{"id":1288,"date":"2021-10-07T10:06:56","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T09:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/?p=1288"},"modified":"2021-10-15T14:39:12","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T13:39:12","slug":"which-discourse-theory-lacan-emergency-capitalism-paranoia-fabio-vighi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/?p=1288","title":{"rendered":"Which Discourse Theory? Lacan, Emergency Capitalism &#038; Paranoia | Fabio Vighi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Event date and location<\/span>: 30 September 2021, Online (Zoom)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<section id=\"gm9f0a7d5\" class=\"wp-block-gutentor-m3 alignwide section-gm9f0a7d5 gutentor-module gutentor-container-cover\"><div class=\"grid-container\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VMHopHy7AIk?start=3&amp;feature=oembed&amp;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This Lacan in Scotland seminar &#8216;Which Covid Discourse? Lacan, Emergency Capitalism &amp; Successful Paranoia&#8217; took place on Zoom on Thursday 30 September 2021. Professor Fabio Vighi speaks about the Covid-19 pandemic, capitalism and Lacan&#8217;s discourse theory. It is chaired by Dr Calum Neill, Director of Lacan in Scotland, and the presentation is followed by a discussion with the audience.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Video timestamps: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VMHopHy7AIk&amp;t=0s\">0:00<\/a> &#8211; Intro <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VMHopHy7AIk&amp;t=191s\">03:11<\/a> &#8211; Presentation <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VMHopHy7AIk&amp;t=3233s\">53:53<\/a> &#8211; Discussion <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VMHopHy7AIk&amp;t=5922s\">1:38:42<\/a> &#8211; Closing Remarks <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Description of the event: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This talk will consider the global health emergency through the lens of Lacan\u2019s discourse theory, focusing on the pandemic as a monetary event and, more broadly, on its fetishistic character within the crumbling capitalist structure. Professor Fabio Vighi will argue that the \u2018curious copulation between science and capital\u2019 (Lacan, Seminar XVII) has resulted in both the breakdown of capitalist \u2018work societies\u2019 and their continuation by authoritarian means. And yet, from a psychoanalytic angle, the key question is: can a new discourse emerge from the current stalemate? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>FABIO VIGHI<\/strong> is Professor of Critical Theory and Italian at Cardiff University, UK. His recent work includes Critical Theory and the Crisis of Contemporary Capitalism (Bloomsbury 2015, with Heiko Feldner) and Crisi di valore: Lacan, Marx e il crepuscolo della societ\u00e0 del lavoro (Mimesis 2018).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Event date and location: 30 September 2021, Online (Zoom)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recordings","category-video"],"gutentor_comment":1,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1288"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1312,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions\/1312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}