Victor Vitanza - Videos

Victor Vitanza talking about Jean-François Lyotard's Libidinal Economy. In this lecture he discusses organic body, semiotics, signs, the coming community, the libidinal body, the libidinal economy, the Mobius strip as compossibility, the Klein jar, subjects and objects, the post critical object, the body as politics, the theatre, the unconscious mind, new beings, critique, the political economy, the theatre of power, investment, the body as surface, the zero as ideal form, Bataille, the sacrificial economy. European Graduate School EGS

Victor Vitanza on Jean-François Lyotard's The Differend. In this lecture he discusses linkages, catechism, production of description derived from prescription, the human desire to connect, Puritans, Sodom and Gomorrah, incest taboo, hemophilia, the Harmonites, politics as threat to the differend, equity, Gorgias and Gertrude Stein, Heraclitus' teachers, Sibyls, signs, counting systems, painting, John Cage's Seminar on Nothing, genre, politics, democracy, residue of differends, species and genus analytics, nothing, the unconscious mind, destruction, Blanchot's The Writing of the Disaster, community, Joyce Carol Oates, and Ovid. European Graduate School EGS

Victor Vitanza talking about Jean-François Lyotard's Libidinal Economy and Just Gaming. In this lecture he discusses the fourth day, supreme fictions, pagans as artists, new rules pagan game, Tegwar, Parmenides, proper names, language games, doctrine, Nietzsche, time, Heidegger, history, chronology, the fifth day, hesitation, the parallax view, Moby Dick, termites, Karatani, the communications triangle, the messenger, the listener, radical passivity, the disciple, transference, Leibniz, geometries, the Mobius strip, Karl Popper, tekhne, reverse orientations, the scales of justice, the game of terrorism. European Graduate School EGS

Victor Vitanza on Jean-François Lyotard's Libidinal Economy. In this lecture he discusses the labyrinth, terror, communication, the wingless insect, Borges, fugue states, the cry, semiotics, signs, the addressor, Deleuze and Guattari, the libidinal and political economy, Dora's cough, prostitution, and libidinal energy. European Graduate School EGS

Victor Vitanza talking about Jean-François Lyotard's Just Gaming and The Libidinal Economy. In this lecture he discusses the Cashinahua Indians, narration, differends, idioms, Helen of Troy, Cassandra, Oedipus, discourse figures, variations, anachronisms, the movie Inception, electroniclogic. European Graduate School EGS

Victor Vitanza talking about Jean-François Lyotard's Just Gaming and The Libidinal Economy. In this lecture he defines terms often used in Jean-François Lyotard's work, discussing such notions such as Ereignis, excluded third, the addressee, the genre of justice, the genre of politics, the logic of the cut, protocol, syntax, the discourse figure, description, prescription, the Moses Game, the Pagan game, determinant, indeterminant, supplements, compossible, incompossible, stasis, identity and noncontradiction. European Graduate School EGS