Good quotes from the Crown season 3
December 22, 2019
I recently watched season three of the Netflix series The Crown. As I was watching it I noticed a few good lines. When Prince Phillips is talking
The unconscious haunts & leaves a trace (mark)
December 12, 2019
Hauntology & Derrida
Read in On Derrida’s Post Card: Truth and Text in Psychoanalysis by Ian Delairre.
For Derrida, the truth is not hidden; metaphors of truth’s
The trace of the unconscious
December 11, 2019
Hauntology & Derrida
One of the concept in Derrida’s work is the concept of the trace. I’m not sure that I understand the concept of the trace. (I’m somewhat more sure
Hot Iron & Cold Iron
December 9, 2019
Jouissance
There is a very cool concept about the ways individuals conduct themselves in combat in Steven Erikson’s fantasy book House of Chains. The general
Tags
December 7, 2019
Freud’s own theory of life and death, as announced in Beyond the Pleasure Principle: an organism lives only to the extent that some external
Something I jotted down after seeing Joker
December 7, 2019
Lacan & Jouissance
This might not make sense to me tomorrow morning…
Head Noise
December 2, 2019
Head Noise
One reason I want to keep this commonplace book is so that I have a trusted place to put different things I think. Another reason is to force
Forgotten monsters
December 1, 2019
Hauntology & Jouissance
In a blog post about gothic Marxism The LitCritGuy says the following.
At the end of the horror movie, the monster is fought, confronted and
Ziteghost
November 30, 2019
Hauntology
On my podcast I’ve been talking about the things that haunt people as move through time. I grouped the things that haunt into two categories.
What is a commonplace book?
November 29, 2019
Archive Fever
Sometime ago I learned about something called a commonplace book, which (according to Wikipedia) is…
a way to compile knowledge, usually by