The Economics of
Joussiance
J-A MILLER
Women and Families
ALAIN BADIOU
Moments in a
Love Story
MARIE-HÉLÈNE
BROUSSE
Feminine Jouissance
ÉRIC LAURENT
The Child As Object
PIERRE-GILLES
GUÉGUEN
Persistent Trait
LILA ZEMBORIAN /
MARTIN REYNA
Eating Alone in the
Byways of Smithson
CATHY LEBOWITZ
The Grandmother's Voice
SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK
Martin Kippenberger,
Sigmar Polke
CL INTERVIEWS JA
Eating Alone in the
Byways of Smithson
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[…] Smithson maps the mind onto the earth by setting words in poetic relation: glacial reveries, mental rivers, cliffs of thought undermined by brain waves. Like the earth, the mind is in a constant state of erosion. In his essay "A Sedimentation of the Mind," his comparisons and conflations repeatedly draw attention to a surface invaded by crevices. It becomes an ideology. "Words and rocks contain a language that follows a syntax of splits and ruptures." Like Lacan's unconscious, Smithson's words and rocks are structured like a language[…]
Finally Josefina has started her seminars. The topic is Lacan's four fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis. When I walked into the lecture hall in the art department, Hans Holbein the Younger's famous painting The Ambassadors was on a screen. Josefina wore black with a white skirt and plain white shoes. Her round glasses had red frames. She did not put on the bright red lipstick she wears when she speaks with Zizek or Badiou. She told the audience that we could ask questions, to feel free to ask anytime. Then she read from a paper. When I heard the word "burrows," I knew she was talking about William Burroughs and telling the story about the Gysin show at the New Museum. The libido attaches to a part body[…]