The Slovenian School Reading Group is a year-long monthly reading group starting January 22nd 2025. The first six months of the year will be devoted Mladen Dolar's A Voice and Nothing. In this inventive and foundational work, Dolar grounds his philosophical theory of the voice as a Lacanian object-cause (objet petit a). The book traverses different disciplines to delve into this underexplored terrain of philosophy and psychoanalysis. In the study group, we'll be going into the linguistics, metaphysics, physics, ethics and politics of the voice.

For the remainder of the year, the study group will come together to read and discuss Alenka Zupančič's The Odd One In. This work hones in on comedy with a Hegelian and Freudo-Lacanian lense. In this work, Zupančič goes into the political and subversive nature of comedy, and juxtaposes it to its ideological forms.

Both these understudied works of the Slovenian School will help us to think the politics of subjectivity. The goal of the study group is to come to a refined understanding of the dialectical and unconscious dimensions of the subject's life in regards to the voice and comedy. Both of these books are urgent in today's world that is decidedly in need of psychoanalytically informed theory.