What’s the matter with the unconscious?

2023/11/28 by Lucas Pohl · 1 voice · 2 citations
Social Sciences · #Geographies of human-animal interactions #Japanese History and Culture #Posthumanist Ethics and Activism

paper · doi:10.1177/20438206231217562

openalex publication_date 2023/11/28 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30

Abstract

Anna Secor’s ‘Spacetimeunconscious’ offers a groundbreaking intervention into the fields of material and psychoanalytic geographies. Following Karen Barad and Jacques Lacan, she develops a concept of the unconscious that takes place within matter itself. In this commentary, I add some questions, loose ends, and fragments to the theory-building patchwork of Secor's paper.

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• Responding: Spacetimeunconscious[ing] both heavy and light
• Psychoanalytic political ecology

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