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Jacques-Alain Miller
A New Kind of Love
With Lacan, it has been argued time and again that psychoanalysis has not invented a new perversion. But it seems to me that the notion that psychoanalysis has not invented a new perversion takes on a different meaning, a somewhat displaced sense, if we recognize that psychoanalysis has in fact invented a new kind of love called “transference”. With analytical love, Freudian love, which really is a new type of love, we can easily introduce – through the “binary notation” – an opposition between love and perversion.
Josefina Ayerza
Rosemarie Trockel
The nature and dynamics of the operation are the domain of the character’s myth, which also tells you how Liberace, a maverick of cloning, used human beings to extract himself from others, to be in the Other flesh. Trockel’s drawing retains the label Untitled on behalf of profusive metonymy, or the many speculations… not so much from the One over to an Other, but from the Other over to the One.
Slavoj Zizek
The Future as Sci Fi: A New Cold War
The contours of a new Cold War are thus appearing on the horizon – and, this time, it will be literally a conflict fought in very cold conditions. On August 2 2007, a Russian team planted a titanium capsule with a Russian flag under the ice caps of the North Pole. This assertion of the Russian claim to the Arctic region was done neither for scientific reasons nor as a political-propagandistic bravado. Its true goal was to secure for Russia the vast energy riches of the Arctic: according to today’s estimates, up to one quarter of the world’s untapped oil and gas sources may lie under the Artic Ocean.
