Jackie Wang "Oceanic Feeling and Communist Affect" -

Jackie Wang "Oceanic Feeling and Communist Affect"

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For Jackie Wang, dreams are modes of thinking that do not capitulate to reality and everyday scenes of unjustness. Wang has been exploring the creative, social, and political implications of oceanic feeling as well as the enmeshment of the psychoanalysis of mysticism and psychoanalytic debates about religion. Video talk with subtitles (EN, LV, RU): http://bit.ly/JackieWangtalk Podcast made in collaboration with tirkultura.net, original music by Jackie Wang.

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