EGS Video Lectures 2011

?Anne Dufourmantelle, philosopher, psychoanalyst and author, talking about the non-relationship between sexuality and philosophy in the Baroque era and seventeenth century. In this lecture, Anne Dufourmantelle discusses neurosis, literature, the illusion of truth, the symptomatology of consciousness, sadism, masochism, sexual freedom and the psychoanalytic conception of a cure in relationship to Peter Sloterdijk, Miguel de Cervantes, Plato, Friedrich Nietzsche, Baruch Spinoza, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Marquis de Sade and René Descartes focusing on Don Quixote, desire, trauma, sublimation, the animal, the infinite body, the political subject and the Other. European Graduate School EGS

?Anne Dufourmantelle, philosopher, psychoanalyst and author, talking about the non-relationship between sexuality and philosophy. In this lecture, Anne Dufourmantelle discusses the history of philosophy, the relationship between body and soul, tragedy, Greek virtue, Dionysian wisdom, Socrates and Christianity in relationship to Plato, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Baruch Spinoza, Immanuel Kant and Soren Kierkegaard focusing on desire, shame, original sin, appetite and the philosophical concept of essence. European Graduate School EGS

?Anne Dufourmantelle, philosopher, psychoanalyst and author, talking about the philosophy of hospitality. In this lecture, Anne Dufourmantelle discusses psychoanalysis, the figure of the master, the subject, the foreigner, death, Antigone, Ulysses and Oedipus in relationship to Jacques Derrida, Immanuel Levinas, Immanuel Kant, Socrates, Jacques Lacan and Sophocles focusing on parricide, the Other, hubris, violence, hostility, haunting and truth. European Graduate School EGS

Manuel De Landa, philosopher, artist and author, talking about the ontology of Aristotle and Gilles Deleuze. In this lecture, Manuel De Landa discusses metaphysics, universality, particularity, generality, singularity, realism, mathematics, and social science in relationship to Leonhard Euler, Kurt Gödel, Henri Poincaré and Michel Foucault focusing on a priori truths, virtual capacities, affects, differential calculus, necessity and contingency. European Graduate School EGS

Wolfgang Schirmacher, philosopher and author, talking about the four Kantian questions. In this lecture, Wolfgang Schirmacher discusses knowledge, hope, ethics, subjectivity, objectivity, methodology and the human being in relationship to Hegel, Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Edmund Husserl, Aristotle and Elia Suleiman focusing on Kantian dualism, Hegelian dialectics, phenomenology, the real and perspecitivism. European Graduate School EGS

Victor Vitanza on Jean-François Lyotard's The Differend. In this lecture he introduces The Differend, screens Herzog's Where the Green Ants Dream, Proposition 7 of Wittgenstein's Tractatus, the law, Bill Readings, measure and value as a disease, Chatwin's song, termites, language games, conflicts, the reading of tragedies, community as operative resistance, nothingness and Gorgias, theodicy, Ereignis, Derrida's Archive Fever, Locke, linkages. European Graduate School EGS

Victor Vitanza on Jean-François Lyotard's The Differend. In this lecture he discusses Gorgias, nihilism, antidotes, neg-entropy, silence, rules of linkage, genres of discourse, conjugation and Moby Dick's Pip, Avital Ronell's Test Drive, Gertude Stein, parataxis, hypotaxis, being, not being, the abgrund, Derrida's Difference and Repetition, Mildred's Umbrella, utopia, Heidegger, Ereignis, variants, modals, contingencies, pagas, sens. European Graduate School EGS

Victor Vitanza on Jean-François Lyotard's Libidinal Economy. In this lecture he discusses Marx's desire, Merleau-Ponty, libidinal cartography, the effects of writing, writing the event, the "mad" text of Marx, Little Girl Marx, the (in)organic body, the dead body, libidinal economy as capitalist economy, Tristram Shandy, the Harlequin, the thinking of community, primitive society, Just Gaming and The Differend, alienation, libidinal dignity, prostitution, the mouth. European Graduate School EGS

Victor Vitanza on Jean-François Lyotard's Libidinal Economy. In this lecture he discusses Augustine, Varro, the divine, theatrical theology, flux, intensities, running theatrics, Nietzsche, Marx, fluids, violence, performance, sublime utopia, building a new morality, capitalism as libidinal economy, a screening of Marx The Video, language of the body, consumption, hysteria, the desiring body, the undisciplined body. European Graduate School EGS

Claire Denis, filmmaker and director talking about her film making process and technique. In this lecture Claire Denis discusses some of the technical aspects of her work, working with HD vs. 35 mm film, Super 35 mm and CinemaScope, the depth of field and composition of shots, the differences between digital and screening films in the theater in relation to rehearsing, her film "35 Shots of Rum," slavery, colonialism, France, hair as a racial and political signifier focusing on narrative and non-narrative film making. This is the fifth lecture of Professor Denis's 2011 course on her work. European Graduate School EGS

