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Analyzing the Cultural Unconscious

Science of the Signifier

Edited by Henrik Jker Bjerre, Brian Benjamin Hansen, Kirsten Hyldgaard, Jakob Rosendal, Lilian Munk Rsing

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Henrik Jker Bjerre is Associate Professor of Applied Philosophy at Aalborg University, Denmark, and a member of the philosophical collective Center for Wild Analysis. His research focuses on subjectivity and culture, specifically on the work of Kant, Kierkegaard, and Lacan. His publications include books on Kantian moral philosophy, the concept and practice of cultural analysis, and the philosophy of action. His most recent book is Handl!("Act!"), coauthored with Brian Benjamin Hansen (2017).

Linus Nicolaj Carlsen is External Lecturer at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies of the University of Copenhagen. His research interests include Samuel Beckett, Maurice Blanchot, robotic fiction, and early Soviet culture. He has previously written on voice and dissonance in the works of Scott Walker, narrative strategies in Agota Kristof, and issues of eroticism and subjectivity in Westworld.

Center for Wild Analysis is a philosophical collective that has existed since 2006. It has produced two books, a year-long national radio show, weekly newspaper columns, and a number of interventions at conferences and other events. Its members are Brian Benjamin Hansen, Henrik Jker Bjerre, Kasper Porsgaard, Rasmus Ugilt, and Steen Thykjr. The center exists when two or more of these write or speak in its name.

Mladen Dolar is Professor and Senior Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, and Professor at the European Graduate School in Switzerland. His principal areas of research are psychoanalysis, modern French philosophy, German idealism, and philosophy of art. Apart from over 150 papers in scholarly journals and collective volumes and a dozen books in Slovene, his book publications include most notably A Voice and Nothing More (MIT 2006, translated into nine languages).

Carin Franzn is Professor and Director of the Graduate School in Language and Culture, Linkping University. She has a PhD in comparative literature. Her research explores the relations between formations of subjectivity and cultural hegemonies. She has published various articles and books on literature and psychoanalysis as well as on medieval and early-modern literature, most recently Subjects of Sovereign Control and the Art of Critique in the Early Modern Period, in Control Culture: Foucault and Deleuze after Discipline, ed. Beckman (Edinburgh University Press, 2018).

Brian Benjamin Hansen is Associate Professor at VIA University College and a member of Center for Wild Analysis. His research interests focus on subjectivity (enjoyment, disgust, freedom, the act, madness), collectivity, the psychopathology of culture, and philosophy of science (the use of examples, the concept of analysis). His latest book is Handl! (Act!), coauthored with Henrik Jker Bjerre (2017).

Kirsten Hyldgaard is Associate Professor at the Danish School of Education, Aarhus University (Campus Emdrup), Denmark. Her research interests are psychoanalysis, philosophy, epistemology, and gender studies. She has published on the philosophical implications of Lacanian psychoanalysis, Heidegger, educational philosophy, epistemology, and on feature films and documentaries. Her most recent book (2014) is Eksistensens galskab. Freudo-lacanianske tilgange til videnskab, kunst, culture [Madness of Existence. Freudo-Lacanian Approaches to Science, Art, and Culture].

Kari Jegerstedt is Associate Professor at the University of Bergen at the Centre for Womens and Gender Research. Her research interests focus on postcolonial literature, feminist and intersectional gender theory, psychoanalysis, and posthumanist. She has published on Angela Carter, Norwegian and South African literature, as well as on gender theory. Her most recent book is Exploring the Black Venus Figure in Aesthetic Practices (co-ed 2019).

Juliet Flower MacCannell is Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. Her books include Figuring Lacan (1986/2014), The Regime of the Brother (1991), and The Hysterics Guide to the Future Female Subject (2000); her edited collections are on philosophy and psychoanalytic theory. Her recent essays focus on violence, sex, law, perversion, war, capitalism, space, fashion, architecture, cities, suburbs, and The Regime of the Brother Today. She has been awarded Outstanding Professor Emerita, UCI (2015); Honorary Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, University of London (2009); Artist in Residence, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California (1993); and Resident Artist, Moonhole, Bequia, ICA, Boston/Engelhard Foundation (1994).

Ida Nissen Bjerre is PhD fellow at Copenhagen University. Her research focuses on Lacanian readings of literature, in particular Marguerite Duras and William Shakespeare. She is the cofounder and chairman of the Danish Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis, and the editor-in-chief of its journal, Lamella, and has edited the first three issues (20162018). Her most recent publication is a Lacanian analysis of August Strindbergs The Defence of a Fool.

Ren Rasmussen is PhD and Associate Professor in Danish literature at the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen, and psychoanalyst, Copenhagen. He does his research and writing in the cross fields of literature, psychoanalysis, capitalism, and consumerism. His most recent book is Krligheden til det uden navn [Love to That without Name].

Jakob Rosendal holds a PhD in Art History from Aarhus University and is conducting postdoctoral research at The Womens Museum in Denmark as part of the group project Gender Blender Everyday Life, Activism, and Diversity in collaboration with Aarhus University. His research focuses on everyday visual culture and the repetition of images, and his postdoc project deals with images of children and childrens drawings in relation to the issues of childrens (a)sexuality, sexual difference, and transgender childhood. His latest publication Det pdofile blik? Om seksualitet i billeder af brn (The Paedophile Gaze? Sexuality in Images of Children) questions the relatedness of paedophile fantasies and contemporary mainstream images of children.

Lilian Munk Rsing is Associate Professor at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, Copenhagen University, and a literary critic. She does her research and writing in the cross field of aesthetics, psychoanalysis, and cultural criticism. Her most recent book is on the painter Anna Ancher (Anna Anchers rum, Gyldendal 2018). She has a book published in English: Pixar with Lacan. The Hysterics Guide to Animation (Bloomsbury 2017).

Anders Ruby is a music producer and has an MA in History of Ideas from Aarhus University. He is currently working on a PhD thesis on subjectivity and machine music in a Lacanian context. His most recent publication (2018) is on disgust and musical fantasies (Musik er en kel fantasi in