I'm a bit slow off the eight-ball today.

It turns out that Lacan.com have been nice enough to publish the entirety of Zizek's How To Read Lacan. It's worth looking at if you haven't already bought a copy.

Now to make heads or tails of these vague comments from supervisor numero uno...
D.

The top ten viewed articles from the Journal of Medical Ethics.

~Niv

Shiny and new!


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Le séminaire. Livre XXIII, Le sinthome, Seuil, 2005 ( Read more... )

Work is good, giving life all sorts of love - theory to high fives. I've had a few of my 'student evaluations' come in and the results have been fairly good. Some flattery, some idiocy, but by and large a positive experience across the board (of course, the philosophy crowd were the more satisfied ( Read more... )

My favourite line, which is tempting to put drop into the old PhD: "The first guy through the gate is a spammer, with a pornographer hot on his heels."

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~Niveau

In a mad blur of panic last week I went to Folio Books and bought Bruce Fink's shiny new one in hardcover, Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique: A Lacanian guide for practitioners, and the irritatingly whiny The Truth of Zizek edited by Paul Bowman and Richard Stamp. Fink has a genuine dry wit that makes his writing seem like it is being served ( Read more... )

Congratulations on the submission bragi_gwydion!
May your thesis ride high and dazzle the examiners!

This morning I received on of those confusing emails... The sort of email that refers to a chunk of writing that you sliced out of an old seminar paper and threw at some journal for consideration in a drunken revelry. We think your article proposed for the ( Read more... )

Daniel Hourigan starts us off on a consideration of this question by interrogating, in his essay 'Biotech Fantasia', the way biotechnology has become an "ideological phenomenon" that has effectively worked to question not only our understanding of ourselves but our understanding of how we should regulate our interactions with others. What is the ( Read more... )

I love reading October books, that delectible imprint of the MIT Press. Their layout is beautiful, a simple delight to leaf through. And it accentuates the lesson of the American short-fiction renaissance from the 1980s: It's all about the sentences!Of course, if you read Amy Hempel, Raymond Carver, or Mary Robison you're probably ruined already. ( Read more... )