Archive for the ‘Lacan’ Category
Jumping off from last time here I am going to make some notes about the history of biology as it concerns the relation of Darwin and Lamarck and how this applies to the social or theoretical uptake of evolutionary theory. Sylvia Wynter’s “Towards the Sociogenic Principle: Fanon, The Puzzle of Conscious Experience, of “Identity” What […]
Filed under: cognitive science, Freud, Lacan, nature, politics, trauma | 1 Comment
Tags: eugenics, Fanon, Ferenczi, recapitulation, sylvia wynter
There’s certainly no shortage of discourse on the pseudo-ephemeral nature of money. The medieval (or even older) malleability of meaning surrounding the ledger, and of the (negative) magnitude of debt, the disentanglement of currency from its geological-metallic weight, the ever-widening role of credit, and the more recent complexities of crypto-currency and off-shore tax shelters, have […]
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Tags: art, art criticism, art theory, bataille, cryptocurrency, Goldin and Senneby, Headless, roy andersson
My goal in the next few weeks is to work through the ten points of the previous post and dedicate an entry to each in an attempt to flesh out (and really explain to myself) the metaphysical Frankenstein’s monster of Dark Vitalism. One question I have is regarding the four terms Real-Immanence-Sense-Transcendence. The last term troubles me and […]
Filed under: Harman, Hegel, Lacan, Meillassoux, Speculative Realism, transcendental materialism | 2 Comments
Tags: Adrian Johnston, Paul Ennis
The Uneasiness in Nature
Zizek’s Unbehagen In Der Nature addresses current discussions surrounding ecology and nature. Right off the bat however Zizek’s conceptualization of nature is limited – seeming to be nature as it appears to us, nature as we can manipulate it. The anxieity or uneasiness that Zizek discusses seems more to be more about the loss of […]
Filed under: Kant, Lacan, nature, ontology, psychoanalysis, Speculative Realism, Zizek | 4 Comments
Tags: ecology, environment, nature, Speculative Realism, Zizek
Monstrous Futurity
Drugs in Milk makes a few notes on my Lady Gaga post which points out LG’s articulation of the monstrousness of fame-as-drive. The strange repetitious motion of the drive (the pleasure of the mouth moving and not the food within it, not the object within it following Zupancic) describes the function of fame and yet […]
Filed under: Freud, Lacan, music, psychoanalysis, Zizek, Zupancic | 2 Comments
Tags: capitalism, fame, lady gaga, monsters, the fame
Slavoj Zizek “First as Tragedy, Then as Farce” Wed Oct 14 @ 7pm Cooper Union, The Great Hall, 7 East 7th St, Astor Place, New York Sliding Scale $10-15, $15 tickets include a free copy of Zizek’s new book Sponsors: Verso Books, The Brecht Forum Tickets: http://brechtforum.org/zizek For more information, call the Brecht Forum (212) […]
Filed under: Lacan, politics, psychoanalysis, transcendental materialism, Zizek | 1 Comment
Tags: brecht forum, economics, first as tragedy, then as farce
Dark Vitalism III
Repeatedly I have formulated Dark Vitalism as the description of the cosmological cascade or emergence of varying modes of reality schematized in the following way. Real—Immanence——Sense——Extilligence With matter as the operator between the first and second, life as the operator between the second and third, and pathology/drive as operating between the third and fourth. The […]
Filed under: Badiou, Lacan, Meillassoux, nature, ontology, Schelling, Speculative Realism | 2 Comments
Tags: cosmogony, dark vitalism, Hagglund, lorenz oken, sub-planck, vitalism
Perhaps the phenomenological appeal that results from Kant’s critical philosophy is that it avoids the horror of knowing too much as well as the terror of not knowing. Both Husserl’s intentional passing through the world as well as Henry’s pure affectivity ignores a certain darkness – that of the inevitable heat death of the universe, […]
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Tags: Henry, Physics
Naught Thought 