[Nuclear Family by Dag Weiser] Sigmund Freud describes the beginnings of the mechanism he calls the Oedipus complex in The Interpretation of Dreams, although I am at a loss at the moment as to where he describes its resolution (If anyone can point me to the right direction, that would be much appreciated). In what…
Monthly Archives: August 2007
[Rembrandt's Lucretia] [Follows "Dasein, Not (T)Ego"] [Based on Martin Heidegger’s “On the Essence of Grounds,” “On the Essence of Truth,” and, most importantly, Being and Time, as interpreted by Greg Schufreider] What you’re like, in so far as your being is disclosed/dis-covered/unconcealed, which consists in you being-in-the-world, insisting in the midst of beings, yet with…
[The Prison-Industrial Complex, a work of "revolutionary art" from the Maoist International Movement] Under capitalism, the laborer, because s/he does not own any means of production other than him/herself, sells his/her labor to the capitalist, for which s/he is paid a certain wage. This is the economic production (of the goods we use everyday) that…
[Image from Cartoonstock] There is a certain way of life that makes the house a private fortress. I don’t mean medieval fortresses defended by soldiers to prevent the entrance of others. Then again, maybe it is that. Only our fortresses are not only safe havens or a simple mark of territory. They contain not only…
