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The biggest section in American bookstores is usually the self-help section. We’re addicted to our symptoms and we’re told by the industry of self-help techniques and motivational books that we can find self-betterment if we follow the latest best-seller that … Continue reading
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In 1932 Freud and Einstein corresponded in two letters back and forth on the topic of how to end war. The topic was prompted by Einstein and both men held high aspirations, we might even say a utopian dream for … Continue reading
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Right now in America, Islamophobia is worse than it was immediately following 9/11. Since the election of President Obama, hate groups have expanded, and American Muslims report higher levels of employment discrimination, hate crimes, and attitudes are generally unfavorable towards … Continue reading
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Did the revolutionaries in Egypt that toppled Mubarak perform an act in the purely Lacanian sense of the term? Although it is too early to tell if authentic fidelity can be maintained to the event of the Egyptian revolution, did … Continue reading
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The Kony 2012 viral video campaign, which in case you didn’t know is a thirty minute video on Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army, explaining the group’s motives, movement, and ability to carry out 25 years of atrocities in … Continue reading
“I’m mad as hell and I’m not gonna take it anymore!” is the rallying cry at the end of the classic late 1970′s film Network. It signifies the implosion of the media industry’s inability to effectively channel rage in contemporary … Continue reading
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I’m very happy to announce a panel I’m putting together at the 2012 Žižek Studies Conference, “Neo-liberal Perversions: Fantasy and Gaze in Contemporary Culture” at the College at Brockport (SUNY) April 28-29, 2012. At the recommendation of the conference director, … Continue reading
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Daniel Tutt
