Vantino. ArchivedSlavoj Zizek Quotes“psychoanalysis does not aim at replacing the false or cyphered self-knowledge with the real one, but at getting rid of the need for…Jun 8, 2020Jun 8, 2020
Vantino. ArchivedExcerpts from The Apocalypse is Still Disappointing, by Alenka Zupancic.“we have lost the great outdoors, the absolute outside, the Real, and have become prisoners of our own subjective or discursive cage. The…Jun 8, 2020Jun 8, 2020
Vantino. ArchivedSlavoj Žižek: Although there are a couple of candidates to understand the philosophical background…But it depends which type of writing you mean because obviously in the last decade or so I’ve written two types of things: on the one hand…May 15, 2020May 15, 2020
Vantino. ArchivedReview of Von Ripper’s OdysseyAustrian aristocrat and artist Rip flees Nazi Germany & joins the US Army to stalk nightly over frontlines, ripping Nazis in their sleep.Feb 18, 2020Feb 18, 2020
Vantino. ArchivedJudith Butler in today’s LRB:“Trump owns the things he does, not by demonstrating repentance but through a flamboyant display of shamelessness. … It’s that he seems to…Oct 28, 2019Oct 28, 2019
Vantino. ArchivedTodd McGowan Quotes our need for recognitionThe encounter with the real other is the key to the subject’s ethical being and to the subject’s enjoyment.Jul 3, 2019Jul 3, 2019
Vantino. ArchivedToday’s society of enjoyment is breaking apart bringing back authoritarian calls for authorityToday’s society of chasing private enjoyments transformed social life “into a proving ground where one attempts to establish oneself as an…May 14, 2019May 14, 2019
Vantino. Archived“As the public world disappears, we lose the distance between public and private that allowed the…“Though the public world bars us from our enjoyment, at the same time it protects us from it as well, offers us relief from its pressure,”…May 12, 2019May 12, 2019
