Georg Lukacs famously claimed that orthodox Marxism should foreground the concept of ‘totality’: “the category of totality, the all-pervasive supremacy of the whole over the parts, is the essence of the method which Marx took over from Hegel and brilliantly transformed into the foundations of a wholly new science.”[1] Totality…

I read multiple times this short text by Eric Laurent on “racism” in Lacan. And then I read Marie-Helen Brousse’s new text. And I compared the two (which I will not do here). I thank one of you in particular — who I will not name because it would incorrectly…

There is always the temptation within American politics to follow a political figure because of the issues to which he or she subscribes. For example, the popular American political philosopher Noam Chomsky has, for many decades, basically instructed us to analyze the content of a given political message against the…

What is going on in the latest version of Super Mario Odyssey for the Nintendo Switch? I had the privilege of spending my birthday today playing the entire game with my son. The game is a mix of nostalgia, repackaged and reconfigured, and there are a number of formal properties…

It is clear that breath has become an important topic for psychoanalysts. For example, Jamieson Webster recently wrote an entertaining piece on breathing and psychoanalysis for the New York Review (https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2021/04/02/on-breathing/). I do not intend to write anything for entertainment or educational purposes. I am merely sharing some scribbles about…

I have read this short essay many times over the years. There is something about it that seems to stand outside of Miller’s larger project — which, I think, puts jouissance at the centre rather than lack — and this is why, I think, perhaps, it is a text that…

Éric Marty et Jacques-Alain Miller: Interview on “The Sex of the Moderns” Unofficial translation First appeared in French in Lacan Quotidien, №927 — Lundi 29 Mars 2021–20 h 56 [GMT +2] Sunday March 21st, 2021 Éric Marty The Sex of the Moderns Neutral Thinking and Gender Theory Threshold Fiction &…

Reading Freud’s “Analysis Terminable and Interminable” (1937) I. The first sentence introduces us to the context: Freud is interested in opening up a question of time within the clinic. He claims that psychoanalytic therapy teachings us that it is a “time-consuming business.” My immediate inclination is to question this additional…

What is NewNew? NewNew is described as a “human stock market.” I quote an article from the New York Times: “On the app, fans pay to vote in polls to control some of a creator’s day-to-day decisions. For example, a creator can use NewNew to post a poll asking which…