By Jack Black Such a subjective destitution entails the possibility for a radical form of separation, paving the way to the real being of the subject, son ‘être du sujet’. (Verhaeghe 2019, 378). … the remainder that as determining his division brings about his fall from his fantasy and makes him destitute as subject. (Lacan,Continue reading “‘Peace at Last’: Subjective Destitution and the End of Analysis in Peaky Blinders”
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Nature’s Conspiracy: Picnic at Hanging Rock
By Cindy Zeiher A surprising number of human beings are without purpose, though it is possible that they are performing some function unknown to themselves. — Marion (Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock). What is the desire of my hysteric? It is what opens what I would not say is the universe, but a whole wideContinue reading “Nature’s Conspiracy: Picnic at Hanging Rock”
Trapped by the Bad Infinite: Film Noir Against Contemporary Capitalism
By Ryan Engley Perhaps it is not surprising that an Orson Welles film provides Classic Hollywood’s most enduring visual metaphor for life under contemporary capitalism. The surprising thing is that this metaphor comes not from Citizen Kane but the comparatively less heralded Lady from Shanghai. In it, Michael O’Hara (Welles) becomes infatuated with Elsa BannisterContinue reading “Trapped by the Bad Infinite: Film Noir Against Contemporary Capitalism”
