Misc
1998 Lecture at Kent University (Ohio) | Jacques-Alain Miller
Nov 14 1998 | Lacanian Ink *
Imagining Glamour in the Age of Aesthetic Surgery | Sander L. Gilman
Oct 29 2004 | Institut fur Theorie *
Beyond the Trinity of Capital, Nation, and State | Kojin Karatani
Oct 11 2007 | Stanford University *
Radical Atheism: Derrida’s Notion of Desire | Martin Hagglund
Nov 01 2007 | The Slought Foundation *
Should There Be a Place for Lacan in the Future of Psychoanalysis?
Danny Nobus | Oct 10 2008 | New York Psychoanalytic Institute *
The Polysemy of the Secular | Charles Taylor
Mar 05 2009 | The New School for Social Research *
Force | Christoph Menke
Mar 06 2009 | The New School for Social Research *
Can Philosophy Comprehend Life? | Eckart Forster
Mar 06 2009 | The New School for Social Research *
The Future of Commentary | Greetham, Gumbrecht, Ronell, and Velasco
Apr 10 2009 | CUNY Graduate Center *
Rethinking Secularism
Oct 22 2009 | Judith Butler, Jürgen Habermas, Charles Taylor, and Cornel West
Screenwipe
Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe is a British television review programme broadcast on BBC Four by Charlie Brooker. It is similar in tone to Brooker’s Screen Burn column which he writes in The Guardian newspaper’s Guide supplement every Saturday. The programme contains reviews of current shows, as well as stories and commentary on how television is produced.
Screenwipe is a television programme about television programmes; the cost, the surprising amount of work and bureaucracy involved, how programmes are selected for broadcast and (usually scathing) analysis of specific programmes and genres. Brooker often pays particular attention to more obscure channels on satellite, Freeview and cable, such as those dedicated to gambling, shopping, horoscopes and pornography. He explores the probable effects of television on society and how programmes can often create in the viewer feelings of inadequacy, depression, fear and anxiety. To balance things, one segment of each show is usually dedicated to positive reviews, with analysis on why the style and content are so absorbing.
The Films of Adam Curtis
The Century of the Self (part 1 | part 2 | part 3)
To many in both politics and business, the triumph of the self is the ultimate expression of democracy, where power has finally moved to the people. Certainly the people may feel they are in charge, but are they really? The Century of the Self tells the untold and sometimes controversial story of the growth of the mass-consumer society in Britain and the United States. How was the all-consuming self created, by whom, and in whose interests?
The Power of Nightmares (part 1 | part 2 | part 3)
The film compare the rise of the Neo-Conservative movement in the United States and the radical Islamist movement, making comparisons on their origins and claiming similarities between the two. More controversially, it argues that the threat of radical Islamism as a massive, sinister organised force of destruction, specifically in the form of al-Qaeda, is a myth perpetrated by politicians in many countries—and particularly American Neo-Conservatives—in an attempt to unite and inspire their people following the failure of earlier, more utopian ideologies.
The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom (part 1 | part 2 | part 3)
The film explores the concept and definition of freedom, specifically, “how a simplistic model of human beings as self-seeking, almost robotic, creatures led to today’s idea of freedom.”
Pandora’s Box
Pandora’s Box examines the consequences of political and technocratic rationalism. The film covers communism in The Soviet Union, systems analysis and game theory during the Cold War, economy in the United Kingdom during the 1970s, the insecticide DDT, Kwame Nkrumah’s leadership in Ghana during the 1950s and 1960s and the history of nuclear power.
The Living Dead
The Living Dead investigates the way that history and memory (both national and individual) have been used by politicians and others.
The Mayfair Set
The Mayfair Set looks at how buccaneer capitalists of hot money were allowed to shape the climate of the Thatcher years, focusing on the rise of Colonel David Stirling, Jim Slater, James Goldsmith, and Tiny Rowland, all members of The Clermont club in the 1960s.