Unconscious/Television by Lucas Ferraço Nassif

ACHTUNG: This is a preorder of a book which is expected to begin shipping in late January (2025), so any books ordered alongside this book will also be shipped in January. We are offering a very low price for early pre-orders to help raise funds for a small series of launches/events orienting around this book, in Lisbon in January. 

DESCRIPTION: The book Unconscious/Television is not conventional, it is written with a certain poetic fluidity, undulating like ocean waves, delivering the message through a rhythm that is both gentle and rampant; you must walk into the ocean, and let the water engulf your oceanic body. There are a dozen axiomata, but they swerve into a spiral formation, becoming a field of molten relations. Comprised of six texts, the work folds in on itself through an experimental weaving of these parts. The six texts have then been cut up into parts, and these parts have been shuffled together to form a long, cinematic sequence of scenes that resembles a complex TV drama. Furthermore, we have cut a series of “intersections” into this sequence which, at first, appear like TV commercials interrupting the flow of the book; yet the idea goes beyond this. This experimental arrangement produces a number of interesting affects that add something significant to the overall experience of reading the book.

The book deals with things that are buried deep within the unconscious, things we barely saw or haven’t seen for years, cartoons that we watched as kids but never understood, ghostly characters that swim in the ether, people who we thought we knew. TV shows and anime references are woven into the theoretical work of Lacan, Freud, Deleuze & Guattari, as well as Thomas Lamarre, to whom the book is dedicated. This experimental, cinematic text is the most exciting book Becoming has been a part of to date, a white whale that was birthed in the Sea of Tethys (Η θάλασσα της Τηθύος).

BIO: Lucas Ferraço Nassif holds a Ph.D. in Literature from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. He’s a researcher at the Cinema and Philosophy Laboratory, part of the NOVA Institute of Philosophy, and a member of the Portuguese Center of Psychoanalysis. Director and editor of the films Reinforced Concrete, Being Boring, and Unfamiliar Ceiling/The Beast; and author of the book Missing Links, published by Barakunan, and awarded by the Association of Moving Image Researchers [AIM] in Portugal as the best monographic book of 2023.

DETAILS:

• Authored by Lucas Ferraço Nassif
• Edited and prefaced by 0nty
• CAT # BECOMING008
• ISBN: 978-9925-8156-2-3
• A5, Approx 250-300pp
• Expected release January 2025