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June 23, 57PM PDT, ZOOM Webinar Register now: http://ow.ly/LlyU50Jbz08 In Eros and Civilization (1955), Herbert Marcuse argued that Freud’s concept of prima...ry narcissism (the happy and tensionless psychic stage prior to individuation to which the death drive seeks to return) could furnish a positive model for a new non-repressive society. Using Marcuse’s claims as a starting point, this talk explores Adorno’s alternate account of narcissism as a block on social transformation. While Marcuse highlights the emancipatory potential of narcissism, Adorno reads narcissism as an actual collective reaction to cold and repressive social conditions. A better reality, Adorno argues, would require a strengthening of the ego, not its dissolution in gratification. The lecture will suggest that the ego would then be capable of more than mere repression of the drives, directing the death drive against the reified and narcissistic self; we can find in Adorno’s Negative Dialectics (1966) and Aesthetic Theory (1970) attempts to correct Marcuse’s reading of Freud, and that Adorno develops there a more effective understanding of how drives might be organized in a society no longer dominated by the death drive. SPEAKER Kathy Kiloh is Associate Professor of Humanities at OCAD University in Toronto. Her past research includes work on ethics, aesthetics, and theories of embodiment in T.W. Adorno and Emmanuel Levinas. RESPONDENTS Roberto Longoni is a PhD student at the Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades "Alfonso Vélez Pliego", ICSyH -BUAP, as well as a professor of Political Philosophy in the Department of Humanities at the Universidad Iberoamericana (Puebla). Rogelio Regalado is PhD student at the Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades ‘Alfonso Vélez Pliego’-BUAP, as well as professor in International Relations program at the same university. SFU Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences SFU Vancouver

Brian Eno // Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of ...digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them. See more

Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-75) Subversive Prophet - Murdered at the Age of 53. Who Could Assassinate a Poet, an Intellectual, a Filmmaker Auteur, a Writer, and... a Visionary? A liberal? A Democrat? The Left? Antifascists? Or the Fascist Ultra-right Religio-conservative Party With the Help of Organized Financial Mafia? "Pasolini was a man of extraordinary vision in his works he is a visionary, almost a prophet, and was able to see much further than anybody else He rightly linked fascism to sexual humiliation, consumerism, ignorance, rage, and ugliness Ugliness is everywherein cities ravaged by speculation, in bodies wasted by exploitation and loneliness, in ubiquitous advertising billboards and television screens Fascism is a pathology of identitya pathology hitting those who are too weak to accept the idea that identity is ever-changing and multifarious, and too frightened by their own uncertainty and ambivalence. Pasolini was able to predict the spread of this ambivalence, this fear, this frailty, and to foresee the epidemic rage that was destined to emerge from this He says that many young people, [in the 60s], students, were only fighting for power, were aiming at taking power from the hands of their parents. Many of the intellectuals and militants... converted to the Neoliberal Faith" Franco Berardi Pasolini’s Lutheran Letters written shortly before his death warns against consumerism’s agenda and the pundits that function as its own clergy under the disguise of social-democratic activism reminds us that being opposed to the Left does not make you a right-wing extremist He also spent time in Roman slums where he immersed himself in the culture of the proletariat noticed a cultural genocide of people who had a distinct proletarian morality and philosophy that process of mass consumerism has destroyed local economies and cultures he pointed out how mass culture served as a tool of domination He refers to archaic cultures as a way of being before embracing mass production dominating everyday life. When towns and communities still had a distinct expression and ways of shaping their surroundings a form of independence and freedom... He admired these people and mourned the loss of these characters. He observed that archaic and proletarian culture had disappeared because of mass media, marketing, and consumer culture and "education" +++++ A poem in Russian language by Victor Enyutin dedicated to P.P. Pasolini То Пьер Паоло Пазолини А вот мир чувственен и вкрадчиv Недвижим, где мельчайший жест И Пазолиненно невзрачлив И Пазолиненностью свеж. Пьер Паоло Пазолини - Пристальности нежной эпос. Лучи киносвета открыли Душевных движений нелепость, Народного быта вневременность, Кустарного счастья огарки, Сельских обычаев кремневость, Нежности плотской - припарки. Воздух толпы и подобия Густ, и движенья в нм кряжесты. Вскрики - как в дерево скобы, Лепет с журчанием вяжется. Паоло Пьер Пазолини, Жизни ступанье уступчиво. Воздух дыханьем залили Медленным, вольным и вдумчивым. Таинство жизни спокойно, Чутко прядт сладострастие. Апокалипсисы - знойны Сладким отчаяньем причастия. Пазолини Паоло Пьер Сакральность простейших реакций Возносит, инстинкт - выше сфер Цивилизованных акций. И тишь первозданного братства - Где зло без прикрытий обманных И тонет в ленивом пространстве, В тумане телесной нирваны - Зовт - в астматическом матче, Что жизнь в равнодушие прячет, Туда где растут Пазолиненно Древние чувства и слиянность. Sep/1983