Victor Vitanza talking about Jean-François Lyotard's Just Gaming and The Libidinal Economy. In this lecture he discusses passages from Jean-François Lyotard's Just Gaming, bringing in notions such as history, antinomies, fusis, Nicomachean Ethics, Kant, the third, Marx, Badiou, Zizek, the three pragmatic conditions, casuistry, Jesuits, forms, Nietzsche, ethos, prescriptive, constatives, true stasis, the rule of the undetermined, Tibble, sophistry, Gorgias, Parmenides, trilemma, compossibility, third terms, speech acts. European Graduate School EGS

Wolfgang Schirmacher, philosopher and author, talking about Geert Lovink's background and topics from his book Zero Comments. In this lecture, Wolfgang Schirmacher discusses methodology, the art of living, language games, facebook and social networking in relationship to Jean Baudrillard, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Walter Benjamin, Hegel, and Jean-Paul Sartre focusing on terrorism, totalization, the ad hoc, globalization, blogging, youth movements and forgiveness. European Graduate School EGS

Victor Vitanza talking about Jean-François Lyotard's Just Gaming and The Libidinal Economy. In this lecture he discusses the libidinal economy, Bataille, nihilism, the addressee, logos, Heraclitus, paganism, judgment without criteria, The Pagan Game, Tegwar, Ereignis, schizophrenia, modernity, will, justice, the tare, Aristotle, Kant, thirds, judgement, aesthetics, the discourse figure and language. European Graduate School EGS

Claire Denis, filmmaker and director talking about her latest film "To the Devil," Jean Bena, and the relationship between fiction and documentary. In this lecture Claire Denis discusses gold mining, mineral extraction, colonialism, the Alukus, violence, slavery and the mafia in relation to her writing and film making process focusing on the process of building trust across cultural and racial differences. This is the first lecture of Professor Denis's 2011 course on her work. European Graduate School EGS

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

Wolfgang Schirmacher, philosopher and author, talking about the end of metaphysics. In this lecture, Wolfgang Schirmacher discusses metaphysics as doctrine, the event of technology and living the good life, or gelingen Leben , in relationship to Plato, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Jean Baudrillard, Spinoza, and Giorgio Agamben focusing on Ereignis as life technique, the inhumanity of acting and the ecological crisis. European Graduate School EGS

Volker Schlöndorff, German filmmaker, lecturing on his film Death of a Salesman (1985). In this lecture Volker Schlöndorff discusses Arthur Miller, American culture, consumerism, values, generational conflict, tragedy, the end of idealism and the dissolution of the American dream. Wolker Schlondorff also discusses the stage design and the use of music in film, as well as the overall process of making the film. At the end of the lecture, the filmmaker answers a number of students`questions. 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

Volker Schlöndorff, German filmmaker, lecturing on his film The Ninth Day (2004). In this lecture, Volker Schlondorff speaks about Father Jean Bernard, Dachau, morality, power, temptation, Satan, decision, strengh, Primo Levi, Jesus and Judas, necessity and failure, God. He also discusses the problems and strategies of monologue and dialogue, and the minimalism of scripts. Volker Schlondorff, during this lecture, also shows a series of clips from The Ninth Day (2004). European Graduate School EGS

Werner Hamacher, literary theorist and philosopher, discusses the work of French historian and psychoanalyst Pierre Legendre. Professor Hamacher covers language, speech, culture, right, justice, Jacques Lacan, Sigmund Freud, and the notions of the imaginary, the symbolic, and hypersymbolic. This is Professor Hamacher's open lecture in the 2011 academic year. European Graduate School EGS

Simon Critchley, philosopher and author, fielding questions about the relationship between philosophy and tragedy with specific focus on the queering of gender within tragedy. In this lecture Simon Critchley discusses ritual and religion, sacrifice, cannibalism, Georges Bataille, skepticism, the chorus and Obama in relationship to psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, the discourse of the master, the hysteric and the university, Alain Badiou, Jacques Derrida's "Glas," Wallace Stevens, Samuel Beckett, desire, Hamlet, lamentation, Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary," Henrik Ibsen, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Steiner focusing on Judith Butler, law, Shakespeare, and the city. European Graduate School EGS

Werner Hamacher, literary theorist and philosopher, delivers a lecture on John Milton's Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce. Professor Hamacher covers parts Genesis and Proverbs from the Bible, the historical struggle over divorce, sexuation, and language and the constitution of being. This is the eighth lecture of Professor Hamacher's 2011 course, Justice in Language. European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2011

