The Benefits and Harms of Amnesia and Anamnesis
individual and/or collective
Wednesday sessions, October to December 2020: Mnemosyne, from mythos to logos — Rousseau, Hesiod, Wagner, Proust, the Mandinka griot — and answers to the audience’s questions.
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#1 Benefits and harms of amnesia...
Is memory the condition of happiness and identity, or is forgetting its condition instead?
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#2 Benefits and harms of amnesia...
Why can memory, which Greek myth conflates with language in the figure of Mnemosyne, not go without forgetting?
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#3 Benefits and harms of amnesia...
How do anamnesis and amnesia, individual and collective, work upon memory, and what does it mean for memory to be overdetermined?
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#4 Benefits and harms of amnesia...
How does memory, which retains and names, confront the indeterminacy of origins, and how can one memory overdetermine others?
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#5 Benefits and harms of amnesia...
Why is human memory inseparable from forgetting, and how does the consciousness of death mean that 'the echo changes'?
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#6 Presentation of the dominiquepagani.fr website
How does the site dominiquepagani.fr organize access to the workshops, publications, texts, and musical resources?
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#6 Answers to questions
Is desire only a way of not thinking about death, and freedom a mere pretext for avoiding it?
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#7 Answers to questions (continued)
How should one answer public questions on Nazism and esotericism, contemporary music, ontology in Marx, orbital resonance and a variant of Capital, and how to announce next semester's program?
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#8 Benefits and harms of amnesia...
Why does the nostalgia for a lost substance found every reactionary ideology, and what does the ambivalence of memory and language reveal?
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#9 Benefits and harms of amnesia...
Can we show that a logic is at work in human affairs, and what role do memory, forgetting, and anamnesis play in Phèdre's tragic confession?
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#10 Benefits and harms of amnesia...
Should anamnesis be pushed as far as our oldest vulnerability, or should it be forgotten in order to open onto a genuine future?