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240,500 | Here, however, Lacan's statements on psychoanalysis and money, and on the anticapitalist nature of psychoanalysis, are to be taken seriously.41 Consider Jacques-Alain Miller's joke about how, in psychoanalytic treatment, exploitation works even better than it does in capitalism: in capitalism, the capitalist pays the w... | Zizek 8 [Slavoj, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at University of London, Senior Researcher at the Institute of Sociology at University of Llubljana, the Elvis of cultural theory, former candidate for Slovenian presidency, For They Know Not What They Do, p.xxxviii-xlii] | why does the patient pay the analyst? if the psychoanalyst is perceived as good, as doing the patient a favour, everything is bound to go wrong. there is nothing more catastrophic than a psychoanalyst acting out of charity ("goodness") to help the patient this is the most effective way of turning a "normal" neurotic in... | Give us the ballot as payment for services rendered – the Aff must pay to make passage to the Act possible | 4,049 | 106 | 694 | 685 | 21 | 126 | 0.030657 | 0.183942 | K - Psychoanalysis - Michigan 7 2022 BFHR.html5 | Michigan (7-week) | Kritiks | 2022 |
240,501 | This predominance of the superego over the law disturbs the relationship of knowledge and belief that determines our everyday ideological horizon: the gap between (real) knowledge and (symbolic) belief. We can illustrate it with the well-known psychological experience of when we say of something (as a rule terrible, tr... | Zizek 8 [Slavoj, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at University of London, Senior Researcher at the Institute of Sociology at University of Llubljana, the Elvis of cultural theory, former candidate for Slovenian presidency, For They Know Not What They Do, p.241-3] | This predominance of the superego over the law disturbs the relationship of knowledge and belief that determines our everyday ideological horizon when we say "I know that it is so, but nevertheless I can't believe it": the traumatic knowledge of reality remains outside the Symbolic, the symbolic articulation continues ... | The perm is the purest form of ideological disavowal, functionally saying “I know very well that the Aff links, but nevertheless I’ll act as if it doesn’t.” Even if the perm is technically true in the sense that it is hypothetically possible to do the Aff and the K, the perm is still a lie because it is a rationalizati... | 3,898 | 412 | 2,178 | 642 | 74 | 350 | 0.115265 | 0.545171 | K - Psychoanalysis - Michigan 7 2022 BFHR.html5 | Michigan (7-week) | Kritiks | 2022 |
240,502 | This kernel of the Real encircled by failed attempts to symbolize-totalize it is radically non-historical: history itself is nothing but a succession of failed attempts to grasp, conceive, specify this strange kernel. This is why, far from rejecting the reproach that psychoanalysis is non-historical, one has to acknowl... | Zizek 08 [Slavoj, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at University of London, Senior Researcher at the Institute of Sociology at University of Llubljana, the Elvis of cultural theory, former candidate for Slovenian presidency, For They Know Not What They Do, p.101-3] | far from rejecting the reproach that psychoanalysis is non-historical, one has to acknowledge it fully and thus simply transform it from a reproach into a positive theoretical proposition an ahistoric kernel of the Real is present also in history the ultimate mistake of historicism in which all historical content is "r... | The claim that psychoanalysis is Eurocentric links to itself – it reestablishes the authority of the speaking subject. The “diversity” of the other is becomes a fetish object that preserves the identity of our own subjective position. | 6,655 | 234 | 1,817 | 1,046 | 37 | 289 | 0.035373 | 0.276291 | K - Psychoanalysis - Michigan 7 2022 BFHR.html5 | Michigan (7-week) | Kritiks | 2022 |
240,503 | This notion of civility is at the very heart of the impasses of multiculturalism. A couple of years ago, there was a debate in Germany about Leäkultur (the dominant culture): against abstract multiculturalism, conservatives insisted that every state is based on a predominant cultural space which the members of other cu... | Zizek 08 [Slavoj, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at University of London, Senior Researcher at the Institute of Sociology at University of Llubljana, the Elvis of cultural theory, former candidate for Slovenian presidency, In Defense of Lost Causes, p.20] | against abstract multiculturalism, conservatives insisted that every state is based on a predominant cultural space which the members of other cultures who live in the same space should respect. Although liberal leftists attacked this notion as covert racism it offers an adequate description of the facts. Respect of in... | Universal openness is rooted in Western modernity | 4,111 | 49 | 2,163 | 653 | 7 | 332 | 0.01072 | 0.508423 | K - Psychoanalysis - Michigan 7 2022 BFHR.html5 | Michigan (7-week) | Kritiks | 2022 |
