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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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Our Top Philosophical Influences: Zizek
Yunus: 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 put me in [...]
How To Begin From The Beginning by Slavoj Zizek
As a result of having a small squabble today where I took the position that it is ridiculous to take up labels like Trotskyist because they are meaningless signifiers as a result of being parcel of antiquated sectarian splits, I’v decided to put up one my favorite Slavoj Zizek articles. Enjoy.
HOW TO BEGIN FROM THE [...]
[Clip] Canada Blocks Olympic Critic from Entering Country
Canadian border officials have blocked a young Chicago radio journalist from entering the country because he was planning to spend a week documenting protests around the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver. Martin Macias is a freelance reporter who was active in Chicago’s campaign against the 2016 Olympic bid.
(The Orange) Revolution: The Sad State of Democracy as Performativity
The 2004 Orange Revolution, widely hailed as Ukraine’s unabashed affirmation of Western free-market democracy (and concomitant withdrawal from its fidelity to its Russian roots) was revealed this week to be a total failure: Neither the “pro-Western” Yushchenko nor “Russian crony” Yanukovych offered any tenable solutions to the already well-worn “deadlock” of contemporary European politics, in [...]
