Lecture by Mark Cousins, 21st May, 1999, (title not known).

Extent: 1 audio cassette, 2 digital files (516.6 MB )

Comprises audio recording of a lecture given by Mark Cousins on the 21st May, 1999 (title not known). The recordings consist of a Maxwell 90 audio cassette tape, 1 digital preservation file (421 MB, .wav format) and 1 digital access file (95.6 MB, .mp3 format). Duration of access version: 41min 42sec.

Copyright: Architectural Association

Creator: Mark Cousins

Admin History: The recording is of the 14th lecture in the series entitled 'The Name of the Object', given by Mark Cousins as part of the AA General Studies programme, 1998-99 In this lecture, Mark Cousins provides a discussion on art, desire and pleasure from the perspectives of Immanuel Kant and Sigmund Freud. He first analyses Kant's ideas on subjectivity and 'disinterestedness', where one's individuality no longer opposes itself between a pure subject and an art object. Cousins then examines Freud's notion of the 'pleasure principle', where the economy of desire works within the domain of substitution. He argues that between Kant's aesthetic disinterestedness and Freud's desire to end desire, should be seen a topographical space where the two makean alliance.

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, Week 5, Summer Term, 17th - 21st May, 1999