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Recently I subscribed to Structure of Desire after reading The Body Keeps the Fascism: on Jung, White Innocence, and the War for the Unconscious. I enjoyed it even where I disagreed. On subscribing one usually gets a welcome email. It is an email subscription after all. It was a very good email. I’ll have to go and look at mine…

Displaced belief (exemplum) : “Do you believe in god?” “No, but I go to church to keep the children happy.” I think Slavoj Žižek describes it correctly, but is wrong about the dates. Displaced belief is the basic compromise of 'modernity' which goes back into the late paleolithic. Well before Žižek’s example of Luther, well before Bruno Snell’s Discovery of the Greek…

My main concern is not that a structure* is judged to be good/bad/X, or is good/bad/X because it is a structure, but that certain agents live and move through the world to suit themselves without negotiating their way, thus producing structures that suit the common moves narcissists make, even performing or doing 'structures' that can be in a confounded conflict…

The last book report on was some analytical philosophy, the book A Moral Theory of Liveliness: A Secular Interpretation of African Life Force by Kirk Lougheed. So time to try to read some more continental philosophy, what better than Slavoj Zižek and his 2022 work on our topsy-turvy world Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide for the Non-Perplexed. This one I found in…

Input In recent years I have acknowledged my discomfort attending performances is mostly due to my inability to be at all comfortable in an audience. I am audience-phobic. It would be much easier to be on the stage. Note this is not a preference to be on stage, I have little desire to be on stage. Or perform for others. I would…

pre-put Back in September (2025) I read the following piece on the new work in philosophy channel. "A Moral Theory of Liveliness: A Secular Interpretation of African Life Force" by Kirk Lougheed. Fellow in Clinical, Organizational, and Research Ethics at the Center for Clinical Ethics which is housed at Unity Health Toronto, Academic Fellow in the the Department of Family…