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Becoming a Cyborg
Andrew Seed

In the film The Beast, the AI have two methods of preventing their human subjects descending into madness. The first is the procedure to reduce affect or desire to zero, the second is where the AI takes the place of the Name-of-the-Father and operates a friendly but highly oppressive AI centred technocratic regime.

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Plaisir d'amour
Elisabeth Müllner

If I assume this love to be eternal in the moment of the joy of love, then the present moment of love also expands. In this way, the moment of plaisir d'amour takes up with, forms a counterweight to the suffering of love.

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Cause Life is Beautiful That Way
Liat Bergman

The film Life is Beautiful by Roberto Benigni tells the story of an Italian Jewish man, Guido, during the fascist era. Guido and his son are deported to a Nazi concentration camp. In the camp, Guido creates an alternate representation of the harsh reality, pretending that they are participating in a sophisticated game.

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« Dans l’amour, ce qui est visé, c’est le sujet, le sujet comme tel, en tant qu’il est supposé à une phrase articulée, à quelque chose qui s’ordonne ou peut s’ordonner d’une vie entière. Un sujet, comme tel, n’a pas grand-chose à faire avec la jouissance. Mais, par contre, son signe est susceptible de provoquer le désir. Là est le ressort de l’amour. »

Lacan J., Le Séminaire, livre XX, Encore, texte établi par J.-A. Miller, Paris, Seuil, 1975, p. 48.