240,504 | I suggest that Lacan’s theory of subject constitution provides us with cognitive landmarks or positions by which to bring the subject of race into representation. Lacan’s provocative thesis that the unconscious is structured like a language and the general precision of his “anti-system” seemed to provide the requisite ... | Seshadri-Crooks 2000 [Kalpana, Assistant Prof of English at Boston College, Desiring Whiteness: A Lacanian Analysis of Race, p.2-3] | Lacan’s theory of subject constitution provides us with cognitive landmarks by which to bring the subject of race into representation. Lacan’s provocative thesis provide the requisite tools and a language with which to explore and delineate the subject’s acquisition of racial identity. the “appropriation” of Lacan that... | Lacanian psychoanalysis provides critical and unique insights into the production of racialized identity – critiques of Lacan’s failures as an individual do not indict the value of his critical toolbox for understanding and critiquing racism. | 2,174 | 242 | 1,053 | 349 | 35 | 163 | 0.100287 | 0.467049 | K - Psychoanalysis - Michigan 7 2022 BFHR.html5 | Michigan (7-week) | Kritiks | 2022 |
240,505 | This study argues for the benefit of psychoanalysis in rethinking race as a visible category. Engaging African American literary and theoretical texts with Jacques Lacan’s work, it asks what happens when we interrogate “the American optic” (Baldwin, “Last” 210) through what Lacanian theory teaches us about the role of ... | Tuhkanen 09 [Mikko, Prof of English and Africana Studies at Texas A&M, The American Optic, p.xi-xxii] | This study argues for the benefit of psychoanalysis in rethinking race it asks what happens when we interrogate “the American optic” through what Lacanian theory teaches us about the role of the visible and the scopic drive in the constitution of the human subject. the visibility of race does not merely assign the subj... | Despite the racist history of psychoanalysis, there can and should be a productive dialogue between black scholarship and the psychoanalytic account of visibility | 35,886 | 162 | 5,202 | 5,256 | 23 | 736 | 0.004376 | 0.14003 | K - Psychoanalysis - Michigan 7 2022 BFHR.html5 | Michigan (7-week) | Kritiks | 2022 |
240,506 | In “Love Thy Neighbor? No, Thanks!” Slavoj Zizek (1998) begins with some general musings on the bad press that psychoanalytic approaches to racism enjoy these days. Arguing against these critiques of “psychological reductionism” and an “abstract-psychologistic approach,” Zizek persuades us in his ever-entertaining ways... | Winnubst 06 [Shannon, Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Ohio State, Queering Freedom, p.58-9] | the psychoanalytic frame is exactly the lens that can diagnose the machinations of racism in northern-western cultures and, by exposing their internal inconsistencies help us to disrupt them. the dynamics of psychoanalysis have much to offer to readings of race and racism in contemporary settings of Eurocentric culture... | Even if they’re right that psychoanalysis enacts some of the dynamics of racism, it is precisely for this reason that the psychoanalytic frame is critical to understand our cultural symbolic of whiteness | 2,266 | 203 | 1,035 | 333 | 32 | 148 | 0.096096 | 0.444444 | K - Psychoanalysis - Michigan 7 2022 BFHR.html5 | Michigan (7-week) | Kritiks | 2022 |
240,507 | The first issue I would like to raise in this regard concerns the relation between ontology and politics. Robinson writes: ‘The books discussed here thus tend to suggest that it is not possible to derive an original, distinct and attractive political agenda from Lacanian politics’ (p. 268, emphasis added). And: ‘since ... | Thomassen 04 (Lasse Thomassen PhD – PhD in Ideology and Discourse Analysis as well as Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Copenhagen and Professor of Politics and Queen Mary University of London, “Lacanian Political Theory: A Reply to Robinson”, The British Journal of Politics and International Relations... | The first issue I would like to raise in this regard concerns the relation between ontology and politics not quite in the way that Robinson thinks Clearly, if one subscribes to a post-structuralist viewpoint, there can be no such homogeneity, whether between ontological, theoretical and political elements or whether wi... | Robinson’s arguments are beyond comprehension – all their indicts are inevitable, unfactual, and don’t preclude our theorization of the world | 1,379 | 141 | 478 | 214 | 20 | 77 | 0.093458 | 0.359813 | K - Psychoanalysis - Michigan 7 2022 BFHR.html5 | Michigan (7-week) | Kritiks | 2022 |
