Why is this painting so captivating? - James Earle and Christina Bozsik

source: TED-Ed   2016年3月10日
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On first glance, the painting “Las Meninas” (“The Maids of Honor”) might not seem terribly special, but it’s actually one of the most analyzed pieces in the history of art. Why is this painting by Diego Velazquez so captivating? James Earle and Christina Bozsik share the context and complexity behind this work of art.
Lesson by James Earle and Christina Bozsik, animation by Zedem Media.

Željka Matijašević : For the image narcissistically killeth, but the wor...

source: pmilat    2015年1月21日
The Unconscious of the Unconscious :: MaMa, Zagreb :: 05.12.2014
In Lacan’s later works, corresponding with the introduction of the Real as a third order by which the importance of the Imaginary is played down, in his Seminar VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis (1959-1960), the dynamic of Lacan’s concept of ‘subjectivity’ is being gauged at the intersection and tension between the Symbolic and the Real, not between the Imaginary and the Symbolic, as it was before. Clearly, Lacan’s concept of narcissism is closely related to the narcissistic image (mirror image) with its ensuing fictionality, falsity, aggressiveness, duplicity and lethality, the lethality of the visual. The Symbolic order, as a stabilizing order, comes to the rescue by separating the subject from the image, by forcing him to renounce the symbiotic relation with the object a. How is it possible that this act of symbolic castration/creation never comes to be approximated to any form of narcissism? Lacan’s pivotal “Rome Discourse” emphasizes the perilousness of the word, the words which define us, the names which exist for us before we are born and persist beyond our death, the words which make us “faithful” or “renegades”. On the one hand, Lacan oscillates between the restorative power of the Symbolic and its linguistic dimension – language, while, on the other hand, the words which create/define us have a deadly power of annihilation, which is Lacan’s true debt to Hegel.

‘Subjectivity’ is in Lacan’s work threefold. First, there is the ego (moi), captivated in the Imaginary, by the image; the subject (sujet), imprisoned within the Symbolic, in the discourse of the Other and, finally, the true I (Je), the place of authenticity and non-narcissistic creation, organized around desire which has yet to be found, engendered and created. Probing more deeply into contemporary theories on narcissism, I intend to demonstrate that our symbolic being, our construction as subjects is also narcissistic. Narcissistic images are most vibrant and resonate ‘perfectly’ when they are subliminally reduced to some basic, defining sentences such as: “I am omnipotent and you are nothing but a part of me”; “You are omnipotent and I am the mirror which reflects/confirms you as such”.

Contemporary views on narcissism allow us to translate clinical narcissism into a loosely structured self, with permeable boundaries towards others, or, to put it in Lacan’s terms, organized around the desire of the Other, which makes the position of the subject extremely fragile, dependent and self-defeating. The three ideals of psychoanalytic ethics/cure are: independence, authenticity and love, and they correspond to the three tenets of the structured I (Je): demarcated from the object/objects, authentic at the place of his own desire, and endowed with healthy-‘love thyself’-narcissism.
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Alenka Zupančič. The Chorus and The Real in Poetic Art. 2011

source: European Graduate School  2012年5月24日
http://www.egs.edu/ Alenka Zupančič, Slovenian philosopher and author, talking about what is the real in the context of poetic art in response to Frederich Schiller's "On the Use of the Chorus in Tragedy". In this lecture, Zupančič discusses the Schiller's views on the chorus, art and the real, art and the ideal, realism in theatre, semblance, artistic positioning and sequence of events in art, whimsical creativity as dead end, the fantastic as the reverse side of realism, the affect of freedom and spectatorship, nature as an idea, art as mediator between reality and the ideal, the role of the chorus in theatre, the chorus in modern theatre, what is not are but true entertainment, Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain", what is specific about poetic language, symbolic forms and the artifice of the chorus, poetic art creating the real through re-doublement, consequence of the chorus, the language of tragedy, the role of the chorus according to Jacques Lacan, the Schillerean chorus, the chorus as organ that creates the space of the real in theatre. 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 Alenka Zupančič.
Alenka Zupančič is a Slovenian philosopher whose work focuses on psychoanalysis and continental philosophy.

RSA Replay: Children’s Reading in the Digital Age

source: The RSA  2016年2月11日
As digital media play an ever larger role in children’s lives, how do we develop creative approaches to learning and literacy that capitalize on the benefits of technology, yet remain human-centred and inclusive?
This event seeks to advance the US-UK conversation about rethinking reading in the digital age, and replacing concerns and emotional decisions with research evidence and positive alternatives that nurture children’s love for stories and books.
In association with Read On. Get On. - the UK-wide campaign to ensure that, by 2025, every child leaves primary school able to read well.

