projects
pseudo-antigone
music production and performance
pseudo-antigone is the experimental pop production moniker for simone a. medina polo. the project came to fruition throughout the covid-19 pandemic lockdowns, when pseudo-antigone picked up the reins of her music through audio engineering and attentiveness to technical production inspired by a love of midi, pc music, and electronic experiments.
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 A. Medina Polo is a philosopher. Simone's work acts as an exploration of philosophy and psychoanalysis as they relate to love as a logically structuring touchstone of both of their thinking orientations. Under the creative moniker pseudo-antigone, Simone produces experimental pop music and clandestine essays on the internet.
