Prof. Dr. Samo Tomšič
Professor for Philosophy
Theoretical Teaching | Philosophy
Address: | Güntzstraße 34 |
R.218 | |
Phone: | |
Email: | tomsic@hfbk-dresden.de |
Vita
| Seit 10/2024 | Professur für Philosophie/Ästhetik an der Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden |
| 2021–2024 | Visiting and Interim Professor of Philosophy at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg |
| 2019–2021 | Visiting Professor of General Cultural Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg |
| 2019–2024 | Research Associate at the Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity. Image, Space, Material, Humboldt University Berlin |
| 2014–2018 | Research Associate at the Cluster of Excellence Image Knowledge Gestaltung, Humboldt University Berlin |
| 2011–2013 | Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Institute for German Literature, Humboldt University Berlin |
| 2009–2010 | Theory Fellow, Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, The Netherlands |
| 10/2008 | PhD in Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| 2003–2010 | Research Assistant at the Institute of Philosophy, Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| 09/2003 | BA in Philosophy |
Selected publications
Monographs
The Labour of Enjoyment. Toward a Critique of Libidinal Economy, Berlin (August Verlag), 2019.
The Capitalist Unconscious. Marx and Lacan, London (Verso), 2015.
Edited volumes
Psychoanalysis: Topological Perspectives, ed. by Michael Friedman and Samo Tomšič, Bielefeld (Transcript Verlag), 2016.
Jacques Lacan Between Psychoanalysis and Politics. ed. by Samo Tomšič and Andreja Zevnik, London (Routledge), 2016.
Texts
‘Freud's Three Wishes’, in: Parapraxis 3: The Wish, Oakland, CA: The Psychosocial Foundation, December 2023, pp. 89–117.
‘Jansenist Morality and the Compulsion of Capitalism’, in: Capitalism and the New Political Unconscious, ed. by Riccardo Panattoni and Fabio Vighi, London (Bloomsbury), 2023, pp. 135–164.
‘The Politics of Resentment and Its Pitfalls’, in: Populism and the People in Contemporary Critical Thought, ed. by Alexander Stagnell, David Payne and Gustav Strandberg, London (Bloomsbury), 2023, pp. 93–106.
‘No Such Thing as Society? On Competition, Solidarity, and Social Bond’, in: differences, Vol. 33, No. 2-3, 2022, pp. 51–71.
‘From the Orderly World to the Polluted Unworld’, in: Objective Fictions. Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Marxism, ed. by Adrian Johnston, Boštjan Nedoh and Alenka Zupančič, Edinburgh (Edinburgh University Press), 2022, pp. 64–84.
‘Psychoanalysis’, in: The Sage Handbook of Marxism, ed. by Sara Farris, Beverly Sleggs, Alberto Toscano and Svenja Bromberg, London (Sage), 2022, pp. 980–997.
‘Topologischer Materialismus’, in: Michael Friedman and Angelika Seppi, Grenzen der Formalisierung, Leipzig: Spector Books, 2021, pp. 182–198.
‘Capitalism’, in: The Routledge Handbook of Psychoanalytic Political Theory, ed. by Yannis Stavrakakis,London (Routledge), 2019, pp. 296–306.
‘Towards a Materialist Ontology’, Continental Thought & Theory, 2018, Vol. 2, No 1, pp. 82–117.
‘Baroque Structuralism’, in: Disjunctive Synthesis: Lacan and Deleuze, ed. by Bostjan Nedoh and Andreja Zevnik, Durham (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press), 2016, pp. 123–140.
‘Sein und Lust. Der ontologische Skandal der Sprachautonomie’, in: Martin Heidegger: Die Falte der Sprache, ed. by Michael Friedman and Angelika Seppi, Vienna (Turia + Kant Verlag), 2016, pp. 89-118.
