Catherine Malabou on the philosophical and historical implications of the 'anthropocene':
It's hilarious how she confuses 'Dipesh' Chakrabarty's first name with 'Pradesh' tongue emoticon She is correct in calling Chakrabarty 'Dipesh' to begin with but gets it wrong while writing the name on the blackboard. It's a pure slip as she doesn't correct what's written on the board in spite of concentrating on Chakrabarty's essay on the Anthropocene and looking back at the board as she discusses it.
The slip beautifully connects the signifier 'Pradesh' which is a spatial term meaning province with her discourse. Not only does it connect with the 'scene' of Anthropo(s)cene but also Dipesh Chakrabarty's discourse on 'Provincializing Europe'. I am not sure if Malabou is aware of the signifier 'Pradesh' but the slip again goes to show how our unconscious knows more than what we think we know wink emoticon
Psychoanalysis apart, the talk engages with Dipesh Chakrabarty and Daniel Smail to analyse the philosophical underpinnings of the paradigmatic shift in history from the human to the geological as the human is reoriented from a biological to a geological subject of history. She critiques Chakrabarty for his reduction of the neural to the biological via Smail's ideas of history as neuro-physiological and psychotropic 'addiction'. In this dialectic of indifference and addiction, I am not entirely convinced what Malabou adds to the Chakrabarty-Smail 'deep history' debate. She only foreshadows a Hegelian re-reading of this debate. A fascinating lecture nevertheless for anyone interested in philosophical time and history.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDdTqr-5APg
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