Simon Critchley, philosopher and author, talking about Hegel's "Aesthetics," the dialectical dynamic of tragedy and the tragic dynamic of dialectics centered on the resolution of moral ambiguity. In this lecture, Simon Critchley discusses FWJ Schelling, Karl Marx, Martin Heidegger, the divine life of the community, the relationship between art, religion and philosophy focusing on Christianity, the trinity, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Theodor Adorno, Antigone, substance and subjectivity. European Graduate School EGS 2011

Simon Critchley, philosopher and author, talking about sovereignty, tyranny, law, tragedy, and the politics of fear. In this lecture, Simon Critchley discusses Carl Schmitt, the friend distinction, the construction of identity, the Bush administration, the Tea Party and the the terror of French revolution in relationship to Walter Benjamin, Jacob Taubes, Saint Paul, messianic time, Theodor Adorno focusing on Friedrich Nietzsche's "The Birth of Tragedy," Richard Wagner and Friedrich Hölderlin's "The Death of Empedocles." European Graduate School EGS 2011

Simon Critchley, philosopher and author, talking about sovereignty, tyranny, law, tragedy, and the politics of fear. In this lecture, Simon Critchley discusses Carl Schmitt, the friend distinction, the construction of identity, the Bush administration, the Tea Party and the the terror of French revolution in relationship to Walter Benjamin, Jacob Taubes, Saint Paul, messianic time, Theodor Adorno focusing on Friedrich Nietzsche's "The Birth of Tragedy," Richard Wagner and Friedrich Hölderlin's "The Death of Empedocles." European Graduate School EGS

Simon Critchley, philosopher and author, talking about tragedy's relation to philosophy. In this lecture, Simon Critchley discusses Dionysian lethargy, disgust, partial agency, traumatic affect, monstrosity, the sublime, Hamlet, Oedipus and psychoanalysis in relationship to Friedrich Nietzsche, Jacques Lacan, Kant, Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida and Walter Benjamin focusing on lethargy in The Birth of Tragedy, disgust as an aesthetic judgment of taste, the dialectic of action and knowledge, and the double function of monstrosity. European Graduate School EGS

Simon Critchley, philosopher and author, talking about Martin Heidegger's reading of tragedy, especially Oedipus and Antigone, as a movement from appearance towards being. In this lecture, Simon Critchley discusses Heidegger's relationship to the Nazis, Volk, "Geist," Theodor Adorno and Jürgen Habermas in relationship to Hubert Dreyfus, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Dominique Janicaud, Giorgio Agamben and Parmenides, focusing on truth, the strangeness of human beings, power, terror, violence and anxiety. European Graduate School EGS

Werner Hamacher, literary theorist and philosopher, continues his reading of Immanuel Kant's Doctrine of Right. Professor Hamacher covers such topics as right, having, being, being-there, ontology, Sigmund Freud, and Kant's transcendental idealism. This is the sixth lecture of Professor Hamacher's 2011 course, Justice in Language. European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2011

Werner Hamacher, literary theorist and philosopher, discusses Immanuel Kant's Doctrine of Right. Professor Hamacher explores the right, law, form, universality, coercion, exchange, and the Kantian idea. This is the fourth lecture of Professor Hamacher's 2011 course, Justice in Language. European Graduate School EGS

Simon Critchley, philosopher and author, talking about fate, perversion, law, sovereignty, kinship and incest in Oedipus. In this lecture, Simon Critchley discusses tragedy, autonomy, action, prophesy, shame, chance, freedom and determinism in relationship to rage, blindness, knowledge and monstrosity, focusing on psychoanalysis, Jocasta's desire, Antigone, Judith Butler, Philip K. Dick and Judge Schreber. European Graduate School EGS

Diane Davis, rhetorician and post-structuralist thinker, continues with her course on the thought of Jacques Derrida. Professor Davis begins her lecture on Derrida's text on forgiveness in On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness. Professor Davis covers forgiveness, the unforgivable, the subject, sovereignty, mastery, memory, alterity, the event, and Immanuel Kant. This is the tenth lecture of Professor Davis's 2011 course on Jacques Derrida. European Graduate School EGS

Diane Davis, rhetorician and post-structuralist thinker, continues with her course on the thought of Jacques Derrida. Professor Davis continues her reading of Derrida's Of Hospitality, touching on lying, the imperative of veracity, the imperative of hospitality, the Other, the internet, communication technologies, the home, and the state. This is the eighth lecture of Professor Davis's 2011 course on Jacques Derrida. European Graduate School EGS

Simon Critchley, philosopher and author, talking about ancient Greek tragedy and comedy, Plato, Aristotle and Aristophanes. In this lecture Simon Critchley discusses humor, mimesis, memes and poetry in relationship to Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis of jokes, sublimation, affect and festivals focusing on laughter and catharsis. European Graduate School EGS

