Rendering Unconscious welcomes Dr. Gautam Basu Thakur to the podcast!
Dr. Gautam Basu Thakur is a critical theorist working in the fields of comparative cultural studies; postcoloniality and globalization studies; British Literature of the Empire; race and sexuality studies; and world cinema. More specifically, he is interested in theoretical psychoanalysis and its interventions in postcolonial studies; the British Empire and its afterlife in global/transnational literary and (new) media cultures; film; and comparative cultural politics. His books include Postcolonial Theory and Avatar (2015), Postcolonial Lack: Identity, Culture, Surplus (2020), Lacan and the Nonhuman (2018), and Reading Lacan’s Seminar VIII: On Transference (2020).
He has a chapter included in Lacan and Race: Racism, Identity and Psychoanalytic Theory (Routledge, 2021) edited by Sheldon George and Derek Hook
Gautam Basu Thakur is the recipient of The Faculty Excellence Award in the College Arts and Sciences, Boise State University, Jan 2020.
LACK conferences mentioned in this episode.
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Dr. Sinclair is the editor of Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry (Trapart Books, 2019) Outsider Inpatient: Reflections on Art as Therapy (Trapart Books, 2021) with Dr. Elisabeth Punzi, On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives (Routledge, 2018) co-edited with Dr. Manya Steinkoler, and The Fenris Wolf, vol 9 (Trapart, 2017) co-edited with Carl Abrahamsson.
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Many thanks to Carl Abrahamsson, who created the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious podcast.
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