RU156: DR GAUTAM BASU THAKUR ON POSTCOLONIAL LACK, IDENTITY, CULTURE, SURPLUS

Rendering Unconscious welcomes Dr. Gautam Basu Thakur to the podcast! Gautam Basu Thakur is a critical theorist working in the fields of comparative cultural studies; postcoloniality and globalization studies; British Literature of the Empire; race and sexuality studies; and world cinema. More specifically, he is interested in theoretical psychoanalysis and its interventions in postcolonial studies; the British Empire and its afterlife in global/transnational literary and (new) media cultures; film; and comparative cultural politics. His books include: 1) Postcolonial Theory and Avatar (2015) https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/postcolonial-theory-and-avatar-9781628925654/ 2) Postcolonial Lack: Identity, Culture, Surplus (2020) http://www.sunypress.edu/showproduct.aspx?ProductID=6858&SEName=postcolonial-lack 3) Lacan and the Nonhuman (2018) https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783319638164 4) Reading Lacan's Seminar VIII (2020) https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030327415 He has a chapter included in Lacan and Race: Racism, Identity and Psychoanalytic Theory (Routledge, 2021) edited by Sheldon George and Derek Hook: https://www.routledge.com/Lacan-and-Race-Racism-Identity-and-Psychoanalytic-Theory/George-Hook/p/book/9780367345976 Gautam Basu Thakur is the recipient of The Faculty Excellence Award in the College Arts and Sciences, Boise State University, Jan 2020. This episode also available at YouTube: https://youtu.be/puNaEmBkQDU LACK conferences mentioned in this episode: https://lackorg.com/2016-conference/ You can support the podcast at our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Thank you so much for your support! Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by psychoanalyst Dr. Vanessa Sinclair: http://www.drvanessasinclair.net Visit the main website for more information and links to everything: http://www.renderingunconscious.org Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry (Trapart 2019): https://store.trapart.net/details/00000 The song at the end of the episode is “Situated in the gap (for Derek Jarman)” from the album "This is Voyeurism" by Vanessa Sinclair and Pete Murphy. https://vanessasinclairpetemurphy.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-voyeurism Many thanks to Carl Abrahamsson, who created the intro and outro music for Rendering Unconscious podcast. https://www.carlabrahamsson.com Portrait of Dr Gautam Basu Thakur