Werner Hamacher continues his reading of Thomas Hobbes's major political-philosophical work, Leviathan. Professor Hamacher moves into Chapters XVI and XVII, guided by the question, How is a community constituted apart from each individual's renunciation of their rights and liberties? Hamacher ultimately provides an insightful reading of Hobbes's Leviathan as an account of what happens every time we speak. This is the third lecture of Professor Hamacher's 2011 course, Justice in Language. European Graduate School EGS

Diane Davis, rhetorician and post-structuralist thinker, continues with her course on the thought of Jacques Derrida. Professor Davis delivers a closer reading of the first part of Derrida's Of Hospitality. In her lecture, Professor Davis covers justice, the law and laws of hospitality, Emmanuel Levinas, Plato's Sophist, the host, the hostage, the guest, the foreigner, the question of being, the third party, and the infamous story of Lot and his daughters. This is the sixth lecture of Professor Davis's 2011 course on Jacques Derrida. European Graduate School EGS

Simon Critchley, philosopher and author, talking about tragedy, moral ambiguity, the city-state, ritual, the relationship between the dead and the living, temporal disjunction between the past and present, Antigone, Hegel, ghosts, power and gender trouble. In this lecture, Simon Critchley discusses Socrates, Plato, Oedipus, Hamlet, the spectacle, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Bernard Williams, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Pierre Vernant, Pierre Vidal-Naquet focusing on law, myth, and theater. European Graduate School EGS

Simon Critchley, philosopher and author, talking about the tragedy as the transition from myth to law and the relationship between theater and philosophy, Plato's Republic, moral ambiguity, law, tyranny and sovereignty. In this lecture, Simon Critchley discusses Socrates, subjectivity, Aristotle and hamartia in relationship to Karl Marx, Georg Lukács, Thomas Hobbes, the force of law, Hölderlin, Hegel, Oedipus, Kant, the sublime and the monstrous, focusing on theater, dialogue and mimesis. European Graduate School EGS

Werner Hamacher, literary theorist and philosopher, begins his reading of Thomas Hobbes's major political-philosophical work, Leviathan. He resituates Leviathan as an argument of a community or state's constitution through a contract and, more specifically, the use of language. This is the first lecture of Professor Hamacher's 2011 course, Justice in Language. European Graduate School EGS

Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky Artist, Musician and Mitchell Joachim, architect, talking about the dialectical tension between landscape and musical composition. In the lecture Paul Miller and Mitchell Joachim discuss the concepts of collage aesthetics, dialectical montage, Gestell, storytelling and perception as architecture in relationship to Casper David Friedrich, DW Griffith, Martin Heidegger, Richard Wagner and Sergei Eisenstein focusing on film, The Birth of a Nation, sampling, acoustic portraits, non-linear editing, graphic design and compositional strategy. European Graduate School EGS

Diane Davis, rhetorician and post-structuralist thinker, begins her summer seminar on the work of Jacques Derrida. Professor Davis covers linguistics, language, meaning, Ferdinand de Saussure, metaphysics, deconstruction, and writing. This is the first lecture of Professor Davis's 2011 course on Jacques Derrida. European Graduate School EGS

Diane Davis, rhetorician and post-structuralist thinker, continues with her course on the thought of Jacques Derrida. Professor Davis covers Signature Event Context, Of Hospitality, Emmanuel Levinas, the law(s) of hospitality, and Avital Ronell. This is the fourth lecture of Professor Davis's 2011 course on Jacques Derrida. European Graduate School EGS

Claire Denis, filmmaker and director talking about narrative structures in film and the novels of William Faulkner. In this lecture, Claire Denis discusses Faulkner's novels "The Hamlet," "The Wild Palms," "Pylon," and it's film adaptation by Douglas Sirk "The Tarnished Angels," and Faulkner's time in Hollywood as a scriptwriter in relationship to Dashiell Hammett's "The Dain Curse," "The Pink Panther," and Harmony Korine's "Mr. Lonley" focusing on the Snopes family, the American South, noir, and comedy. This is the eighth lecture of Professor Denis's 2011 course on her work. European Graduate School EGS

Claire Denis, filmmaker and director talking about her film making process and technique. In this lecture Claire Denis discusses narrative and non-narrative film making and the medium of cinema focusing on her film "Friday Night." In this lecture Claire Denis discusses the nature of reality and parallel realism, subjective narrative, voice overs, the relationship between cinema and photography, experimental film, telephones, radio and TV in relationship to mastery, ellipsis, editing, sequence, time, silent films, theater, commercial films and the film industry and YouTube focusing on Tim Burton, Christianity, politics and nationalist stories, the Cold War. This is the sixth lecture of Professor Denis's 2011 course on her work. European Graduate School EGS