🏴The most efficient way I can describe “the uncanny” is to imagine that I am teaching, as I am now before you, and the classroom door opens and another version of me enters the room to look at me teaching. That is kinda uncanny, but what could make it uncannier is when I look at you, the students, looking at the other me looking at me teaching. Freud’s uncanny is not just intellectual uncertainty, it is more affect than effect. It’s like what Jacques Lacan says referring to the uncanny: “I see myself seeing myself.”🏴

📸KAI ALTHOFF, Häuptling Klapperndes Geschirr, October 24, 2018 - January 20, 2019, TRAMPS 75 East Broadway, Flr 2 New York, NY 10002.