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  • Of Indian Ideals / Idols

    By Prerna Kapur | December 15th, 2018

    With direction from Jacques-Alain Miller, Jacques Lacan, and Sigmund Freud’s teachings, this article is an attempt to articulate something about the social and political circumstances in India. One of the […]

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  • The Triumph of Objects

    By Marie-Hélène Brousse | December 8th, 2018

    On Saturday 1 December 2018 Paris was burning, according to headlines around the world. Because what comes first today is the unlimited circulation of words that lay claim to an […]

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  • Bodies in Space

    By Roger Litten | December 5th, 2018

    As those of us who still benefit from the civilising effects of capitalism huddle closer together on our gated islands, the margin of those who fall outside the net seems […]

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  • The Dream of Living With No Risks

    By Gustavo Dessal | December 1st, 2018

    AIDS was probably the first postmodern event to inaugurate the definitive consolidation of biopolitics and the appropriation of the concept of risk by the State with the aim of introducing […]

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  • The Ironic Side of Identification

    By Gustavo Stiglitz | November 28th, 2018

    In “Never Any End to Paris”, Enrique Vila-Matas relates that he always admired Hemingway and wanted to be like him. It does not matter if it is truth or fiction […]

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  • Time Life

    By Claudia Iddan | November 25th, 2018

    Jacques Lacan argued that artists move ahead of analysts. Why? Because of the artist’s know-how [savoir faire] concerning the void, das Ding. Like the potter, not only does he know […]

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  • US Blues—Bury the Hatchet

    By Thomas Svolos | November 22nd, 2018

    Asked about her commitment to running for and again leading the United States House of Representatives as Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi replied “It’s an urgency I can’t resist.”[1] […]

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  • The Security State

    By David Ferraro | November 19th, 2018

    Australia’s treatment of asylum seekers has for years been unremittingly brutal. It isn’t because those seeking asylum are criminals, since to seek asylum is not a crime; and it isn’t […]

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  • Art and Fiction – Lucy Orta’s Procession Banners

    By Françoise Stark-Mornington | November 14th, 2018

    Outstanding! To encounter the performance Procession Banners (2018)[1] by Lucy Orta is to face the “sovereign image”.[2] This work leads the viewer beyond the sense of the conventional, as it […]

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