[ecrea] Conference: Psychoanalysis and the Posthuman

> I am very pleased to be able to alert you to the 
> conference outlined below. To register just follow this link:
> http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/modern-languages/research/psychoanalysis_and_posthuman.php
>
> Psychoanalysis and the Posthuman
> 7-8th September
> The University of Nottingham
> UK
>
>
> The field of the 'posthuman' emerged in the 
> mid-1990s as a major area of academic enquiry. 
> It examines the extent to which our 
> understanding of 'the human' is rapidly being 
> redefined by advances within cybernetics, 
> informatics, artificial intelligence and 
> genetics. Posthumanists argue that these 
> technoscientific developments have a 
> transformative impact on both the concept and the experience of subjectivity.
>
> Given this core concern with evolving forms of 
> contemporary subjectivity, it is remarkable that 
> posthumanism's engagement with psychoanalysis 
> has thus far been so limited. Even critical 
> discourses on the posthuman that are guarded 
> about the emancipatory promise of technology 
> have claimed that psychoanalytic models of 
> subjectivity have been rendered obsolete by 
> recent 'informational' theories of the human. 
> Yet this lack of engagement applies in the other 
> direction too. Psychoanalytic cultural theorists 
> such as Slavoj Zizek have tended to find only 
> alarming ethical consequences in the cultural 
> shift that new technologies represent towards an 
> elision of sexual difference and a 'flattening 
> out' of the other. Rarely has the engagement 
> with psychoanalysis by the posthuman taken full 
> account of the evolution in psychoanalytic 
> thought since Lacan's early writings, and 
> conversely, psychoanalysis has seldom engaged 
> with the notion of the posthuman as a means of 
> contextualizing its own clinical work in the contemporary setting.
>
> The aim of Psychoanalysis and the Posthuman is 
> therefore to address this lack of engagement by 
> facilitating a sustained encounter between 
> critical posthumanism and psychoanalysis. All 
> are very welcome to what promises to be an 
> extremely stimulating event! Unwaged pay only £20, waged £30.
>
>
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