One conclusion from Plato’s problem worth drawing, if only in order to examine it more closely, is: that which is known absent instruction or experience has been rendered so that it may be comprehended as not incompatible with what is already known. Reduce it to say the fragmented other tells you just what you want […]
The opening lines of Kant’s Transcendental Aesthetic specifies the term ‘normal’ as what obtains “for man, at least,” and this at a certain level (in the sense of Lacan’s discussion of everything in terms of ‘levels’), picking up what is meant by ‘normal’ in those cases as that which addresses regions of the soul, after […]
Why do we accept political forms of repression? Lacan’s work on the mirror stage might hold a clue, where the promise of flight in the imaginary stage is contingent on the child having not yet mastered the symbolic register in which the Other functions in the context of language, authority, law, and its sanctioned transgressions. […]
If the legacy or residue of past bad actions are carried along present fault lines, it follows that you’d want those faults to be as narrow as possible where it could someday be claimed that they no longer inhered.Otherwise, as in the case of structuring contradictions, for example, what was once inherent or self-evident now […]
In his essay on the post-human, Amit Chaudhuri describes modernist sense-perception as Romanticism “renovated” in order to manage a crisis of banality. Such perception is marked by a contradictory “simultaneous suppression and indispensability of religious wonder” (Clearing a Space 282-283).He demonstrates this via Proust’s reconstruction of a scene in which the narrator stops at a […]
A universal condition of empty knowledge stemming from the indiscriminate sowing of internal divisions is not to be confused with the growth of knowledge. Rather it exhibits a preference for a kind of knowing that commands silence.Such divisions have never generated positive growth in the sense of producing structural lines that could serve as a […]