January 2011
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CFP: Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving...
Dear Colleagues,     Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image is now accepting submissions for the 2nd issue. Editors welcome articles that fall under the broad rubric of the relations between cinema and philosophy.   Submission deadline: March 1, 2011 (abstracts) and June 1, 2011 (completed papers) Areas include, but are not limited to: *philosophy of cinema today *epistemology ...
Jan 26th
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Jan 24th
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CFP: Sociology - The Sociology of Human Rights...
Call for Papers: The Sociology of Human Rights, special issue of Sociology, journal of the British Sociological Association.    This special issue, to be published in October 2012, addresses human rights as a crucial theme for contemporary sociology globally. The concept of human rights has become pervasive. Whether endorsed or criticised, it poses a challenge to which sociology must...
Jan 21st
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“The New Zodiac ARIES = APRIL 19 - MAY 13 TAURUS = MAY 14 - JUNE 19 GEMINI =...”
– New Zodiac sign 2012 - rah’s posterous
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Soliloquy: FLOOD →
dorksandsporks: I hope everyone knows that these floods in Australia are just the effects of El Nina that have reached our country. It happens every 7 years here. I don’t know why people are making a big deal out of it. It’s not the end of the world. Although, my heart does go out to those… But it WAS the end of the world for those that were killed. And it IS a big deal for those whose...
Jan 13th
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I'm burning, I'm burning.: UGH. →
soliloquee: xmylasttango: People are submitting messages to fuckyeahilaughed saying that they live in America and could care less about the Australian floods. Someone said there are worse things that have happened than people dying in a flood. WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE?!?!?! I hate people that give Americans a… There is something clearly very wrong with those people. I would even...
Jan 12th
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75% of Queensland is now a national disaster area....
jumpinapuddle: Fuck this. 
Jan 11th
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Message from Jacques-Alain Miller
Jacques-Alain Miller  Letter to the Freudian Field Paris, 9 January 2011 Dear Colleagues and Friends, In this beginning of the year 2011, I anticipate the end of a work that has taken me a long time. Indeed, I finalised, what is strictly speaking called The Seminar of Jacques Lacan – which is the 25 Books that go from Freud’s Papers on Technique to Moment to Conclude. What still...
Jan 10th
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“What is transference? When the dynamic was first observed by Freud,...”
– Psychoanalysis FAQ
Jan 9th
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a wandering reflection on the ECC and abstraction
Thank you. The entry has now been added to the final manuscript. And so off goes the final of my three contributions to the Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture, forthcoming with CQPress/SAGE later this year. The project itself has Dale Southerton as its editor-in-chief and covers a wide array of material. I was really happy with the variety of contributions I got to make which included...
Jan 4th
Jan 4th
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Transference, Repetition and the Sexual Real
For whatever weird reason, I couldn’t get the footnote links to work and I’m feeling too lazy to go through and edit all of the anchors so you’ll just have to scroll to the bottom if you’re curious. TRANSFERENCE, REPETITION AND THE SEXUAL REAL Jacques-Alain Miller A reading of Seminar XI, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis1 Changing the Order of Freud’s...
Jan 4th
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Jan 3rd
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