The volunteers on the Greek islands who welcome refugees, who save them - when they actually manage to save them - are mostly everyday civilians of these islands. All of them find themselves in the dreadful position of experiencing a situation which becomes even more tragic, non-manageable, intolerable, bordering on the impossible, with every passing [...]
This is simple and useful advice from one of the most famous political advertisers in Latin America. The whole video can be watched here. In September 2015, the 7th American Meeting of Psychoanalysis of the Lacanian Orientation was held in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The theme of this meeting was precisely “The Empire of Images”, and [...]
It is a signifier that resonates in the deepest echo-chamber of Europe’s self-understanding, bequeathed to us as it is - along with philosophy, rhetoric and democratic ideals - by the culture of the ancient Greeks. Already there, half a millennia before Christ, ‘barbarism’ was doing a great deal of symbolic work. Certainly it invoked the [...]
