Category Archives: Dialogue

In a partly salutary shift, gender has largely replaced sex as a category in contemporary culture and theory. Popular sex negativity and insurgent fascist politics alike pose sex as a problem – but not the way psychoanalysis meant. A new book by longtime Friend of InterCcECT Chris Breu challenges this shift, constructing a theory of sex as nonbinary embodiment and as prosocial desire. Professor Breu dialogues about In Defense of Sex with Professor Rebekah Sheldon at Seminary Coop on Saturday 7 December at 3pm.

Join InterCcECT there and afterwards for a book party and holiday festivity, prosociality amid the darkness (RSVP for party deets).

Smell is the sense the least available to medium, mediation, and remediation, and the most susceptible to association with the natural, the animal, the disgusting. For these and other reasons, the theory and art of smell generate great friction in philosophy, political-economy, and psychoanalysis. An exciting new book palpates these frictions and percusses insights about truth, language, and sexuality. In a very special InterCcECT dialogue, Dr. Simon Hajdini discusses What’s That Smell with Dr. William Mazzarella, Join us at 4pm Tuesday 12 November, UIC University Hall Room 2028 (601 S Morgan St, 20th floor; Blue Line: UIC Halsted).

Advance reading not required but suggested; contact us for PDF.

Mark your calendars now for our 7 December event, In Defense of Sex, a book talk at Seminary Coop followed by InterCcECT festivities that evening!