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Cinema as a Democratic Emblem
Alain Badiou, translated by Alex Ling and Aurélien Mondon

The Desert Island and the Missing People
Vanessa Brito, translated by Justin Clemens

Althusser and the concept of the spontaneous philosophy of scientists
Pierre Macherey, translated by Robin Mackay

68 + 1: Lacan’s année érotique
Jean-Michel Rabaté

ESSAYS

The Nihilistic Affirmation of Life: Biopower and Biopolitics in The Will to Knowledge
Keith Crome

In the Middle
Sean Gaston

REVIEWS

Martin Hägglund, Radical Atheism: Derrida and the Time of Life
Danielle Sands

‘Without wanting to push the analysis further …’: Jean-Michel Rabaté and the Materialities of Theory
Pieter Vermeulen

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Some important Lacan texts

As you make your wishes for the new year, remember Lacan (via Kevin Spacey):

(h/t: the one and only Peter)

Lacan, Seminar XX, Encore

It’s my pleasure to post about my friend Andrea Hurst’s book,Derrida Vis-à-vis Lacan: Interweaving Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)

From the publisher’s site:

Derrida and Lacan have long been viewed as proponents of two opposing schools of thought. This book argues, however, that the logical structure underpinning Lacanian psychoanalytic theory is a complex, paradoxical relationality that corresponds to Derrida’s “plural logic of the aporia.”

Andrea Hurst begins by linking this logic to a strand of thinking (in which Freud plays a part) that unsettles philosophy’s transcendental tradition. She then shows that Derrida is just as serious and careful a reader of Freud’s texts as Lacan. Interweaving the two thinkers, she argues that the Lacanian Real is another name for Derrida’s différance and shows how Derrida’s writings on Heidegger and Nietzsche embody an attitude toward sexual difference and feminine sexuality that matches Lacanian insights.

Attempting to heal a long-standing divide between Derrideans and Lacanians, she brings out a deep theoretical accord between thinkers who both recognize the power of psychoanalysis to address contemporary political and ethical issues.

Recommended by Joan Copjec:

“Hurst brokers the relationship between Derrida and Lacan with great delicacy. Through patient, sympathetic, and often eye-opening readings of both, she maintains the separateness of these titans of French thought even as she draws them convincingly close together.”

Josefina Ayerza
To resume again…
http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXXII1.html

Jacques-Alain Miller
A Reading of the Seminar From an Other to the other IV
http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXXII2.html

Jacques-Alain Miller
The Other Side of Lacan
http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXXII3.html

Alain Badiou
The Son’s Aleatory Identity in Today’s World
http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXXII4.html

Lilia Mahjoub
The Image in the Fantasy
http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXXII5.html

Massimo Recalcati
Madness and Structure in Jacques Lacan
http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXXII6.html

Jean-Luc Nancy
Strange Foreign Bodies
http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXXII7.html

Slavoj Zizek
Why Lacan Is Not a Heideggerian
http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXXII8.html

Josefina Ayerza
Cecily Brown, Doug Aitken
http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXXII9.html

NB: CFP FOR VOLUME 20 IS EXTENDED TO SEP 30

Volume 19: Sense and Nonsense
ISBN 1 897646 15 1

This volume is currently available. For ways to buy this issue click here

Sense and Nonsense

The Expression of Meaning in Deleuze’s Ontological Proposition: RAY BRASSIER
Expression and Immanence: MIGUEL DE BEISTEGUI
Nonsense and Mysticism in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus: ANGELA BREITENBACH
Epistemology and the Civil Union of Sense and Self-Contradiction: A Co-ordinated Solution to the Shared Problems of Political and Mainstream Epistemology: JEREMY BARRIS
Presuppositionless Scepticism: IOANNIS TRISOKKAS

Varia

Essay on Transcendental Philosophy: A Short Overview of the Whole Work; On the Categories; Antinomies. Ideas.: SALOMON MAIMON
Conflicted Matter: Jacques Lacan and the Challenge of Secularising Materialism: ADRIAN O. JOHNSON
Alain Badiou: Truth, Mathematics, and the Claim of Reason: CHRISTOPHER NORRIS
On the Horrors of Realism: An Interview with Graham Harman: TOM SPARROW

http://www.lacan.com/symptom/

Special issue of the South African Journal of Philosophy (2007)

Todd, Cain (2007) Aesthetic, Ethical, and Cognitive Value.

