Populism is ultimately always sustained by the frustrated exasperation of ordinary people, by the cry I don’t know what is going on, but I’ve just had enough of it! It cannot go on! It must stop! Such...
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!
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...
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...
If, in other religions, we pray to God, only in Christianity does God himself pray, that is to say, address an external unfathomable authority.
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 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
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...
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...
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...
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...
In other words, who dares to strike today,when having the security of a permanent job is itself becoming a privilege?