Мама
Каждое утро, в течение первых двух-трех дней после маминой смерти, просыпаясь утром, и, несколько раз среди дня, я отчетливо, как высеченную в собственном мозгу, видел такую сцену. В парке, среди...
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There is a wonderful word in the Russian language that describes an especially outrageous sort of religious practices, targeted specifically at anything secular, usually in a violent manner:...
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Андрей Кураев в интревью Дождю: “Территория Православной церкови – это терриотрия антропологической катастрофы”. Просто красиво сказал.
View ArticleПодсознание, язык…
Когда заходит речь о языковых обобщениях и выведениях языка на более высокую ступень, типа быковского: для того чтобы изменить человека надо изменить его лексику, или в этой передаче: человек, лучше...
View ArticleHistory Lesson?
Heidegger said in his Nietzsche lectures (1936-1940) Hölderlin und Nietzsche haben... ein Frageziechen vor der Aufgabe der Deutschen aufgerichtet, geschichtlich ihr Wesen zu finden. Werden wir dieses...
View ArticleCoolest Visualization Ever
Coolest Visualization Ever John Snow’s investigation of Broad Street cholera outbreak was a stroke of genius. He used this map to clearly show that cholera is spread through contaminated drinking water.
View ArticleGoal of Psychoanalysis
Freud often insists that we should not mistake the latent thoughts that the analysis unearths under the manifest content for the unconscious desire itself, in persona-those latent thoughts pertain to...
View ArticleA la guerre….
A brilliant end of the chapter L’infini in Le siècle of Alain Badiou! Speaking about the war of the century, a war for “the univocation of the Real, against the equivocations of the imaginary”. An idea...
View ArticleGays, Zionism, Liberals
A reader’s review of Precarious Life by Judith Butler’s on Amazon: I have admired and enjoyed earlier works by Judith Butler, but this one came at, for her and this book, a most unpropitious moment in...
View ArticleWay to make the English language really hop.
Throughout their life, so calm, so peaceful, Sweet old tradition was preserved: For them, in Butterweek the greaseful, Russian pancakes were always served; Two times a year they’d make their fast,...
View ArticleEthics, Life, Kant, Sade
Stumbled across this Juvenal quote in the introduction to Zupančič’s Ethics of the Real: Summum crede nefas animam praeferre pudori et propter vitam vivendi perdere causas. [(you should) Hold it top...
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” Žižek proceeds to connect this to a certain Lacanian version of the death drive…: insofar as the denaturalization of nature brought about by the sociocultural overwriting of vital being involves the...
View ArticleLa marque du sacré
J’ai l’intime conviction que notre monde va droit à la catastrophe. Le chemin sur lequel s’avance l’humanité est suicidaire Je parle de la catastrophe au singulier, non pour désigner un événement...
View ArticleEmotional Life in a Neurobiological Age: On Wonder
http://www.cornell.edu/video/emotional-life-in-a-neurobiological-age-on-wonder Catherine Malabou discusses the connection between the biological and the symbolic: the brain and the mind.
View ArticleГениально
Время наше будет знаменито, Тем что сотворило пользы ради, Новый вариант гермафродита: Плотью мужики, а духом – бляди! (Губерман)
View ArticleCoolest Visualization Ever
Coolest Visualization Ever John Snow’s investigation of Broad Street cholera outbreak was a stroke of genius. He used this map to clearly show that cholera is spread through contaminated drinking water.
View ArticleBulbul
This is pronounced “boolbool” according to Webster http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bulbul. A lookup of the word соловей (nightingale) in the dictionary by a linguist acquaintance yielded this...
View ArticleГлупость, Аристотель…
Даже самые светлые в мире умы Не смогли разогнать окружающей тьмы, Рассказали нам несколько сказочек на ночь, И отправились мудрые спать, как и мы. Прислали мне ссылку , и я там увидел первый же...
View ArticlePrinted Guns and Hegel
Looking at some reactions to printed guns – they are all of knee-jerk type at this point. Some people are scared, some are not. Those who are not bring up many reasons: the technology is woefully...
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