Archives mensuelles : novembre 2011

AVATAR is a good example of the tension between ideology and fabulation in modern myth-making that I have been tryng to describe. Zizek can only see the ideology and the oedipal foreground: « In a typical Hollywood product, everything, from the … Lire la suite →

The distinction I have been trying to make between myth as fabulation and myth as ideology can be reformulated in Ted Friedman’s terms as a distinction between essentialist narratives and readings and anti-essentialist ones. If Lacan can be allowed to … Lire la suite →

Myth is a difficult subject to discuss without forcing our conclusions by the definitions we use. For me myth is a system of beliefs and practices that give meaning and value to our lives. It has two faces: 1) a … Lire la suite →

This is my summary in English of part 5 of a 5 part video interview of Gilbert Simondon by Jean Le Moyne. Q: Inspired by your ideas I tend to see the long obscurity and incomprehension of the steam engine … Lire la suite →

This is my summary in English of part 4 of a 5 part video interview of Gilbert Simondon by Jean Le Moyne.   Further, by diving back in time one can find the poetic power of that which was once … Lire la suite →

This is my summary in English of part 3 of a 5 part video interview of Gilbert Simondon by Jean Le Moyne. Q: This brings us back to your idea of the incomprehension of the machine, due to its being … Lire la suite →

This is my summary in English of part 2 of a 5 part video interview of Gilbert Simondon by Jean Le Moyne. Q: This establishes the relation between mechanology and your principles of individuation. S: Yes, in a simplified form. … Lire la suite →

Here is the first of a 5 part interview of Gilbert Simondon by Jean Le Moyne  in French, together with my summary in English: Q: How did you go from your concern with the problem of individuation to the study … Lire la suite →

In response to my last post, a hostile critic asks me if I have actually engaged in a schizo-analysis or am I just an armchair theorist. My biography has been expounded in several places on this blog, and I have … Lire la suite →

À travers le réel by Slavoj Zizek My rating: 3 of 5 stars ZIZEK, UNCONSCIOUS DISCIPLE OF ONFRAY « The beginning of any change, the first step, consists in putting an end to a false activity » (p11, my translation) This book … Lire la suite →