RU239: ISABEL MILLAR & DWAYNE MONROE PRESENT “Virilio’s Lost Dimensions: The Psychic and the Technical” & “From Success Comes Failure, on the Dialectics of Cloud Computing”

Rendering Unconscious episode 239.

This episode of Rendering is a recording of an event that was part of the Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult series presented at Morbid Anatomy Museum online. This particular event is from Sunday, September 25, 2022: Lost Dimensions: The Psychic and the Technical by Isabel Millar and From Success Comes Failure, on Cloud Computing by Dwayne Monroe

Isabel Millar is a philosopher and psychoanalytic theorist from London. She is the author of The Psychoanalysis of Artificial Intelligence published in the Palgrave Lacan Series in 2021, and Patipolitics: On the Government of Sexual Suffering forthcoming with Bloomsbury in 2023. She is Associate Researcher at Newcastle University, Department of Philosophy, and Research Fellow and Faculty at the Global Centre for Advanced Studies where she lectures with their newly formed Institute of Psychoanalysis and on the MA Philosophy. Follow her on social media at Twitter and Instagram.

Dwayne Monroe is a technologist and Marxist analyst of the tech sector with 20 years of experience in North America and Europe. Dwayne uses his hands-on knowledge to critique the nature and characteristics of the industry from a dialectical perspective. He’s currently finishing a book, ‘Attack Mannequins’ about the AI industry and has written for The Nation, Logic Magazine and Sublation Media. You can follow his blog at monroelab.net. Find him on Twitter at @cloudquistador and Mastodon at @dwaynemonroe@mastodon.online

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This event is available for viewing at Vimeo:

Our next PsychArtCult event is coming up Sunday, May 14, 2023. Join us for The Uncanny in Cinema: Ingmar Bergman’s Hour of the Wolf (1968), An Illustrated Online Lecture with Carl Abrahamsson

Visit psychartcult.org for upcoming Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult events, dedicated to exploring the intersections and integration of psychoanalytic theory, the creative arts, occult practices, and folk magic traditions.

Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, a psychoanalyst based in Sweden, who works with people internationally. 

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Dr. Sinclair is the author of The Pathways of the Heart (Trapart Books, 2021), Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art: The Cut in Creation (Routledge, 2021) and Switching Mirrors (Trapart Books, 2016).

And is the editor of  Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Films of Ingmar Bergman: From Freud to Lacan and Beyond (Routledge, 2023), 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, 2019) co-edited with Dr. Manya Steinkoler, and The Fenris Wolf, vol 9 (Trapart Books, 2017) and The Fenris Wolf vol 11 (Trapart Books, 2022) co-edited with Carl Abrahamsson.

Many thanks to Carl Abrahamsson, who created the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious podcast. All music at Swedish independent record label Highbrow Lowlife Bandcamp page is free download/ name your price. Enjoy!

The song at the end of the episode is “Switching our minds” from the album Dream Exploded by Vanessa Sinclair and Pete Murphy. Available at Bandcamp. Also available at Spotify and other streaming services.

Images from https://dwaynemonroe.com