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  • Wokeness En Vogue

    By Christian Kohner-Kahler | Vienna, Austria | September 14th, 2022

    Three years ago in Vienna, the effects of a new, fresh discourse met us for the first time. Unprepared and up close. During the second Zadig Vienna Forum “Wir alle […]

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  • Between Indocility and Rebellion*

    By Janet Rachel | London, UK | July 13th, 2022

    “It is not from too great an indocility of individuals that the dangers for the future of humanity will come.”[1] This complex sentence was uttered by Jacques Lacan in 1945 […]

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  • Eight Points on ‘The Trans Issue’*

    By Laurent Dupont | Paris, France | July 6th, 2022

    1. In a certain sense, there is no “Trans Issue”. We have nothing to say about trans people except, on a case by case basis, about each One who comes […]

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  • Carbon Blitz

    By Geert Hoornaert | Ghent, Belgium | June 29th, 2022

    Some weeks ago, The Guardian revealed that the world’s biggest fossil fuel firms are quietly planning vast projects of what apparently are called “carbon bombs”. Defined as oil and gas […]

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  • A Falling Away of Guarantee

    By Jared Elwart | Chicago, IL, USA | June 22nd, 2022

    Twice now I have seen the 2022 Daniels film Everything Everywhere All at Once, and twice it has had a profound effect. Never have I seen a film that with […]

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  • The Transcendental Ethics of Marilyn’s Figure

    By George B. Mitropoulos | Athens, Greece | June 15th, 2022

    When Kim Kardashian was recently allowed to wear an iconic Marilyn Monroe dress by designer Bob Mackie, the latter called this “a big mistake”. The dress, he said, was designed […]

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  • Mass Shootings in the U.S.A.

    By Liliana Kruszel | Miami, FL, U.S.A. | June 8th, 2022

    We have all been horrified by the mass shootings that many consider an ‘American thing’. We often refer to them as tragedies. In his book, “From a Taller Tower: The […]

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  • Segregation and Hate

    By René Rasmussen | Copenhagen, Denmark | June 1st, 2022

    “But even where it emerges without any sexual purpose, in the blindest fury of destructiveness, we cannot fail to recognize that the satisfaction of the drive is accompanied by an […]

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  • Foreign Speech

    By Nikita Moshkin | Paris, France & Saint-Petersburg, Russia | May 22nd, 2022

    The text below was presented during the “Beat Le Pen” (BLP) Forum, hosted by l’École de la Cause freudienne, on April 22, 2022, two days before the second and final […]

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