http://www.egs.edu http://www.egs.edu Victor Vitanza talking about Jean-François Lyotard's Just Gaming and The Libidinal Economy. In this lecture he discusses passages from Jean-François Lyotard's Just Gaming, bringing in notions such as history, antinomies, fusis, Nicomachean Ethics, Kant, the third, Marx, Badiou, Zizek, the three pragmatic conditions, casuistry, Jesuits, forms, Nietzsche, ethos, prescriptive, constatives, true stasis, the rule of the undetermined, Tibble, sophistry, Gorgias, Parmenides, trilemma, compossibility, third terms, speech acts. Public open lecture for the students and staff of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe 2011 Victor Vitanza.

Victor Vitanza, PhD, Jean-Francois Lyotard Chair at the European Graduate School EGS, is Professor of English and Rhetoric at Clemson University. He is also the Director of the Ph.D. program at Clemson University in Rhetorics, Communications, and Information Design (RCID). Victor J. Vitanza is the Editor of PRE/TEXT: a journal of rhetorical theory, and the Director of the PRE://TEXT Publishing Webwork.


His books and articles include: Negation, Subjectivity, and The History of Rhetoric (1997); Writing Histories of Rhetoric (1993); CyberReader (1998); Chaste Rape: Sexual Violence, Canon Formation, and Rhetorical Cultures (dissertation); 'Love, Lust, Rhetorics (from Double Binds to Intensities)' (1998); 'The Hermeneutics of Abandonment' (1998); 'Abandoned to Writing: Notes Toward Several Provocations' (2003); and 'Two Gestures, While Waiting for a Third' (2003).