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Kilroy, Robert
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Kilroy, Robert
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robert.kilroy@sorbonne.ae
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105 153 - PublicationBetween the Fear and the Fall: Malabou, Art, and the Symptomatic Plasticity of AI(2022)This article proposes a new theoretical model for interrogating the relationship between technology and subjectivity at the dawn of a post-pandemic age. Through the lens of art, Catherine Malabou’s concept of plasticity is aligned with Slavoj Žižek’s notion of the symptom. First, Žižek’s critical reading of Malabou is used as the basis for a symptomatic interpretation of plasticity. A reversal of this perspective—reading Žižek back through Malabou—then allows for a plastic reading of the symptom, which is finally extended into an analysis of AI. This crossing of conceptual threads remodels Žižek’s theoretical “short-circuit” as a more malleable—infra-disciplinary—exchange.
6 - PublicationDigital Tectonics and Cinematic Intimacy: An Epidemiological/Psychoanalytic Perspective(2023)This chapter will develop the basic premise of a paper delivered at the 2021 Irish Psychoanalytic Film Festival entitled “When the disease is misrecognised as the cure: Screen Contagion in the Shadow of COVID-19". The aim, building on Ian Parker’s concluding remarks at the event, is to explore - by way of analytical interventions into the field - the notion of cinematic intimacy in the context of COVID-19 and the lockdown experience. The working hypothesis is that the increased proximity to screens and images during the pandemic is a symptom - in the fundamental Lacanian sense - of a more serious screen contagion at work in the shadows of COVID-19. Using an innovative combination of psychoanalytic and epidemiological tools, this chapter attempts to analyse this phenomenon at the level of what I term the Tektonic Virus: a form of algorithmic desire fuelling the viral spread of a new mode of digitised subjectivity. © 2024 selection and editorial matter, Carol Owens and Sarah Meehan O’Callaghan; individual chapters, the contributors.
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Scopus© Citations 2 54 84 - PublicationMarcel Duchamp's Fountain: One hundred years later(2017)This book marks the centenary of Marcel Duchamp's Fountain by critically re-examining the established interpretation of the work. It introduces a new methodological approach to art-historical practice rooted in a revised understanding of Lacan, Freud and Slavoj Žižek. In weaving an alternative narrative, Kilroy shows us that not only has Fountain been fundamentally misunderstood but that this very misunderstanding is central to the work's significance. The author brings together Duchamp's own statements to argue Fountain's verdict was strategically stage-managed by the artist in order to expose the underlying logic of its reception, what he terms 'The Creative Act.' This book will be of interest to a broad range of readers, including art historians, psychoanalysts, scholars and art enthusiasts interested in visual culture and ideological critique
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