First —we should restrain our anti-colonialist joy here— the question to be raised is: if Europe is in gradual decay, what is replacing its hegemony? The answer is: 'capitalism with Asian values' (whi...
An enemy is someone whose story you have not heard.
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...
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 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...
If, in other religions, we pray to God, only in Christianity does God himself pray, that is to say, address an external unfathomable authority.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Does everything that exists have to be grounded in sufficient reasons? Or are there things that somehow happen out of nowhere?
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...
AntigoneDon't you realise that you're talking to a dead woman alive?ChorusIt's because you run yourself out in a grief with no cure , no time limit, no measure. It is a knot no one can untie. Why are...
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...
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...
In other words, who dares to strike today,when having the security of a permanent job is itself becoming a privilege?