Philosophy Salon Presents

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

Aaron Schuster is presenting his new book How to Research Like a Dog: Kafka's New Science (MIT Press, 2024).

Dr Schuster is a writer and philosopher, who lives in Amsterdam. He works at the intersection of continental philosophy and psychoanalysis, and engages with modernist literature, film, theater, and contemporary art. He has written on a wide range of topics, including the history of levitation, the philosophy of tickling, the psychopathology of AI, the comedy of Ernst Lubitsch, Jean Genet’s political theater, Andrei Platonov’s Anti-Sexus, the Bolshevik feminism of Alexandra Kollontai, the theory of the breakup, and complaining. He is the author of The Trouble with Pleasure: Deleuze and Psychoanalysis (MIT Press, 2016), co-author of Sovereignty, Inc.: Three Essays in Politics and Enjoyment (University of Chicago Press, 2020), and he is the editor of E-flux Notes.

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Time: 12:00 pm EDT/GMT-4

Location: Hegeman 204A

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