Extent: 1 audio cassette (90min), 4 digital files (959 MB )
Comprises audio recording of a lecture entitled 'Death and Space' given by Mark Cousins on the 25th May, 2001. The recordings consist of a TDK 90 audio cassette tape, 2 digital preservation files (766 MB, .wav format) and 2 digital access files (173 MB, .mp3 format). Duration of access version: 45min 56sec.
Copyright: Architectural Association
Creator: Mark Cousins
Admin History: The recording is of the 17th lecture in the series entitled 'Psyche and Space', given by Mark Cousins as part of the AA General Studies programme, 2000-2001. In this lecture Mark Cousins discusses fantasies of death and relates them to two different fantasies, of losing space and of fragmentation. He continues with Freud's argument that subjectivity is always borrowed through the mechanism of identification. He posits that one can have an afterlife, not for oneself, but as an 'imago', which remains as a more powerful agency than the living one. Cousins argues that culture is actually the graveyard of those identifications, in which, with the idea of the afterlife, our ancestors do not die.
Custodial History: Audio cassette recording was made by the AA Audio Visual Department and retained by the AA Photo Library until 2019, when it was transferred to the AA Archives.
Aquisition: Audio cassette was transferred from the AA Photo Library to the AA Archives in 2019. Digital preservation and access copies were created by the AA Archives in 2021.
Archive Note: Catalogue description by Ke Bo Tsai
Publication Note: AA Events List, Summer Term, Week 5, 21st - 25th May, 2001