Can you live without answers?
November 7, 2020
Ambiguity & Monsterology & \*\*
I mentioned yesterday that I’m currently reading another fantasy book titled Toll the hounds by Steven Erikson. Today I came across the following:
Racism, hate, & jouissance
September 22, 2020
Jouissance & the Other & Racism & Monsterology
Hate is a product of the death drive. … The aggressivity of the mirror stage is based on an ignorance of oneself, the subject projecting onto the
The Reanimated Monster of Totalitarianism
September 22, 2020
Hauntology & Monsterology & Neoliberalism & Liberalism & Semblants
The fall of totalitarian regimes in the middle of the last century did not open onto a genuinely democratic future. Neoliberalism simply shed the
Laurent on “awakening”
May 22, 2020
Monsterology & Lacan & Jouissance & Instinct & Drive & Éric Laurent
I was reading something that Eric Laurent presenter at the XII CONGRESS WORLD ASSOCIATION OF PSYCHOANALYSIS April 13-17, which took place in Buenos
The Uncanny, the Double, dad Ding…
April 22, 2020
Freud & Das Ding & the Double & Uncanny & Monsterology & Hauntology
As a consequence, we comprehend that the whole issue of stigmatization revolves around the “Uncanny”1 problematic. The uncanny, ο “xsenos”(ξένος,
Good advice from Taylor Adkins
April 17, 2020
Taylor Adkins & Podcast & Guattari & Lacan & Name-of-the-Father & Hysteric & Monsterology
I was listening to an episode of Cooper Cherry’s Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour Podcast where coop talks with Taylor Adkins and DC Barker At about
Hannah Arendt in lies
March 19, 2020
Arendt & Monsterology & Semblant
If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. 1 Arendt
The monster of Autocracy is not dead, yo.
February 13, 2020
Monsterology & Hauntology
I read a post by John Gruber on Daring Fireball today, which linked to this article at the Atlantic by David Frum. What has happened in Hungary
Remember the monsters too!
December 30, 2019
Monsterology
The decade began with great hope for a transformational U.S. nuclear policy and increased global cooperation. It ended with nuclear risks