Kristeva (Julia) Archives - Public Seminar

Education

Does Nicki Minaj Portray the Image of a Phallic Mother?

June 7, 2016 • by Elena Petrovska

This post is part of the Gender and Domination Course in OOPS. While getting ready for classes one morning, I caught myself singing along to a Nicki Minaj song and nailing the rap part quite well. What caught my attention even more was that memorizing these lyrics gave me a boost ...

Does Nicki Minaj Portray the Image of a Phallic Mother?

Education

Judith Butler and The Many Subjects of Feminist Theory

June 6, 2016 • by Tiago Lima

This post is part of the Gender and Domination Course in OOPS. Despite their differences, various authors of feminist theory have been mobilized by a similar question regarding the subject of feminism -- more precisely, what kind of theory of the subject is most productive for the feminist debate? Ever since ...

Judith Butler and The Many Subjects of Feminist Theory

Education

Toward A Feminism Beyond The Additive Model

June 3, 2016 • by Amir Sadeghi

This post is part of the Gender and Domination Course in OOPS. It’s no secret that feminism has undergone paradigmatic and (sometimes) unfortunate changes attributed to the gestures of the neoliberal turn. Nancy Fraser critiques the desaturated concern for social and gender justice that characterizes a new neoliberal feminism -- one ...

Toward A Feminism Beyond The Additive Model

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Kristeva on Maternal Self-Mourning

May 10, 2016 • by Moises Ramirez

This post is part of the Gender and Domination Course in OOPS. In her 1977 essay “Stabat Mater,” Julia Kristeva prominently states, “A mother is a continuous separation, a division of the very flesh. And consequently a division of language -- and it has always been so” (all quotations from essay ...

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The Mastery of Non-Mastery

A report and reflections from Kobane

August 7, 2015 • by Michael Taussig

As I write, the plug is being pulled on the steady-state.

Violence and tragedy take revenge on humanity through routinization. Sooner or later we become immune.

But is there a reverse process, such as Freud writes about in Beyond the Pleasure Principle, where the ...

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The Discarded and the Dignified – Part 6

From the Failed Witness to “You are the Eyes of the World”

December 24, 2014 • by Jessica R. Benjamin

Embodying the third

Returning to the beginning of this essay, I have tried to suggest how we might view the embodied rather than dissociated self state as part of the reconstruction of the third in the wake of trauma. In her discussion of the Gugaleto Seven case Gobodo-Madikizela (2013) described the ...

The Discarded and the Dignified – Part 6

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The Nothingness That Speaks French

November 13, 2014 • by McKenzie Wark

Quentin Meillassoux's The Number and the Siren (published by Urbanomic and Sequence Press, and elegantly translated by Robin Mackay) is quite simply the most beautiful book by a philosopher that I have read for many years. It is a highly original reading of Stéphane Mallarmé's Coup De Dés. If the objective of Meillassoux’s ...

Theory & Practice

Four Cheers for Vulgar Marxism!!!!

April 25, 2014 • by McKenzie Wark

If you want to show that your version of Marxism is better than somebody else’s, the quickest way to do so is to call the other version vulgar. One’s own version is nuanced, sophisticated, subtle, erudite, philosophically rich – all the things the vulgar is not. Or so it has ...

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How to Beat Writer’s Block

Try these games to unblock the flow, or direct it somewhere new.

November 8, 2013 • by McKenzie Wark

These games are offered as solutions for two kinds of problems. One is writer’s block. Let’s be done with the waiting for ‘inspiration’. Let’s just get to work. All one has to overcome is one’s resistance to labor. The other problem is the opposite: our facility with writing, but always ...