James Yuan

Selected lectures

These unedited recordings are selected from a lecture series titled Theories of the Other, which I delivered at Res Futura in 2025.

• Performer and audience: Setting the stage for the Other
• Solve for x: The uses and abuses of formal logic
• Living an intersectional life: The standard model of identity
• The sublime subject: Queer theory, Afropessimism, and so on
• "Paradise would be established in all the world tomorrow": Precarious lives, and the moral duty of life and death
• Thinking about causality, part 1: Nietzsche's genealogical theory and the method of evolutionary biology
• Thinking about causality, part 2: Freud's case studies
• Lacanian ideology: How Zizek wrote 51 books in 36 years
• The law of desire: Affect theory, fantasy, cruel optimism