Isabel Millar – Philosopher and Psychoanalytic Theorist

Isabel Millar is probably the world’s first virtual public intellectual. Watch this: an Englishwoman on Russian TV, speaking about a French psychoanalyst in Spanish language. That’s as neat a laying out of the cards as you might ever see.

Expert on, among many other things, Baudrillard, Dr Millar could well announce that for most of us the lockdown has meant a public not-taking-place, a complete voiding of the collective. Except that she herself has appeared on the scene as the most real presence. As we all languish in enforced domestic intimacy, the dashing prolificity of her recent discourses compel us to an extimate embrace with the beyond: grappling with the ghosts and shadows of film, artificial intelligence, sex-bots, and well, Death, actually …