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Profane Illuminations
J
- A MILLER

Detached Pieces
J
- A MILLER

Drawing
A
LAIN BADIOU

The Formulas of the Real
A
LAIN BADIOU

The Question of Democracy
A
LAIN BADIOU

The Sound of Silence:
Wagner with Stalin
R
EX BUTLER
SCOTT STEPHENS

A Letter Which Did Arrive
at its Destination
S
LAVOJ ZIZEK

Jean Claude Abreu
A
DRIAN DANNATT

Florencia Gonzalez Alzaga
J
OSEFINA AYERZA

 

-You are going to be censored-

-It's a horse...!-

Culture is giving a considerable amount of attention to the male virile figure these days, in the matter of choosing an alternative one, an Other, to the female image, which has happened to swamp the media. But maybe the case is not that the female figure is being replaced only because it happens to swamp the media, but rather because the representation of virility is at once breaking throughout the centuries. The predominant image, in the form of the male sexual organ, while in the figure of a dove, a rooster, a cow is Priapus... In his dedicated discourse Richard Payne Knight sustains that men, considered collectively, are at all times the same animals, employing the same organs, and endowed with the same faculties. Thereof their passions. prejudices and conceptions will be formed on the same principles... Again, throughout the centuries Priapus evolves into a signifier of desire: the phallus. Desire as we know it with Jacques Lacan belongs solely in the very human.

With Jacques-Alain Miller we want to reach the drama involved in the dichotomy itself. Thus the operation of decoding what may reach the meaning in concern with the desire...likewise the profane, and the quasi-canonical state of illumination. After Lacan there is a lack and there is a hole. In "Profane Illuminations," aligned, the lack in being will define a subject opposed to the being of the symptom.

According to Alain Badiou, in "Drawing," every work of art is a description without place. Again, space gets to speak outside itself. Now "...some trace without place creates as its place an empty surface." What to say of "The Formulas of the Real?" For certain it is something to decode.

In Slavoj Zizek's perspective, the "Letter Which Did Arrive at its Destination" calls upon the drama of an annoying father, in turn a deceiving father, and its universal character. To the point that "...everybody's father is a figure who failed to live up to his mandate," everybody's father "left to his son the task to settle his symbolic debts."

J.A.




Art: Florencia Gonzalez Alzaga
Amor de verano (detail) - C-print, 2004
Violeta - C-print, 2006
courtesy Zavaleta Lab.


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