academic work

philosophy, psychoanalysis, 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 clandestine 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.

past publications, presentations, lectures and panels

Medina Polo, S. (2023, March 22). Tiresias, The Patron Saint of Psychoanalysis. YouTube (@JulieReshe). Retrieved from: https://youtu.be/uJ5x_DjgLVE

Medina Polo, S. (2023, January 19). Simone A. Medina Polo on Hegel, Philosophy & Psychoanalysis – Rendering Unconscious Podcast. YouTube (@TRAPARTFILM). Retrieved from: https://youtu.be/IpqTY_q30KE
Medina Polo, S. (2022, December 16). On the Translinguistic Split of the Subject as Imaginary and as Symbolic. Medium. Retrieved from: https://pseudo-antigone.medium.com/on-the-translinguistic-split-of-the-subject-as-imaginary-and-as-symbolic-944f69df46d1

Medina Polo, S. (2022, September 22). The Pass, Passing, and Turing Passing. Medium. Retrieved from: https://pseudo-antigone.medium.com/the-pass-passing-and-turing-passing-89dc486fc1d0

Medina Polo, S. (2022, September 16). A Body Coming in Touch with Itself: On the Lacanian Pass. Medium. Retrieved from: https://pseudo-antigone.medium.com/a-body-coming-in-touch-with-itself-6d9f260728ab

Medina Polo, S. (2022, September 2). The Critique of Ideology Today. Medium. Retrieved from: https://pseudo-antigone.medium.com/the-critique-of-ideology-today-fa909030311a
Medina Polo, S. (2022, August 12). From Chaos and Back: Philosophy and Non-Philosophy in Deleuze and Guattari. Medium. Retrieved from: https://pseudo-antigone.medium.com/from-chaos-and-back-2c521c0d9eaf
Medina Polo, S. (2022, August 9). Mutant Ethics: Deleuze's Critique of Ideal Perfection and Institutional Obligation. Medium. Retrieved from: https://pseudo-antigone.medium.com/mutant-ethics-8e3ce4c96a85
Medina Polo, S. (2022, August 6). The Praxis of Idiocy in Philosophy: Resistances to Institutional Capture. Medium. Retrieved from: https://pseudo-antigone.medium.com/the-praxis-of-idiocy-in-philosophy-de54a29b3125
Medina Polo, S. (2022, August 3). The Deleuzian Insurgency of Platonism: Pure Becoming, Simulacra, and Events. Medium. Retrieved from: https://pseudo-antigone.medium.com/the-deleuzian-insurgency-of-platonism-c90bc28f93d6
Medina Polo, S. (2022, July 27). An Introduction to the Philosophy of Alain Badiou. Medium. Retrieved from: https://pseudo-antigone.medium.com/an-introduction-to-the-philosophy-of-alain-badiou-72aeed4fa713
Medina Polo, S. and Moreno, A. (2022, July 4). Episode 4 - Hyperpop and Philosophy with Simone A. Medina Polo AKA pseudo-antigone. YouTube (@@azimuththeatre7199). Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0BPQVvVyEY&t=11s
Medina Polo, S. (2022, June 10). Beyond the Deadlock of Representation: Religion from the Outlook of Absolute Knowing. Medium. Retrieved from: https://pseudo-antigone.medium.com/beyond-the-deadlock-of-representation-563ebbbfb5b
Medina Polo, S. (2022, June 6). The Way of the Impure: On the Beautiful Soul, Evil, and Forgiveness. Medium. Retrieved from: https://pseudo-antigone.medium.com/the-way-of-the-impure-98c2954dca6f
Medina Polo, S. (2022, June 3). Unhappy Consciousness and the Origin of Reason. Medium. Retrieved from: https://pseudo-antigone.medium.com/unhappy-consciousness-and-the-origin-of-reason-1e995c961d9
Medina Polo, S. (2022, May 31). Explanation and Desire: On the Satisfaction of Consciousness and the Unity of Self-Consciousness. Medium. Retrieved from: https://pseudo-antigone.medium.com/explanation-and-desire-783c2b657f7b
Medina Polo, S. (2022, May 27). Philosophical Education and the Patience of Thought. Medium. Retrieved from: https://pseudo-antigone.medium.com/philosophical-education-and-the-patience-of-thought-e320a30b943e
Medina Polo, S. (2022, May 25). The Self-Preservation of Identity in Western Art. Medium. Retrieved from: https://pseudo-antigone.medium.com/the-self-preservation-of-identity-in-western-art-2a7f03016f5c
Medina Polo, S. (2022, April 1). Thinking the Future: Deleuze and Science Fiction within the Limits of the Present and the Past Alone. Medium. Retrieved from: https://pseudo-antigone.medium.com/thinking-the-future-34c5367ce05
Medina Polo, S. (2022, March 1). Derrida — Survival in Between Traces and Ashes. Medium. Retrieved from: https://pseudo-antigone.medium.com/derrida-survival-in-between-traces-and-ashes-da4aa802d405
Medina Polo, S. (2022, February 3). On the Simulation of the Principle of Political Reality: Repeating Baudrillard from Watergate to Trump. Medium. Retrieved from: https://pseudo-antigone.medium.com/on-the-simulation-of-the-principle-of-political-reality-13b0793ae54c
Medina Polo, S. (2021, December 17). The Artwork and Its Compassions. Theatre Alberta. Retrieved from: https://www.theatrealberta.com/2021/01/22/who-are-we-now-essays-from-a-new-world-simone-a-medina-polo/
Medina Polo, S. (2021, November 30). Matrixial Compassions: Screen and Artwork in Transsubjective Ethical Dynamics. Medium. Retrieved from: https://pseudo-antigone.medium.com/matrixial-compassions-777bcc435adf
Medina Polo, S. (2021, March 19). Hyperpop, Capitalist Realism, and Articulating the Future. Medium. Retrieved from: https://pseudo-antigone.medium.com/hyperpop-capitalist-realism-and-articulating-the-future-2523626c98c7
Medina Polo, S. (2021, January 22). It is not just to have a mestizo trans woman in power. Theatre Alberta. Retrieved from: https://www.theatrealberta.com/2021/01/22/who-are-we- now-essays-from-a-new-world-simone-a-medina-polo/

