{"id":636,"date":"2019-04-29T13:52:05","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T12:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/?p=636"},"modified":"2021-05-05T11:33:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T10:33:47","slug":"fatigue-as-resistance-to-the-ideologies-of-late-capitalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/?p=636","title":{"rendered":"Fatigue as Resistance to the Ideologies of Late Capitalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>An event exploring fatigue in modern society from a psychoanalytic perspective<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-644 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/59809263_180346969548684_3285102029512376320_n-212x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/59809263_180346969548684_3285102029512376320_n-212x300.png 212w, https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/59809263_180346969548684_3285102029512376320_n-768x1086.png 768w, https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/59809263_180346969548684_3285102029512376320_n-724x1024.png 724w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary society \u2014 dominated by the ideologies and practices of late capitalism and science \u2014 is characterised by a demand for constant flow and for everything to be monitored, known, and visible. People are increasingly reduced to numbers and objects of productivity. Thus, not unsurprisingly, we are witnessing a rise in different afflictions \u2014 fatigue being especially prominent (diagnosed as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome\/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis). Using psychoanalysis, how can we better understand the current socio-cultural and political climate and how it contributes to conditions such as fatigue? Drawing on popular culture and interviews conducted with those who suffer from fatigue, Amanda Diserholt will in this talk explore the manifestation and place of the phenomenon in today\u2019s society, and how it might be used as resistance to the demand for constant activity and presence. The talk will turn around Lacan\u2019s notions of the drive and desire, particularly as elaborated in relation to the structure of anorexia (as a refusal of an activity and embodiment of a disappearance), and mourning. This will also help us explore whether or not fatigue constitutes a \u2018successful\u2019 resistance, and what other individual and cultural factors might play a role in its emergence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Amanda Diserholt\u00a0<\/strong>is a PhD candidate at Edinburgh Napier University at the School of Applied Sciences. Her research looks at the symptomatology of fatigue from a Lacanian psychoanalytic perspective.<\/p>\n<p>The seminar will be chaired by Dr\u00a0Katharine Swarbrick, Lecturer in\u00a0French and Francophone Studies in the\u00a0School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC). Katharine began her research career by writing on Lacanian perspectives on the psychopathology of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.\u00a0Her exploration into interrelations between psychoanalytic theory and aspects of Enlightenment has extended into the life and works of Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Marmontel and, more recently, Voltaire.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday 21 May 2019, 18:30 &#8211; 20:00<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>University of Edinburgh, 50 George Square, Project Room (1.06)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The seminar is free and open to everyone. Seats should be reserved through <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/fatigue-as-resistance-to-the-ideologies-of-late-capitalism-tickets-61030571081\"><strong>Eventbrite<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/419769312149944\/\">Facebook Event<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An event exploring fatigue in modern society from a psychoanalytic perspective<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-past-events"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","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=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1003,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions\/1003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}