The Unconscious, Desire and Politics
The Point, Mrs Robinson, Burwood Campus
221 Burwood Highway
Burwood 3125
Australia
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The Unconscious, Desire and Politics
What role do desire and the unconscious play in the socio-political realm? The political virulence of unconscious drives and inclinations has traditionally been discussed in terms of a collective imaginary, an ensemble of images and stories that bear the hopes and fears of a people. However, the Deleuzian and Guattarian notion of a molecular unconscious functions differently. It does not reside in the imaginary. It is real, constituted by flows of desire that produce connections and assemblages between and across heterogeneous non-signifying elements. These unconscious molecular processes of desire not only constitute and stabilize socio-political formations, but also effectuate political crises, phases of upheaval and revolution.
The workshop aims to sharpen the understanding of Deleuze’s and Guattari’s notion of desire, the way that it operates in a molecular unconscious and produces effects in the socio-political field.
10.00-10.50 Anne Sauvagnargues (Paris Ouest), “A Schizoanalytic Cartography of Desire”
10.50-11.35 Daniela Voss (Deakin University), “On Desire”
11.35-10.45 break
11.45-12.30 Jon Roffe (UNSW), “Deleuze’s Melancholy Politics”’
12.30-13.30 lunch
13.30-14.15 Gregory Flaxman (North Carolina, Chapel Hill) “Molecular America”
14.15-15.00 Gregg Lambert (Syracuse) “Revolutionary-Becoming’ and the ‘War Machine’”
15.00-15.10 break
15.10-15.55 James Williams (Deakin University) “The Political Unconscious of Signs: Desire, Process and Practice”
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