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“As you know…a good many other zones are concerned”: The Synchronic Genesis of Fantasy, Sexuality, and Subjectivity
The beginnings of my (future) research project on queer theory and Lacanian psychoanalysis I gave this presentation in November 2023 at the Institute of Philosophy, ZRC SAZU, in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The conference, entitled To Be Continued?… centred on the question of psychoanalysis and philosophy, seeking to revivify the pertinence of psychoanalysis not only for contemporary…
From the PhD Notebooks: Freud the Logician
These are preliminary notes on the third lesson of Lacan’s fourteenth seminar. This lesson in particular raises important questions about different varieties of negation integral to an understanding of both the logic of fantasy and the broader ontological relations between the Symbolic, Imaginary, and Real. These notes sketch out and capture a few points in…
Codices to Abbreviations and References
I’m going to store links to PDF files of codices to abbreviations and references for my projects here. Some posts will included these abbreviations and references, so it may be helpful for some readers to know what editions/works I’m specifically referring to in those As of the 7th of June, 2023, there’s only one relevant…
The Killing Word
Perhaps the least carefully understood aspect of Georges Bataille’s theory of human thought and discourse is the phantasmatic origin of humanity in animality and the yearning fomented by this always mythical, never actual animal origin.
Nick Land on the Germ of German Idealism
What follows are notes of mine in research for doctoral dissertation at Newcastle University. They are nothing more than that, whatever that means. If they are imprecise, then that is fine. If they contain nothing original in them, then that is fine. If they are fragmented, then that is fine. What is not fine is…
From Letterboxd: Review of Urotsukidōji: Legend of the Overfiend (1989)
At the end of history, should we fuck demons and beast-people? The politico-economic context of 1987 overdetermines the conceptual dialectic of this film, which is: the height of the monetary bubble in Japan peaked; the effects of monetary policy in Thatcherite Britain and the Reaganomic States firmly cemented the force of capital; and, the rest…
ABOUT
Holden M. Rasmussen is a writer and philosopher currently based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom.
His doctoral research project, titled Bleeding Edge: An Ontology of the Limit after Bataille and Lacan, is funded by an Arts & Humanities Research Council studentship through the Northern Bridge Consortium.
His fiction has been published in Misery Tourism.
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I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.
Georges Bataille
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