Schoeman, Marinus (2007) Generosity as a central virtue in Nietzsche’s ethics.

Olivier, Bert (2007) Nietzsche, immortality, singularity and eternal recurrence.

Kotzee, Ben (2007) Our Vision and our Mission: Bullshit, Assertion and Belief.

Tännsjö, Torbjörn (2007) Social Psychology and the Paradox of Revolution.

Hurst, Andrea (2007) Supposing Truth is a Woman – What Then?

TOC

Toward a Theoretical Outline of the Subject: The Centrality of Adorno and Lacan for Feminist Political Theorizing — Claudia Leeb

Ethics and Subjectivity: Practices of Self-Governance in the Late Lectures of Michel Foucault — Nancy Luxon

Voting the General Will: Rousseau on Decision Rules — Melissa Schwartzberg

Harriet Martineau on the Theory and Practice of Democracy in America — Lisa Pace Vetter

As most of you know, there has been an interesting exchange between Zizek and Critchley.

Zizek published a review of Critchley’s Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance. The review was reproduced this past february in Harpers. (Link to the review.)

Critchley has answered Zizek, in the May issue. Link to his answered, fortunately reproduced on the blogosphere.

Description of Rethinking Facticity, eds, Francois Raffoul and Eric Sean Nelson

The concept of facticity has undergone crucial transformations over the last century in hermeneutics and phenomenology, but it has not yet received the attention that it warrants. Following a suggestion by Merleau-Ponty that philosophy is not about essences but rather the facticity of existence, prominent philosophers examine the significance of facticity in its historical context and reflect on its contemporary relevance. Focusing on the works of Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, Lacan, and Fanon, among others, they trace its significance from life-philosophy to contemporary European thought and explore its philosophical implications. The following questions are addressed: What thoughts of experience, of subjectivity, of finitude, of nature, of the body, of racial and sexual difference does facticity provoke? What thinking of language, of history, of birth and death, of our ethical being-in-the-world does it mobilize? Exploring these questions, the contributors offer new interpretations of facticity.

See the publisher’s site for more details, such as the table of contents and the pdf of the introduction.

Sean Homer's Lectures.

youtube link 

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My good friend Alex has sent this interesting link.

Introduction: One More Effort… (i-vi)
Benjamin Noys

Articles

What is the Gift of Grace?: on Dogville (1-22)
Lorenzo Chiesa

The Politics of Gift-Giving and the Provocation of Lars Von Trier's Dogville (23-37)
Dany Nobus

Antiphusis: Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man (38-51)
Benjamin Noys

The Temporality of the Real: The Path to Politics in The Constant Gardener (52-73)
Todd McGowan

'How Very Lacanian': From Fantasy to Hyperreality in Basic Instinct 2 (74-85)
Mark Fisher

Josefina Ayerza
To resume again…

http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXX1.htm

Jacques-Alain Miller
A Reading from Jacques Lacan’s Seminar on From an Other to the other II

http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXX2.htm

Alain Badiou
Hegel, Kant, Lacan

http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXX3.htm

Massimo Recalcati
Triggering Determinants in Anorexia

http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXX4.htm

Simon Critchley
Confraternity of the Faithless: Wilde’s Christianity

http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXX5.htm

Richard Kostelanetz
A Fairly Orthodox Anarchist-Libertarian

http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXX6.htm

Jean-Luc Nancy
To the Exhausting Nude…

http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXX7.htm

Slavoj Zizek
From objet a to Subtraction

http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXX8.htm

Cathy Lebowitz interviews Josefina Ayerza
Kohei Yoshiyuki: The Park

http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXX9.htm

Cover Art: Adam Helms

http://www.lacan.com/grancover30.htm

New on lacan dot com

Slavoj Zizek
On Alain Badiou and Logiques des mondes

http://www.lacan.com/zizbadman.htm

Slavoj Zizek
From Che vuoi? to Fantasy: Lacan with Eyes Wide Shut

http://www.lacan.com/zizkubrick.htm

Slavoj Zizek
Stalinism

http://www.lacan.com/zizstalin.htm

Blackwell is granting temporary free access to some of its journal articles. Two articles from Critical Quarterly and one from the Yale Review may be of interest:

JEAN-MICHEL RABATÉ: Aspace of Dumbillsilly: when Joyce translates Lacan

ANDREW BRIGHTON: Consumed by the political: the ruination of the Arts Council

MARTIN GREENBERG: Concerning Hannah Arendt. She knew she was right