About: The discourse notebook is an effort (in conjunction with 'The Bernstein Tapes'*) to make available lectures in contemporary continental philosophy. For questions, comments, or to share a lecture, send an email to: Todd.Kesselman@gmail.com
-Todd Kesselman, PhD Student, The New School for Social Research*
Julia Kristeva
Public Lectures
Oct 27 2006: Motherhood Today | (The New School for Social Research)
Mar 06 2007: Liberty in Dark Times | (Columbia University) (poor audio quality)
Mar 16 2007: On Adolescence | (The New School for Social Research) in association with NPAP
Apr 02 2009: The Unbelievable Need to Believe | (The New School for Social Research)
Apr 04 2009: Adolescence: A Syndrome of Ideality | (Stonybrook Manhatten)
Seminar at The New School for Social Research (2006-2007)
Oct 23 2006, Oct 25 2006, Oct 30 2006, Nov 01 2006, Mar 05 2007, Mar 07 2007, Mar 12 2007, Mar 14 2007
These lectures are available for limited distribution to graduate students.
Please send an email request in order to gain access.
Alain Badiou
(audio)
Feb 23 2006: Politics, Democracy and Philosophy: An Obscure Knot | (University of Washington) *
Nov 14 2006: The Century | (Maison Francaise, New York University) w/ Bruno Bosteels
Nov 15 2006: Is Justice a Juridical Concept? | (Cardozo Law School, Yeshiva University) w/ Simon Critchley
Nov 16 2006: Open Dialgoue | (Cardozo Law School, Yeshiva University) w/ Simon Critchley
Nov 16 2006: Truth Art as a Place for Politics Without Place | (Pratt Institute, Brooklyn) for Lacanian Ink
Nov 17 2006: Truth Procedure in Art | (Jack Tilton Gallery, NYC) for Lacanian Ink
Oct 12 2007: Towards A New Concept of Existence | (Philadelphia, PA) plenary address for SPEP
Apr 01 2007: The Subject of Art | (Deitch Projects Gallery, NYC) for lacanian ink *
Nov 15 2007: On the Politics of Resistance | (w/ Simon Critchley) for the slought foundation *
(video)
Apr 01 2005: The Subject of Art | for lacanian ink - Deitch Projects
Jan 05 2006: Democracy, Politics, Theory, and Philosophy | for the EGS
Mar 07 2006: Speaking the Unspeakable | for lacanian ink - Jack Tilton Gallery
Mar 08 2006: On Anxiety | for lacanian ink - The Drawing Center
Nov 16 2006: Truth Art as a Place for Politics | for lacanian ink - Pratt Institute
Nov 17 2006: Truth Pocedure in Arts | for lacanian ink - Jack Tilton Gallery
Nov 18 2006: Truth Procedure in Politics | for lacanian ink - Abreu Gallery
Jan 10 2007: Destruction, Negation and Subtraction | for the EGS
Feb 02 2007: Badiou and Balibar Dialogue on Universalism | University of California, Irvine
Nov 13 2007: Philosophy as Biography | for lacanian ink - Abreu Gallery
Nov 16 2007: Some Remarks Concerning Marcel Duchamp | for lacanian ink - Jack Tilton Gallery
Slavoj Zizek
(audio)
Jan 12 2003: Why Sept 12th is more important than Sept 11th | w/ Yirmiyahu Yovel (Jerusalem Spinoza Institute) *
Mar 23 2003: East of Art: Transformations in Eastern Europe | for MoMa *
Sep 11 2004: A Plea for Fundamentalism | for the slought foundation *
May 25 2005: The Ignorance of Chicken | (The New School for Social Research)
Apr 12 2006: The Ignorance of Chicken, or, Who Believes What Today | for critical inquiry (University of Chicago) *
Apr 15 2006: Interview with Victor Taylor | (Conference: St. Paul Among the Philosophers) (Syracuse, New York) *
Jun 01 2006: Master Class on Jacques Lacan: A Lateral Introduction | (Birkbeck College, London) *
Nov 08 2006: Between Fear and Trembling: On Why Only Atheists Can Believe | (Vanderbilt University) *
Nov 16 2007: A Lecture | The Institute for Human Sciences at Boston University
Mar 01 2007: Freud and the Political | w/ Mladen Dolar, Alenka Zupancic, + Joan Copjec (Columbia University) (low quality)
Mar 14 2007: Open Source Interview | w/ Christopher Lydon*
Mar 03 2008: Resist, Attack, Undermine... Where Are We 40 Years After '68? | Left Forum & Verso Books at CUNY
Jun 24 2008: On Lost Causes | interview with the BBC
Sep 08 2008: On Violence | w/ Steven Lukes at Barnes & Noble Union Square, NYC (low quality)
Sep 16 2008: Violence & the Left in Dark Times | w/ Bernhard-Henri Levy at the New York Public Library
(video)
Nov 14 2001: Welcome to the Desert of the Real | for lacanian ink
Mar 10 2003: Love Without Mercyl | for lacanian ink - Deitch Projects
