After putting together my extended notes on Zizek’s tome, The Parallax View, and realizing they belong on this semirandom site, I ran across this article about the 2009…
Introduction: Dialectical Materialism at the Gates
“In short, what these anecdotes share is the occurrence of an insurmountable parallax gap, the confirmation of two closely linked…
Colorful Happy People in Colorful Place, by Howard Goldberg
1.) The Subject, This “Inwardly Circumcised Jew”
• The Tickling Object
Reality is not me, in objective reality….
Interlude 1: Kate’s Choice, or, the Materialism of Henry James
henry james- “John observed X” becomes “Johns observation of X” or, “you are not proud enough” becomes…
Lamplighters, by Waldemar Horwat 2008
3.) The Unbearable Heaviness of Being Divine Shit
At the top of Gellert Hill in the Buda part of Budapest, there is…
Interlude 2: Objet Petit A in Social Links, or, The Impasses of Anti-Anti-Semitism
“with a large majority, the delegates unanimously approved the resolution proposed by…
John Fullbright in Front of the Temple, by John Fullbright 2008
5.) From Surplus-Value to Surplus-Power
a human being is always on the way toward itself, in…
Dialectical Materialism:
characterized by the belief that history is the product of class struggle and, that is the development of the thesis into its antithesis which is…