Fiction Series: Humiliation & Power (Part II) (location update)
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Hi everyone!
[LOCATION UPDATES TO SPRITZENHAUS33 DUE TO WEATHER AND EVENT AT TALEA]
Please join us on July 2nd for Part II of our discussion of Wayne Koestenbaum’s Humiliation in conjunction with excerpts from Judith Butler’s seminal work on subjection/subjectivity, The Psychic Life of Power.
You do not have to have joined previously to join us for Part II!
For this meeting, we will be reading the following:
- Humiliation by Wayne Koestenbaum, Fugues #5-8 (pages 68-124 in the Picador edition)
- Chapter 3, “Subjection, Resistance, Resignification: Between Freud and Foucault” of The Psychic Life of Power by Judith Butler, pages 82-105 (I have attached here the entire book, but only Chapter 3 is required for the second meet up)
Unfortunately, there is not a publicly available copy of Humiliation, so if anyone would really like to read this with us and is having trouble with access, please let me know. Both the Picador and Notting Hill editions are popular.
Additionally, Humiliation deals with some hefty topics–if there is something that anyone does not feel comfortable talking about in a broader forum, please let me know privately ahead of time and I will ensure we steer clear of that.
Some questions we’ll be thinking about:
- Can humiliation be self-defining? Or self-effacing?
- Is humiliation similar in nature to Butler’s discussion of subjection and the formation of the subject?
- Is humiliation a creative force, just as much as it might be a destructive one?
We’ll be meeting at 7pm on July 2nd at Talea in Williamsburg. If you have any other questions or difficulty finding us, feel free to message me.
See you there!
