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Interview by Robert Rowland Smith in an exclusive How To Academy Event.
Masterclass: Masterclass: Transcendental Subjectivity, Sexual Difference, Brain Sciences Part 2. The two classes will examine how Lacan’s teaching enables us to grasp sexual difference as the constitutive feature of transcendental subjectivity, plus how recent advances in brain sciences continue to rely on transcendental presuppositions. The question to be discussed is: how will the new results of brain sciences, as well as the digitalization of our lives, affect subjectivity, especially in i...
Part 1 of the Masterclass: Between Philosophy and Psychoanalysis Although psychoanalysis is not philosophy, its subversive dimension is grounded in the fact that it is not simply a particular science or practice but has radical consequences for philosophy: psychoanalysis is a “no” to philosophy that is internal to it, i.e., psychoanalytic theory refers to a gap/antagonism which philosophy blurs but which simultaneously grounds philosophy (Heidegger called this gap ontological difference). Wit...
Lecture and Q&A by Robert Anton Wilson at Sonoma State University, November 12, 1989. Topics range across the Bush–Quayle administration, the fall of the Berlin Wall, Rajneeshpuram, the apotheosis of power, the history of intoxication, the Pooka, the John Hull / Contra-cocaine affair, and a long extended Q&A.
Originally aired as Salon #387 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. "Psychedelics, by melting assumptions, by destroying the expectations of rigid educations creates a fluidity of possibility that may allow answers to emerge. And it's the only thing that I've seen that operates on a time scale sufficiently short to have an impact."