Time: 6.00pm - 7.30pm
Venue: Swedenborg Hall, 20-21 Bloomsbury Way, London, WC1A 2TH
Price:
free
Speaker(s): Cecilia Sjöholm (Södertörn University, Stockholm)
Abstract:
In the wake of the destruction of Ukraine, Russian author Maria Stepanova writes: ‘in the reality of today memory has been transformed into its counterpart, to cynical attempts of producing oblivion.' The obliteration of memory has become a political project. Thinkers such as Arturo Toscano point to the far-Right having replaced visions with memory wars. Making memories evaporate, destroying or neglecting their material presence, or revising historical narratives is a powerful political and ideological tool. But what is at stake in the obliteration of memory from a psychoanalytical point of view? What kind of aggression is involved in the attempt to obliterate the other? For psychoanalysis, is it even possible to produce oblivion?
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Contact: Professor Peter Osborne - Director, Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy
Email: p.osborne@kingston.ac.uk
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Professor Peter Osborne - Director, Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy
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