Problematic Minimalism — Is when minimalism becomes a thing that a person needs to do or accomplish when being minimal becomes a frustrating and distracting demand from a master that can’t ever be entirely pleased.
Helpful Minimalism: when people see the right mix of presence/absence as something that is always outside of what they have, as something that is an object cause of desire. Arriving at a perfect minimal lifestyle is not the aim; it is an ongoing project of rendering one’s life full-and-empty-enough.
The general idea is that minimalism can be helpful or problematic.
I wrote up and did a short QTS podcast regarding thoughts on minimalism in general and my reaction to the idea, "Anything taken to the extreme can be complicated. And simplicity is no exception." www.surplusjouissance.com/minimalism-d...
I've got a project right at the finishing line. One more set of edits, and I think it will be good to go... It is tempting to try to push through this last round, but I've been going at it for so long that I know I need a break. Till tomorrow then.
I just released this episode of InForm:Podcast, where I speak with practicing Lacanian psychoanalyst Isolda Alverez about the way the aims of the psychoanalytic clinic have changed from Freud's time through Lacans and into the present day. share.transistor.fm/s/15abb053
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This morning, I was reading The Pinning of Someone Unplaceable by Dominique Holvoet in The Lacanian Review #9: Still Life? (pp. 81-86), and I read the following sentence that highlights something that...
For whatever this may be worth, I read this shortly after listening to this interview with the musician Chilly Gonzales. I'm sure the interview influenced my reading of the text. www.pondercast.ca/episode/chil...
4. the body is thus the instrument Musical instruments don't play themselves. The human body does not speak by itself. In both cases, instrument and body, someone (man) needs to "play them" to make them make sounds.
3. it is always man who speaks with his body There is something that makes the body speak, that makes it produce what we call speech. Miller calls this thing "man" (again, a man in the universal embracing of all people sense of the word).