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SUMMARY:Haunted body and ghostly spatialities. ALICE Seminar Series #2.
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DESCRIPTION:Avery Gordon\, Gabriele Schwab\, Julien Lafontaine Carboni\, D
 enise Bertschi\nSurrounded by a fog of virtual images #2. Haunted bodies a
 nd ghostly spatialities.\n\n \n\nGhosts and hauntings are familiar with a
 rchitecture. Das Unheimliche\, the essay of Freud\, resonated all along t
 he XXth century into architectural theory. Unhomeliness has been first th
 ought of as a bourgeois aesthetic experience referring to estranged homes 
 to their inhabitants and leading to the haunted house's figure. Secondly\,
  the development of psychoanalysis in architectural methods and theories 
 to address the fundamental unlivable conditions of the modern city shifted
  the relations between bodies and architecture\, site and structure\, and
  paved the way to deconstructivism's dismembered bodies and below language
  aesthetics.\n\n \n\nHowever\, a third way remains unaddressed in the arc
 hitectural field. Ghosts appear asking for reparations. Traces of institut
 ionalized violence and silencing\, their phenomenal existence is an effec
 tive\, shared\, and lived reality. As a particular figure of plural tempor
 alities defining affective landscapes\, ghosts inhabit\, dwell\, and thus\
 , shape and influence our spatialities. Not our past\, our commons\, gho
 sts are a particular texture of living memories with whom we are sharing o
 ur lands\, practices\, and becoming.\n\n \n\nFor this second session of 
 the seminar Surrounded by a fog of virtual images\, we aim at addressing 
 architectural histories of haunting\, as much as the spatial dimensions a
 nd agencies of ghosts. Starting from different perspectives  (sociology\,
  architectural\, and critical theory)\, this discussion aims at opening co
 mmon grounds for critical\, intersectional\, and reparative architectural
  (hi)stories. \n\n \n\nWe will do it in collaboration with Avery Gordon
 \, whose intervention will address subversive historical alternatives w
 ith the aim of returning to the ghost a certain agency with which the livi
 ng might make common cause. Meanwhile\, Gabriele Schwab will ask how 
 “ghostly spatialities” affect the texture of traumatic memories. Under
  the title Memory Crypts\, she will use several examples from her hometo
 wn in order to analyze these haunting memories\, including the erasure of 
 traces of Jewish life\, a spatial memory of Roma life\, and a memory of th
 e discovery of an Aleman burial ground.\n\nBiography: \n\nAvery F. Gor
 don was a Professor of Sociology at the University of California\, Santa 
 Barbara for thirty years and is currently a Visiting Professor at Birkbeck
  School of  Law University of London. Her most recent books are The Hawt
 horn Archive: Letters from the Utopian Margins\, The Workhouse: The Breit
 enau Room (with Ines Schaber)\, Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociol
 ogical Imagination and Keeping Good Time: Reflections on Knowledge\, Pow
 er and People. Her work focuses on radical thought and practice and she wr
 ites about captivity\, enslavement\, war and other forms of dispossession 
 and how to eliminate them. She has been the co-host of No Alibis\, a weekl
 y public affairs radio program on KCSB FM Santa Barbara since 1997.\n\nGab
 riele M. Schwab is Distinguished Professor at the University of Californi
 a\, Irvine.  She holds appointments in the departments of Comparative Lit
 erature\, Anthropology\, English and European Languages and Studies. She r
 eceived her Ph.D. in literary studies and critical theory at the Universit
 y of Constance in 1976 and a Ph.D. in Psychoanalysis from the New Center f
 or Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles in 2009.  A recipient of a Guggenheim Fe
 llowship and a Heisenberg Fellowship\, her research interests range across
  critical theory\, psychoanalysis\, trauma studies\, literature and anthro
 pology\, and 20th- and 21st century comparative literatures.  Monographs
  in English include Subjects Without Selves: Transitional Texts in Modern
  Fiction (1994)\; The Mirror and the Killer-Queen: Otherness in Literary 
 Language (1996)\; Haunting Legacies: Violent Histories and Transgenerati
 onal Trauma (2010)\; Imaginary Ethnographies: Literature\, Subjectivity\,
  Culture (2012.Winner of the 2014 Choice Award for Best Academic Book). 
 Radioactive Ghosts (2020) Edited collections: Accelerating Possession: 
 Global Futures of Property and Personhood (2006. with Bill Mauer)\; Derri
 da\, Deleuze\, Psychoanalysis (2007) and Clones\, Fakes and Posthumans: 
 Cultures of Replication (2012. with Philomena Essed).\n\nWe also have the 
 pleasure to receive Denise Bertschi\, artist and PhD candidate at LAPIS a
 s guest discutant. 
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