Seminar: “Sexual Trouble on Triton and the Problems of Utopianism”

• Hybrid event
• 2017, Dunton Tower, Carleton University
• 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6

• Contact
• soc-anthro@cunet.carleton.ca

M. E. O’Brien will dialogue with Alexis Shotwell on their respective engagements with Samuel Delany’s science fiction novel Trouble on Triton. O’Brien’s paper, entitled “Some, Each and All: Sexual Difference and Communism” is forthcoming in Pinko. It uses Delany’s work to consider the difficulty of sexual satisfaction in the dialectic of revolutionary communism, turning to Lacan’s formulas of sexuation to trace the non-dialectical, non-resolvable character of sexual difference. 

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M. E. O’Brien is a psychoanalyst and writer in New York City. She has two books, Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care (Pluto, 2023) and the co-authored speculative fiction novel Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072, with Eman Abdelhadi (Common Notions, 2022). She previously completed a PhD in Sociology, writing on capitalism and NYC queer and trans social movements. She is involved in a number of editing projects, including Pinko, a magazine of gay communism.