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Getting Back to It: Thoughts on the Graduate Experience
I suppose this will function as a more conventional blog post. The first two months of term have not been kind. The hopeful accomplishments I had anticipated achieving are drowned under an ocean of feeling my way into a new… Read more
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Towards a Substantialist Materialism
We must nevertheless distinguish between two different uses of the term “libido” … libido as an energetic concept, regulating the equivalence of phenomena, and libido as a substantialist hypothesis, relating the phenomena to matter. I refer to the hypothesis as… Read more
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‘God is Unconscious,’ or Reality of the Signifier
This nightmarish universe – the Lacanian Real – is not ‘pure fantasy’ but, on the contrary, that which remains of reality after reality is deprived of its support of fantasy. Slavoj Žižek. Disparities (2016). “Laying the groundwork” is a common… Read more
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