In Latin America, the convergence of financial crises, developmental and neoliberal policies, informal economies, and armed conflicts has created a backdrop of profound socio-political change spamming over fifty years. This seminar will examine how...

In his return to and rereading of Freud’s early writings on the interpretation of dreams, French psychoanalyst and translator of Freud, Jean Laplanche, makes the provocative claim that psychoanalytic theory went awry shortly after its inception, as a...

How do we orient ourselves to texts and knowledge across time and technological advancements? How do texts and knowledge in turn orientate and transform us, and how do they influence the world we navigate, particularly in an increasingly...

Written in Stone: Lithic Inscription and the Poethics of Monumentality The invocation and use of stone in poetry – as image, metaphor, medium – has a long and varied history. Quarried, shaped, displaced and put to use in both material and...

Seit etwa zweihundert Jahren wird Lyrik in der Regel durch individuelle Lektüre rezipiert, das heißt der Text wird visuell wahrgenommen und verarbeitet. Die flächige Anordnung der Wörter und Verse, die Form der Buchstaben und Satzzeichen, Zeilen- und...