We gather here some of the research materials we’ve produced as part of the Freudian Spaceship project.
What began around 2015 as the idea of a co-authored book has turned into a decade long period of reading, thinking, teaching and writing.
At the heart of the project is the image of the Freudian Spaceship and a structure of three parts – Breath, Body, Earth.
The first moment of production, perhaps even the first drive, it is with the breath - and it's constriction - that we begin to think. The clue is in the phrase "I can't breath" and it's spread across a culture, uttered by Eric Garner, reproduced in the Black Lives Matter movement and echoing the collapse of the climate.
The second moment of assemblage and surface, of the coming together of various scales of forces, producing a range of effects such as the 'epidermalisation' that Fanon points to. The body is more than mere matter. It is the incarnation of a history.
The third moment, of horizon, context, depth and height. The earth is that which we must be able to call home, the space that surrounds and gives structure to the breath and the body, the landscape of life in which it is possible to get a glimpse beyond this moment and this singular thing that we are.
The first of three main texts that form the core of the Freudian Spaceship book. The project has three parts – breath, body, earth. Each of these forms part of the Freudian Spaceship assemblage and is the focus of a set of questions and texts.
This Breath text was made available for a seminar that at the Free University Brighton in 2021.
This is the transcript of the lectures from the seminar series held at Free University Brighton in 2021.
An early essay from 2017 that saw the beginning of the attempt to describe what we might mean by Fanonian Schizoanalysis.
An essay by Eric Harper and Charity N.Mwaniki, published in Schizoanalysis and Ecosophy, ed.C.Boundas, Bloomsbury 2019
A variant version of the essay ‘Production of an anxiety dream machine’ produced by Matt Lee, Eric Harper and Charity N. Mwaniki.
Notes for a lecture given by Matt Lee at Goldsmiths University that outlines three concepts from A Thousand Plateaus that enable a re-thinking of the body in struggle.
An essay from 2024 that introduces the idea of Fanonian schizoanalysis to psychoanalysts in Sitegeist, the house journal of The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis.