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Slavoj Zizek on Violence
…ugliness today is a sign and symptom of great transformations to come. - C.G. Jung on Joyce Contempt, it turns out, was assimilable to democracy. In fact, rather than subverting democracy, it assisted...
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An Imbecile’s Guide to Zizek
“…the antiphilosopher Lacan is a condition of the renaissance of philosophy. A philosophy is possible today only if it is compatible with Lacan.” - Alain Badiou, Manifesto for Philosophy Somewhere...
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Slavoj Zizek: Quote of the Day!
The parallax gap is, on the contrary, the very form of the “reconciliation” of opposites: one simply has to recognize the gap. So, again, what are the political consequences of asserting this gap?...
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Slavoj Zizek: Two Lacan’s – Radical/Conservative
…those who err are precisely those cynics who dismiss the symbolic texture as a mere semblance and are blind to its efficacy, to the way the symbolic affects the Real, to the way we can intervene into...
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Slavoj Zizek: The Place of Blindness
Our brain is almost entirely blind to itself, and it is this interval between ‘almost’ and ‘entirely’ wherein our experience of consciousness resides. - R. Scott Bakker, The Last Magic Show …philosophy...
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Zizek on Kant and Hegel: the Grotesque, Macabre, and The Ugly
We have pointed out the characteristic trait, the fundamental difference that separates, in our view, modern art from ancient art, today’s form from dead form, or – to use vaguer but better accredited...
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Slavoj Zizek: The Thin Red Line
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had...
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Tom Sparrow: ‘Levinas Unhinged’ and ‘A History of Habit’
Both of Tom Sparrow’s new books are ready for pre-order: You can pre-order his book Levinas Unhinged HERE. It should be available at Amazon US before too long, too, in both paperback and Kindle...
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Slavoj Zizek: The Answer of the Real
What, then, is the “Thing-in-itself” from a dialectical-materialist standpoint? The best way to answer this question is, again, to oppose dialectical materialism to Buddhism: in Buddhism, the In-itself...
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Alenka Zupancic: Quote of the Day!
One analogy that seems particularly striking could be drawn between Nietzsche and Kazimir Malevich. Indeed, I am tempted to suggest that, at least to a certain extent, Nietzsche is to philosophy what...
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Gilles Deleuze: Difference and Repetition – A Short Intro
Difference is not and cannot be thought in itself, so long as it is subject to the requirements of representation. - Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition For Deleuze we are all imprisoned in...
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David Hume as Feminist: On Learned Conversation and the Fair Sex
I know nothing more advantageous than such Essays as these with which I endeavour to entertain the public. - David Hume, Essays David Hume was one of the first to break down the walls between the...
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Tom Sparrow: Levinas Unhinged Arrived!
One recent day I realized that I had written several interrelated essays— which is to say, a book— on Levinas’s philosophy. … Its purpose is to exhibit what might be called a proto-materialist...
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The Curse of the Sun: Libidinal Materialism as the Composition of the Universe
…philosophy is a machine that transforms the prospect of thought into excitation; a generator. – Nick Land, The Thirst for …Continue reading →
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