Tag: Zizek
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Art Drive
You’ll often hear that creative writing or any creative process is riddled with unpleasantness. There’s second-guessing, doubt, and hesitation at almost every step. You don’t even have to search long on Twitter to find the testimonies of authors or poets who speak rather candidly of the fact that writing is a pain in the butt,…
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Booz’s Sheaf
My dear, my dearest, how many pebbles is it since I have had the apprentice to sugar you? Alas, my dear, answers the other, I myself have been extremely unvitreous, my three littlest oil-cakes, etc. Jacques Lacan, quoting Jean Tardieu, Seminar III, 257-81 In my previous blog post, I talked about one of philosophy’s greatest metaphors, Hegel’s “the…
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UFOthers II
A rhomboid, a flattened oval, a jellyfish, a Tic Tac, a half-moon, a triangle, a sphere, a wedge, the saucer. These are what eyewitnesses in the new Netflix special Top Secret UFO Projects Declassified have said they’ve seen in the skies and which they believe to be UFOs or, as the government officially calls them,…
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