El sueño del siglo XIX

<p>Art Historian Kaja Silverman, a specialist in Film theory, is a key player in the re-vamping of the field. She earned her PhD in Philosophy from Brown University and is currently a professor in UC Berkeley’s Department of Rhetoric and in their Film Studies Program. She has written numerous articles and published works, among which you will find <i>The Subject of Semiotics </i>(Oxford University Press, 1983), <i>The Acoustic Mirror: The Female Voice in Psychoanalysis and Cinema</i> (Indiana University Press, 1988), <i>Male Subjectivity at the Margins</i> (Routledge Press, 1992), <i>The Threshold of the Visible World</i> (Routledge Press, 1996), <i>Speaking About Godard</i> (New York University Press, 1998; with Harun Farocki), and <i>World Spectators</i> (Stanford University Press, 2000).</p> <p>In 2001 the MACBA invited Kaja Silverman to speak at one of the sessions of the <i>Phantom History. Image, Politics, History</i> seminar. This conference was entitled “El sueño del s. XIX.” An earlier version of the essay was published in Brumaria magazine, number 1 (Summer 2002), p. 179-197.</p>