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Semblant Studies

Percival Everett & Subjective Meaning

From a New Yorker profile of Percival Everett (who I had never heard of before reading the profile). Everett is American literature’s philosopher king—and its sharpest satirist. The significant insignificance of language has long been a preoccupation of his fiction, which plumbs the failures of storytelling to capture

Chè voui?

I'm re-reading The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire (again), and today I read this. This is why the Other's question [_la question_ de l'Aurte] – that comes back to the subject from the place from which he expects an oracular reply–

Vamperized

From the most recent [S][J][P] ◉ Newsletter I sent out yesterday: I've been re-reading the text Pure Psychoanalysis, Applied Psychoanalysis, and Psychotherapy by Jacques-Alain Miller. The whole text is engaging, but one of the parts that strikes a chord with me is from the section with the

The Revolution as Semblant

I recorded an episode of the InForm: Podcast [https://www.surplusjouissance.com/tag/inform/]with Jason & Chris from the Regrettable Century [https://regrettablecentury.buzzsprout.com/]earlier today. Part of that conversation was about how revolutionary politics could be what Lacanians call a semblance. I did not have this on