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Explain the astray bit II

Metro, Thusday 20 July 2006

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Felix in Venice

This is excellent news! I suppose this means that, if I was in two minds about attending my third Biennale, Felix might have swayed the lever into the yes position.

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The split

I want to paste this quote from the magnificent K-Punk journal because I suspect I am going to want to refer to it later: Deleuze proclaims that the ‘only enemy is two’. He understoods perfectly well that a split is involved but is unable to grant any ontological specificity to the concept of the split, [...]

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Note to self: Not to lose sight of the object of study

Please remember, before attempting to write anything on seduction:1. Seduction is a relational enterprise;2. Seduction invokes the possibility of a change, from positive to negative;3. Seduction may lead me astray in my efforts to theorise, research, examine, explore; 4. Seduction will resist any mode of production;5. Seduction (first order simulacra) is what my research is [...]

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La seduccion de los objectos

La seduccion de los objetos / The seduction of objectsFarruggia, Nazario, CrecientePublisher: Embajada de Canada ISBN: 987-43-6600-1Size: 17,5 X 26 cm.Language: SpanishPages: 180

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Note to Self

Also, this wonderful website. What has this project got to do with seduction?

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Influence or Coincidence?

With thanks to Beatty, for pointing this out to me:Omlet’s Eglu and Jonathan Ive’s iMac

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Drawing as Thinking

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Note to Self

Beware of train wreck sentences.

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To Do by 15th February

In no particular order: ‚ÄîFinish reading Les liaisons dangereuses ‚ÄîFinish reading Apariencia desnuda: La obra de Marcel Duchamp ‚ÄîWrite AHRB Doctoral Award application ‚ÄîAdvance on the reading of Baudrillard’s Seduction (yawn) ‚ÄîWrite TMC article on Le Grand Verre ‚ÄîChase up PhD application (by 1st February, if I haven’t heard from them) ‚ÄîUpload reading list into [...]

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About Me

Laura Gonzalez is an artist and writer. Her recent practice encompasses film, dance, photography and text, and her work has been exhibited and published in the UK, Spain and Portugal. She has spoken at numerous conferences and events, including the Museum for the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, the Medical Museum in Copenhagen, College Arts Association and the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society. When she is not following Freud, Lacan and Marx’s footsteps with her camera, she lectures postgraduate students at the Glasgow School of Art.

Her doctoral project, completed in 2010, investigated psychoanalytic approaches to making and understanding objects of seduction, including an examination of parallels between artistic and analytic practices, a study of Manolo Blahnik’s shoes as objects of desire, a disturbing encounter with Marcel Duchamp’s last work, and the creation of a psychoanalytically inspired Discourse of the Artefact, a framework enabling the circulation of questions and answers through a relational approach to artworks.

She is currently immersed in an interdisciplinary project exploring knowledge and the body of the hysteric.