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Vitale https://radicalimagination.cargo.site/Posts-1 Thu, 11 Feb 2021 15:31:53 +0000 Institute for the Radical Imagination https://radicalimagination.cargo.site/Posts-1 Posts: https://radicalimagination.cargo.site/EXISTENTIALISM-PSYCHOANALYSIS-ANTI-PSYCHIATRY Wed, 01 Apr 2026 01:54:47 +0000 Institute for the Radical Imagination https://radicalimagination.cargo.site/EXISTENTIALISM-PSYCHOANALYSIS-ANTI-PSYCHIATRY EXISTENTIALISM, PSYCHOANALYSIS, &amp; ANTI-PSYCHIATRY: An Archaeology of the Therapeutic Milieux The Institute for the Radical Imagination presents: EXISTENTIALISM, PSYCHOANALYSIS, &amp; ANTI-PSYCHIATRY: An Archaeology of the Therapeutic MilieuxA ten-week seminar beginning Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026, at 7 p.m., in person at LIU Brooklyn, HS 224, and hybrid via Zoom for those outside New York City and environs.Cost: $150 for a ten-week seminar “But we are probably speaking at cross purposes, and it will take centuries before our differences are settled.” (Freud to Binswanger, thirty-year correspondence,1908-1938) We live in a world desperately in need of healing: from the Magic Mountain to Tavistock and LeBorde and beyond: Beginning with the Dasein analysis of Ludwig Binswanger at the famous Davos clinic and his encounters with Dr. Freud and Psychoanalysis, we will trace the historico-philosophical moments that constitute the contemporary therapeutic milieu. We will attempt to work through the ongoing tensions between Existential psychotherapies with its emphasis on freedom, choice, and responsibility, and the Psychoanalytical approach that emphasizes libidinal economies and drives. We will then engage the anti-psychiatry tendencies and practices from Cooper and Laing through the creativity of the anti-Oedipus movement and its proposed Schizoanalysis.&nbsp; Our readings will begin with Binswanger’s 1930 text, Dream and Existence, with a commentary by Michel Foucault. Reading from Freud’s enormous oeuvre, we will concentrate on the 1914 piece, “On Narcissism,” which is of great clinical and theoretical import then and today.Other readings will include : 1. Sartre’s proposal of an existential psychoanalysis at the end of Being and Nothingness (1943), 2. Lacan’s rethinking of psychoanalysis in 1968-69 in The Other Side of Psychoanalysis 3. Selections from Deleuze and Guattari’s collaboration in Anti-Oedipus (1972) 4. Bernard Stiegler’s critique of the Frankfurt School's attempt to rewrite Freud 5. Post Oedipus Imperialism: Influence on Fanon and the influence of Fanon on contemporary therapy. To register for the seminar, please follow this link: <img width="5400" height="5038" width_o="5400" height_o="5038" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/292fcc5cde968d7e81d3b4b6d1b91bae100c30fa0b914b99106cb9fc096f1a34/Copy-of-EXISTENTIALISM--PSYCHOANALYSIS---1.jpg" data-mid="246738602" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/292fcc5cde968d7e81d3b4b6d1b91bae100c30fa0b914b99106cb9fc096f1a34/Copy-of-EXISTENTIALISM--PSYCHOANALYSIS---1.jpg" /> https://radicalimagination.cargo.site/Pulling-the-Emergency-Break-in-the-Anthropocene-Progress-or-Return Sat, 11 Oct 2025 15:37:51 +0000 Institute for the Radical Imagination https://radicalimagination.cargo.site/Pulling-the-Emergency-Break-in-the-Anthropocene-Progress-or-Return Pulling the Emergency Break in the Anthropocene: Progress or Return? The Institute for the Radical Imagination presents: A talk by Miguel Vatter, Professor of PoliticsDeakin University, Melbourne, AustraliaFriday, December 5th, 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. Location: LIU Brooklyn CampusHealth Sciences Building, Room 224, and by ZOOM“Pulling the Emergency Break in the Anthropocene: Progress or Return?” What does philosophy of history look like in the Anthropocene, from a “planetary” point of view? And why should philosophy of history concern us today? I will argue that climate change and the ecological catastrophe of our age radically call into question adherence to the belief in progress and set the stage for posing anew the alternative: progress or return? I develop this question from two perspectives: a theologico-political and a physico-political one. The former elucidates the Christian underpinnings of a notion of secular progress and its fundamental belief that nothing repeats itself in history. The latter perspective considers history and progress from the late 19th-century “recurrence” problems emerging from thermodynamics, the discovery of entropy, and the possibility of negative entropy, culminating in the idea of eternal recurrence in Blanqui and Nietzsche. Reflecting on the relation between energy, technology, and communism, Walter Benjamin wrote this: “Marx said that revolutions are the locomotives of world history. But maybe they are something entirely different. Maybe revolutions are the way in which the human species, traveling on this train, grabs for the emergency brake” (GS I,3 1232). I want to suggest that the thought of eternal recurrence is our emergency break. To register for the seminar, please