MDA RI Rishab The Aura Effect Nobody will ever have an aura like him.” “An unmistakable aura surrounded her.” These sentences provide an entry point into a word that has…
MDA SOC PS Psychotic's guide to memes Notes (13) on seminar 15: from cobblestone to drones Cobblestones, Tear Gas, and Drones: Objet a and the Circulation of Political Desire in Lacan’s Reading of May ’68
LIF PS Psychotic's guide to memes Cordelia Cupp’s sublime object Lacan is often accused of focusing too much on the subject and the object, as though he remains stuck in the epistemological model of…
SCI ECO ART PS Psychotic's guide to memes The voice as object a— Calvin as a dinosaur in the supermarket How can we read this short comic strip, Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson, with Lacanian psychoanalysis? The strip almost gives us the…
MDA ART SCI PS Psychotic's guide to memes The mirror-image of Calvin and Hobbes’ “Stupendous man”, excursus for reading Seminar 13, 5.1. In Bill Watterson’s comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, a common subgenre, is when the boy Calvin turns into “Stupendous man”, a superhero who…
