Directed by Andrew Payne
“Architecture in the Alethosphere,” aims to essay the explanatory power of Lacan’s comments concerning the alethosphere and those “lathouses” that are its objective correlatives for considerations of architecture in its current condition. This aim has two vectors. The first seeks to forge links between the alethosphere and the constellation of broader themes that animate The Other Side of Psychoanalysis, viz.: the novel alliance between science and capitalism that emerges with the transition from thermodynamic to cybernetic models of industrial enterprise; the diminishing significance of the Oedipal impasse in the subjectivation of contemporary individuals and the resultant decline in the prevalence of neurotic structure (with its associated dialectic of desire and repression); the replacement of this neurotic culture of desire by a culture of consumerist enjoyment, and with that replacement, the emergence of new psychical dispositions sharing certain features with, while nevertheless remaining irreducible to, traditional formations of perversion and psychosis.
original call for papers
Zoom Session Link, July 30, 2021
Position Papers / presentations
• Angie Voela: “Conspiracy Theories in the Alethosphere”
• John Shannon Hendrix: “An Architecture of Cracks”
• Lorens Holm: “Notes on the Tower in the Alethosphere”
• Don Kunze: “The Speculative Topography of the Lathouse”
• Don Kunze: “The Curvature of the Alethosphere”
• Don Kunze: “Is Not the Alethopshere the Perfect Place to Hold a Pandemic?”
Links to Presentation:
• John Shannon Hendrix, “An Architecture of Cracks, Debris, Junkspace and the Alethosphere” (video currently unavailable)