Posts Tagged ‘ethics’
Reading Simon Critchley’s How to Stop Living and Start Worrying I was (paradoxically?) hopeful that I had a supremely negative text on my hand. The book starts by engaging an issue I discussed here – that philosophy and life, or perhaps more accurately living, have become a mess leading philosophy towards self help and folk […]
Filed under: Badiou, cognitive science, Kant, politics, psychoanalysis | 1 Comment
Tags: ethics, levinas, nihilism, simon critchley
It would be hard not to notice the numerous rapid descents in the Dark Knight which, while uncommon for filmic representations of superheroes, seem particularly frantic and well done. I would argue that this is indicative of the film’s content as well as its form: the Dark Knight is not so much the recognizable ‘descent […]
Filed under: Badiou, comic books/graphic novels, film, Lacan, Meillassoux, psychoanalysis, Zizek | 3 Comments
Tags: Badiou, batman, ethics, quentin meillassoux, the dark knight, the joker, Zizek
