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Louis-Georges Schwartz Sessions:1-4pm EST, 10-1 PST
How is it possible for the world to witness atrocities such as the destruction of Gaza on live stream without anyone stoping them? Using readings from and about Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Felix Guattari, Kathi Weeks, Wages For Facebook, and Wendy Brown, I will suggest that witnessing in and of itself cannot open a path to action against genocide because (international) law has no guarantor - as Lacan put it, ‘the big other does not exist.’ What does exist is market subjectivity in the form of homo economicus for whom morality is one among many ideological commodities. We will also consider the circulation of images of torture at Abu Ghraib and of police lynchings of Black people in the US. My hope is that we will be able to articulate a mode of internationalist proletarian self organization capable of simultaneously destroying the marketplace of ideas, and ending genocide through anticapitalist activity grounded in Yasmin El-Rifae and Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen's suggestion that we, as a class, have a specific way of sharing our mortality which binds us to one another when can neither moral law nor “material interest,” neither “mechanical” nor “organic solidarity. Other readings include Haidar Eid, Hannah Black, J G Ballard, Brad Evans, Amy Sodaro, Errol Morris, Lela Kallili, Judith Butler, and Joshua Clover.
Louis-Georges Schwartz is a communist. He taught film studies at several US universities for about 30 years before dereliction of his post. Currently he works as a nonfiction writer and lives a life of destitution with two dogs. You can read more of him at Commidharma on Substack.
Full fee: $450, Reduced fee: $250.
Or contact psychosocial.foundation@gmail.com for scholarship information.
Louis-Georges Schwartz Sessions:1-4pm EST, 10-1 PST
How is it possible for the world to witness atrocities such as the destruction of Gaza on live stream without anyone stoping them? Using readings from and about Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Felix Guattari, Kathi Weeks, Wages For Facebook, and Wendy Brown, I will suggest that witnessing in and of itself cannot open a path to action against genocide because (international) law has no guarantor - as Lacan put it, ‘the big other does not exist.’ What does exist is market subjectivity in the form of homo economicus for whom morality is one among many ideological commodities. We will also consider the circulation of images of torture at Abu Ghraib and of police lynchings of Black people in the US. My hope is that we will be able to articulate a mode of internationalist proletarian self organization capable of simultaneously destroying the marketplace of ideas, and ending genocide through anticapitalist activity grounded in Yasmin El-Rifae and Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen's suggestion that we, as a class, have a specific way of sharing our mortality which binds us to one another when can neither moral law nor “material interest,” neither “mechanical” nor “organic solidarity. Other readings include Haidar Eid, Hannah Black, J G Ballard, Brad Evans, Amy Sodaro, Errol Morris, Lela Kallili, Judith Butler, and Joshua Clover.
Louis-Georges Schwartz is a communist. He taught film studies at several US universities for about 30 years before dereliction of his post. Currently he works as a nonfiction writer and lives a life of destitution with two dogs. You can read more of him at Commidharma on Substack.
Full fee: $450, Reduced fee: $250.
Or contact psychosocial.foundation@gmail.com for scholarship information.
