Archive for the ‘psychoanalysis’ Category
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
There are too many ways to address the difference, to try and even partially grapple what the difference really means. In Speculative Realism broadly construed and the related fields generally realism is taken as deflationary and materialism is inflationary. Realism is taken to be more concerned with epistemology whereas materialism is more concerned with doing […]
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Tags: Adrian Johnston, cognitive science, eliminativism, epistemology, hyperobjects, material, realism
There are at least two strains of transcendental materialism: 1-Psychoanalytic/Zizekian 2-Deleuzo-Guattarian/Land 3-And then the question becomes whether Iain Hamilton Grant is a different strain altogether or not 1-The first strain has been laid out by Adrian Johnston – which centers on a theory of the material for the more than material, the subject as escaping […]
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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 […]
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Tags: ethics, levinas, nihilism, simon critchley
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 […]
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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 […]
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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
Places of escape
The nagging issue that I have with Speculative Realism is how synchronicity fits in. Since having first read Brassier in the Summer of 2008 this issue has not stopped bothering me and, no doubt, it has to do with Lacan as my ‘first master.’ Though I would not refer to myself as a Lacanian I […]
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Here is a paper thinking with Speculative Realism (in the second half) in relation to the object and ethics that I gave this past weekend: Against the dominate ethics of the Other, of which Emmanuel Levinas is exemplary, psychoanalytic ethics could, in the contemporary moment, be dismissed as reckless solipsism. The erroneous stability of the […]
Filed under: Badiou, Brassier, Lacan, ontology, psychoanalysis, Speculative Realism, transcendental materialism, Zizek | 1 Comment
Naught Thought 