Category Archives: deconstruction

Thinking the uncommon (via Indecent Bazaar)

In one of the most interesting post I have encountered recently in the blogosphere–Object-Oriented Psychoanalysis and Derridean Deconstruction–Cengiz Erdem argues that the common things of everyday existence are produced out of the depressive position or abnormalities. As the author comments,

Thinking the uncommon (via Indecent Bazaar)

In one of the most interesting post I have encountered recently in the blogosphere–Object-Oriented Psychoanalysis and Derridean Deconstruction–Cengiz Erdem argues that the common things of everyday existence are produced out of the depressive position or abnormalities. As the author comments,

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Object-Oriented Psychoanalysis and Derridean Deconstruction (#Derridagate)

According to Melanie Klein we all oscillate between the paranoid-schizoid position and the depressive position throughout our lives. This means that none is normal since the world is a place in which all kinds of abnormalities take place all the

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Object-Oriented Psychoanalysis and Derridean Deconstruction (#Derridagate)

According to Melanie Klein we all oscillate between the paranoid-schizoid position and the depressive position throughout our lives. This means that none is normal since the world is a place in which all kinds of abnormalities take place all the

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Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, and the Critique of Contemporary Culture

Let us imagine a subject who finds himself in a certain situation which appears to have no escape route; a situation which nails him to a painful existence and brings him closer to extinction with every move he makes. What

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Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, and the Critique of Contemporary Culture

Let us imagine a subject who finds himself in a certain situation which appears to have no escape route; a situation which nails him to a painful existence and brings him closer to extinction with every move he makes. What

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Simon Critchley – To Philosophize Is to Learn How to Die (Video) + Creatureliness and Immortality + Method and Consequences of The Life Death Drives

Creatureliness and Immortality (via Speculative Humbug)  [I now think the opinions expressed here are massively too hasty - this issue of meaning and finitude requires a lot more thought - but I'll leave the original post up anyway.] I’ve just

Cronenberg, Burroughs, Deleuze (1) – Naked Lunch and The Body Without Organs

 organ without a body The Naked Lunch I am concerned with here is David Cronenberg’s film about William Burroughs’ writing process of Naked Lunch. The film, rather than being a direct adaptation of the novel, is a distillation of Burroughs’s

Cronenberg, Burroughs, Deleuze (1) – Naked Lunch and The Body Without Organs

 organ without a body The Naked Lunch I am concerned with here is David Cronenberg’s film about William Burroughs’ writing process of Naked Lunch. The film, rather than being a direct adaptation of the novel, is a distillation of Burroughs’s

Cronenberg, Burroughs, Deleuze (2) – The Evil Spirit and The Spiritual Automaton

The Evil Spirit and The Spiritual Automaton It is a recurrent theme in science-fiction-thriller movies that in time humanity turns into the slave of its own creation, namely of machines. It is precisely because of this fear of being replaced

Cronenberg, Burroughs, Deleuze (2) – The Evil Spirit and The Spiritual Automaton

The Evil Spirit and The Spiritual Automaton It is a recurrent theme in science-fiction-thriller movies that in time humanity turns into the slave of its own creation, namely of machines. It is precisely because of this fear of being replaced

“Derrida” The Movie

 “Derrida” The Movie différance “For Derrida, being is the oppositional conflict between binaries, but what is more real than even this duel of forces is the difference between them… But Derrida shows through his elaboration of différance that neither term

“Derrida” The Movie

 “Derrida” The Movie différance “For Derrida, being is the oppositional conflict between binaries, but what is more real than even this duel of forces is the difference between them… But Derrida shows through his elaboration of différance that neither term

Method and Consequences of The Life Death Drives

If one reads the writings on film and literature in this thesis with the conscious naivety of their plot based critique in mind, one can sense the underlying current of humour and the erratic undertone of irony, both of which knock down the serious tone of the critique based on a linear reproduction of a circular plot – as we see in the investigation of David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive for instance.

Method and Consequences of The Life Death Drives

If one reads the writings on film and literature in this thesis with the conscious naivety of their plot based critique in mind, one can sense the underlying current of humour and the erratic undertone of irony, both of which knock down the serious tone of the critique based on a linear reproduction of a circular plot – as we see in the investigation of David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive for instance.

Kudurmuş Yeni Dünyada Yaşam ve Ölüm

 1. Freud ve Einstein  1931 yılında Uluslararası Entelektüel İş Birliği Enstitüsü birtakım entelektüelleri dünyayı bekleyen sorunların çözümünü düşünmek ve tartışmak amacıyla bir araya gelmeye davet etti. Birinci Dünya Savaşı sonlanmış ama ikincisi kapıya dayanmak üzereydi. Orta Avrupa’daki gelişmeler yaklaşmakta olan

Kudurmuş Yeni Dünyada Yaşam ve Ölüm

 1. Freud ve Einstein  1931 yılında Uluslararası Entelektüel İş Birliği Enstitüsü birtakım entelektüelleri dünyayı bekleyen sorunların çözümünü düşünmek ve tartışmak amacıyla bir araya gelmeye davet etti. Birinci Dünya Savaşı sonlanmış ama ikincisi kapıya dayanmak üzereydi. Orta Avrupa’daki gelişmeler yaklaşmakta olan