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The scope of this paper is to present some medical, psychoanalytic, and political thoughts on the Covid-19 pandemic. A medical catastrophe cannot be without political consequences and indeed, in this
access to the sublime object of the racist fantasy. Drawing from the philosophy of Johann Gottlieb Fichte, McGowan argues that the fantasy obstacle is both an obstacle and an impetus. It creates a distance ... inherent in the formation of any political group. ‘‘Inclusion always runs up against a fundamental limit,’’ he states, ‘‘in order for some to belong, others must not belong’’ (p. 81). The logical necessity
and practices of self-divination to the American political imaginary give this moment of the Real a properly cosmic and spiritual scale. What returns are techno-horrors of intersubjective dread and the ... mastering the political potential of social media shattered the digital teleologies upon which liberal technocratic consensus was based. The bounties of connectivity and communication have been replaced by a
consider the fact that we also can be drawn to the ‘‘horror,’’ that is abject things. Or, as the political philosopher Iris Marion Young claims: The abject is at the same time fascinating: it draws the ... was an easy target for the Westernized and predominantly white masculine sports culture. She became ‘‘a ‘raced’ Other’’ (Miller, 2015, p. 299) . The ideological and political dimensions can easily be
including the ‘‘impasse of formalization’’ (Badiou, 1988/2006, p. 5) . This perspective on logic is central to the continental discourse on logic, but largely ignored in the tradition of analytic philosophy ... context or on political conflict. In recent years Isabell Millar (2021) , Andre´ Nusselder (2006) , Jacob Johansson (2018), and Matthew Flisfeder (2021) have contributed to the discourse on
Wittgenstein’s huge influence across academic disciplines (and the analytic–continental divide in philosophy), there has been no scholarly attempt to examine Lacan’s claims concerning Wittgenstein in this seminar ... philosophy, spanning both its ''analytic-continental divide'' and its ''linguistic turn.'' Psychoanalysis is after all a form of analysis, and in Lacan's work asserts the absolute centrality of language in
As the world suffers the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, global justice activists pursue political solutions to its devastating consequences especially on the weakest sections of the world’s ... to the literature on the cycles of collective action and, more broadly, to the study of political action and social change. global justice movement; emotional sequences global financial crisis
paper points toward a fundamental rethinking of psychoanalytic theory. Using clinical examples, theory and personal narrative, the author concludes by pointing toward clinical and political possibilities ... share that for context, as this paper intersects with the personal, clinical, and political in ways I could not have foreseen. In her paper, Jones (2015) articulated her negation and erasure by me when
Water Law Commons Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/sdlp - Article 4 A NORTH-SOUTH STRUGGLE: POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC OBSTACLES TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT By ... ), Article 1105 (Minimum Standard of Treatment), Article 1110 (Expropriation).194 TransCanada alleges that the United States rejected the Keystone application for political reasons, not environmental
ice of the Arctic, including Hans Isle, and the Agreement is in discord. The Inuit are indigenous, and their associated rights have been recognized in and by international legal and political ... any justifiable claims of feasible navigation. That, however, has changed as the Arctic ice fields have thinned allowing seasonal circumpolar navigability. Now, the geo-political game is on for access
This paper will examine the titles of several conservative and progressive religions and political organizations to demonstrate how some rhetors are distorting the lexicon of civil religion to ... philosophy must be "historically and socially rooted" because spirituality elevates us above the personal and material and lends moral authority to our political philosophy (108). He invites traditional
Hosni Mubarak and his leading followers, including politicians and business leaders, an important socio-political space developed in which it might have been possible to create a different society based ... following the 1952 revolution. When the British ruled Egypt (1882-1952), they exercised considerable power in Egyptian affairs, and their involvement in the political, social, economic and judicial life of
determined inconsistently using phenotypical, geographical, ethnic, religious, political, or cultural markers, to name only a few criteria (Lipsitz, 1998) ; and, within these forms, whiteness (or lack ... identity, but a mode of identifying. And whiteness inaugurated the process of its sociocultural spread (see Goldberg, 1993) , along with its subsequent legal and political institutionalization (see Lo´pez
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I am honoured to have been invited to contribute to this journal with a 'foreword' about my long engagement with Bracha L. Ettinger's conceptual revolution in psychoanalysis and philosophy with her ... was formed in that nowageing generation who engaged with staggeringly complex theories of everything that we embraced as ‘political instruments’ for the analysis and transformation of the multiple
The ideas presented in this essay come from my ongoing research into how the term ‘global citizenship’ has been interpreted and communicated beyond academic debates in political philosophy and the ... Discourse Hans Schattle, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science The idea of global citizenship is no longer confined to a small cadre of political philosophers and advocates for world government
the role of whatever expert the situation calls for, turning itself now into a political scientist, now into a virologist or a psychologist, and starting to expound with unchanged confidence as if it ... of the content of others’ posts (e.g., by questioning the intellectual analysis that someone made of the results of the political elections). The KW’s attacks can be just as violent, but they are
, despite the fact that they do tend to, somehow, take jokes into account, do so only in order to identify a comical element in his political position, and ascribe to him names – ‘‘the deadly jester’’ (Kirsch ... , his comments, more than ever, make one seriously wonder about the political positions he expresses. Is he really the radical political thinker he was once assumed to be or he has turned into a theorist
& Society since 2018. She has published articles and book chapters on gender and feminism; psychoanalysis and philosophy; psychoanalytic approaches to politics, pedagogy and space; and psychoanalysis and ... contemporary culture. She is the author of After Oedipus: Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Myth in Contemporary Culture (2017). Her recently publications include the co-edited volumes After Lockdown, Opening Up
ontological, political and ethical, aiming to contribute to contemporary debates about how to envisage more peaceful and non-violent ways of being with others. Mart´ınez invites us to rethink the ... , what she calls 'erotic fractures' (p. 3) emerge as a field of operations through which Eros can prevail, but only to the extent that we make the cultivation of Eros a permanent ethical-political pursuit
