Becoming Your Own Boss. On Nightcrawler
How do we situate the film Nightcrawler by Dan Gilroy both in terms of its social commentary and genre? At a certain level, it’s like American Psycho for the post 2008 economic […]
Excerpt: Thinking Islamic Governance with Continental Philosophy
I have a new essay on Wael Hallaq’s book, The Impossible State: Islam, Politics, and Modernity’s Moral Predicament at the very excellent publication Society for Contemporary Thought and the Islamicate World (http://sctiw.org/sctiw_review) coming […]
The Amputated Father: Kojève’s Theory of Revolution and Authority
With Agamben’s recent invoking of Kojève’s idea of the Latin empire against the German dominance in Europe, and with the recent translation of the short manifesto on authority Kojève wrote amidst […]
My Book Review of The Left Hemisphere: Mapping Critical Theory Today
My review of Remzig Keucheyan’s, The Left Hemisphere: Mapping Critical Theory Today is up at the Huffington Post. As you can see from my review, I found the book to be a […]
Public Series of Lectures on Resistance, Protest and Social Struggles
I’m hosting a public series for GCAS on the topic of Resistance, Protest and Social Struggles. This free and open to the public series will feature weekly lectures from philosophers, theorists and […]
An Interview with Dr. Daniel Tutt about his GCAS Series, “Badiou & Philosophy”
Originally posted on GCAS–The BLOG:
GCAS Interview with Daniel Tutt on Badiou and Philosophy–To register and study with Alain Badiou & Daniel Tutt please follow this link: https://globalcenterforadvancedstudies.org/gcas-badiou-and-philosophy-series/ Daniel Tutt,…
The Queen Mob’s Teahouse
My first post as a blogger for the new webzine Queen Mob’s Teahouse is here. I wrote about the affect of shame in Lacan. This is a fun and creative […]
Why Do the Masses Posses Reason?
The figure of the masses in protest takes on a near mystical and highly rational logic in post-Leninist thought during the twentieth century. For example, one of the things that Althusser […]
Announcing New Badiou and Philosophy Seminars
I’m teaching three seminars on the work of Alain Badiou and philosophy for the Global Center for Advanced Studies (GCAS). The seminars will open with a consideration of Badiou’s relation to […]
Mourning, Psychoanalysis, and the Death of Adulthood
The widely read essay by A.O. Scott, “The Death of Adulthood in American Culture” argues pretty convincingly that the changing heroes and anti-heroes of contemporary television provide a glimpse into a larger […]
The Imminent Revolution Will Favor What Capital Does Not: Interview with Frank Smecker
Interview with American philosopher and social theorist Frank Smecker on his new book, Night of the World: Traversing the Ideology of Objectivity published by Zero Books.
All in the Family: Community, Incommensurability and Dissensus
Kennan Ferguson’s All in the Family: On Community and Incommensurability puts forward a re-definition of the family as a metaphor for community. The main focus of the text is a re-interrogation of […]
Community and Subjectivity in Contemporary Theory: Dissertation Abstract
Since I have been away from writing essays and blogs for some time, it might be of interest to readers that I share the abstract of my dissertation that I […]
From Shame to Love: The Politics of Hamlet. Interview with Simon Critchley
I recently interviewed the philosopher Simon Critchely on his new book, (co-written with his wife and psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster) entitled, The Hamlet Doctrine: Knowing Too Much, Doing Nothing for the online […]
The Hysteric-Obsessional Dialectic in True Detective
“This world is a veil. And the face you wear is not your own.” Preacher Joe Theriot In one of the most telling lines in True Detective, Cohle says to […]
Subjectivation: Aufheben or Therapy?
I’ve just finished After the Future by Franco “Bifo” Berardi, a text that I loved for its effortless prose and ability to convey theoretical ideas with a refreshing sense of […]
The Evolution of Lacan’s the Name-of-the-Father
The Name of the Father is an incredibly vast and important concept in Lacan’s teaching. Due to the difficulty and the immensity of the concept, I have my work cut out for me, so I have decided to approach the concept from two angles: the way that the Name-of-the-Father intersects with the three-part Oedipal dialectic developed in Seminar V, and how the transition from the Name to the Names applies to clinical settings.
The Veil in Islam: A Psychoanalytic Perspective
The political philosopher Charles Taylor made an excellent observation recently when he pointed out that in those instances when multiculturalism fails to in its effort to promote a set of […]
Some Brief Reflections on Badiou and Emancipatory Politics
I recently wrote an essay that seeks to convey some of the key ideas of Badiou as it pertains to the recent insurrections across the world. You can read the […]
Enjoying What We Don’t Have: Interview with Philosopher Todd McGowan
Film theorist and philosopher Todd McGowan recently spoke with me about his new book, Enjoying What We Don’t Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis. For however much we throw the […]
