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  • Breathless

    By Bogdan Wolf | April 19th, 2020

    The silent master Let’s start with the master. There has been a proliferation of masters during the plague. The master, in the Lacanian sense, corresponds to the common man of […]

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  • Q-u-a-r-a-n-t-i-n-e. About Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Aviator’

    By Vicente Palomera | April 17th, 2020

    Allene Hughes: “Q-u-a-r-a-n-t-i-n-e” Howard Hughes: “Quarentine. Q.u.a.r.e.n.t.i.n.e. Quarentine” (Opening scene of the Martin Scorcese film, The aviator)   In the midst of the quarantine in which we find ourselves, I […]

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  • The Real of Analytic Abstinence

    By Geert Hoornaert | April 16th, 2020

    After Freud pointed out that nothing can be killed in absentia or in effigy, Lacan insisted throughout his teaching that the cure requires a real presence, beyond the imaginary and […]

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  • Empty City

    By Marie-Hélène Brousse | April 16th, 2020

    This third text comes as as a rebound from the previous one, which was a sort of chronicle of the times of the coronavirus that ended on a void. With […]

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  • Ambiguous Proximities

    By Ciarán Murphy | April 15th, 2020

    A few months back, while on another headless adventure through my Facebook feed, I was pinched back awake by a wonderful meme that read something like: “remember, tradition is just […]

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  • Coronavirus: Life in High Definition

    By Jeff Erbe | April 14th, 2020

    This moment pushes us to reconsider the real of nature against disorder in the real. Miller writes, “capitalism and science have combined to make nature disappear.”[1] With the quieting of […]

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  • Virtual Reality

    By Gustavo Dessal | April 13th, 2020

    The smallness of our existence can acquire dimensions that we had not before suspected and, by contrast, lives accustomed to passing by without limits run up against an implacable barrier. […]

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