Oct 11, 2017
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.