No One Way Works: Simultaneity, Complicity, Desire a reading group initiated by Stefa Govaart and Joseph Baan
Monday 09/12/2024
Reading Group 19:30 - 21:00
Sauna after ( donation recommended 7 euro )
No One Way Works: Simultaneity, Complicity, Desirea reading group initiated by Stefa Govaart and Joseph Baan. After Jean Laplanche, Andrea Long Chu, Félix Guattari, the group now reads Jacques Lacan's Seminar VI: Desire and Its Interpretation in conjunction with Adrian Piper's philosophical and artistic oeuvre. A two-day intensive was held at Summer University at Performing Arts Forum (St. Erme, FR) August 12-13.
…nothing good comes of forcing desire to conform to political principle. You could sooner give a cat a bath, writes Andrea Long Chu in 2018 (“On Liking Women”). Chu, convinced that the amoral grounds of (lived) libidinal economies render (collective) political utopianism in general–––and 1970s political lesbianism in particular––impossible, aroused respect as well as contempt. The point is not respect vs contempt, but to ask again: what is desire, its interpretative space?; how to speak (of) desire to give the political impetus?
Reading/listening materials (prepared in advance):
–––Jacques Lacan, "Lecture 1: Introduction: Constructing the Graph," In Seminar VI: Desire and Its Interpretation(Polity Press, 2019, EN), pp. 3-25: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EY5SzoDe6oYwZ37kkfKGT5gpTolp73iX/view
––– Adrian Piper Interview: Rationality and the Structure of the Self https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tURuyb76XQ&t=1192s
++supplementary materials
–––Fred Moten, "Resistance of the Object: Adrian Piper's Theatricality," In In The Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition (University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2003), pp. 233 - 254.
…nothing good comes of forcing desire to conform to political principle. You could sooner give a cat a bath, writes Andrea Long Chu in 2018 (“On Liking Women”). Chu, convinced that the amoral grounds of (lived) libidinal economies render (collective) political utopianism in general–––and 1970s political lesbianism in particular––impossible, aroused respect as well as contempt. The point is not respect vs contempt, but to ask again: what is desire, its interpretative space?; how to speak (of) desire to give the political impetus?
Reading/listening materials (prepared in advance):
–––Jacques Lacan, "Lecture 1: Introduction: Constructing the Graph," In Seminar VI: Desire and Its Interpretation(Polity Press, 2019, EN), pp. 3-25: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EY5SzoDe6oYwZ37kkfKGT5gpTolp73iX/view
––– Adrian Piper Interview: Rationality and the Structure of the Self https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tURuyb76XQ&t=1192s
++supplementary materials
–––Fred Moten, "Resistance of the Object: Adrian Piper's Theatricality," In In The Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition (University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2003), pp. 233 - 254.