Lecture by Aaron Schuster "The Pleasure of Complaining: Lacan and Deleuze"

Date: 18:00- , June, 27, 2018
Place: Bld. 18, 4F, Collaboration Room 3, The University of Tokyo, Komaba

Aaron Schuster (BA Amherst College; MA, PhD Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) is a philosopher and writer, based in Amsterdam. He is the author of The Trouble with Pleasure: Deleuze and Psychoanalysis (Short Circuits Series, MIT Press, 2016). His book Spasm: A Philosophy of Tickling is forthcoming from Cabinet Books, and he is a co-author, together with Eric Santner and William Mazzarella, of Sovereignty Inc.: Three Inquiries in Politics and Enjoyment, to be published in the Trios Series of the University of Chicago Press. He has written on such topics as the history of levitation, the politics of sleep, the psychopathology of AI, the debt drive, the comedy of Lubitsch, Genet's theater, Kafka's philosopher dog, Platonov's Anti-Sexus, and complaining. He has been a fellow at the Theory Department of the Jan van Eyck Academie, the Institute for Cultural Inquiry ICI Berlin, and the Institute for Advanced Studies Southeast Europe, Rijeka, Croatia. In 2016, he was a visiting professor at the University of Chicago, at the Center for Disciplinary Innovation, the Franke Institute for the Humanities. Currently he is a Society for the Humanities Fellow at Cornell University.

Pre-lecture material is available. Contact Hiroki Yoshikuni (yoshikn[at]boz.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp).

Free Admission, No Registration Required.