[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...
When the subject goes behind the curtain of appearance to search for the hidden essence, he thinks he will discover something that was always there; he does not realize that in passing behind the curt...
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...
La misma dinámica del capitalismo nubla la frontera entre inversión 'legítima' y especulación 'salvaje' porque la inversión capitalista es, en su misma esencia, una apuesta de riesgo(...), un acto con...
En el mercado actual, encontramos toda una serie de productos libres de sus propiedades perjudiciales: café sin cafeína, nata sin grasa, cerveza sin alcohol... Y la lista es larga: ¿no podríamos consi...
As every close observer of the deadlocks arising from the political correctness knows, the separation of legal justice from moral Goodness –which should be relativized and historicized- ends up in an...
A critical analysis of the present global constellation-one which offers no clear solution, no practical advice on what to do, and provides no light at the end of the tunnel, since one is well aware t...
A German officer visited Picasso in his Paris studio during the Second World War. There he saw Guernica and, shocked at the modernist «chaos» of the painting, asked Picasso: «Did you do this?» Picasso...
There is a wonderful expression in Persian, war nam nihadan, which means to murder somebody, bury his body, then grow flowers over the body to conceal it
La ilusión es provocada por una especie de ‘cortocircuito’ entre un lugar en la red simbólica y el elemento simbólico que lo ocupa: quienquiera se encuentre en ese lugar es el destinatario, dado que é...
But the excluded don't need sympathy and compassion from the privileged,they don't want others to speak for them,they themselves should speak and articulate their plight.So in speaking for them, you b...
Alain Badiou was once seated amongst the public in a room where I was delivering a talk, when his cellphone (which, to add insult to injury, was mine -- I had lent it to him) all of a sudden started t...
Word is murder of a thing, not only in the elementary sense of implying its absence - by naming a thing, we treat it as absent, as dead, although it is still present - but above all in the sense of it...
The space of difference became now something exclusively cultural. In order for us to perceive political differences and divisions and to recognize them as such, they should first be translated into t...
It would be interesting to compare Tarkovsky’s work with the Hollywood commercial rewritings of novels which have served as bases for movies: Tarkovsky does exactly the same as the lowest Hollywood pr...
Here is an old phrase I like: The only way to the universal good is that we all become strangers to ourselves. You imagine looking at yourself with a foreign gaze, through foreign eyes. I think this i...
Does everything that exists have to be grounded in sufficient reasons? Or are there things that somehow happen out of nowhere?
Because just as in more confused times, like today, we don’t just need experts. We also need people who will think more radically to arrive at the real root of problems. So the first thing to fight fo...