Philosophie

The Commune Form: The Transformation of Everyday Life “When the state recedes, the communes flourish. This is as true now as it was in Paris in 1871. Contemporary struggles over land—from the ZAD at Notre-Dame-des-Landes to Cop City in Atlanta, from the pipeline battles in Canada to France’s Soulèvements de la Terre – have reinvented practices of appropriating lived space and time. The result is a transformation win our understanding of the recent past.“ The Philosophy Department at the University…

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Holmes will be a guest speaker at the Faculty Research Group in Critical Theory and Practice at Newcastle University. Title: Object little ágalma: What Plato taught Lacan Abstract: In the eighth year of Lacan’s seminar, he turns to Plato’s Symposium in order to develop his own account of transference love, naming the fundamentally odd relationship of the patient to the doctor, or of the analysand to the analyst. This reading of the Symposium marks Lacan’s only sustained reading of an…

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