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Caption: Slought Foundation Event Space, 2003
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Slought Foundation Event Space, 2003

"Woman's Way Beyond the Pleasure Principle: Sophie Calle"
Featuring Juliet Flower MacCannell

KWH, University of Pennsylvania | Tuesday, October 23, 2001; 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Free at Door (Reservation not required)

Organized by Aaron Levy
Theorizing Series



Project Website (with 70 min. multimedia recording): http://slought.org/content/11050/

Philadelphia Lacan Study Group & Seminar Collaboration


Juliet Flower MacCannell is Professor emerita of Comparative Literature at UC, Irvine where she has taught in the Critical theory program and headed the research program on Woman and the Image. Her books are Figuring Lacan (1986); The Regime of the Brother (1991); and The Hysteric's Guide to the Future Female Subject (2000). She has also edited and / or co-authored a number of other books, including two in the Irvine Critical Theory Series, Thinking Bodies and The Other Perspective in Gender and Culture. Recent publications include "Stage Left," an article on Ernesto Laclau, Judith Butler and Slavoj Zizek for Umbr@ (2001), "Politics in the Age of Sex: Clinton, Leadership, Love" for Cultural Critique (#46, 2000), and "Las Vegas: The Post-Cinematic City" (2001) for Performance Research. Essays on Rousseau, Law, Alain Badiou, the Future of the University, and the Two Cape Fears are in press. Most recently, she has been visiting professor of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley and French and Italian at Stanford University, Visiting scholar at the Lacan School, and Visiting Professor of Psychoanalysis at the Center for Psychological Studies in Berkeley.