RU306: SAYWRANE ALFONSO WILLIAMS IS THE INTERLOCUTOR http://www.renderingunconscious.org/activism/ru306-saywrane-alfonso-williams-is-the-interlocutor/

Rendering Unconscious episode 306.

Watch this discussion at YouTube: https://youtu.be/RVVFKSM0r0s?si=dz5Txu34ZFJlbfau

S. Alfonso Williams is back to talk about all he’s been up to over the past few years, including the release of his new book The Interlocutor (Trapart Books, 2024). https://amzn.to/3TqxqbX

He also contributed a chapter to Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Films of Ingmar Bergman: From Freud to Lacan and Beyond (Routledge, 2023) edited by Vanessa Sinclair. https://amzn.to/4amMP3M

And a poem entitled “Equilibrium” to volume 2 of Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives vols. 1 & 2 (Trapart Books, 2024) https://amzn.to/3XszV0I

S. Alfonso Williams is currently a Respiratory Therapist in training and former library professional. He graduated from Case Western Reserve University in 2008 with a Bachelor’s in Art History and Sociology. In addition to clinical medicine and anatomy and physiology, he has intense interests in philosophy, psychoanalysis, subjectivity, (bio)semiotics, bioethics, media ecology, ethology and peripherally related fields. Williams also has a long history in the audio-visual and fine arts. His pursuits are always focused on emphasizing discovery, exploration, and experimentation.

He also contributed to:

An Anthology of Blackness: The State of Black Design (MIT Press, 2023) edited by Omari Souza and Terresa Moses. https://amzn.to/3Ts4Y9r

Official Report On The Intransitionalist Chronotopologies Of Kenji Siratori: Appendix 8.2.3 | TRS109 Time Released Sound http://timereleasedsound.com/time-released-sound/kenji-siratori/

Be sure to check out our previous discussions:

RU289: THE INTERLOCUTOR, S. ALFONSO WILLIAMS – ON LIFE SINCE THE PANDEMIC

RU85: S. ALFONSO WILLIAMS, THEORY & ANALYSIS, ETHICS, FILM, ACTIVISM, BLACK LIVES MATTER

RU47: S. ALFONSO WILLIAMS, INDEPENDENT SCHOLAR ON PSYCHOANALYSIS, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIOLOGY

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Image: collage portrait of Saywrane Alfonso Williams by Vanessa Sinclair