Yesterday I had the chance to meet and enjoy a delicious dinner with Joel Braslow, a historian and psychiatrist who has done some great work on the history of 20th century psychiatric practices in the United States. His first book, Mental Ills and Bodily Cures, is a fascinating look at California state hospitals in the […]
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Exergue
The future can only be anticipated in the form of an absolute danger. It is that which breaks absolutely with constituted normality and can only be proclaimed, presented, as a sort of monstrosity. For that future world and that within it which will have put into question the values of sign, word, and writing, for […]
Whatever being: love
Love is never directed toward this or that property of the loved one (being blond, being small, being tender, being lame), but neither does it neglect the properties in favor of an insipid generality (universal love): The lover wants the loved one with all of its predicates, its being such as it is. The lover […]
