5: Transference in Architecture, Culture and Society with Dominick LaCapra

11/10/2017 53 min Temporada 1 Episodio 5
5: Transference in Architecture, Culture and Society with Dominick LaCapra

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Cornell University's Professor Emeritus of Intellectual History, Dominick LaCapra discusses the constitutive role of transference in our relationship to history, historiography, animals and architecture. We discuss transference's relationship with empathy and connecting with Others, and when it 'crosses the line' and becomes pathological. Topics include the architecture of Auschwitz, the skyscraper versus adobe, and the possibility of a non-anthropocentric ecological future.