2 weeks ago
On “Legitimate Rapes”
An obscene event occurred back in 2012. In an effort to explain his stance on abortion, Representative Todd Akin, the Republican Senate nominee from Missouri, provoked ire across the political …
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2 months ago
The Communist Desire
In her stupendous Yesterday’s Tomorrow,[1] Bini Adamczak provides nothing less than the definitive account of what one cannot but call the ineradicable, absolutely authentic, Communist desire, the Idea of a …
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5 months ago
The Political Implications of Non-Representative Art
In his Philosophy of History, Hegel provided a wonderful characterization of Thucydides’s book on the Peloponnesian war: “his immortal work is the absolute gain which humanity has derived from that …
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6 months ago
Five Ethico-Political Fragments
CASTRATION HERE, CASTRATION THERE, CASTRATION EVERYWHERE
Weeks ago, the Ukrainian President Zelensky addressed Russian soldiers in Russian, promising them safety and decent treatment if they were captured or surrendered to …
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7 months ago
What Will Grow Out of a Pocket Full of Sunflower Seeds?
Michael Marder published in The Philosophical Salon a wonderful text on a Ukrainian woman giving sunflower seeds to a Russian soldier. I call this text wonderful because it does what …
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8 months ago
AOC and Her Boyfriend’s Leg
In late December 2021, the US nationalist Rightist Steve Cortes tweeted a photo of Alessandria Ocasio-Cortez and her boyfriend Riley Roberts enjoying their Christmas break in Florida, commenting on it: …
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9 months ago
A Muddle Instead of a Movie
To prevent the excessive use of exploding petards in the holidays period, the Slovene ministry of defence posted on December 23, 2021 a tweet entitled “Become a soldier!” which says: …
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11 months ago
Beyond a Neoconservative Communism
An allegedly old Chinese curse (which has nothing to do with China – it was probably invented by some Western observer) says “May you live in interesting times!” Interesting times …
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1 year ago
Les Non-Dupes Errent
We are witnessing lately a gradual decay of the authority of what Jacques Lacan called “the big Other,” the shared space of public values within which only our differences and …
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1 year ago
Vikings, Solaris, Katla: The Big Other and Its Vicissitudes
Vikings: the big Other as the truth of appearance
What Lacan calls “the big Other” designates a dimension beyond (or, rather, beneath) the sphere of reality and the pleasure-principle, of …
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