So this holiday season I lost all my jobs (well, to be precise, “contract postponed indefinitely”) and broke the hard drive of my computer. I’m using my last paycheck to get my lifeline going again. Which sadly means I could no longer afford an Internet connection.
So I guess it’s goodbye to the online life for me. Have fun without me. I don’t know when I’ll be back — a month? A year? The recession, being unconnected, and being still in college makes it incredibly hard to find new jobs.
So yes, my blog is out for the time being as well.
You wanna help me? @-reply or DM me on Twitter. I’ll appreciate it. Really.
Oh, and FYI I’m sitting in a net cafe right now, with an 800x600 monitor and an Internet Explorer, complete with its excruciatingly slow connection. How cool is that? I might just return here once or twice a week to check up on you guys.
It’s been amazing. Until then, goodbye.
I thought OpenID was created so that we can move seamlessly from one website to the next. Then a whole lot of services jumped in on the bandwagon, and suddenly, boom! I now have over half a dozen of OpenID accounts!
So now whenever I log on to a website that asks for my OpenID account, the first thought that comes up on my mind is, “OK, which OpenID should I use now?” And then after I decide, there’s this whole verification things that really take some time.
Really, guys up there on OpenID, there should be a way to claim and integrate all the accounts into one simple and short ID that can be used to log in everything else without having to re-verify everything.
Or did I miss something?
is how people view neuroscience as the more representative science of their psyche, not psychoanalysis. Of course, a large part has to deal with the affinity of psychoanalytic thinking with both the sad pseudo-masochistic state of cultural studies today and also the injunctions to use psychoanalysis for personal use only.
One of the intellectual tasks I wish to undertake is to invigorate the beauty of Lacanian theory with cutting-edge futurism, and to bring the discourse of desire back into critical analysis of the mind.
Lacanian mathemes, I think, have so much more potential than hitherto recognized, especially when we deal with novel technologies and computer language. The beauty of Jacques Lacan resides in his succint mathematical formulations, in his graphs and topologies.
The best thing to conduct a psychological research of society is not a neuroscientific one, however exact it may be. What we should do first and foremost is to be brave and take a radical challenge to question the field itself: What is it in our society that makes it have such an affinity with neuroscience? And for this, you need psychoanalysis.
And it is because we know better than those who went before how to recognize the nature of desire, which is at the heart of this experience, that a reconsideration of ethics is possible, that a form of ethical judgment is possible, of a kind that gives this question the force of a Last Judgment: Have you acted in conformity with the desire that is in you?
— Jacques Lacan, Seminar VII
the proper response to the standard capitalist injunction to “dream big and achieve” is the standard postmodern-Marxist way of deconstructing of how all of that are structures of power and ideology, and we should opt for a nihilistic paradigm, giving up desire for drive.
I’ve been reading Kant and (Lacan’s reading of) Antigone, and, as always, the manga One Piece. Now I know that the proper response is rather, “Who are you to say things about dreams, when all your motives are pathological, in denial of the barred Other, when the other side of your coin is nihilistic skepticism itself?”
I am going for a purely ethical act of passionate pursuit, of romantic adventures, a pure ethics of desire. I’m starting to be my ambitious self once again. “I can, because I must!” And I am not afraid.
Violent? Yes. Kantian illogical demand? Definitely. Alienating? For sure.
But it feels good to have that feeling once again.