Medina Polo, S. (2020, May 30). The Dialectic of Love and Power: Towards Empowering Love and Loving Power in Martin Luther King, Jr. and Byung-Chul Han. Medium. Retrieved from: https://medium.com/@MichelFoucko/the-dialectic-of-love-and-power-17bece8c5abc
Medina Polo, S. (2020, April 16). The Philosophy in Virulence. Medium. Retrieved from: https://pseudo-antigone.medium.com/the-philosophy-in-virulence-bc550c8c99bb
Medina Polo, S. (2020, April 9). Hegel 2 – Badiou and Žižek: Dislocations of the Dialectic and the Parallaxes of Worlds. Medium. Retrieved from: https://medium.com/@MichelFoucko/dislocations-of-the-dialectic-c31fc18073bb
Medina Polo, S. (2020, May 2). Letter. Writing from Here. Retrieved from: https://www.writingfromhere.ca/letters
Medina Polo, S. (2020, April 9). Absolute Antigone: Between Sophocles, Hegel, and Lacan. Medium. Retrieved from: https://medium.com/@MichelFoucko/absolute-antigone- 73af2e256537
Medina Polo, S. (2020, March 14). The Last Philosopher: A Short-Cut to Žižekian Hegelianism through The Last Jedi. Medium. Retrieved from: https://medium.com/@MichelFoucko/the-last- philosopher-e0a6ea57be5f
Medina Polo, S. (2019, December 4). How do you know what you think you know? On the Kant- Hegel debate and its rippling effects. Medium. Retrieved from: https://medium.com/@MichelFoucko/how-do-you-know-what-you-think-you-know- c20b2f093502
Medina Polo, S. (2019, September 7). There is an excessive surplus to Capital than there is a world to be: On The Virtual Boundlessness of Capital, the Financial System, and Bitcoin. Medium. Retrieved from: https://medium.com/@MichelFoucko/there-is-an-excessive-surplus-to-capital- than-there-is-a-world-to-be-5ea175cf7505
Medina Polo, S. (2019, November 24). To Claim Our Time as Queer and Trans People. Pyriscence. Retrieved from: https://www.pyriscence.ca/home/trans-day-remembrance
Medina Polo S. (2019, August 28). Revolution at the Psycho-therapeutic Clinic: On Eliot Rosenstock’s Žižek in the Clinic. Medium. Retrieved from: https://pseudo-antigone.medium.com/the-emotional-plague-and-the-death-drive-9b56f4fbe214
Medina Polo, S. (2018, August 26). On the Translinguistic Split of the Subject as Imaginary and Symbolic. The Young Freudians, Vol. 6, Summer 2018 Ed. Eliot Rosenstock. Retrievable Audiobook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXlPsSeXtro
The Beginning and the End of Philosophy: Hegel’s Philosophical Pedagogy – Paper Presentation, 2023
Medina Polo, S. (2023). The Beginning and the End of Philosophy: Hegel’s Philosophical Pedagogy. Paper presentation at the 1st Hegelian Society of Spirit Conference, Zoom. https://youtu.be/RTRQ_1t6ydY?t=19510

