2012 March, On David Lynch, The Symptom 13 / lacan.com
2012 March, Choosing Our Fate, The Symptom 13 / lacan.com
2010 Spring, Deleuze and the Lacanian Real, The Symptom 11 / lacan.com.
2010 Spring, The Neighbor in Burka, The Symptom 11 / lacan.com.
2010, Lenin’s Choice: Interpretation vs. Formalization, lacan.com.
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2010, Götterdämmerung or the Reign of Human Love, lacan.com.
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2010, The Future as Sci Fi: A New Cold War, lacan.com.
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2009, Hermeneutic Delirium, Lacanian Ink 34 / lacan.com.
2009 Spring, Josephine le sinthome, Lacanian Ink 33 / lacan.com.
2009 Spring, My Own Private Austria, The Symptom 10 / lacan.com.
“How are we to locate Josef Fritzl, the Austrian monster who had her daughter imprisoned for a quarter of century and, after thousands of rapes, had many children with her?”
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2009, The Palestinian Question: the couple Symptom / Fetish, lacan.com.
2009, A Revolution ne s’autorise que d’elle même, lacan.com.
2009, Multiculturalism, the Reality of an Illusion, lacan.com.
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2009, Denial: the Liberal Utopia, lacan.com.
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2009, Hollywood Today Report from an Ideological Frontline, lacan.com.
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2009, How to Read Lacan, lacan.com.
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2009, Architectural Parallax Spandrels and Other Phenomena of Class, lacan.com.
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2009, A Short Clarification with Ian Parker, lacan.com.
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2009, A Plea for a Return to Différance (with a Minor Pro Domo Sua), lacan.com.
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2009, Excursions into Philosophy “Father,forgive them, for they know what they are doing”, lacan.com.
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2009, Why Cynics Are Wrong, lacan.com.
Days before the election, Noam Chomsky told progressives that they should vote for Obama, but without illusions…
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2008 Fall, The Lacanian Real: Television, The Symptom 9 / lacan.com.
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2008, Masturbation, or Sexuality in the Atonal World, lacan.com.
Today’s predominant mode of politics is the post-political biopolitics an expression which is effectively tautological…
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2008, Notes on Ideology, lacan.com.
Ideology I: No Man is an Island…; Ideology II: Competition is a Sin; Ideology III: To Read Too Many Books is Harmful
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2008, Organs without Bodies – Gilles Deleuze, lacan.com
1. The Reality of the Virtual; 2. Becoming versus History; 3. Becoming-machine; 4. le siècle empiriomoniste; 5. Quasi-Cause
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2008, When Straight Means Weird and Psychosis Is Normal, lacan.com.
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2007 Winter, Mel Gibson at the Serbsky Institute, The Symptom 8 / lacan.com.
In the good old Soviet times, the Serbsky Institute in Moscow was the psychiatric flagship for punitive political control…
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2007, On Alain Badiou and “Logiques des mondes”, lacan.com.
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2007, Censorship Today: Violence, or Ecology as a New Opium for the Masses, lacan.com.
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2007, The Liberal Utopia, lacan.com.
Section I: Against the Politics of Jouissance; Section II: The Market Mechanism for the Race of Devils
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2007, Philosophy: Spinoza, Kant, Hegel and… Badiou! lacan.com.
Section I: Introduction – Spinoza; Section II: Kant – Hegel; Section III: Badiou!
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2007, Madness and Habit in German Idealism: Discipline between the Two Freedoms, lacan.com.
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2007, Only a Suffering God Can Save Us, lacan.com.
Section 1: Hegel; Section 2: Kierkegaard
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2007, Radical Evil as a Freudian Category; From Political Evil… to Radical Evil, lacan.com.
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2007, Religion between Knowledge and Jouissance, lacan.com.
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2007, Cogito, Madness and Religion: Derrida, Foucault and then Lacan, lacan.com.
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2007, Leninism Today: Zionism and the Jewish Question, lacan.com.
