Television

New Series Coming Soon!

With our series on Seminar XX now complete, I’ve been enjoying all the minor works Lacan produced before, during, and just after his momentous twentieth seminar. Notes, interviews, conference presentations, the list goes on — and fantastically so!

I’ve also been thinking about where we should go from here. It’s tempting to jump right into Seminar XXI, if only to work up a decent translation of Les Non-Dupes Errent. But I think our next stop, instead, should be Lacan’s 1973 interview with Jacques-Alain Miller:

And just to wet your winter whistle for what’s to come — probably in January — here’s the opening riff in the standard English translation of “Television,” in all its conceptual rigor and allusive bite — but also, lamentably, quite astray from the original French transcript (something we’ll have to address):