Sylvère Lotringer - Videos

Lotringer, literary critic and cultural theorist talking about biopower, Michel Foucault, Jean Baudrillard, and subjectivity. In this lecture Sylvère Lotringer discusses the concepts of sovereignty, death, masters and slaves, Georges Bataille, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Jeremy Bentham, in relationship to neo-liberalism, class consciousness, Fordism and post-Fordism. European Graduate School EGS

Sylvère Lotringer, literary critic and cultural theorist talking about Friedrich Nietzsche, guilt, debt, power, cruelty and the production of subjectivity. In this lecture Sylvère Lotringer discusses the concepts of the Panopiticon, the plague, control, prisons, discipline and punishment focusing on the philosophy of Michel Foucault. European Graduate School EGS

Sylvère Lotringer, literary critic and cultural theorist talking about Jean Baudrillard, the commodity fetish, Karl Marx and the critique of ideologies. In this lecture Sylvère Lotringer discusses the concepts of the ideology of ideology, the totem, mana, seduction and exchange value in relationship to Claude Lévi-Strauss and Michel Foucault focusing on the underlying social codes that lay beneath fetishised objects. European Graduate School EGS

Sylvère Lotringer, literary critic and cultural theorist talking about Jean Baudrillard's theory of consumption as a form of production in post-Fordism, simulation, nature, reality and artifice. In this lecture Sylvère Lotringer discusses the concepts of consumer society, the Situationist International and Michel Foucault, focusing on the structuralism of Levi-Strauss and Roland Barthes. European Graduate School EGS

Sylvère Lotringer, literary critic and cultural theorist talking about the historical process that transformed workers into consumers, Henri Lefebvre, Simone Weil, Ferdinand de Saussure, Marshall McLuhan, Antonin Artaud, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. In this lecture Sylvère Lotringer situates the thought of Jean Baudrillard in relation to Marxism, structuralism, the Situationist International and May 68. Professor Lotringer focuses on the way class struggle shifted from the factory to everyday life as understood by Lefebvre. Special attention is given to the process of becoming. Just as Simone Weil became a factory worker in order to understand Fordism, Lefebvre and Baudrillard focus on the everyday life of being a consumer, the semiotic system that controls them, and the production of desire. European Graduate School EGS

Sylvère Lotringer, literary critic and cultural theorist talking about Jean Baudrillard's "Symbolic Exchange and Death," Throstein Veblen and the leisure class. In this lecture Sylvère Lotringer discusses the concepts of potlatch, sacrifice and exchange through the work of Marcel Mauss, Georges Bataille, Antonin Artaud, Marshall McLuhan, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.European Graduate School EGS

Sylvère Lotringer, literary critic and cultural theorist talking about Jean Baudrillard, Gilles Deleuze, simulation, and reality. In this lecture Sylvère Lotringer discusses the concepts of deterrence, Watergate, Disneyland, Friedrich Nietzsche, Plato, Paolo Uccello, Perspective, Antonin Artaud, production, punishment, sovereignty, Michel Foucault, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, focusing on symbolic exchange, the spectacle and guilt. European Graduate School EGS

Lotringer, reads Baudrillard's "Symbolic Exchange and Death" which, Lotringer claims, builds a bridge back from Battaile and Artaud to the disappointments of post-1968 at the same time the 1976 text represents for Lotringer the articulation of a pivotal moment in French thought when French philosophy 'ended' and became media theory.

Lotringer speaks about his new anthology of 30 anti-capitalist texts. Lotringer describes capitalism as invisibly shaping everything that happens in this world and counters Negri's call to go to the 'other side' (of capitalism) and claims there is no other side any more.

Interview about Antonin Artaud with Raffaele Ferro.