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How would I describe this podcast?
I start to explore what this podcast is...
Neil Gorman
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We know that time is limited...
In this episode, I talk about what it feels like to know that time is finite.
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Season 2
I made the last episode of the first season of this podcast four years back...Â
But I've been thinking about it a lot lately, so I made a new episode. Let's see where things go from here.
Beshear’s words
Andy Beshear, the governor of Kentucky, wrote the following in an op-ed published by the New York Times (the article is paywalled)
When most Americans wake up in the morning, they are not thinking about politics. Americans wake up thinking about their jobs and whether they make enough money to
The Dems as HR department
I've been reading a lot about the election and why the results were what they were. Many of the articles say the same thing.
Today, I read this article by Mike Pesca in The Atlantic, and I think it had a very well-put observation.
I’ve been thinking
Repetition & Isolation of a Symptomatic Element.
From Analysis Laid Bare, By Jacques-Alain Miller.
Let us introduce her a little dialectic [...] It is because there is the obstacle that there is repetition, but it is because there is repetition the obstacle is perceived and isolated. (p. 14)
What I think Miller is getting at is that when
An interesting though on method
From A few remarks on the method of Jacques Rancière by Jacques Rancière.
A method means a path: not the path that a thinker follows but the path that he/she constructs, that you have to construct to know where you are, to figure out the characteristics of the territory
Time & Wounds
From this review of the film Eden, written and directed by Mia Hansen-Love.
Time does not heal all wounds, but it does change our relationship to painful events.
Ture.
Lacan as rhetorician
From The Lives and Legends of Jacques Lacan by Catherine Clément:
Lacan was […] a skillful rhetorician capable of translating the terminology of psychoanalysis into a language, other than “Freud.” (p. 44)
This statement is a good description of what Lacan was doing in Seminars I-VI. It seems to me that
Interpretation v. Construction in Lacanian Psychoanalysis
Again, from The Madness of Each One by Jorge Assef:
rom a psychoanalytic standpoint—, construction and interpretation are different. Interpretation aims at a definite point, breaks the S1-S2 relationship, opens a door to meaninglessness, etc., while construction brings together, articulates S1-S2, producing a simulation of meaning just where we need