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Jack smith filmmaker5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() In November of 1975, a French literary scholar at Columbia University by the name of Sylvère Lotringer, along with a student, John Rajchman, organized a four-day colloquium that was intended to bring together a wave of avant-garde French theorists with various representatives of downtown New York City demimondes - presumably to discuss themes related to “prisons and madness.”īut “Schizo-Culture,” as the conference was titled, didn’t go quite as planned.Įarly on, the narrow literary theme was scrapped in favor of what writer and researcher David Morris later described as “a delirious post-sixties intellectual free-for-all.” French philosopher Michel Foucault prepared a paper about repression Gilles Deleuze was slated for a session about the interpretation of signs.
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