In 1974, following the publication of her thesis, Luce Irigaray was effectively excommunicated from Jacques Lacan’s circle and from the École Freudienne de Paris (Freudian School of Paris), the institution where she had trained and which Lacan founded. She was, as one of her commentators puts it, censured for being politically committed, for politicizing psychoanalysis …
Introduction: The Mood of the Land There is a mood that pervades the rural Balkans today, and it is not one that lends itself to the optimistic vocabularies of development policy. It is a mood of quiet depletion, of watching something drain away without being able to name precisely what is being lost. Our villages …
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“The terror of the future is always grafted onto the desire to experience that terror”. Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born The Landscape, Such As It Is The French Republic has emerged as a dominant political force in the eastern provinces of the European Union — most notably in Romania and Poland. The …
Alex Priou received a Ph.D. and M.A. in Philosophy from Tulane University, an M.A. in Liberal Arts from St. John’s College, and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Connecticut. Priou is the author of three books on Plato: "Becoming Socrates: Political Philosophy in Plato’s Parmenides" (2018), "Defending Socrates: Political Philosophy Before the Tribunal …
I'm the last person who wants to tell women how to look. For centuries, religions and social norms have dictated images of femininity. Today, new groups join the chorus, performing womanhood as if it’s a costume. Still, I feel it: when I see women with immaculate fake nails, eyelashes that defy gravity, and hairpieces that …
The Emergence of Metanationals Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy presents a near-future history in which transnational corporations rise to power and assume the roles of sovereign states. The story begins in the mid-2020s and extends to the 22nd century. In this world, traditional nation-states have almost entirely collapsed. Robinson refers to the dominant corporate entities …
“The universal itself is precisely as idiotic as its concrete and individual appearance.” Alenka Zupančič, The Odd One In: On Comedy In Absolute Recoil, Slavoj Žižek offers a Lacanian reading of two Hegelian figures of moral consciousness in the Phenomenology of Spirit, the “Beautiful Soul” and the “Law of the Heart,” criticizing Lacan’s condensation of …
Last night, it rained, and the crisp morning air is filled with a hint of petrichor and the aroma of coffee. I am sitting outside on a coffee shop’s veranda on the beautiful open campus where I work. I got here early, and the sun has only just started to rise. The sky is pale, …
Whoever crosses into a new year without reordering attention doesn’t truly advance in time. Such a passage resembles movement, yet functions as a quiet withdrawal from oneself. Time passes, but the subject thins out. What presents itself as renewal often conceals a subtler form of disappearance. The new year produces the illusion of motion even …
