January 2011
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“Maybe there are two sides to this coin, two faces of this Real Other: On the one...”
– A. Johnston
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“Sartre said in an interview, which I paraphrase: If the communist hypothesis is...”
– The Meaning of Sarkozy - A. Badiou
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“When we speak of neurosis, we ascribe a certain role to flight, to avoidance, in...”
– Seminar III, The Psychoses (1955-56) - J. Lacan
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Through Hollow Lands (For Harold Budd) - B. Eno
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“We can already see how Deleuze’s ‘Bergsonism’ is an incipient...”
– Adieu to Negativity: Deleuze - B. Noys
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“During the 1980s those who had adopted an accelerationist position responded to...”
– The Persistence of the Negative - B. Noys
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“For Badiou, ‘‘nature’’ signifies, first and foremost, seamless consistency, the...”
– Alain Badiou, The Hebb-event, and Materialism Split from Within - A. Johnston
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“The exemplary anti-philosopher that Pascal is for/against Descartes and that...”
– Logic of Worlds - A. Badiou
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-23) →
Deathprod (82)
Daft Punk (82)
Bohren & der Club of Gore (34)
Johann Sebastian Bach (23)
Sandwell District (21)
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“…how is it possible that the neutrality, the inconsistency, the...”
– Logic of Worlds - A. Badiou
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“Despite the apparent bleakness and antiutopianism of an assessment of human...”
– Time Driven, Metapsychology and the Splitting of the Drive - A. Johnston
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Two suicides, two encounters with madness, the... →
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“In his Ethics and Infinity, Levinas emphasizes how what appears as the most...”
– Neighbours and Other Monsters, A Plea for Ethical Violence - S. Zizek
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“In what does this sounding that is an analysis consist? Would it, or would it...”
– Seminar XXIV (1977) - J Lacan
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-16) →
Sandwell District (49)
Demdike Stare (30)
Bastian Wegner (29)
Dopplereffekt (27)
Mount Kimbie (20)
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“We are commemorating May ‘68 because the real outcome and the real hero of...”
– May ‘68 Revisited, 40 Years On - A. Badiou
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“Let us turn again to an example that has never been sufficiently exploited, the...”
– The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis - J. Lacan
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Reply to Digital Pidgin.
I think the point you make about neurotic tension is an important one. If one insists on the neurotic dimension, then one remains within the zone of doubt, doubt being constitutive of neurosis. The move into melancholy becomes one of utter certainty, with glacial insights, and with this certainty we move into the zone of psychosis. I certainly wouldn’t describe it as a breaking through in...
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I don’t know how I can feel really happy and sad at the same time. it’s like I’m content because that’s all I can do but deep underneath I’m really just treading water and continually working to force myself up. like a kind of inertia. things have their…
I think that one needs...
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“In depression, all that once seemed beautiful, or even startling or dreadful, is...”
– The Conspiracy Against The Human Race - T. Ligotti
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“We might argue that what is represented here are the three inevitable relations...”
– The Theme of the Three Caskets (1913) - S. Freud
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Capitalist Realism: Is there No Alternative? M.... →
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Kakonita (Nils Petter Molvaer) [Deathprod Mix] -...
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“Freud writes in Civilization and Its Discontents that everything that is...”
– Seminar VII, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis (1959-60) - J. Lacan
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“The point that needs to be understood, as concerns the complex decision that...”
– “The Formulas of L’ Etourdit” - A. Badiou
Dark Materialism recordings 12/01/11. →
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“2) Burn Freud, and take desire back to the Kantian conception of will. Wherever...”
– Making it with Death - N. Land
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“…4) Foster nostalgia for what is maximally bovine, inflexible, and...”
– Making it with Death - N. Land
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To all my recent followers. Its very much appreciated.
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– Surrealist Automatism
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“We have never stopped repeating that the interiorization of the Law has nothing...”
– Seminar VII, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis (1959-60) - J. Lacan
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Compactification - Dopplereffekt
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“The idea of philosophy as questioning and openness always paves the way, as we...”
– “Louis Althusser (1918-1990)” - A. Badiou
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Sirocco Swirl (Deluded Walker Demo) - Mordant...
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“But this is not at all Kantian. It is even on this that I insist. If there is a...”
– “Le triomphe de la religion” - J. Lacan
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“The traumatic force catches up and, as it were, shakes the ego down from the...”
– Final contributions to the problems and methods of psychoanalysis - Sandor Ferenczi
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-9) →
Edward Artemiev (75)
Sandwell District (52)
Salvatore Sciarrino (37)
Demdike Stare (30)
Brian Eno (29)
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“The philosopher is a fairly isolated figure – Heidegger in his cottage,...”
– Reflections on Philosophy, Ben Woodward Interview.
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“Where they see only a single way, you see frightening precipices. That re- minds...”
– “Pascal Blaise”, The Encyclopedia Britannica (1911) - G. Saintsbury
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“In line with Lear’s perspective, one reasonably could conclude that the...”
– “The Weakness of Nature: Hegel, Freud, Lacan, and Negativity Materialized”. - A.Johnston
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