Structuring contradictions in thought have been offered up to replace structuring repression. Concepts convey meaning in their relation or relative positioning with respect to one another. In this way is the immateriality of the concept made discernible, through the creation of friction that is obtained by placing at right angles contradictory propositions. This friction can […]
It would be considered an absurdity to leave it to practical law to divide up capital equally. Yet jouissance is divided up in this manner as a way to administer death in increments, as a way to ward off and manage the catastrophic kind that would kill you all at once.One of the results of […]
Limiting conditions describe what is permissible at any given time and must not be overstepped, according to Kant.Hannah Arendt cited this clear proscription by Kant against the fulfillment of an ideal without which proscription we would have a liquidation of the past and, consequently, meaninglessness. Less clear is whether Kant left unaddressed or rather failed […]
Contemporary commentators still are enamored with the yogic aspiration for equanimity of mind, one that maintains a distance from ground supports considered necessary to the exercise of practical authority.This is what Kant’s lengthy treatise on taste could be reduced to, if by taste he meant chiefly the ability to discern why this content and not […]
To be able to divine in one glance, as Tocqueville was famed to do, how human affairs are changed in scale, pace, and pattern as a consequence of technological innovation – this is said to be what defines social and political navigation. One can even ‘unveil’ the thought (or rather prescribe the direction of its […]
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 […]