Che cosa è il sesso?

Νομίζω ένα πολύ κρίσιμο κείμενο που εξερευνά αρχικά μόνο τη σεξουαλικότητα και φτάνει μέχρι τα κρίσιμα οντολογικά ερωτήματα. Πρέπει να ξαναδιαβαστεί.

What? Sex IS! "Immortal germ plasm." -Freud "All the 'primitive mind' sociologists scurry about trying to fathom this profession of identity, which is no more surprising upon reflection than declaring, 'I'm a doctor' or 'I'm a citizen of the French Republic,' and certainly presents fewer logical diffic Leggi tutto

Onbeschrijfelijk goed boek, hoewel ik conceptueel woorden tekort kom om te zeggen waarom precies. Maar misschien is dat net Zupancic haar punt? Sex wordt gekenmerkt door negativiteit, eigen aan het onbewuste. Het is net die negativiteit die het onmogelijk maakt om sex te essentialiseren. Zupancic noe Leggi tutto

Amazingly compulsive reading. This has massively helped me situate Lacanian Psychoanalysis within/outside of philosophy, plus appreciate what have always been difficult terms for me, realism, correlationism, ontology, epistemology, materialism, dialectic. Thus, this is a five star read for me, a nov Leggi tutto

I don't write reviews and I'm super aware 'open letters' are cringe. And yet here I am contradicting myself, achieving the impossible. Sometimes you have to risk being cringe for a greater purpose. Or maybe you just need a little libidinal-R&R only the frantic typing out of obscurantist inflected la Leggi tutto

BRAIN BLAST. Love Alenka. Admittedly, this book was challenging (I haven’t read enough Lacan, Deleuze, or Badiou) but it was a delight to try to keep my head above the waters of desire, lack, enjoyment, being, etc. After reading Freud, it was helpful to hear Alenka talk about the interplay of repres Leggi tutto

Zizek'in Kendini Tutamayan Boşluk kitabı için okuduğum, normalde okumayacağım, ilgi duymayacağım bir kitap Zupancic'in eseri. İçeriği ve dili aşırı akademik, bu açıdan birçok okura okuma ritmi ve keyfi sunmayabilir. Bunun yanında ne yazık ki çevirisinin de çok iyi olduğunu söyleyemem. Bu tarz akadem Leggi tutto

Freud did something Lacan couldn’t forget! Lacan did something we couldn’t remember! Gender,sex and what not? What is there within us? Dot dot dot! Very simple to break.. Too nasty a crack Being is lack.. Or the lack of being?

Funny how Zupancic says "One of the conceptual deadlocks is simply emphasizing that gender is an entirely social, or cultural, construction is that it remains within the dichotomy nature/culture." on p. 40 (and I am elated) and right after that develops her interpretation of Butler's performativity