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 […]
A real Republic is a Republic of equality, of shared vulnerabilities and of collective capacities. This is a time to be active rather than passive, and clear choices are opening […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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] […]
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 […]
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 […]