Beginning from the cry "I can't breath", this research project aims to mutate schizoanalysis by immersing it in both the contemporary political-psychic landscape and the decolonial thought of Frantz Fanon.
Bringing together the practices of philosophy, psychoanalysis, revolution and sorcery, we create a space of playful experiment, open conversation and radical thought.
The hypothesis is that the resulting mutant offspring -a Fanonian schizoanalysis - will open new modes of adaptation, resistance and resilience.
An image that can open up a space for thinking; a combination of ideas to produce new concepts from hybrid mutations; the name of a research project that combines schizoanalysis with the thought of Frantz Fanon; a space to develop a new practice of philosophy and psychoanalysis; a name for a new earth in which we might be at home.
Eric Harper and Matt Lee have been working, thinking and writing together for the last few years, producing a variety of essays, texts, and other materials around the theme of the Freudian Spaceship. This website marks a point at which we want to broaden our dialogues and actively involve others in conversation. The first step involves developing the podcast, Conversations about Concepts, as well as gathering together the work we have been doing into an easily accessible place on our research page.
NotebookLM is a Google-inspired AI tool that allows users to upload files and ask questions about them. By uploading our research materials, we used its ‘deep dive’ feature to create an AI-voiced podcast.
One of the things that arose from the first text, Breath, was a series of questions. These arose from both
This is a text written for the participants in the anxiety podcast. It’s intended as a discussion starter, something to prompt thought.