Attributing credulity to sloppy thinking or ignorance is tempting, but doesn't advance our understanding of post-truths and conspiracy theories
'The pain of those who have lost or will lose access to their land and roots... is very difficult to picture. Near impossible'
'This dream occupies the whole second chapter of Freud's 1899 seminal, Interpretation of Dreams. He uses it as a clinical example to illustrate his method and theory of dream analysis.'
'Identity is what we’ve got, and at the same time it is what we haven’t got.'
‘ "What you aspire to as revolutionaries”, continues Lacan barely audible now, “is a master. You will get one.” '
This year marks the 405th anniversary of Cervantes’ death. The Instituto Cervantes in Shanghai has decided to honour the originality of Lin Shu’s translation
'Should we conceive the timeline of all events as already laid out on some film that starts from a past and reaches the future?'
"We are always a part of the reflection, a part of the picture we try to capture."
'Reject all subjective particulars in the name of the objective universal, or else!' The ultimatum of modernity.
Something other than rationality is at play, but what?
"In his Weather Project installation at the Tate Modern in 2003, Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson decided to make his own sunset...".
“It is often said that I learned my ability to reason through cognition. But I can assure you that this is not true."
