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- Love etc.
A new single from Pet Shop Boys. Here are the almost Veblenian, or even perhaps Lacanian, lyrics. But I especially admire the line that refers to Gerhard Richter. I also embedded the video.
Written by Saint ymM
You need more You need more You need more You need more
You need more You need more You need more [...]
- Müzik, ruhun gıdası (Music, food for the soul)
‘Traversal of fantasy’ is one of the more elusive concepts of Lacanian psychoanalysis. As with the Escher-like diagrams of the Real (e.g. Mobius strip), it requires the mediation of representation to be made somewhat palpable (then again, what concept doesn’t?). Thanks to Lynch’s Lost Highway (and Zizek’s splendid interpretation of it in ‘The Art of [...]
Written by Keman Recel
- McLuhan & Zizek
I watched a very good documentary on Marshall McLuhan yesterday, McLuhan’s Wake, courtesy of Eko –you know, that subliminal kid. It is not so much the director (Kevin McMahon), however, that is to be credited for the success of the documentary as the subject matter himself. The most interesting parts of the documentary for me [...]
Written by Keman Recel
- “Netherlands proposes to ban burkas”
There are a couple of aspects of the matter that incites my interests in these–let me put it out there right away–racist laws. And, to be entirely honest, none of them really relate to the question of secularism. I identify as a secular subject, but these so-called defences of secularism leave me cold–to say the [...]
Written by Saint ymM
