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Jacques-Alain Miller

Josefina Ayerza

SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK

ALAIN BADIOU

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Josefina Ayerza To resume again… Jacques-Alain Miller Paradigms of Jouissance Alain Badiou Art and Philosophy Gérard Wajcman The Work-of-the-Art Slavoj Zizek Run, Isolde, Run David Ebony Tunga and Terry Eagleton Cathy Lebowitz interviews JA Ghada Amer Intercepts Richard Klein New & Noteworthy Books

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Arts & Photography

A journal of Lacanian psychoanalysis, philosophy, and art.

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Alain Badiou's numerate "The Political..." to infinity, and ordain it in three groups: "that of the situation; that, indeterminate, of the state of the situation; that of the prescription, which interrupts indetermination and permits the State distance." What singularizes the prescription as political procedure is that it enables the autonomy of the State. Besides "Who needs you for terrorizing me? I can do it myself!" argues Slavoj Zizek when he summarizes the capitalist abstraction in "The Only Good Neighbour is a Dead Neighbour!"

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Literature & Fiction

Pierre-Gilles Guéguen

Essays & Correspondence

If Lacanian Ink is what it is called lalangue, then who is t be incorporated in lalangue. In "Why does a letter always arrive at its destination?" Slavoj Zizek argues that "the call arrives at its destination in me...I don't recognize myself in it because I'm its addressee - I become its addressee the moment I recognize myself in it."

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Žižek, Slavoj

Reference

Femininity, the sexual, hysteria.  The beginning of analysis should hysterize the subject. Hence, hysterical or not, the obliged path will set forth division; Supposed Knowledge incarnates the Other and the subject appears in this Other.

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Ethics in Psychoanalysis: One may change the places of the letters. There are always the same places and letters, yet there are rules cosifying both, these letters and these places. Inscribed, places and letters interact. Discourse becomes formalized; inside this artificial formalization an element of impossibility halt specific yields. This element basically shapes structure itself.

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Foreman, Richard

MILLER, JACQUES-ALAIN

Slavoj Zizek addresses the Platonic reaction of the reader "...that between the limited view of us, mortals, and the view of the big Other which sees everything!" Only to argue against its own projection. "Vertigo is the ultimate anti-Platonic film, a systematic materialist undermining of the Platonic project, akin to what Deleuze does in the Appendix to The Logic of Sense." With Alain Badiou an obscure disaster ended the truth of the state. "It is thus that i understood Sartre's gross maxim: 'Every anticommunist is a dog,' because every anticommunist manifested thus his hatred of 'us,' his deetermination to exist only within the limits of propriety of himself - which is always the propriety of some property."

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BADIOU, ALAIN

Themes

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The paradoxical figure of the individual who stands for the big Other. One should not think primarily of the leader-figures who directly embody/personify their community (king, president, master), but, rather, of the more mysterious figures of protectors of appearances. Today, it seems that appearances no longer have to be protected. We all know the innocent child from Andersen's  "The Emperors New Clothes"  who publicly proclaims the fact that the emperor is naked today, in our cynical era, such a strategy no longer works, it lost its disturbing power, since everyone is publicly saying all the time that the emperor is naked (that Western democracies are torturing terrorist suspects, that wars are fought for profit, etc.), and nothing happens, nobody seems to mind, the system just goes on functioning as if the emperor had his clothes on... Slavoj Zizek - The Inexistence of the Big Other.    All of this indicates why we cannot agree with a philosophy of mortality and finitude.  There is no ontological status of death.  Of no existent we can say that it is a  being-for-death. Because existence is a transcendental degree and nothing else, we must ask with Saint Paul:  Death, where is thy victory?.   Dying, exactly like existing, is a mode of being-there, and therefore a purely logical correlation. The philosophy of death is included in one sentence: Do not be afraid by the logic of a world, or by the games of existence. We are living and dying in many different world. Alain Badiou - Towards a New Concept of Existence.

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Politics & Social Sciences

Slavoj Zizek - Alain Badiou - Josefina Ayerza - Jacques-Alain Miller

Philosophy

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