John Roman: The Object You Might Be Without Knowing It
“On the horizon of fantasy you always have the presence of the barred other. That is why fantasy is always linked to angst. What is the cause of angst? The first answer given by Lacan is that angst is caused by the other’s desire. Why? Because the other’s desire is an x, and an x, an unknown,…
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electronic and rap music is just an ‘endless chain of signifiers’ [set to time]
#winning
Young people in particular often self-reveal before they self-reflect. There is no eraser button today for youthful indiscretion.
On today’s Fresh Air, how the digital age is changing kids, teens and parents. (via nprfreshair)
(via discoverynews)
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Touch it, dude!
Barack Obama, instructing a 5-year-old to touch his hair. The child had asked “if my hair is just like yours.” (via officialssay)
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“[The notion of a “natural” morality] is untenable because in any culture that has become sufficiently self-conscious about its behavior to articulate moral theories, the very notion of naturalness will have become so distant as to become all but useless, except as propaganda.” — Allan Megill
“The highest act of reason is an aesthetic act”
— (probably) Hegel
A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
Gilles Deleuze, Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (via somethingquitequixotic)
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I am no doubt not the only one who writes in order to have no face. Do not ask me who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to the bureaucrats and our police to see that our papers are in order. At least spare us their morality when we write.
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