Book discussion with Aaron Schuster

A book discussion and presentation

How to Research Like a Dog. Kafka’s New Science (MIT Press, 2024)

by Aaron Schuster

 

 

A provocative book that proposes a new and surprising inspiration for philosophy today—the canine thinker from Kafka’s story “Investigations of a Dog.”

 

Aaron Schuster is a philosopher and writer, based in Amsterdam, and an editor of e-flux Notes. His research moves between literature, art, philosophy, and psychoanalysis, and he has written on such topics as breakups, the philosophy of tickling, the history of levitation, Andrei Platonov’s Anti-Sexus, the comedy of Ernst Lubitsch, Alexandra Kollontai’s Bolshevik feminism, Jean Genet’s political theater, the history of pleasure, and complaining. He is the author of The Trouble with Pleasure: Deleuze and Psychoanalysis (MIT, 2016), and, most recently, How to Research Like a Dog: Kafka’s New Science (MIT, 2024). He is the co-author of Sovereignty, Inc.: Three Inquiries in Politics and Enjoyment (University of Chicago, 2020).

 

Friday 21st March, 19h00-21h00

Auditório Lagoa Henriques – Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade de Lisboa (FBAUL)

(Largo da Academia Nacional de Belas Artes)

 

Speakers:

Aaron Schuster, Giovanbattista Tusa, Ana Falcato,  Iracema Dulley, Jose Rosales, and Tamara Caraus

This event is organized as part of the Praxis-CFUL activities.