Order of fabulousness: best to great

1. Lacan's Medievalism, Erin Labbie
2. Badiou, Zizek, and Political Transformations, Adrian Johnston
3. The City & The City, China Mieville
4. Seminar III, Jacques Lacan
5. Lex Populi, William MacNeil

This is the conclusion from an article I just sent off to S in an attempt to shake the branches of Lacanian ideology-critique by hammering away at its roots.

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Today's greatest tragedy for me (thus far) has been to see people disagree with my words and then repeat my intended meaning whilst oblivious to its homonymic resonance. For example, I suggested that maybe "public opinion is a delusion that brings 'the public' into existence" which was then rephrased by someone else as "it's amazing, the polling of ( Read more... )

A hip happy birthday to you claudelemonde, may the stars give you astral weeks of joy sans ennui.

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I noticed this cut and paste of Spurious on iCite, so I thought I would share it here also: ( dogma )

I could start marking that other pile of papers, or I can schmooze around the internet checking my bank balances, lj, email, and the bloggersphere. Hmm... tough choice ( Read more... )

un avocat: barrister, advocate, lawyer, avocado...

*cackle*

Word has it I'm an ENFJ now... Go find yourself an acronym, humans need structure :)
~Niv

I have spent hours deciphering the wonders of combining c'est, il est, and elle est with quand, pourquoi, qui, quelle, quel, comment, and so on. Combine, twist, tweak, juxtapose, send the world perpendicular. The problem is when the question is posed "compléte la phrase..." and then presents a blank line followed by something like "une fille ( Read more... )

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