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Tuesday Lacan’s Seminar Reading : Fall 2024
Seminar XII: Crucial Problems for Psychoanalysis by Jacques Lacan Translated by Cormac Gallagher The English translation of Seminar XII: Here The French version of Seminar XII: Here September 03, 2024 Lesson 17: May 05th, 1965 Facilitator: Désirée Jung September 17, 2024 ONLINE ONLY Lesson 18 : May 12th, 1965 Facilitator: Chris Dzierzawa October 01st, 2024 ONLINE ONLY Lesson 19 : May 19th, 1965 Facilitator: Juan Luis de la Mora October 15, 2024 Lesson…
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Speaker Series presents Capitalism and Libidinal Economy: Loss and Emancipation with Mariana Hernández Urías.
When: June 01st, 2024 @ 10AM -12PM (PST) Where: Online. Register here. Abstract: Capitalism is not merely the pursuit of profit and wealth but implies a specific rationality that seeks continuous and calculated profit, a return on investment. It is an economic and political system that does not tolerate loss without compensation. Almost everyone accepts that capitalism has effects of domination on individuals and social groups, but how far does this domination…
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Alternate Tuesday: Facts Are Meaningless Unless You Care, by Yuya Takeda
When: May 21st, 2024 / 7PM-9PM (PST) Where: SFU Woodwards and online. Register here. Abstract: Conspiracy theories are both timeless and timely as a topic of study. In terms of timelessness, “belief in conspiracies is,” borrowing Robert V. Bullough Jr.’s words, “probably as old as human language and certainly as old as war.” Despite this, academic research on conspiracy theories is rather new. According to Katharina Thalmann, the first wave of…