Kathleen Eisenhardt: "Simple Rules: How to Thrive in a Complex World" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google  2016年2月2日
Life gets more complicated every day. Whether you're struggling with information overload, attempting to act effectively with limited resources or trying to change bad habits - all you need is Simple Rules. Donald Sull and Kathleen Eisenhardt have spent the last decade working with businesses around the world, and have developed a set of highly effective, tried-and-tested rules to help tackle complex problems, whatever they are. In Simple Rules they share them with you. So, how do we make the best decisions when deluged with data? How do we solve problems across global networks? And how do we pinpoint what exactly it is that is holding us back from success? Sull and Eisenhardt have distilled two careers-worth of research, experience and work into a much needed guide to achieving our most pressing personal and professional objectives, from overcoming insomnia to becoming a better manager or a smarter investor. Full of tips, illuminating case studies and clear advice, Simple Rules provides the tools you need.

Alenka Zupančič. The Fantasy of Speculative Realism. 2011

source: European Graduate School    2012年10月29日
http://www.egs.edu/ Alenka Zupancic, Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst, talking discusses Quentin Meillassoux and After Finitude, speculative realism, Jacques Lacan, Immanuel Kant, psychoanalysis, fantasy, the discourse of science, materialism, contingency, nature, correlation, and Slavoj Žižek Zizek. This is the third lecture of Zupančič's 2011 summer course at the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe 2011 Alenka Zupancic.

Alenka Zupančič, Ph.D., is a Lacanian philosopher and social theorist, based as a full-time researcher in the philosophy department of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. She was born in 1966 in Slovenia. Alenka received her Ph.D. from the University of Ljubljana in 1990 and currently is a member of the Ljubljana School for Psychoanalysis. At the European Graduate School, she holds a position as a lecturer where she teaches an intensive summer seminar on Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche.

Slavoj Žižek | The Hegelian Wound | Full Film

source: Zizekian Studies    2015年2月19日
For Hegel, Žižek posits, the spirit is the wound of nature- it derails every natural balance, but it is at the time spirit itself that heals its own wound. In his lecture, Žižek will expand upon this Hegelian perspective to consider its philosophical, theological, and political implications: Why is the Fall a happy occurrence? How does permissiveness turn into oppression? Why does only the most brutal capitalist alienation open up the possibility for freedom?

CONFERENCIA JUDITH BUTLER - ENGLISH subs

source: canaluntref     2015年10月28日
Conferencia "Cuerpos que aún importan" de Judith Butler, en el Centro Cultural Kirchner, el 16 de septiembre de 2015.

Edward Said Memorial Conference - Gayatri Spivak: "A Borderless World?"

source: Centre for the Humanities Utrecht University     2013年10月22日
Keynote lecture by Prof. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: "A Borderless World?" at the Edward Said Memorial Conference, Utrecht, 16 April 2013.
What is this lecture about?
"What institutions of tertiary education in varieties of the metropole now have to think about is that globalization has introduced a kind of accessible contemporaneity to us, and placed us within it, which has not taken away, but rendered obsolete, the established ways of knowing the historical. Modernity/tradition methodologies, colonial/postcolonial methodologies remain appropriate in their own place, but are no longer useful to understand this new situation, which seems to lend itself more easily to a quantified, statisticalized, and, in a less rigorous way, simply arithmeticalized approach, democracy computed as supervised safe elections, epistemic claims without reality checks, going hand in hand with a collection of "global" curiosities as evidence.
Let us rather ask ourselves how we must change in response to this challenge to knowing, not how we can add more information and money to the spectacular alternative streams at the edges of disciplines. How can the mainstream of disciplines be rearranged so that we and our students learn to think differently, rather than separate rigorous history and method from the glamour of easy globality. Such challenges have come in history from time to time and intellectual historians as well as students of the history of consciousness have told us after the fact how these changes happened. To that extent, we too must give ourselves over to what we call the future anterior, what will have happened in spite of our best efforts. But at the university, we must also make these efforts — once again, to change ourselves, rather than simply to acquire more substantive knowledge."
Edward Said Memorial Conference was organised by the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University as one of the Treaty of Utrecht commemoration events on 15-17 April 2013. More information available at: http://cfhutrecht2013.com/.