Tag Archives: Jacques Lacan

proceeding by learned recollection

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Dave

Finding the point at which the same and the other are indiscernible. It is where the center of thought is a blurry area characterized by discontinuity where Marcel Duchamp said the impersonality of artistic action can affirm itself. The ready … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Alain Badiou, Andre Breton, anna freud, francis p. nauman, Gustave Courbet, Jacques Lacan, Marcel Duchamp, mark polizzotti, sidney janis, Slavoj Zizek | Leave a comment

a little piece of heaven?

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Dave

Prostrate anxiety? the thingamagig complex. Objectifying the human body as part of splitting off the corporeal from the spiritual and convicting poor Eros of demon status, branding her forever with the unfavorable P.R. she has had to endure. The short … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged alex comfort, Damien Hirst, Edouard Manet, Faye Dunaway, Jacques Lacan, Jeff Koons, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Kiki Smith, Martha Rosler, robert stoller, Sigmund Freud, Vanessa Beecroft | Leave a comment

rights set loose in the wild

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Dave

Is there an ambiguity, a gap between formal freedom , formal democracy as practice and ritual: constitutional rights and freedoms, and an economic reality of liberty and a relative value, similar to Heidegger’s cultural relativism, and the inherent income disparities. … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Claude Levi-Strauss, Emanuel Leutze, Jacques Lacan, john dewey, john gast, Martin Heidegger, Slavoj Zizek, Thorstein Veblen | Leave a comment

Unknown knowns: less favorite things

Posted on January 9, 2012 by Dave

Sacred intensity? Is it kitsch, contrived, organized sentimental logic advocating tolerance or a gateway to perverse desires? The theory of Slavoj Zizek is that natural and caring urges ultimately lead to silly, maudlin fantasies or its flip side: the types … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Jacques Lacan, Josef Fritzl, Michael Luntley, Ray Caesar, Slavoj Zizek, the sound of music, Walter Benjamin, zbigniew libera | Leave a comment

at the wall of disbelief

Posted on December 4, 2011 by Dave

It’s another case of utter disbelief. It can be said that disbelief arises, as a primal reaction, before knowledge, rationality, and analysis roll in and suffocate it; attempts to domesticate it, tame the volatile components and explain it away, perhaps … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Carolee Schneemann, Friedrich Nietzsche, H.L. Mencken, irina ionesco, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, John Malkovich, Josef Fritzl, Joseph Conrad, peter sloterdijk, Slavoj Zizek, the sound of music | Leave a comment

redemption against a brick wall

Posted on December 4, 2011 by Dave

The representation of trauma. What are the limits, the intersection between the desire to understand and the voyeuristic gaze? The conjunction of political and popular culture can collapse the meaning of distance resulting in a moral strain and ambiguity where … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged alan bullock, Franz Kafka, irving babbitt, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, Josef Fritzl, Marcel Duchamp, Martin Buber, piotr uklanski, Ron Rosenbaum, rudolf herz, saul friedlander, Slavoj Zizek, the sound of music, Tom Sachs | Leave a comment

your money or your life: hoarding gold with the rat men

Posted on November 20, 2011 by Dave

Currency Wars.It’s not called the gloomy science for nothing. A new book by economist James Rickards is scary stuff. Almost science fiction. It does lend oneself to Weimar like visions of the collapse of fiat currency and receiving wages on … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Andre Breton, charlie chaplin the gold rush, Damien Hirst, David Mamet, Donald Kuspit, Jacques Lacan, james rickards, John Huston, kate moss gold sculpture, mark quinn sculpture, Nicolas Poussin, Sigmund Freud, Slavoj Zizek, Thorstein Veblen | Leave a comment

swift kick in the keegster

Posted on November 17, 2011 by Dave

Everyone defecates and we can’t get around the stink. It’s a source of puzzlement and consternation for many. Like stark reality confronting the imagery of the divine. Simply, some can’t make do out of do. We are tenuously, but intricately … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged dominique laporte, Donald Kuspit, Jacques Lacan, Jonathan Swift, julie kristeva, Marcel Duchamp, Sigmund Freud, Slavoj Zizek, William Hogarth, zachari logan | Leave a comment

fat chance: rooting for the longshot

Posted on October 25, 2011 by Dave

Its the opposite of investment. Its the quick fix. The bottomless pit of desire that cannot be sated. The Janus face of capitalism, money and banking. Is the true aim of the gambler narcissistic and aggressive desires for attaining the … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Damon Runyan, edmund bergler, Edmund Burke, fred herzog photography, gambling economics, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Lacan, marx brothers at the races, Paul Newman, Paul Samuelson, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, rosel zech, Slavoj Zizek, thorsten brinkmann, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

feminine principle: horns of a dilemma

Posted on October 16, 2011 by Art

Freud evidently thought the essence of femininity was narcissism and indifference.It was a theory explicitly based on woman’s natural inferiority, that is as ridiculous as it is hypocritical.But, it conformed to the structural,institutional and systematic reasons that still exist today. … Continue reading →