Slavoj Žižek: The Phallic Anamorphoses
An excerpt from the Slovenian philosopher and cultural theorist’s 1991 book “Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture.”| The MIT Press Reader
To be able to concretely love people, we must learn to partner with the mystery of change, to summon its appearance, come what may, and to diligently dance whichever conjuring ritual we happen to have stumbled upon ourselves.| Samsara Diagnostics
The Ten Ox-Herding Pictures mirror something of the Hero’s Journey, but they also include a bit more Lacanian honesty than Campbell’s popular monomyth.| Samsara Diagnostics
An excerpt from the Slovenian philosopher and cultural theorist’s 1991 book “Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture.”| The MIT Press Reader
“Bilmesine rağmen yapan” nosyonu ideolojinin tam kalbinden geçtiği için göz ardı etmek zordur, ancak hazmı daha zor olan Horkheimer’ın bahsettiği “adiliğe konan ödül”dür.[1] Bugünkü aşamasında kapitalist sistem dünya çapında örgütlenmiş bir sömürü sistemi olduğunu sıkça duymuşuzdur. Aslında toplum maddi sefaletin en kaba biçimini ortadan kaldırabilecek insani ve teknik araçlara sahiptir. Bu imkânın günümüzdeki kadar gerçekleştirilebilir... DE...| Terrabayt
The world of FromSoftware’s 2022 RPG Elden Ring is not governed by strictly realistic systems. Death has been abducted, the flow of time eddies around levitating islands, and Patches has been inexplicably reincarnated for a fourth time. Yet despite this, the game works within its own system of dream logic, focusing primarily on the relationships […] The post “Let us be shattered, both… Mine other self”: Elden Ring’s Alchemical Explorations of Gender appeared first on Historical Ga...| Historical Games Network
Bill Brown Fredric Jameson (1934-2024) held a seminar—remotely—in the Spring of 2021, the record of which now appears as The Years of Theory: Postwar French Thought to the Present. Last spring we proposed that we feature the book of lectures as … Continue reading →| In the Moment
It should go without saying that this sort of truth—about a collective—is well outside the range of psychoanalysis. The truth of these observations are so mundane as to be banal.| mcrumps blog
