 1972 Jacques-Alain Miller, then an analyst in training, approached French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan to request a television interview. "I wanted Lacan, just once, to speak to the common man," said Miller at the New York City 1987 colloquium organized around that interview and called "Jacques Lacan: Television." The two-hour program, which took the form of an interview and discourse, aired in 1973 on the French government TV network O.R.T.F. under the title, Psychoanalysis.
- In a style that is typical of Lacan’s own playful, impassioned, and evasive seminar style, we have invited theorists Catherine Liu and Charles Shepherdson to perform this discourse live and in English, alongside a projection of the original broadcast. A public discussion, introduced and moderated by Lacanian theorist Jean-Michel Rabaté, Slought Foundation Senior Curator and Editor of the new Cambridge Guide to Lacan (2003), will follow the performance.
Catherine Liu's February 2002 Slought Foundation lecture, "To Catch a Falling Star: Lacan Meets Warhol," engaging the original broadcast and recording, is available in audio format online
- In 1972 Jacques-Alain Miller, then an analyst in training, approached French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan to request a television interview. "I wanted Lacan, just once, to speak to the common man," said Miller at the New York City 1987 colloquium organized around that interview and called "Jacques Lacan: Television." The two-hour program, which took the form of an interview and discourse, aired in 1973 on the French government TV network O.R.T.F. under the title, Psychoanalysis.
- In a style that is typical of Lacan’s own playful, impassioned, and evasive seminar style, we have invited theorists Catherine Liu and Charles Shepherdson to perform this discourse live and in English, alongside a projection of the original broadcast. A public discussion, introduced and moderated by Lacanian theorist Jean-Michel Rabaté, Slought Foundation Senior Curator and Editor of the new Cambridge Guide to Lacan (2003), will follow the performance.
"When Lacan says on Television, 'I always tell the truth...' he means it. He's making this pronouncement on TV and insofar as any talking head, including Lacan's, can embody a voice, he speaks for television itself... Television wants to believe that it tells the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth... But Television tries to account for the difficulty of the truth of the Real by producing its own built in self-critique module in the form of cynicism. In this way, it tries to cover its anxiety, which is, as Lacan has taught us, precisely the one affect which does not deceive." - Catherine Liu, from Lacanian Ink #3
Catherine Liu's February 2002 Slought Foundation lecture, "To Catch a Falling Star: Lacan Meets Warhol," engaging the original broadcast and recording, is available in audio format online
'Who?' Or 'What?' - Jacques Derrida
A conference organized to discuss and celebrate the work of one of the most prominent UCI faculty, Jacques Derrida. This is the first conference organized at UCI entirely dedicated to his work. The conference will focus on a question, often raised in Derrida's work, "'Who?' Or 'What?'" This question is at the core of many Derrida's reflections on subjectivity, political or cultural agency, history, etc. At this conference, the question is meant to be directed also at the work of Jacques Derrida.
Plenary speakers: Jacques Derrida (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Social, Paris, and UCI), Helene Cixous (Etudes Feminine, Paris VIII, Paris, and Northwestern University), J. Hillis Miller (UCI)
Conference participants: Elisabeth Weber (UCSB), Peggy Kamuf (USC), Judith Butler (UC Berkeley), Avital Ronell (NYU), Geoffrey Bennington (Emory), Leonard Lawlor (University of Memphis), Achille Mbmembe (Wits Institute for Social & Economic Research, University of Witswatersrand, Johannesburg), David Wills (University of Albany).
10/7/2004 - 10/9/2004, University of California, Irvine. The event will be free and open to the public.
A conference organized to discuss and celebrate the work of one of the most prominent UCI faculty, Jacques Derrida. This is the first conference organized at UCI entirely dedicated to his work. The conference will focus on a question, often raised in Derrida's work, "'Who?' Or 'What?'" This question is at the core of many Derrida's reflections on subjectivity, political or cultural agency, history, etc. At this conference, the question is meant to be directed also at the work of Jacques Derrida.
Plenary speakers: Jacques Derrida (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Social, Paris, and UCI), Helene Cixous (Etudes Feminine, Paris VIII, Paris, and Northwestern University), J. Hillis Miller (UCI)
Conference participants: Elisabeth Weber (UCSB), Peggy Kamuf (USC), Judith Butler (UC Berkeley), Avital Ronell (NYU), Geoffrey Bennington (Emory), Leonard Lawlor (University of Memphis), Achille Mbmembe (Wits Institute for Social & Economic Research, University of Witswatersrand, Johannesburg), David Wills (University of Albany).
10/7/2004 - 10/9/2004, University of California, Irvine. The event will be free and open to the public.
Centre culturel international de Cerisy-la-Salle, Colloque (2004)
Chateau de Cerisy-la-Salle, du 26 mai au 2 juin 2004:
La lutte pour l'organisation du sensible: comment repenser l'esthétique ? (pdf, 136k)
Quant à une présentation détaillée avec, pour la plupart, le résumé des contributions, vous pouvez vous reporter à: http://www.ccic-cerisy.asso.fr/esthetique04.html
CENTRE CULTUREL INTERNATIONAL, F - 50210 CERISY-LA-SALLE
Téléphone: 02 33 46 91 66 (International: 33 2 33 46 91 66)
Fax: 02 3346 11 39 (International: 33 2 33 46 11 39)
Courriel: info.cerisy@ccic-cerisy.asso.fr
Chateau de Cerisy-la-Salle, du 26 mai au 2 juin 2004:
La lutte pour l'organisation du sensible: comment repenser l'esthétique ? (pdf, 136k)
Quant à une présentation détaillée avec, pour la plupart, le résumé des contributions, vous pouvez vous reporter à: http://www.ccic-cerisy.asso.fr/esthetique04.html
CENTRE CULTUREL INTERNATIONAL, F - 50210 CERISY-LA-SALLE
Téléphone: 02 33 46 91 66 (International: 33 2 33 46 91 66)
Fax: 02 3346 11 39 (International: 33 2 33 46 11 39)
Courriel: info.cerisy@ccic-cerisy.asso.fr
J.Derrida, "Si je peux faire plus qu'une phrase...", entretien. Les Inrockuptibles#435 (du 31 mars au 6 avril 2004), 24-34; www.lesinrocks.com
"Du mot à la vie : un dialogue entre J. Derrida et Helene Cixous," Magazine littéraire : J.Derrida. la philosophie en déconstruction #430 (Avril 2004), 21-29; www.magazine-littéraire.com - Michel Lisse served as editor of this issue that contains contributions by: M. Lisse, Marc Goldsmith, Marie-Louise Mallet, François Nault, Daniel Giovannangeli, François Cusset, Peggy Kamuf, Aliette Armel, David Wills, Safaa Fathy, Cécile Hayez, Jean-Luc Nancy, Ginette Michaud, Elisabeth Roudinesco, René Major.
"Du mot à la vie : un dialogue entre J. Derrida et Helene Cixous," Magazine littéraire : J.Derrida. la philosophie en déconstruction #430 (Avril 2004), 21-29; www.magazine-littéraire.com - Michel Lisse served as editor of this issue that contains contributions by: M. Lisse, Marc Goldsmith, Marie-Louise Mallet, François Nault, Daniel Giovannangeli, François Cusset, Peggy Kamuf, Aliette Armel, David Wills, Safaa Fathy, Cécile Hayez, Jean-Luc Nancy, Ginette Michaud, Elisabeth Roudinesco, René Major.
