http://www.egs.edu/ Sylvère Lotringer, philosopher and theorist, speaking about Jean Baudrillard, the transition from french theory to media theory, deconstruction, critical theory, ideology, marxism, class struggle, critical mass, political action, terrorism, power, silent majority, exclusion, indifference, the similation chamber of the social, symbolic exchange and death and In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities. Free public open video philosophy and politics lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2009, Sylvère Lotringer.
Sylvère Lotringer is a literary critic and cultural theorist. A younger contemporary of Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, Jean Baudrillard, Paul Virilio and Michel Foucault, he is best known for synthesizing French theory with American literary, cultural and architectural avant-garde movements through his work with Semiotext(e) ; and for his interpretations of French theory in a 21st century context. An influential interpreter of Jean Baudrillards theories, Lotringer invented the concept "extrapolationist" as a means of describing the hyperbolic world-views espoused by Baudrillard and Paul Virilio.
Sylvère Lotringer studied at the Sorbonne and received his doctorate from the École Pratique des Hautes Études VIe section, Paris (1967). As General Editor of Semiotext(e) and of the "Foreign Agents" series, Lotringer was instrumental in introducing French theory to the United States. His teaching interests include Dada and surrealism, situationism, Mallarmé, Proust, structuralism and post-structuralism, as well as anthropology, semiotics, philosophy and art in relation to 20th-century literature.
Sylvère Lotringer has published books with French theorists Paul Virilio (Pure War, New York: Semiotext(e), 1983) and Jean Baudrillard, (Forget Foucault, 1986), in addition to Overexposed, an update on Michel Foucaults History of Sexuality (New York: Pantheon, 1988). Sylvère Lotringer is the author of Antonin Artaud (New York: Scribners and Sons, 1990), has published on Georges Bataille, Simone Weil, L.-F. Céline, Marguerite Duras, Robert Antelme, and is currently completing a study on this authors anticipation of World War II. Lotringer, Sylvère "Forget Baudrillard", in Forget Foucault, Semiotexte History of the Present, Cambridge 2006, David Wojnarowitz A Definitive History of Five or Six years on the Lower East Side", Cambridge Semiotext(e), 2006, Pazzi di Artaud, Medusa, Milan 2006, The Accident of Art (with Paul Virilio), Semiotexte, Cambridge 2005, The Conspiracy of Art, (with Jean Baudrillard), Semiotexte, Cambridge 2005, Oublier Artaud, Sens and Tonka, Paris 2005, Boules de Suif, Sens and Tonka, Paris 2005, Crepuscular Dawn, with Paul Virilio, Semiotexte, Cambridge 2002, Fous dArtaud, Sens and Tonka, Paris 2003, The Collected Interviews of William S,. Burroughs", Cambridge Semiotext(e), 2002, French Theory in America, New York, Routledge, 2001, Nancy Spero, London Phaedon Press, 1996, Foreign Agent Kuntz in den Zeiten des Theorie, Merve Verlag, Berlin 1992, Antonin Artaud, New York Scribners & Sons, 1990 Philosophen-Künstler, Merve Verlag, Berlin 1986, Bellos, David Georges Perec A Life in Words, David R. Godine, NY 1993, Lotringer, Sylvère Better Than Life, Artforum, April 2003, Morgan, Ted Literary Outlaw The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs, Avon Books, New York 1990, Lotringer, Sylvère and Smith, Jack "Uncle Fishook and the Sacred Baby Poo-poo of Art", in SchizoCulture, Semiotexte ed. III, 2, 1978, Lotringer, Sylvère "Time Bomb", in Crepuscular Dawn, Semiotexte, Cambridge 2002. Lotringer has also published extensively on art: Philosopher-Artist, (Berlin: Merve Verlag 1986); Foreign Agent: Kunst in den Zeiten der Theorie (1991); Nancy Spero (London: Phaidon Press, 1995) and recently contributed to exhibition catalogues from the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum. He is now putting together a volume entitled French Theory in America for Routledge, New York.
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Sylvère Lotringer. In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities.
what a remarkable series..thx for posting...im studying French theory..im sick of american pragmatism and empire...
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