In Zizek's Tarrying with the Negative, he compares how the American protestant "if it suffers it must be good" attitude to how popular culture has made Mohamed Ali into the "Greatest." Zizek points out that this designation did not come from Ali's toiling in the ring for 25 years, in fact Ali was only the... Continue Reading →
The fundamentalist holds his “belief” as closest to science, which is why the Fundamentalist's real difficulty is actually faith as a matter of having to believe - the Fundamentalist hates to believe, because they know. In all belief-systems the other is always complicit in the belief, which is the very definition of a shared ritual,... Continue Reading →
Because I wish to outline the basis of a society formed around desire I depend on your complicity of my desire to keep the fantasy of this exercise real to you. if we start by charting typical injunctions we can locate our reliance on our own subjecthood. After all the psychoanalytic symbol system is our... Continue Reading →
