“Your genius and your animus have always ben fully linked,” she said. “Your mind thrives on ill will toward others. So does your body, I think. Bad blood makes for long life. He was a rival in some sense, yes? He was physically strong perhaps. He had a large personality. Filthy rich this chap. Women […]
Category Archives: Book Reviews
Stack – My book of short stories now available.
posted by lisathatcher
I am very pleased and proud to announce the release of my book of short stories, Stack through Les Éditions du Zaporogue. It’s cheap as chips and available here. This is a modest collection of ten short stories that clocks in at 113 pages I’ve written over the last couple of years. Some have been published […]
Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism – Slavoj Žižek and a passion for Hegel
posted by lisathatcher
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 […]
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 […]
Blue Eyes Black Hair – Marguerite Duras and the love of loss.
posted by lisathatcher
Among those watching the scene in the lounge from the road behind the hotel is a man. He makes up his mind, crosses the road and goes towards an open window. Just after he has crossed the road, no more than a few seconds, she, the woman in the story, enters the lounge. She has […]
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 […]
How to read Lacan: Zizek on Lacan – Part 1. Lacan confronts the CIA plot.
posted by lisathatcher
It was Slavoj Žižek’s birthday last week, and I figured – seeing as I am a bit of a fan – that would dedicate a couple of posts to his short but oh so fabulous introduction to the work of Jaques Lacan. What I’m going to do here is pretty much paraphrase Žižek’s work. I think there is […]
White Teeth: The brilliance of Zadie Smith
posted by lisathatcher
Early in the morning, late in the century, Cricklewood Broadway. At 06.27 hours on 1 january 1975, Alfred Archibald Jones was dressed in corduroy and sat in a fume-filled Cavalier Musketeer Estate face down on the steering wheel, hoping the judgement would not be too heavy upon him. He lay forward in a prostrate cross, […]
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