Book Conversations: 'How to Research like a Dog: Kafka's New Science' by Aaron Schuster
When:
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Venue:
Birkbeck Clore Management Centre
In 'How to Research Like a Dog', Aaron Schuster takes Franz Kafka's short story 'Investigations of a Dog' as a springboard to propose different ways of doing philosophy and research. To research like or as if a dog, invites us to sniff, bark, etc., in general take on canine attributes. The book engages with philosophers/writers/thinkers from Plato to Flaubert, Lispector, and Lacan and puts the dog in dialogue with psychoanalytic theory, the history of philosophy, and modern literature.
Aaron Schuster will be in conversation about his book with Professor Heike Bauer (Facutly of Humanities and Social Sciences, Birkbeck) and Professor Maria Aristodemou (School of Law, Birkbeck). This event will be moderated by Professor Elena Loizidou (School of Law, Birkbeck).
Aaron Schuster is a philosopher and writer, who lives in Amsterdam. He is the author of The Trouble with Pleasure: Deleuze and Psychoanalysis (MIT, 2016), and co-author of Sovereignty, Inc.: Three Inquiries in Politics and Enjoyment (University of Chicago, 2020). He is the editor of e-flux Notes.
Doors open: 3.45 pm
Event starts: 4.00 pm
The event is co-organised by the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities and the Centre for the Study for Law and the Humanities.
The event will be recorded and livestreamed.
This event is free and open to all but registration is required. Please click on the 'book your place' link at the top of the page to secure your place.
Contact name: Dr Elia Ntaousani - BIH Manager
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