follow this link: <img width="881" height="850" width_o="881" height_o="850" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6f24a5601feddfc005cc29ccd32725ed35992c254fb154219c860dba742153a8/02-Utriusque_cosmi_majoris_scilicet_et_minoris_metaphysica_pg46_plate_01-edit.jpg" data-mid="241051023" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/881/i/6f24a5601feddfc005cc29ccd32725ed35992c254fb154219c860dba742153a8/02-Utriusque_cosmi_majoris_scilicet_et_minoris_metaphysica_pg46_plate_01-edit.jpg" /> https://radicalimagination.cargo.site/Popular-Cultures-and-Antifascist-Care-copy Sat, 22 Nov 2025 18:40:25 +0000 Institute for the Radical Imagination https://radicalimagination.cargo.site/Popular-Cultures-and-Antifascist-Care-copy Popular Cultures and Antifascist Care The Institute for the Radical Imagination presents: Popular Cultures and Antifascist Care Facilitator: David Winters (adjunct lecturer in Journalism and Media Studies; M.Phil in Communication and Media Studies, MA in Liberal Studies). Schedule: Six-week class, beginning November 3rd at 7:30 p.m. (Eastern daylight time) and continuing until December 8th. Location: Via ZoomReading: Bratich, J. (2022). On Microfascism: Gender, War, and Death. Common Notions Press. Cost: $100 for all six sessions This 6-week discussion group centers on Jack Bratich’s On Microfascism (2022), examining how everyday practices of fascist restoration, renewal and elimination permeate institutions, technologies, and social relations. We’ll explore Bratich’s compositional analysis of power, affect, and desire, and the production of subjectivity within the misogyny and eliminationism of microfascist cultures. Each week, we’ll tackle key themes, from the intersection of microfascism and neoliberalism to the role of digital technologies in both reinforcing and combatting control. Through critical dialogue, we’ll also consider strategies for (micro-)antifascist struggle, emphasizing the importance of decentralized organizing, media technique, and compositional culture. Ultimately, the group aims to nourish and develop our radical imagination as the capacity to envision and enact alternatives to microfascist trends entangled with our everyday lives. This is a space for students, activists, and organizers to deepen their understanding, share insights, and work toward the composition of antifascist care. To register for the seminar, please follow this link: <img width="1080" height="676" width_o="1080" height_o="676" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4b7a875776cebd240a610d31da33e9ac83fa05db6da8922cabb647eb3bfeb44c/WintersImage.black-marinered-yellow-aqua.preview.jpg" data-mid="240982936" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4b7a875776cebd240a610d31da33e9ac83fa05db6da8922cabb647eb3bfeb44c/WintersImage.black-marinered-yellow-aqua.preview.jpg" /> https://radicalimagination.cargo.site/Darkest-LA Mon, 07 Apr 2025 14:12:07 +0000 Institute for the Radical Imagination https://radicalimagination.cargo.site/Darkest-LA Popular Cultures and Antifascist Care The Institute for the Radical Imagination presents: Popular Cultures and Antifascist Care Facilitator: David Winters (adjunct lecturer in Journalism and Media Studies; M.Phil in Communication and Media Studies, MA in Liberal Studies). Schedule: 6-week discussion group beginning 1000am-1130pm, Saturdays October 11 - December 6, via Zoom Location:&nbsp;On zoom with location being sent out to all who register Cost: $100 for all six sessionsREADING: Bratich, J. (2022). On Microfascism: Gender, War, and Death. Common Notions Press. This 6-week discussion group centers on Jack Bratich’s On Microfascism (2022), examining how everyday practices of fascist restoration, renewal and elimination permeate institutions, technologies, and social relations. We’ll explore Bratich’s compositional analysis of power, affect, and desire, and the production of subjectivity within the misogyny and eliminationism of microfascist cultures. Each week, we’ll tackle key themes, from the intersection of microfascism and neoliberalism to the role of digital technologies in both reinforcing and combating control. Through critical dialogue, we’ll also consider strategies for (micro-)antifascist struggle, emphasizing the importance of decentralized organizing, media technique, and compositional culture. Ultimately, the group aims to nourish and develop our radical imagination as the capacity to envision and enact alternatives to microfascist trends entangled with our everyday lives. This is a space for students, activists, and organizers to deepen their understanding, share insights, and work toward the composition of antifascist care. To register for the seminar, please follow this link: <img width="1330" height="760" width_o="1330" height_o="760" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6fbe21a11cab9f7900575f81cc0ee18a6b459174c1f961bf3501c2c2c99e3dc7/Screenshot-2025-04-07-at-11.46.14PM.png" data-mid="229447034" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6fbe21a11cab9f7900575f81cc0ee18a6b459174c1f961bf3501c2c2c99e3dc7/Screenshot-2025-04-07-at-11.46.14PM.png" />