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2007, Lacan: at What Point is He Hegelian? lacan.com.
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2007, A Pervert’s Guide to Family, lacan.com.
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2007, Do We Still Live in a World? lacan.com.
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2007, How To Read Lacan, lacan.com.
1. Introduction
2. Empty Gestures and Performatives; Lacan Confronts the CIA Plot
3. The Interpassive Subject; Lacan Turns a Prayer Wheel
4. From Che vuoi? to Fantasy: Lacan with Eyes Wide Shut
5. Troubles with the Real; Lacan as a Viewer of Alien
6. Ego Ideal and the Superego; Lacan as a Viewer of Casablanca
7. “God is Dead, But he doesn’t know it”; Lacan plays with Bobok
8. The Perverse Subject of Politics; Lacan as Reader of Mohammad Bouyeri
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2007, Stalinism; Gorgias, Not Plato Was the Arch-Stalinist; A Letter Which Did Not Reach its Destination (and thereby saved the world); Shostakovich in Casablanca, lacan.com.
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2007, The Ideology of the Empire and its Traps, lacan.com.
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2007, Deleuze and the Lacanian Real, lacan.com.
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2007, Deleuze’s Platonism: Ideas as Real, lacan.com.
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2007, The True Hollywood Left, lacan.com.
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2007, Blows Against the Empire? lacan.com.
Today’s global capitalism can no longer be combined with democratic representation…
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2007, Mao Zedong: the Marxist Lord of Misrule, lacan.com.
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2007, Robespierre or the “Divine Violence” of Terror, lacan.com.
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2006 Spring, Hegel – Chesterton: German Idealism and Christianity, The Symptom 7 / lacan.com.
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2006, Against the Populist Temptation, lacan.com.
The French and Dutch NO to the project of European constitution was a clear-cut case of what in the “French theory” is referred to as a floating signifier…
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2006, Five Years After: the Fire in the Minds of Men, lacan.com.
Two Hollywood productions were released to mark the 5th anniversary of the 9/11…
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2006, The Parallax View, lacan.com.
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2006, Jacques Lacan’s Four Discourses, lacan.com.
Although Lacan’s notion of “university discourse” circulates widely today, it is seldom used in its precise meaning…
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2006, A Glance into the Archives of Islam, lacan.com.
To many a Western historian of religion, Islam is a problem – how could it have emerged after Christianity, the religion to end all religions?…
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2006, The Antinomies of Tolerant Reason: A Blood-Dimmed Tide is Loosed, lacan.com.
The excitation and the sense of urgency caused by the daily reports on violent demonstrations against the perpetrators of Muhammed caricatures is on the wane…
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2006, Smashing the Neighbor’s Face, lacan.com.
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2006, Reloaded Revolutions, lacan.com.
Nowhere is this constellation staged in a more clear way than in “The Matrix” trilogy…
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2005 Fall, Some Politically Incorrect Reflections on Violence in France & Related Matters, lacan.com.
1. Violence, Irrational and Rational; 2. The Terrorist Resentment; 3. Escape from New Orleans; 4. The Subject Supposed to Loot and Rape Revisited; 5. C’est mon choix… to Burn Cars; 6. Class Struggles in France, Again
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2005 Fall, “Objet a” as Inherent Limit to Capitalism: on Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, lacan.com.
What makes “Empire” and “Multitude” such a refreshing reading (clearly the definitive exercises in Deleuzian politics)…
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2005 Fall, The Obscenity of Human Rights: Violence as Symptom, lacan.com.
The anxious expectation that nothing will happen, that capitalism will go on indefinitely, the desperate demand to do something, to revolutionize capitalism, is a fake…
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2005 Fall, With or Without Passion – What’s Wrong with Fundamentalism? Part I lacan.com.
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2005 Fall, Move the Underground! – What’s Wrong with Fundamentalism? Part II lacan.com.
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2005 Spring, Over the Rainbow Coalition! lacan.com.
