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- “The International”: Debriefing the Movies
A movie review: sometimes, the irreality of the movie is enough to provide a moment’s respite from the irrealities of daily life. The International is like that. Its about the unwinding of a super-intelligent plot by fiendish banks to dictate international politics.
Ok, that’s banal enough: especially when Goldman Sachs says it’ll repay TARP loans with [...]
- On Zizek’s Melville, Freud, and Meaning in the Downturn
I’m not sure if I understand correctly, but a recent article on Zizek’s “Bartelby” politics, named after Melville’s scribe whose preference is “not to”, aims at turning from the meaninglessness of societies predicated upon the empty non-deliverables of enjoyment or pleasure, and opening up a “space” from which we might critique the aimlessness of social [...]
- The Present Necessity for Kindness
When despair, fear, exhaustion and external answers beyond the encouragement to “keep on keeping on” are all: when the terror of occupational “redundancy” strips one’s sense of personal contribution, of meaning to others- what is left?
The harsh formula of winner-loser is clear: this is no tv game show proclaiming, you are the weakest link: [...]
