One does not wait for the ripe objective circumstances to make a revolution, circumstances become ripe through the political struggle itself.
Numa entrevista, afirmou o seguinte, a propósito de Solaris: «A missão de Kelvin em Solaris tem talvez um único objectivo: mostrar que o amor do outro é indispensável à vida. Um homem sem amor deixa d...
No wonder that tantra is so popular today in the West: it offers the ultimate spiritual logic of late capitalism uniting spirituality and earthly pleasures, transcendence and material benefits, divine...
No hay ninguna razón para despreciar las elecciones democráticas; la cuestión es solamente insistir en que no son per se una indicación de la Verdad; por el contrario, como norma, tienden a reflejar l...
La carta llega a su destino cuando ya no somos los ‘ocupantes’ de los lugares vacíos de la estructura fantasmática de otro, esto es, cuando el otro finalmente ‘abre sus ojos’ y compren- de que la cart...
It is the ultimate irony of history that radical individualism serves as the ideological justification of the unconstrained power of what the large majority of individuals experience as a vast anonymo...
It is as if, in today's permissive society, transgressive violations are allowed only in a privatized form, as a personal idiosyncrasy deprived of any public, spectacular, or ritualistic dimension. We...
In short, one who loves the illusion of the good is eventually won over to actually loving the good. But how can love of the illusion of the good lead to love of the good itself? If one loves the illu...
For Lacan, language is a gift as dangerous to humanity as the horse was to the Trojans: it offers itself to our use free of charge, but once we accept it, it colonizes us.
Every civilisation that disavows its barbarian potential has already capitulated to barbarism.
En resumen, Las edades del mundo, de Schelling, debe leerse como una obra metapsicológica en el sentido estrictamente freudiano de la palabra.
By what right can we call this a system of corrections? Is it not, rather, the rubric for a slavishly obedient, oppressed, and humiliated existence?
A dispassionate conceptual development of the typology of violence must by definition ignore its traumatic impact. Yet there is a sense in which a cold analysis of violence somehow reproduces and part...
لقد خلق المتظاهرون فراغا – فراغا في حق الأيدولوجيا المهيمنة، وهناك حاجة إلى الوقت لملء مساحة هذه الموضة الإيجابية. هذا هو سبب أننا لسنا بحاجة لأن نقلق كثيرا من الهجمات الموجهة لـ احتلوا وول ستريت، فان...
[L]iberals insist that children should be given the right to remain part of their particular community, but on condition that they are given a choice. But for, say, Amish children to really have a fre...
The proper way for the woman to test the man’s love is thus to betray him at a crucial moment in his career
The limitation of the standard liberal attitude towards Muslim women wearing a veil is visible here, too. Women are permitted to wear the veil if this is their free choice and not an option imposed on...
Let’s think about the fake sense of urgency that pervades the left-liberal humanitarian discourse on violence: in it, abstraction and graphic (pseudo)concreteness coexist in the staging of the scene o...
Lacan define como ‘héroe’ al sujeto que (a diferencia de Caddell pero como Edipo, por ejemplo) asume plenamente las consecuencias de su acto, es decir, que no da un paso al costado cuando la flecha qu...
I just stood for justice, whatever the costs. How can this be wrong?