Category Archives: Human Sciences

Topologos Lutecium Conversation #06 Is Covid-19 or a huge crisis incubating?

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A conversation with John Gasperoni at the time of Covid-19. Will there be an evolution of capitalism at a future time?

Topologos Lutecium Conversation #05 Is there something incubating? Remedies

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A new conversation with John Sheridan, leftist artist/activist. After disputing about the problematics induced by capitalism in France and the USA, and its incompatibility with human welfare, we come to the second one in which we will try to transmit the rough sketches of our understanding of the solutions French and US activists have invented so far to solve this major problem. In France I am pretty sure it will come from the Yellow Vests movement.
John Sheridan art work can be seen at http://www.johnsheridanart.com/

1st Source: Workshop of clinical topology #40 Chaos and Rule 30

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#40 Chaos and Rule 30

Following a presentation to La Lysimaque I develop the concepts of chaos and in particular Rule 30 describing what characterizes dynamical systems when being chaotic.
I was not certain that this session of the workshop has little to do with the psychoanalytic clinic, but to our surprise, connections occurred.

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Topologos Lutecium Conversation #04 Is there something incubating? Problematics

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A conversation with John Sheridan left artist/activist about the problematics induced by capitalism in France and the USA, and its incompatibility with human welfare. This is the first of a series of two. The second one will try to transmit the rough sketches of our understanding of the solutions French and US activists have invented so far to solve this major problem. In France I am pretty sure it will come from the Yellow Vests movement.

1st Source: Workshop of clinical topology #39 Formulas of Sexuation #02

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#39 The formulas of sexuation #02

Back to the formulas of sexuation. Many issues needed clarification. That's what we tried to do.

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Videos of Topologos-Lutecium Disputations

We produce recordings of meetings between two or three people who “dispute” about an object.

Word Disputation does not exist in French but is found in Latin and English.

“Disputatio” in Latin, definition in Gaffiot dictionary:
Action to examine an issue in its different points, weighing the pros and cons, discussion, dissertation; computation.

“Disputation” in English; definition of “The American Heritage Dictionary“:
The act of disputing; debate. An academic exercise consisting of a formal debate or an oral defense of a thesis.

The sessions of Topologos-Lutecium disputations

1st Source: Workshop of clinical topology #38 Formulas of Sexuation

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#38 The formulas of sexuation

What differentiates the male and the female part? Why Lacan says that there is no sexual report/relationship? And that THE woman does not exist? We try to explain these provocative assertions. They are less so when one considers that “man” and “women” are only meaningful.
Also it teaches us that the Other is nothing else that the other sex.

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1st Source: Workshop of clinical topology #37 Logics and Aristotle

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#37 Logics and Aristotle

Aristotelian logic is redescribed especially in its relations between intension ( categories, types, …) and extension (the individuals, instances, …). Gerard Crovisier connects these logics to the clinic of the subject.

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1st Source: Workshop of clinical topology #36 Neighborhoods, Graph, Graph of desire

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#36 Neighborhoods, Graph, Graph of desire

We resume here the topological definition of neighborhood that had been poorly explained. Here as well is definition and example of the concept of finite states graph. This is the first based on the, so called by Lacan, “Graph of desire”. This presentation is based on the 5 first sessions of the seminar 1958-59 “Desire and its interpretation”.

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1st Source: Workshop of clinical topology #35 Empty torus, solid torus?

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Empty torus, solid torus?

This question seeks to analyze the non-compatible uses Lacan builds out of a torus.
A discussion took place at the end of the workshop held on 10 December. Each one's certainties revealed to be different!
What I mean by this question is that
— Sometimes the torus is solid (torus belongs to R ^ 3) i.d. real,
symbolic, and imaginary within the Borromean knot.
— Sometimes the torus is empty as on an air chamber; it is a skin
(torus belongs to R ^ 2); i.d. in l'Étourdit where Lacan cuts the skin of a torus to build a two-sided strip and a Moebius strip.

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