Monday, July 2, 2018
Californian Dem Who KiIIed Net Neutrality Plays Victim Amid Backlash
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNOf2GoBK7U
Sunday, July 1, 2018
Politics consistent with modern science
http://problemi.si/issues/p2017-1/problemi_international_2017_01.pdf#page=7
It’s not that the universe of modern science should directly impose itself onto the sphere of politics, so that social life will be regulated by the insights based on the cognitivist/biogenetic naturalization of human life (the tech-gnostic vision of society regulated by the digital big Other).
It’s simply that the subject engaged in politics should no longer be conceived as the liberal free agent pursuing its interests but as the subject of modern science, the Cartesian cogito, which, Lacan dixit, is the subject of psychoanalysis.
Therein resides the problem: can we imagine an emancipatory politics whose agent is the empty Cartesian subject?
Jacques-Alain Miller’s answer is that the domain of politics is by definition the domain of imaginary and symbolic collective identifications, so that all psychoanalysis can do is to retain a healthy cynical distance towards the sphere of politics—psychoanalysis cannot ground a specific form of political engagement.
The wager of the Communist hypothesis is, on the contrary, that there is a politics based on the empty Cartesian subject: the political name of the empty Cartesian subject is a proletarian, an agent reduced to the empty point of substanceless subjectivity.
A politics of radical universal emancipation can only be grounded on the proletarian experience.
Freud’s achievement
http://problemi.si/issues/p2017-1/problemi_international_2017_01.pdf#page=7
Psychoanalysis is NOT a return to a new kind of premodern hermeneutics in search of the unknown deep layers of meaning which regulate the apparently meaningless flow of our lives.
Psychoanalysis is not a new version of the ancient interpretation of dreams searching for deeper messages hidden in them.
Our psychic life is thoroughly open to unexpected traumatic encounters.
Its unconscious processes are a domain of contingent signifying displacements.
There is no inner truth in the core of our being, only a cobweb of proton pseudos, primordial lies called “fundamental fantasies.”
The task of the psychoanalytic process is not to reconcile ourselves with the phantasmatic core of our being but to “traverse” it, to acquire a distance towards it…
This brief description makes it clear how psychoanalysis relates to modern science.
Psychoanalysis tries to re-subjectivize the universe of science, to discern the contours of a subject that fits modern science, a subject that fully participates in the contingent and meaningless “grey world” of the sciences.
Saturday, June 30, 2018
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