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1. Hanya Yanagihara, Jacques Lacan, and Artaud's Theatre of Cruelty
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Episode 1: Hanya Yanagihara, Jacques Lacan, and Artaud's Theatre of Cruelty
In this episode, your cat will be introduced to the Lacanian themes undergirding Hanya Yanagihara's work, A Little Life in particular. Topics include the politics of victimhood, metonymyzation of desire, and performative readings of A Little Life in Silver Lake cafés (cover splayed wide, spine rigid with disuse, dust jacket artfully blemished) as a latter-day instantiation of Artaud's Theatre of Cruelty. We convey the gravity and lasting…
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