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The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of the Government of Japan is currently accepting applications for the 2023 Research Student Scholarship for students who wish to study at Japanese universities as research or post-graduate students. The scholarship covers: 1. Full tuition 2. Monthly allowance... 3. Round-trip flight between Japan and Canada The Research Student Scholarship is aimed at university graduates, born on or after April 2, 1988 (for the 2023 scholarship year). The area of research or post-grad study should be in the same or related field that the applicant has previously studied. Application guides and forms are available through the links on the Consulate General of Japan website: https://www.vancouver.ca.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_/mext_en.html. Application deadline for the 2023 scholarship year: May 18, 2022. Applicants who successfully pass the written application screening are required to undertake an interview and examination (English and Japanese language) to be held in late June/early July 2022. Due to COVID-19, the process for the interviews and examinations will be announced at a later date. Normally, interviews and examinations must be conducted in-person at the Consulate General of Japan's offices. Please note that fluency in Japanese is not necessarily required, but dependent on the nature of the university and study program as selected by the scholarship candidate. If you have any questions or concerns, call 604.684.5868 or email [email protected]

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SPRING 2021 HUM 304 C100 ALEXANDER THE GREAT AND THE QUEST FOR WORLD EMPIRE This course examines Alexander in the context of ancient history as well as his legacy, which provides unique insight into why there have been and continue to be illusive and deadly quests for world domination. Breadth-#Humanities.... Please see link for further course details. #AlexanderTheGreat #SFU #history

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SPRING 2021 HUM 232 D100 THE RELIGIONS OF ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME This course introduces the religions of ancient #Greece and #Rome. Archaeological materials, ancient texts (in translation) and art are used to examine Graeco-Roman religions within their historical framework and understand how ancient peoples experienced religion. It also examines the extent to which specific social, political and cultural developments impacted the religious landscape. Breadth-#Humanities.... Please see link for further course details. #religion #Archaeology #sociology #SFU

SPRING 2021 HUM 102W D100 CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY An introduction to the central myths of the Greeks and Romans. The course will investigate the nature, function, and meaning of myths in the classical world and their considerable influence on western civilization. Writing/Breadth-#Humanities.... Readings: - Homer's "The Iliad" - Homer's "The Odyssey" - Ovid's "Metamorphoses" - Collection of Sophocles' plays - Collection of Euripides' plays Please see link for course description, requirements, grading, etc. #classics #mythology #SFU

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We are very pleased to present, in collaboration with SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies at SFU and Institute for the Humanities at Simon Fraser University, a panel on Memory and Trauma Through History and Culture II: #Pandemic/s." This event brings together speakers from different disciplines who will offer critical reflections on the legacies of past pandemics and challenges in the present. Registration link attached below. Please contact [email protected] if you have any questio...ns or concerns about your registration. #SFU #humanities

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