The first metalepsis seminar (Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center) was supplemented by a bi-weekly, sometimes weekly “newslitter” (borrowing from James Joyce’s habit of switching “litter” for “letter”) covering seminar sessions, opening new topics, and providing links to sources. When the seminar went dormant in the spring of 2014, the newslitter continued, and though the summer and fall of 2014 occasional issues appeared.
Newslitters were originally focused on Lacanian themes, later they branched out into popular culture studies, especially film. Later numbers raised the issue of “jouissance 2,” Lacan’s unfinished project for returning to the “act,” the stage of Being occulted by the (forced) choice of the subject to enter into the Symbolic. As “occulted” and never truly foreclosed, Being remains an option for subjectivity, but only for subjectivity realized in its radical feminine mode, the Psyche of Cupid and Psyche. Mythologies are all about this rescue operation.
“By coming up against its own impossibility, teaching is refreshed.”
—Jacques Lacan, “There Are Four Discourses,” Ornicar? (1979)
• August 29. 2013 / first session: Architecture Theory Is for Idiiots
• September 5, 2013 / second session: Nabokov’s Pale Fire, Francis Alÿss, Aphasia, Redwoods
• September 12, 2013 / third session: Möbius Bands, Aeneas at Cumæ, Urban Infill
• September 26, 2013 / fourth session: Representation, Interpretation, Meaning in General
• September 23, 2014 / Conviviality; Arguing Metonymy; New Cider House Rules
• September 29, 2014 / Internal Resilience with “Three Critiques”
• October 11, 2014 / From the Three Critiques to Discovery of the True
• October 15, 2014 / The Answer to Last Week’s Puzzler
• January 1, 2014 / The Seminar that Forgot How to Die
• January 15, 2014 / Clarify! Clarify! Clarify!
• January 22, 2014 / Chirality and DIana/Djana
• January 29, 2014 / Is Chirality a Quality of Thinking?
• February 5, 2014 / A Case for Sinthomatic Melancholy
• Febuary 12, 2014 / External Brains: The Truth Is Out There – Literally!
• February 15, 2014 / Special Valentine’s Day Edition
• February 19, 2014 / Cathexis (Investment) and Pulsion
• February 26, 2014 / The Zairja, Ideology, (Radical) Theory as Resistance
• March 5, 2014 / Richard Kearney; Cathected Field of Youngjin Park
• March 12, 2 / Sinthome and Communications Theory
• March 19, 2014 / Built upon (Tough) Love
• March 26, 2014 / What Is a Proliferation of Signifiers?
• April 2, 2014 / From Diana/Diana to Diotima to Beatr9
• April 9, 2014 / Žižek’s Idea of Theory • Catalepsis • Humanism vs. the Real of the Sinthome
• April 16, 2014 / Adventure of the Sinthome: Medievalism, Eros, Radical Feminism
• April 23, 2014 / Claudio Sgarbi on True Love; Cataleptic Conclusions
• April 30, 2014 / Catalepsis, Disciplinary Actions
• May 7, 2014 / Acoustics, Song-Lines, Raising the Dead
• May 14, 2014 / Zairjas and Carnival • Psychotheology • Houses in Heaven
• May 21, 2014 / Lofting, Interior Dimensions (of Love), Flying in Dreams