Trans Artists, Voices, and Perspectives in Theatre – Panel, 2021
Medina Polo, S. et al. (2021). Trans Artists, Voices, and Perspectives in Theatre. Panel presentation for Theatre Alberta delivered via Zoom.
Accessing the Arts – Panel, 2020
Medina Polo, S. et al. (2020). Accessing the Arts. Panel presentation at the Nextfest Festival broadcasted from Edmonton, AB, Canada.

Lateral Violence in Community – Panel, 2019
Medina Polo, S. et al (2019). Lateral Violence in Community. Panel discussion at the InQueeries’
Pride Week, MacEwan University, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
Queer Philosophy – Panel, 2019
Medina Polo, S. et al. (2019). Queer Philosophy. Panel discussion at The Landing’s Pride Week, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. Retrieved from: https://youtu.be/TxLir8LA-nE
The Intimacy of the Trace – Paper Presentation, 2018
Medina Polo, S. (2018). The Intimacy of the Trace. Paper presentation at the 6th Annual Derrida Today Conference, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Queering the Lexicon – Panel, 2018
Medina Polo, S. et al. (2018). Queering the Lexicon. Panel presentation at the Intersections of Queer Symposium, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Philosophy and Psychoanalysis – Paper Presentation, 2018
Medina Polo, S. (2018). Philosophy and Psychoanalysis. Paper presentation at the Underrepresented Genders in Philosophy Symposium, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.

Language(s), Dwelling, and Being in Positions – Paper Presentation, 2017
Medina Polo, S. (2017). Language(s), Dwelling, and Being in Positions. Paper presentation at Issues in Contemporary Phenomenology Conference, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.

upcoming publications, presentations, lectures and panels

Barria-Asenjo, N.A., Maiwald, F., Medina Polo, S., Acuña Echagüe, W., Žižek, S., Perunović, A., Salas, G., and Ayala-Colqui, J. (2023). "Class Consciousness, Revolutions and Violence: Reflections on Gyorgy Lukács' Actuality" in Izquierdas.

Medina Polo, S. (2023). "Guerrilla Psychoanalysis: On Generic and Impure Psychoanalysis" in RHV: An International Journal of Philosophy. Eds. Žižek, S. and Barria-Asenjo, N.

Medina Polo, S. (forthcoming, 2023). "Humility and Humiliation of the Drive: Comedy and Tragedy in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis" in Negativity and Psychoanalysis. Eds. Rousselle, D. and Murphy, M.G.

"Is Psychoanalysis a Thinking?" — a section in a collaborative article on Alain Badiou with Nicol Barria-Asenjo.

"Localizing, Delocalizing, and Relocalizing the Void in Politics" — a contribution to a collaborative article in a forthcoming dossier on Alain Badiou edited by Nicol Barria-Asenjo, January 2024.

"Why Is The Death Drive Not Identical With Being-Toward-Death?: The Transfinitude of Love Between the Infinite and the Finite" — a chapter in a forthcoming book TBA edited by Julie Reshe and Todd McGowan.

"Tiresias, The Patron Saint of Psychoanalysis: On the Integral Mutations of Psychoanalysis" — a chapter in a forthcoming book TBA edited by Elisabeth Punzi, Vanessa Sinclair, and Myriam Sauer.

Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit — a course at the Global Center for Advanced Studies with Todd McGowan, June 2023.

Introduction to Psychoanalysis — a course at the Global Centre for Advanced Studies, TBA.