Nov 23 2004: On Religion | for lacanian ink - Deitch Projects
Jan 02 2006: On the European Graduate School | for the EGS
Jan 03 2006: Psychoanalysis | w/ Judith Butler + Larry Rickels for the EGS
Jan 08 2006: Rules, Race, and Mel Gibson --
Materialism and Theology | for the EGS
May 01 2006: The Euthanasia of Tolerant Reason | for lacanian ink - Jack Tilton Gallery
Nov 16 2006: What can philosophy do today? | for the Institute for Human Sciences (Boston University)
Nov 20 2006: Can One Really Tolerate A Neighbor? | for lacanian ink - Jack Tilton Gallery
Nov 26 2007: Ecology: A New Opium of the Masses | for lacanian ink - Jack Tilton Gallery
May 12 2008: The Iraq War, the Bush Presidency, the War on Terror | for democracy now
The Newschool Department Lectures
Feb 22 2007: Skepticism, Naturalism, and Nihilism in Hegel's Early Jena Writings | (Paul Franks)
Apr 05 2007: Agonistic Pluralism Between Ethics and Politics | (Chantal Mouffe)
Apr 12 2007: On Rhythm and Animality in Merleau-Ponty's Ontology of the Flesh | (Daniela Vallega-Neu)
Mar 13 2008: Against the Grain: Walter Benjamin's Conception of History | (Michael Lowy & Eleni Varikas)
Apr 04 2009: Contribution to a New Critique of Political Economy | (Bernard Stiegler)
Miscellaneous
Nov 14 1998: Jacques-Alain Miller | for lacanian ink - Kent University, OH (video)
Oct 29 2004: Imagining Glamour in the Age of Aesthetic Surgery | (Sander L. Gilman) *
Oct 11 2007: Beyond the Trinity of Capital, Nation, and State | (Kojin Karatani) Stanford University *
Nov 01 2007: Radical Atheism: Derrida's Notion of Desire | (Martin Hagglund) The Slought Foundation*
Oct 10 2008: Should There Be a Place for Lacan in the Future of Psychoanalysis? | (Danny Nobus) NY Psychoanalytic
Mar 05 2009: The Polysemy of the Secular | (Charles Taylor) The New School for Social Research *
Mar 06 2009: Force | (Christoph Menke) The New School for Social Research *
Mar 06 2009: Can Philosophy Comprehend Life? | (Eckart Forster) The New School for Social Research *
The Films of Adam Curtis
The Century of the Self part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | *
The Power of Nightmares part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | * | *
The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom part 1 | part 2 | part 3
Video: from the archives of the European Graduate School *
Agnes Varda: The Things We Leave Behind.
Allucquere Rosanne Stone:
Flesh, Gender, and Technology.
Transgender Feminism.
A Meatgrinder Called University.
Atom Egoyan: Citadel.
Avital Ronell: Franz Kafka - Letter to the Father.
Avital Ronell + Judith Butler: Contemporaneity of Philosophy.
Bracha L. Ettinger: Psychoanalysis + Matrixial Borderspace.
Allucquere Rosanne Stone: A Meatgrinder Called University.
Bruce Sterling: Impact and Sustainability of Technologies.
Claire Denis + Jean-Luc Nancy: L'Intrus. The Intruder.
Catherine Breillat + Chantal Akerman: Film and Theory.
DJ Spooky / Paul D. Miller: Mixing as Social Sculpture.
Donna Haraway: Cyborgs, Dogs and Companion Species.
Friedrich A. Kittler: The Relation of Art and Techne.
Geert Lovink: Foundation of Critical Internet Culture.
Greg Lynn: Architecture and Philosophy.
Hans Ulrich Obrist: The Perception & Experience of Art.
Heiner Goebbels: Composing and Theatre.
Jacques Derrida: On Forgiveness.
Jacques Roubaud: Poetry and Mathematics.
Jean Baudrillard: Cultural Identity and Politics. Violence of the Image.
Jean-Luc Nancy: Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Deconstruction Christianity Ascension.
Jean-Luc Nancy + Claire Denis: L'Intrus. The Intruder.
John Perry Barlow: Independence Declaration of Cyberspace.
John Waters: Filth 101. Film, Taste and Philosophy.
Judith Butler: Primo Levy for the Present.
Julian Barnes: The Lemon Book.
Manuel De Landa: The Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze 2006.
The Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze 2007.
Michael Hardt: About Love.
Michel Deguy: Poetry and Philosophy.
Michel Houellebecq: The Combination of Fiction and Truth.
Morgan Fisher: About Film and the Richness of Life.
Paul Virilio: Dromology and Claustrophobia.
Peter Greenaway: Discussing Night Watch and other Works.
Pierre Alferi: Reading and Multimedia.
Sophie Calle: About Sophie Calle.
last update 04-24-2009