ESTETISK SEMINAR: Robert Pfaller (Wien): "IS REASON THE ENEMY OF PLEASURE? – A MATERIALIST ACCOUNT"
torsdag 3. oktober 2013 kl. 16:00 på Universitetet i Oslo, Eilert Sundts hus (SV)
ROBERT PFALLER is professor of Philosophy at the Universität für angewandte Kunst in Wien. His fields of research include psychoanalysis, art, materialism, postmodernity, among many others. Pfaller reached international recognition for his research in “Interpassivity” (2000), a concept he has developed in cooperation with Slavoj Žižek.
Thursday Oct 3, 2013, 16:00, Aud. 4, Eilert Sundts hus, Universitetet i Oslo Blindern
Robert Pfaller is the author of Zweite Welten und andere Lebenselexiere (Fischer Verlag, 2012), Wofür es sich zun leben lohnt. Elemente materialistischer Philosophie (Fischer Verlag, 2011) and Ästhetik des Interpassivität (Fundus, 2008); in other languages: (2009) Sublimation and ‚Schweinerei‘. Theoretical Place and Cultural-critical Function of a Psychoanalytic Concept, in: JEP, Journal of European Psychoanalysis, No. 29, 2009 – II: 11-47; (2008) Materialism’s Comedy, in: Bedeutung Magazine. Philosophy – Current Affairs – Art – Literature – Review – Analysis. Vol. 1, London: Bedeutung Publishing Ltd., 2008: 20-28; (2007) Why Zizek? – Interpassivity and Misdemeanours: The Analysis of Ideology and the Zizekian Toolbox, in: International Journal of Zizek Studies, vol. 1, number 1; (2006) Splendor and Secrets of the Evident. Psychoanalysis and Philosophy in the Work of Erwin Wurm, in: Erwin Wurm, The artist who swallowed the world, ed. By Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2006: 283-288; (2006) The Familiar Unknown, the Uncanny, the Comic, in: Slavoj Zizek (ed.): Lacan. The Silent Partners, London/New York: Verso, 2006: 198-216.