There is a new diagnosis not yet included in the DSM 5. It’s P.T.E.D. Post Traumatic Election Disorder. I, as many other Americans are suffering from this, angry, anxious and […]
Our president elect spoke repeatedly of dreams in his victory address. It was an insane dream I had refused to believe. The perverse will of jouissance was enough for one […]
The introduction of combat drones in military operations has revolutionised the art of warfare and made it possible to kill enemies from a distance. The drone is well suited to […]
It is often said that Berlin will become the new London, the chosen home of a multitude of immigrant communities who shape and define the city’s charm, along with a […]
The concept of a couple 1 has changed considerably: master-signifier of our time, it has become an autonomous entity which has to be treated as if it were fragile and […]
Bartleby’s unexpected unwillingness is acknowledged by his boss not just as puzzling but, mainly, as a subversion of the ruling class. A subversion, which ‘contaminates’, literally speaking, the rest of […]
A misunderstanding has funny mechanics: the person speaking and the person listening don’t associate the same signification to a word. It’s a very short, dense, instant and most often no […]
The Vocoder produces an un-modulated form of speech that sounds robotic, partly because of the monotony assumed for the machine, but also because of the use of similar devices in […]
Pokémon Go has been dominating the media and the streets, with crowds gathering and provoking chaos when rare characters appear on screen. It shows us to what extent Lacans statement: […]
It is in this context of ‘a world where the difference between delusion and reality was shown to be completely useless’, (Dessal, 231) that Gustavo Dessal’s remarkable new novel Surviving […]