A warm and very friendly greeting to all the lovely folk that pop in and read this blog. I want to take the opportunity to thank each and every one of you for your visits. I feel very encouraged by the strength of your response. The blog has now hit the “regular” 100,000 visits a month club […]
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Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism – Slavoj Žižek and a passion for Hegel
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Well – its FINALLY here. I’ve ordered my copy. I’ll be sure to write about it here when (if – no no WHEN) I get through enough of it to be able to establish a decent opinion. Certainly the above trailer is a big tease, and I have a snazzy little excerpt below taken directly […]
Farewell Carlos Fuentes – you will be greatly missed.
posted by lisathatcher
Carlos Fuentes Macías was a Mexican writer and one of the best-known novelists and essayists in the Spanish-speaking world. He has influenced contemporary Latin American literature, and his works have been translated into English and other languages. When he was 30 years old Fuentes published his first novel, La región más transparente, which became a classic. It […]
Happy Birthday Shakespeare – Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.
posted by lisathatcher
All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages. William Shakespeare I was adored once too. William Shakespeare
How to read Lacan: Zizek on Lacan – Part 4. Troubles with the Real: Lacan as a Viewer of Alien. (pt One)
posted by lisathatcher
This is a follow on post from a previous one that you can read here. This chapter in the book is large, so I have divided it up into two separate posts. It is important to note, that this is not my own work. This is merely a condensing and simplifying of How to Read Lacan […]
The Sound of speaking Samuel Beckett – Happy Birthday
posted by lisathatcher
Rule Number One Take note one from pocket one and suck it! (take a listen to the above link) Beckett and love Beckett never reduces love to the amalgam of sentimentality and sexuality endorsed by common opinion. Love as a matter of truth (and not of opinion) depends upon a pure event: an encounter whose […]
Happy Birthday Comte de Lautreamont!
posted by lisathatcher
“Who may understand why two lovers who idolized one another the night before will quarrel over aq single misunderstood word and flee on the wings of hatred to opposite points of the compass, full of love and remorse yet refusing to see one another , each cloaked in lonely pride? This is a miracle that […]
How to read Lacan: Zizek on Lacan – Part 3. From Che vuoi? To Fantasy: Lacan with eyes wide shut.
posted by lisathatcher
This is a follow on post from a previous one that you can read here. It is important to note, that this is not my own work. This is merely a condensing and simplifying of How to Read Lacan by Slavoj Zizek (Author), Simon Critchley (Series Editor) that can be purchased here. And why the Other with a capital O? For […]
How to read Lacan: Zizek on Lacan – Part 2. Lacan turns a prayer wheel.
posted by lisathatcher
This is a follow on post from a previous one that you can read here. It is important to note, that this is not my own work. This is merely a condensing and simplifying of How to Read Lacan by Slavoj Zizek (Author), Simon Critchley (Series Editor) that can be purchased here. 2. Lacan turns a prayer wheel. And […]
Farewell Adrienne Rich – A valediction forbidding mourning
posted by lisathatcher
I tried to get a copy of A valediction Forbidding Mourning for us today, to whisper quietly together about the passing of the sublime and beautiful Adrienne Rich. Copywrite laws forbid it, but I found something better. A young woman reading it for us. Take a look: Isn’t that lovely? Adrienne Rich’s ‘A […]
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