Sylvere Lotringer of Semiotext(e) and ‘I Love Dick’ dies
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on November 11, 2021
In November of 1975, a French literary scholar at Columbia University by the name of Sylvère Lotringer, along with a student, John Rajchman, organized a four-day colloquium that was intended to bring together a wave of avant-garde French theorists with various representatives of downtown New York City demimondes — presumably to discuss themes related to “prisons and madness.”
But “Schizo-Culture,” as the conference was titled, didn’t go quite as planned.
Early on, the narrow literary theme was scrapped in favor of what writer and researcher David Morris later described as “a . . .
