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Psychoanalysis, Urban Theory and the City of Late Capitalism
‘Psychoanalysis, Urban Theory and the City of Late Capitalism’ is a three-day international workshop organized by BAVO and Lorenzo Chiesa at the Jan Van Eyck Aademie (18–20 Nov. 2005).
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Psychoanalysis, urban theory and the city of late-capitalism
A three-day international workshop organised by BAVO & Lorenzo Chiesa in collaboration with the Academie Beeldende Kunsten Maastricht and the Jan van Eyck Academie
Friday 18 – Sunday 20 November 2005
Introduction
The long-held belief that urban culture is the most effective motor for democratisation and emancipation is currently being shaken. WHILE Marx and his descendents DREAMT of ‘the urban’ as something that MIGHT FOSTER universal solidarity and radical social change, today metropolitan areas are most often seen as places of disintegration, segregation and violence. Similarly, if for Freud the metropolitan way of life made possible the hysterical subjectivity with which psychoanalysis begins, today, in an environment in which individuals and communities have withdrawn into a solipsism that is nurtured by the isolating gadgets of technology, subjectivity seems to be evaporating into generalised autism.
This conference gathers A NUMBER OF experts from the field of Marxist urban theory, radical political philosophy and Lacanian psychoanalysis who WILL DELIVER PAPERS on topics that are relevant for our understanding of what some have named ‘the post-metropolitan condition’. Our hope is that SUCH A COLLABORATION will allow us to analyse post-urban developments AND FORMULATE new forms of resistance.
Programme
Friday 18/11
Identifying the urban unconscious
10.00 Coffee
11.00 BAVO
Jan van Eyck Academie
Welcome and introduction
11.15 Michael Zinganel
Graz University of Technology
Crime does pay! How architecture and town planning are powered by crime
12.15 Juliet MacCannel
University of California, Irvine
The city at the end of history, or the eternal city of unconscious
13.15 Lunch
14.15 Marc de Kesel
Jan van Eyck Academie
Something inevitable in racism.
A Lacanian perspective on cosmo-political identity, hatred and democracy
15.15 Edward Soja
London School of Economics/ University of California, Los Angeles
Spatial psychastenia and the postmetropolis
16.15 Break
16.45 André Nusselder
Jan van Eyck Academie
Psychic city walls
18.00 BAVO
Conclusion
18.15 Reception
Saturday 19/11
Conceiving of an urban act
10.00 Reception
11.00 BAVO
Jan Van Eyck Academie
Welcome and introduction
11.15 Friedrich von Borries
Raumtaktik, Berlin
Between opportunity and radical opportunism.
New spatial tactics in a neoliberal global economy
12.15 Roemer van Toorn
Berlage Institute Rotterdam/Delft University of Technology
Aesthetics as a form of politics
13.15 Lunch
14.15 Yannis Stavrakakis
University of Essex
Re-acting to Zizek’s Act/ Re-enacting the Act: Real and Symbolic Dimensions in Psychoanalysis and Politics.
15.15 BAVO
“Mettre un peu d’honte dans la sauce”: Third Way cultural activism, the discourse of the analyst and the city of late capitalism
16.15 Break
16.45 Round Table
17.45 BAVO
Conclusion
17.45 Reception
Sunday 20/11
Psychoanalysis in the city
9.30 Lorenzo Chiesa
Jan van Eyck Academie
Welcome and introduction
10.20 Aaron Schuster
Jan van Eyck Academie
Freud, phobia, capitalism
11.35 Break
11.45 Dany Nobus
Brunel University, West London
The function of money in the psychoanalytical treatment and its possible contribution to a non-capitalist economy
13.00 Lunch
14.30 Renata Salecl
London School of Economics/ University of Ljubljana
Late-capitalism and Psychoanalysis
15.45 Break
16.00 Alberto Toscano
‘Fantasy wears boots, desire is violent, invention is organised’: Metropolitan insurrection and psychoanalytic categories
Goldsmiths College, University of London
17.15 Break
17.30 Oliver Feltham
Jan van Eyck Academie / American University of Paris
An account of enjoyment (on capitalism and the social bond)
18.45 Lorenzo Chiesa
Conclusion
Location:
Jan van Eyck Academie
Academieplein 1
6211 KM Maastricht
The Netherlands
Admission free
Information/registration:
Winnie.koekelbergh@janvaneyck.nl
T +31 (0)43 350 37 43
For more information,
Please see:
www.janvaneyck.nl
Sponsors:
Jan Van Eyck Academie, Super!
Categories: Architecture
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