Duane Rousselle, PhDI am who I amThe modern thesis of disenchantment can no longer be sustained.1 min read·Apr 28, 2024----
Duane Rousselle, PhDCivil WarCivil War (film) was disappointing. If there was one message: emotional coldness, associated with war-trauma, serves journalists by…1 min read·Apr 27, 2024----
Duane Rousselle, PhDWe feel unfreeSome of my American colleagues like to repeat: “we are sold freedom as unfreedom.” A similar sentiment, from Slavoj Zizek: “we feel free…1 min read·Apr 27, 2024----
Duane Rousselle, PhD“Death is a Dream that Perpetuates Life”Notes: “Improvisation: Desire for Death, Dream and Awakening,” Jacques Lacan (Catherine Millot’s Notes, 1981)5 min read·Apr 23, 2024----
Duane Rousselle, PhDKarachi, on EidKarachi is an interesting place today. The streets are empty and hallow. Few shops are open. Perhaps you find, as I did, a cafe has opened…2 min read·Apr 10, 2024----
Duane Rousselle, PhDNotes: Freud’s “The Acquisition and Control of Fire” (1931)This short and enigmatic essay seems to demonstrate a movement in Freud’s thinking. He picked up a footnote from his Civilization and…8 min read·Apr 8, 2024----
Duane Rousselle, PhDGods, All AloneOur western secular age appears to have abolished God. But these atheists are indeed the most pious.1 min read·Apr 7, 2024----
Duane Rousselle, PhDThe Eternal ParadigmThe domain of politics — discourse, which is always founded on mastery— has eroded. Paradoxically, ours is a time when everything is…2 min read·Mar 31, 2024--1--1
Duane Rousselle, PhDReal DialecticsReal dialectics? Today, we witness the dialectic increasingly within the real. My basic axiom is the following: no dialectics without…1 min read·Mar 12, 2024----