Another blatant case of regress as part of the capitalist progress is the enormous rise of precarious work. Precarious work deprives workers of a whole series of rights that, till recently, were taken...
An enemy is someone whose story you have not heard.
Witness the surprise of the average American: 'How is it possible that these people display and practise such a disregard for their own lives?' Is not the obverse of this surprise the rather sad fact...
What if eternity is a sterile, impotent, lifeless domain of pure potentialities, which, in order fully to actualize itself, has to pass through temporal existence?
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 performative dimension at work here consists of the symbolic efficiency of the mask: wearing a mask actually makes us what we feign to be. In other words, the conclusion to be drawn from this dial...
Populism is ultimately sustained by the frustrated exasperation of ordinary people, by the cry I don't know what's going on, but I've just had enough of it! It cannot go on! It must stop!
Our biological body itself is a form of hardware that needs re-programming through tantra like a new spiritual software which can release or unblock its potential.
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...
If, in other religions, we pray to God, only in Christianity does God himself pray, that is to say, address an external unfathomable authority.
I just stood for justice, whatever the costs. How can this be wrong?
For Lacan, psychoanalysis at its most fundamental is not a theory and technique of treating psychic disturbances, but a theory and practice that confronts individuals with the most radical dimension o...
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...