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‘Kant with Sade’: The Law with DesireIn June of 1964, Lacan gathered together a group of close associates and announced, via tape recording, the founding of the Ecole freudienne de Paris; in which such thinkers as Michel de Certeau, Felix Guattari, and Luce Irigaray would later play a part. In a statement that shortly followed the inauguration… [MORE] 
{Clip} Ian Bremmer on the Daily ShowI really liked the first half of the clip because I think it lays an essential point of Zizek's political theory which states that late capitalism is NOT in fact the final stage of capitalism. Late capitalism or multinational corporation as the peak of capitalist productivity was a popular theory in Marxist circles… [MORE] 
Outline for a Work on Psychology and Psychoanalytic HistoryI haven't had many chances to work lately, so I'm posting what I consider to be an unfinished study of the topographical relation(s) between capitalist production, the modern subject, and contemporary psychology. As things stand, this is the product of another mandatory Intro to Psychology assignment.… [MORE] 
Why I Hate Women (and a brief section on why I love them)Freud’s treatment of Dora began in 1900 and lasted a year; five years later he published “Fragment of Analysis in a Case of Hysteria." This case proved to be essential in Freud’s development of his concept of transference. He believed that within treatment it was essential that a hysteric transfer… [MORE] 
Peace As Ideological Function pt 1Something of incredible importance happened relatively recently; Barack Obama gave his Noble Peace Prize acceptance speech. This event desperately necessitates critical elaboration but all the analysis that I have stumbled upon completely misses the mark. It is of unequivocal importance that we don't… [MORE] 
A Brief Encounter With Ego-Psychology (And Why Such Encounters Are Necessary)As some of you may know, I am currently taking my Nursing School prerequisites, including Intro to Psychology. The following is a required paper assignment. I debated whether this had enough value to warrant posting. The reasons against posting are: 1) the indignity of even engaging with ego-psychologists.… [MORE] 
Stray Observations on “The Taking of Pelham 123″I recently saw "The Taking of Pelham 123," the Tony Scott helmed action-thriller starring Denzel Washington and John Travolta. The film is a pretty generic heist story that occasionally aspires to venture well above its station, to be a character study juxtaposing the back stories of its antagonist… [MORE] 
Beyond the Reality PrincipleThe following is a welcome essay by guest-contributor Lauren Moos. Lacan’s opens this essay by stating that upon the date of his writing, a dramatic change had occurred in psychoanalysis. Whereas the first generation of psychoanalysts entered the cause due to “the ethical seduction of devotion… [MORE] 
Schematics: The Courage of Reading Today (Badiou and the Communist Hypothesis)This concise outline given to us by Badiou needs little commentary. I will only interrupt with a few notes. It's thrust has no moralism. Only an ethics, and a question that is put to you as to your fidelity to the truth and to your relation to the history of the politics of emancipation. These [...]… [MORE] 
Our Top Philosophical Influences: ZizekYunus: Okay. My interest lies in Zizek as popularizer of Jacques Lacan. Brendan: This is a sort of "marginal" way of putting it that I haven't heard you express before. Yunus: I go through phases of really diggin' his work and then thinking he's a sophist. I think speaking about him right after Foucault… [MORE] 
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History is Not On Our Side: Notes on John Rawls, Roman Polanski and Ethics
“The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
I thought it would be apt to begin with this quote, given that it was reiterated earlier this year by Barack Obama, because I envisioned this post as theoretical preparation for a longer work on Barack [...]
To Be Human is to Have Nature
Normally I remain impassive towards the urgent sounding pleas from conservationists bemoaning the effects of human encroachment and pollution on the world’s last natural habitats. It’s not that I don’t care: it’s that I don’t know how to care. Can anyone recommend some good Marxist ecology? However this latest iteration is objectively offensive – one [...]
Wendy Brown Lecture on Sovereignty
Brendan has already begun his series of posts in which he will attempt to tackle the liberal-democratic problematic. In this series, he will initiate interrogating the limits of “theorist of democracy,” a work which I stand behind firmly. This interrogation is necessitated if we are to articulate a transcendental materialism in opposition to both the [...]
What To Do With Americans?
So I watched the following video. And, of course, I went through the motions: I laughed hysterically, and then was terrified by the implications.
If we listen to Zizek, then their nationalism is merely a fetishistic displacement of class conflict. What it illustrates is the historical failures of the left to address the concrete concerns of [...]
