Alice Martin, Carys Roberts, Aidan Harper, Will Stronge, Katja Kipping, David Graeber Session organised by: 4 Day Week Campaign, Autonomy, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Berlin The demand for a reduction of work is as old as the Labour movement itself. Generations of trade unionists and socialists knew th

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...