16
Dec
Conversation
In The Conversation section of the New York Times (alas, paywall), Bret Stephens reflects on "the efforts on college
Notebook
This category is stuff that I come across in stuff I read, or watch, or listen to, and don’t want to forget. It’s also a record of thoughts that make up my head noise.
13
Nov
Beshear’s words
Andy Beshear, the governor of Kentucky, wrote the following in an op-ed published by the New York Times (the article
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12
Nov
The Dems as HR department
I've been reading a lot about the election and why the results were what they were. Many of
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11
Nov
Repetition & Isolation of a Symptomatic Element.
From Analysis Laid Bare, By Jacques-Alain Miller.
Let us introduce her a little dialectic [...] It is because there is the
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26
Sep
An interesting though on method
From A few remarks on the method of Jacques Rancière by Jacques Rancière.
A method means a path: not the
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25
Sep
Time & Wounds
From this review of the film Eden, written and directed by Mia Hansen-Love.
Time does not heal all wounds, but
07
Sep
Psychoanalysis & Teaching
From The Lives and Legends of Jacques Lacan by Catherine Clément:
Teacher of what? Psychoanalysts have never gotten beyond this
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02
Sep
Nin on writing
From The Novel of the Future by Anaïs Nin.
I think we should always write about what we know, or
29
Aug
More on the void
I found the passage below in this paper by Éric Laurent.
In the seminar on The Object of Psychoanalysis, he
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28
Aug
Dark Matter
From this thread on Reddit:
Basically all we know about dark matter is that it is responsible for binding galaxies
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