Chiara Bottici, Author at Public Seminar

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Feminism, Capitalism, and Critique: Essays in Honor of Nancy Fraser

A book excerpt from Banu Bargu and Chiara Bottici

November 7, 2017 • by Banu Bargu and Chiara Bottici

What has followed is a veritable revival of research on different aspects of capitalism (see, for example, Piketty 2013; Stiglitz 2013). While the movement away from the predominantly culturalist perspectives toward the register of materiality has been welcomed by many, this turn to the material sphere has not exactly been ...

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Adorno with Freud, Adorno Beyond Freud

Part 4

October 19, 2017 • by Chiara Bottici

“Freudian Theory and the Pattern of Fascist Propaganda” is a strange text. It presents itself as a dynamic interpretation of Freud’s Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, which, in its turn is, also, according to Adorno, a “dynamic interpretation” of Le Bon’s description of the mass mind.[1] It ...

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The Radical Imagination

Imagining the future in financial capitalism

June 2, 2017 • by Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou and Chiara Bottici

Architectural fantasy stimulates the architect’s activity, it arouses creative thought not only for the artist but it also educates and arouses all those who come in contact with him; it produces new directions, new quests, and opens new horizons. Iakov Chernikhov (1933), ‘101 architectural fantasies’ Why the radical imagination? Today more than ...

Politics

The Authoritarian’s Gift

Ruth Ben-Ghiat’s Examination of Trump

May 18, 2017 • by Chiara Bottici

Over at CNN Opinion, Ruth Ben-Ghiat breaks down Trump's authoritarian tendencies, including his "gift" to us.

Utopia

‘Imagining the Future: Financial Capitalism and the Social Imagination’

March 15, 2017 • by Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou and Chiara Bottici

Social production of financial futures Fictional expectations in financial markets Economics and science fiction Risk, debt, and futurities Theorizing rationality/irrationality in financial crises Fictitious capital Future presents and present futures Utopian/dystopian sociologies of finance Political economy of sociological imagination(s) Real-estate utopias/dystopias Microcredit and neoliberal imagination Feminist finance and economics ...

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I Will Not…

March 7, 2017 • by Chiara Bottici

I will not feel guilty. I will not. I will not feel guilty if my nails are not polished. I will not feel guilty if my nails are polished. I will not feel guilty if I put lipstick on. I will not feel guilty for not putting lipstick on. I will not feel guilty if ...

Multi Media

The Philosophy and Psychoanalysis of the Image

February 21, 2017 • by Chiara Bottici

This conversation took place on December 10, 2016

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Education

The Philosophy and Psychoanalysis of the Image

A conversation

January 13, 2017 • by Chiara Bottici and Jamieson Webster

On the occasion of Totem & Taboo, an exhibition of new paintings by Daniel Horowitz at Tillou Fine Art (running through January 21), philosopher Chiara Bottici and psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster discussed the role of the image in philosophy and psychoanalysis. The exhibition is accompanied by a series of salon-style interdisciplinary ...

Education

The Mass Psychology of Trumpism

Old and New Myths

November 17, 2016 • by Chiara Bottici

Having spent quite some time studying the philosophy of political myth and, in particular, of fascist narratives, I could not but perceive something troubling in Donald Trump’s presidential campaign slogan: “Make America Great Again!” Every word is important. Let us explore each one by one. ...

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The Myths of the Clash between Clinton and Trump

September 29, 2016 • by Chiara Bottici

On 26 September 2016, I watched the first presidential debate of my life. I am not an American citizen. I do not have the right to vote. I moved to New York only a few years ago. I have not had enough time to become accustomed to American political culture, ...

The Myths of the Clash between Clinton and Trump

Education

Bodies, Gender, and Domination

August 31, 2016 • by Chiara Bottici and Jamieson Webster

Why do people fight for their own servitude as if it were their own deliverance? This is a question that has been at the heart of philosophy for a long time under the headings of voluntary servitude, ideology, and more recently domination. The aim of this seminar is to explore ...

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No Border Police, No Border Problems

May 26, 2016 • by Chiara Bottici

Most of the debate about the European refugee crisis revolves around whether the responsibility of handling them belongs to European institutions or to individual nation states, and, if the latter, which among them: the first country of entry (as the Dublin regulations established) or some other country. In this brief ...