Semiotexte on Semiotexte: A History of the Present

April 23, 2014
  • Semiotexte on Semiotexte discussion at 356 Mission

    This conversation marked the publication of Schizo-Culture: The Event, The Book. Inspired by the legendary Schizo-Culture conference held in 1975, Sylvère Lotringer's 1978 issue of Semiotext(e) journal charted the contemporary state of existential fragmentation that he felt could only be described through the disparate forces of theory, art, underground culture, politics, and sexual subcultures.

    Jack Smith's Jungle Island (1967) was screened as a part of this event--the film is not a part of this documentation, but the introduction, by Kathryn Garcia, is included.

  • The 70s were probably more romantic than the 60s.  Surveillance only means that they will never see everything, that in some sense they were leaving you even more alone.  More free, thought not in the awful vainglorious way that the word free so often brings to mind. … Schizo-Culture, not counterculture … not any kind of culture … breaking it down.

    – Jim Fletcher on Semiotexte’s Schizo-CultureArtforum

    Semiotexte definitely gets it.  They may even define it.  Their new box set, Schizo-Culture: The Event, The Book, certainly gets me closest to it.

    – Fiona Duncan, Alldayeveryday.com

    PLEASE JOIN US for a conversation between Semiotexte’s Noura Wedell, Hedi El Kholti and Sylvère Lotringer to mark the publication of Schizo-Culture: The Event, The Book.

    Inspired by the legendary Schizo-Culture conference held several years before, Sylvere Lotringer’s 1978 Schizo-Culture issue of Semiotext(e) journal charted the contemporary state of existential fragmentation that he felt could only be described through the disparate forces of theory, art, underground culture, politics and sexual subcultures. The two-book box set brings together the journal and the newly transcribed papers of the legendary Schizo-Culture conference held in 1975.

    This event begins at 7 PM

    Jack Smith’s Jungle Island (1967) will be screened at 7:30 PM, with an introduction by Kathryn Garcia

    Conversation begins at 8 PM



    Tags: Hedi El Kholti, Jack Smith, Kathryn Garcia, Noura Wedell, Semiotext(e), Sylvère Lotringer