[PHILOS-L] Reminder | 1 Oct, Online | Alenka Zupančič | PRISM Talk Series #6

[Seraphin Frimmer]

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Dear colleagues,

This is a friendly reminder that the next installment of the PRISM Talk Series lecture will take place online on 1 October 2025 at 7:00 p.m. CEST (UTC+02:00).

We are delighted to welcome Prof. Dr. Alenka Zupančič, who will present "The Time of Monsters: Crisis, Subjectivity, and Struggle Today."

If you have not registered yet, you can still do so free of charge via Pretix: https://pretix.eu/prismtalkseries/prism-talk-6/c/5nGoRN9He/

After registering via Pretix, you will receive a confirmation e-mail containing a link to complete a Zoom registration. Once that is done, Zoom will send you your personal join link to the event. 

Speaker
Prof. Dr. Alenka Zupančič is a Research Advisor at the Institute of Philosophy of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU) and a leading voice of the Ljubljana School of Psychoanalysis. Her work brings Lacanian theory into dialogue with thinkers such as Nietzsche, Kant, and Hegel to rethink questions of ethics, sexuality, and ontology. Her key books include The Shortest Shadow (2003), The Odd One In (2008), and What IS Sex? (2017). Her latest monograph, Disavowal (2024), examines the dynamics of denial and contradiction in contemporary political crises.

Lecture
Her talk takes Antonio Gramsci’s line, "the old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters," as its point of departure to address today’s serial crises: pandemics, wars, and economic turmoil - all under the shadow of global warming. Zupančič examines these "monsters" through philosophy and Lacanian psychoanalysis, extending arguments from her book Disavowal. She asks whether this “time of monsters” is not just a transitional phase but rather the new world itself, and she reflects on the forms of subjectivity and struggle that the present historical moment implies, enables, or forecloses.

Recordings of earlier lectures in the PRISM Talk Series can be found on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@PRISMTalkSeries
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Best regards,
Seraphin Frimmer, M.A. (he/him)
Producer & Host, PRISM Talk Series
Ph.D. candidate, Munich School of Philosophy
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