The Vicious Transparency of Time

Instructor: Reza Negarestani Date & Time: October 21, 28. November 4, 11, 18, December 2, 9, and 16. 10:30-13:00 ET

DESCRIPTION: This 2-Credit Seminar is about a single tentative thesis: time-consciousness is the purest form of the unconscious. Building on the materials provided in Negarestani’s previous SeminarThe Ape and the Sea: The Fragmented Legacy of Freud at the Dawn of Psychoanalysis,this Seminar examines time-consciousness as the basis of our transcendental-phenomenological experience of ourselves in the world. Through this investigation, the time of experience in combination with the experience of time are introduced as peculiar forms of an unconscious operation that habituates us to not only what we take as ‘our’ unshakable experience, but also an experience that is the de facto backdrop against which we take theoretical or practical stances towards our history—i.e., assessing the past and orienting towards the future.

The Seminar is comprised of two parts: (1) A philosophical engagement with the transcendental phenomenological aspects of time-consciousness; (2) A critique of time-consciousness as an unconsciousness experiential transparency that through its blindspots and habituating mechanisms can lend itself to some of the most insidious pathologies of history.

IMAGE: Jennifer Packer, Blessed Are Those Who Mourn (Breonna! Breonna!), 2020.

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