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Fanon Black Skin, White Masks with Kazembe Balagun
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYA Reading and Writing Group on the Seminal Work of Frantz Fanon With deft analysis and radical fervor, Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) was the patron saint of the revolutionary movements of the global south. As a psychiatrist and writer he played a key part in the liberation of Algeria. His seminal work Wretched of the Earth ... Read more
The Politics of the Unconscious: Last Session
New Perspectives Theatre 456-458 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United StatesThrough theory and practice we will examine the psychoanalytic concept of the unconscious in the late 19th to 20th century. Starting with the fin-de-siècle Parisian hospital Salpêtrière, we will touch upon the historical resonances of the invention of mental pathology, and aesthetic forms that resonance has instigated.
The Last Dance Meets The Last Repast
New Perspectives Theatre 456-458 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United StatesThe talk will examinethe historico-political relationships between: the psychiatric transformation of madness into mental illness, the psychoanalytic discovery of the unconscious, the surrealist anti-psychiatric art, and dance-theater’s embodied expression stripped of narrative development. A surreal meal will be the last part of this event.