projects
pseudo-antigone
music production and performance
From early scrappy artistry to sharply precise music productions, pseudo-antigone is the experimental pop and hyperpop project of philosopher and interdisciplinary artist Simone Atenea Medina Polo. Since 2020, the project has been a site of experimentation and learning in music production, mixing, and mastering eventually paving the way for detailed and meticulous sound design that leans into metallic synth textures, loud fuzzy basses, and punchy beats characterizing her most recent releases.
academic work
philosophy, psychoanalysis, and marxism
thought, love, and emancipation act as the undercurrents of simone a. medina polo's work in philosophy, psychoanalysis, and marxism in light of the threefold crises of capitalism, modernity, and ecological collapse. simone has delivered lectures, presentations, interviews, and writings on these topics often times exploring thinkers such as plato, immanuel kant, g.w.f. hegel, karl marx, jacques lacan, gilles deleuze, jacques derrida, bracha ettinger, alain badiou, slavoj žižek, alenka zupančič, byung-chul han, contemporary speculative realisms and accelerationisms.
upcoming publications and lectures
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Medina Polo, S.A. "Tiresias, The Patron Saint of Psychoanalysis" in The Queerness of Psychoanalysis: From Freud and Lacan to Laplanche and Beyond. Vanessa Sinclair, Elizabeth Punzi, and Miriam Sauer (Eds). New York: Routledge, 2024. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032624129-5
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Barria-Asenjo, Nicol A., Slavoj Žižek, Florian Maiwald, Simone A. Medina Polo, Javier Camargo-Castillo, Francisco Alejandro Vergara Muñoz, and Jesús Ayala-Colqui. 2024. “The Conceptual Renovation of Class Consciousness, Revolution and Violence: Reflections Concerning the Actuality of Georg Lukács’ Work.” Revista de Estudios Sociales 90: 139-155. https://doi.org/10.7440/res90.2024.09
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Barria-Asenjo N. A., Medina Polo S. A., Perunović A., Scholten H., Camargo-Castillo J., León A., Salas G., Maiwald F., Letelier A., Willems B., Vergara Muñoz F. A., Castillo Villapudua K. y Ayala-Colqui J. (2024). "Some Reflections on Psychoanalysis, Philosophy and Politics. Exploring the Intellectual Trajectory of Alain Badiou." Anales del Seminario de Historia de la Filosofía, 41(2), 405-414. https://doi.org/10.5209/ashf.88951
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Medina Polo, S. (2023). "Guerilla Psychoanalysis. On Generic and Impure Psychoanalysis." Revista De Humanidades De Valparaíso, (23), 163–178. https://doi.org/10.22370/rhv2023iss23pp163-178
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Medina Polo S.A. (2023). The Idea of Communism and the Communism of the Idea. Res Publica. Revista de Historia de las Ideas Políticas, 26(3), 301-308. https://doi.org/10.5209/rpub.92151
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Medina Polo, S.A. "Humility and Humiliation of the Drive: Comedy and Tragedy in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis." Negativity in Psychoanalysis: Theory and Clinic. Duane Russell and Mark Gerard Murphy (Eds.). New York: Routledge, 2023. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003375920-7
education
culture, literature, philosophy and psychoanalysis
through the course in her studies, simone a. medina polo has graduated with a bachelors' degree in philosophy and english, a diploma in arts and cultural management, and a certificate in negative psychoanalysis. simone is in the process of finishing her masters' degree to move on into her phd. candidacy.
About Simone A. Medina Polo
and pseudo-antigone
Simone Atenea Medina Polo is a philosopher and interdisciplinary artist based out of amiskwaciy-wâskahikan (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada). As a musician, Atenea has released multiple music albums as pseudo-antigone including her album Melancholic Melodrama (out August 15th) which tells a quasi-fiction of the subjective destitution of an insecure artist who severed her own humanity in a Faustian bargain to become TMZ-level pop star disaster. Academically, Atenea has published articles and book chapters in philosophy, psychoanalysis, and Marxism with collaborators and editors such as Nicol A. Barria-Asenjo, Slavoj Žižek, Julie Reshe, Vanessa Sinclair, Todd McGowan, and Duane Rousselle.
