{"id":1780,"date":"2023-11-26T16:16:21","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T16:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/?p=1780"},"modified":"2023-11-26T16:16:24","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T16:16:24","slug":"which-discourse-theory-lacan-emergency-capitalism-paranoia-fabio-vighi-2-2-2-2-2-3-2-2-2-2-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/?p=1780","title":{"rendered":"Climate Grief | Clint Burnham"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Event date and location<\/span>: 26 October 2023, Online (Zoom)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<section id=\"gmf64c3eb\" class=\"wp-block-gutentor-m3 alignwide section-gmf64c3eb 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\/OhJKA434E0s?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<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Video Sections:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OhJKA434E0s&amp;t=0s\">0:00<\/a> &#8211; Intro <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OhJKA434E0s&amp;t=75s\">01:15<\/a> &#8211; Presentation <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OhJKA434E0s&amp;t=2721s\">45:21<\/a> &#8211; Discussion with Calum Neill <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OhJKA434E0s&amp;t=3835s\">1:03:55<\/a> &#8211; Q&amp;A with the audience<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Description of the Seminar<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor Clint Burnham\u2019s talk will think with Mari Ruti\u2019s late piece, \u201cWhen the Cure Is that There is No Cure,\u201d drawing on it to better understand what is now called \u2018climate grief\u2019. Ruti\u2019s essay treats what she refers to as the \u201cidiosyncratic\u201d or \u201ccontingent\u201d lack experienced with cancer, or other forms of trauma. It is a lack, Ruti argues, that appears as if out of nowhere, in comparison with the \u201contological\u201d or \u201cconstitutive\u201d lack that is the psychoanalytic incurability of human existence, as well as with the \u201csystemic\u201d or \u201cstructural\u201d lack that emerges from socio-political conditions. Ruti argues that it is through sublimation \u2013 Lacan\u2019s raising of an object to the dignity of a thing \u2013 and creativity, that one can overcome such contingent trauma. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor Burnham will apply this theory to Richard Power\u2019s 2018 \u201ccli-fi\u201d novel The Overstory, through which he will explore our relation to creativity and nature qua Thing, as modalities of working through climate grief. The talk will culminate in a reading of the coincidentia oppositorum of climate denialism and climate grief via Freud\u2019s kettle logic and K\u00fcbler-Ross\u2019s stages of grieving. By doing so, it will raise the question of whether we can, as climate denialists, by refusing the ontologization of lack, by not ceding our desire, become true ethical, or revolutionary, subjects. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Clint Burnham<\/strong> is Professor of English at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, and widely published as a critical theorist, poet, and author of books on digital culture. He is co-editor, with Paul Kingsbury, of the Palgrave book Lacan and the Environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Event date and location: 26 October 2023, Online (Zoom)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recordings","category-video"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780","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=1780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1781,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions\/1781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}