In the Face of Catastrophe, Let Us Return to Art!

In 1955, Theodor Adorno famously declared, “To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.” In the new century, the barbaric takes new forms. Nature rebels against humanity’s voracity and foolishness. What …
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What comes to mind when we hear about Ukrainian cinema today? I’m certain that for most readers, images related to the terrible war that has been destroying cities and grinding …
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The first part of this three-part essay began with the near-universal assumption that we are independent subjects, ultimately identified with a center of conscious experience outside of social life. Both …
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The traumatized hold particular sway in the cultural imaginary. The category is almost interchangeable with that of the victim, though we also can entertain how the victimizer/oppressor/occupier can be traumatized …
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As Lacanians, we should be especially attentive to shifts and inconsistencies in Lacan’s own teaching. Perhaps the greatest shift occurs in the course of his seminar on the ethics of …
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