The credentials of those who, even prior to its release, virulently criticize Mel Gibson’s “Passion” seem impeccable…
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2005 Spring, The Act and its Vicissitudes, The Symptom 6 / lacan.com.
What is an act in the strict Lacanian sense of the term?…
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2004 Winter, Passion in the Era of Decaffeinated Belief, The Symptom 5 / lacan.com.
The credentials of those who, even prior to its release, virulently criticize Mel Gibson’s new film on the last 12 hours of Christ’s life, seem impeccable…
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2004, Are We Allowed to Enjoy Daphnée du Maurier? Center for Theology and Politics / lacan.com.
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2004, Christians, Jews and Other Criminals: A Critique of Jean-Claude Milner, lacan.com.
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2004, The Iraqi Borrowed Kettle, lacan.com.
We all remember the old joke about the borrowed kettle which Freud quotes in order to render the strange logic of dreams…
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2004, Henning Mankell, the Artist of the Parallax View, lacan.com.
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2004, Will You Laugh for Me, Please, lacan.com.
On April 8, Charles R. Douglass, the inventor of “canned laughter” – the artificial laughter which accompanies comical moments in TV-series – died at 93 in Templeton…
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2004, A Cup of Decaf Reality, lacan.com.
“The Real Cancun” (2003), the first ever ‘reality movie’ follows sixteen people will together for eight days in a beachfront Cancun villa for the ultimate Spring Break vacation…
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2004, Death’s Merciless Love, lacan.com.
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2004, On Opera: Walhalla’s Frigid Joys, lacan.com.
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2004, On Opera: La Clemenza di Tito, or the Ridiculously-Obscene Excess of Mercy, lacan.com.
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2004, On Opera: The Sex of Orpheus, lacan.com.
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2003 September 25th, Homo Sacer as the Object of the University Discourse, lacan.com.
L’envers de la psychanalyse, Seminar XVII (1969-1970) on the four discourses, is Lacan’s response to the events of 1968…
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2003 September 25th, Heiner Mueller Out of Joint, lacan.com.
The documentary on Heiner Mueller and his staging of Hamlet in 1989, “Zeit aus den Fugen”, deploys the entire scope of his reticence…
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2003 April 11th, The Iraqi MacGuffin, lacan.com.
We all know what the Hitchcockian “MacGuffin” means: the empty pretext which just serves to set in motion the story…
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2003 March 13th, The Iraq War: Where is the true danger? lacan.com.
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2002 Spting, Welcome to the Desert of the Real, The Symptom 2 / lacan.com.
Alain Badiou identified as the key feature of the XXth century the “passion of the Real” …
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2001 October 7th, Welcome To The Desert Of The Real Reflections on WTC – 3rd version, lacan.com.
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2001, Can Lenin Tell Us about Freedom Today? lacan.com.
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2001, Repeating Lenin, lacan.com.
from ‘Repeating Lenin’ Zagreb: Arkzin
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2001, The Leninist Freedom, lacan.com.
from ‘On Belief’ London: Routledge
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2001, The Desert and the Real, lacan.com.
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2000, From Proto-Reality to the Act, Center for Theology and Politics / lacan.com.
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2000, No Sex Please! We Are Post-Humans, lacan.com.
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1999, Against the Double Blackmail, lacan.com.
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1999 September, The Thing from Inner Space, Mainview.
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1998 Fall, Kant and Sade: The ideal couple, Lacanian ink. Vol. 13.
1997 Fall, From Joyce-the-Symptom to the Symptom of Power, Lacanian ink, Vol. 11.
1996, Love beyond Law, Center for Theology and Politics / lacan.com
‘The Lacanian Subject’ not only provides an excellent introduction into the fundamental coordinates of Jacques Lacan’s conceptual network
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1996 Spring, Woman is One of the Names-of-the-Father, or How Not to Misread Lacan’s Formulas of Sexuation, Lacanian ink, Vol. 10 / lacan.com.
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