Monday 03.01.10 -- Reading Discussion Follow up

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Informe, Abstraction, Ecstasy III : Narcissism

CONTENTS:

1. About this Monday
2. Readings
3. link to Informe, Abstraction, Ecstasy III : Narcissism

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1. About this Monday

What: Reading Discussion
When: Monday 03.01.10
Where: 16Beaver Street, 4th Floor
When: 7:30 pm
Who: Free and open to all

This monday we will have a follow-up discussion for the event Informe, Abstraction, Ecstasy III: Narcissism for those who attended (and for all others interested) in order to foster a critical discussion about some of the issues raised during the evening. Short selections of the films will be reviewed to refresh the structure of the program for those in attendance.

The category of narcissism was introduced in the light of Deleuze’s work on the phantasm in Logique du Sens from 1968 – a theoretical framework (established by Freud and French psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche) taken up by Takashi Ito’s visual material from the program. Richard Foreman’s City Archives piece (performed during the evening) will be reviewed, and Takashi Ito’s “Grim” from 1985 will be seen in its entirety. The idea of “narcissistic frustration” in relation to phantasmic desire – the frustrations inherent to the narcissistic project (seen in the performance works of Chris Burden and Joan Jonas, as well as the Warner short “Duck Amuck”) – will lead us to a critical formulation of Lacan’s notion of the sinthome. The sinthome, difficult to articulate, is described by Lacan as a creative/analytic method of holding open or transfiguring the contraction of language in order to create a structure for one’s spiritual or artistic ecstasy. The image is seen to be functioning as sinthome. The complications of this are seen in the light of the works from the program.

The evening is meant as an opportunity to open up the intentions (both preliminary and retrospective) for the program and for the series for group discussion, and as a prelude to the fourth night of the series, prepared in collaboration with Leslie Thornton and Thomas Zummer.  

Discussion is participatory and we encourage those planning to attend to review the readings, available below as pdfs.

We look forward to seeing you!

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2. Readings

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Rosalind Krauss, Video – The Aesthetics of Narcissism
http://www.sduk.us/beaver/PDF/krauss_narcissism.pdf

Roberto Harari, How James Joyce Made His Name – A Reading of the Final Lacan
http://www.sduk.us/beaver/PDF/harari_jouissances.pdf

Jacques Derrida, The Double Session, in Disseminations
http://www.sduk.us/beaver/PDF/derrida_doublesessI.pdf

Gilles Deleuze, Thirty-First Series of Thought, in the Logic of Sense
http://www.sduk.us/beaver/PDF/deleuze_31stseries.pdf

Jacques Lacan, Seminar 23 – The Sinthome
http://www.sduk.us/beaver/PDF/Lacan-Seminar23_Sinthome_English.pdf

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3. link to Informe, Abstraction, Ecstasy III : Narcissism

http://www.16beavergroup.org/monday/archives/003029.php#more