240,508 | When we think of therapy of any kind, including psychoanalysis, we usually think of a trajectory moving from dissatisfaction to some degree of satisfaction. Subjects enter therapy with a psychic ailment causing dissatisfaction, and if the treatment succeeds, they leave with the ability to lead a more satisfying existen... | McGowan 13 [Todd, Associate Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Vermont, Enjoying What We Don’t Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis, Symploke, University of Nebraska Press (Lincoln, NE): 2013, p. 54-55] | When we think of therapy of any kind we usually think of a trajectory moving from dissatisfaction to some degree of satisfaction. | You’re not gonna like it. | 505 | 25 | 129 | 78 | 5 | 22 | 0.064103 | 0.282051 | K - Psychoanalysis - Michigan 7 2022 BFHR.html5 | Michigan (7-week) | Kritiks | 2022 |
240,509 | We might think of this change of perspective in terms of the way that athletes and fans view their devotion to sports. The increasing importance of sport in the contemporary world testifies in one sense to the dominance of commodity logic and its narcotizing effect. Sports figures and their fans associate the ultimate ... | McGowan 13 [Todd, Associate Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Vermont, Enjoying What We Don’t Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis, Symploke, University of Nebraska Press (Lincoln, NE): 2013, p. 71-72] | We might think of this change of perspective in terms of the way that athletes and fans view their devotion to sports. The increasing importance of sport in the contemporary world testifies in one sense to the dominance of commodity logic and its narcotizing effect. Sports figures and their fans associate the ultimate ... | They’re going to say that we want the ballot too, but the framing question should be whether the affirmative has justified winning the ballot. Our point is that the 1AC’s critique and strategy of disorientation is unproductive politics. | 718 | 237 | 685 | 117 | 38 | 112 | 0.324786 | 0.957265 | K - Psychoanalysis - Michigan 7 2022 BFHR.html5 | Michigan (7-week) | Kritiks | 2022 |
240,510 | But as theorists of contemporary cynicism have shown, cynical subjects don’t really sustain a thoroughgoing cynicism relative to enjoyment. While they disbelieve in the possibility of enjoyment or authentic commitment, they do believe in belief. That is, they believe that there are others who really believe. Despite th... | McGowan 13 (Todd McGowan PhD - Professor of English at the University of Vermont, “Enjoying What We Don’t Have”, University of Nebraska Press, Pages 115-117, 1 July 2013, MG) | cynical subjects don’t really sustain a thoroughgoing cynicism relative to enjoyment. While they disbelieve in the possibility of enjoyment or authentic commitment, they do believe in belief cynicism doesn’t offer the respite from anxiety that it initially promises. | Both cynicism and law are wrong moves – only an embracement of anxiety can endure an encounter with the Other and create the experience of enjoyment | 533 | 148 | 266 | 82 | 26 | 38 | 0.317073 | 0.463415 | K - Psychoanalysis - Michigan 7 2022 BFHR.html5 | Michigan (7-week) | Kritiks | 2022 |
240,511 | Capitalism bombards us with the image of our dissatisfaction. Challenging capitalism today doesn’t depend on focusing subjects on how dissatisfied they are with capitalist relations of production. This type of response plays into the hands of the capitalist system and the promise of a better future that it employs. Thi... | McGowan 16 (Todd McGowan PhD - Professor of English at the University of Vermont, “Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Costs of Free Markets”, Columbia University Press, Pages 267-271, 20 September 2016, MG) | Capitalism bombards us with the image of our dissatisfaction. Challenging capitalism today doesn’t depend on focusing subjects on how dissatisfied they are with capitalist relations of production. This type of response plays into the hands of the capitalist system and the promise of a better future that it employs | The alternative is to interpret the 1AC and turn it towards total satisfaction – only by uncovering what is hidden in the psyche can the banality of the everyday and capitalism be addressed | 706 | 190 | 315 | 103 | 33 | 49 | 0.320388 | 0.475728 | K - Psychoanalysis - Michigan 7 2022 BFHR.html5 | Michigan (7-week) | Kritiks | 2022 |
240,512 | In contrast, economy in the drive results in an excess of enjoyment through the enjoyment of excess. When subjects eliminate the detours that sidetrack the death drive, they experience this enjoyment of excess. This is the kind of excess that one cannot find within the capitalist system. Capitalism uses excess in order... | McGowan 13 (Todd McGowan PhD - Professor of English at the University of Vermont, “Enjoying What We Don’t Have”, University of Nebraska Press, Pages 76-78, 1 July 2013, MG) | In contrast, economy in the drive results in an excess of enjoyment through the enjoyment of excess. When subjects eliminate the detours that sidetrack the death drive, they experience this enjoyment of excess. This is the kind of excess that one cannot find within the capitalist system the ultimate problem with capita... | The 1AC wasn’t funny, vote negative to joke over the 1AC’s desire | 626 | 65 | 348 | 102 | 12 | 57 | 0.117647 | 0.558824 | K - Psychoanalysis - Michigan 7 2022 BFHR.html5 | Michigan (7-week) | Kritiks | 2022 |
240,513 | By enjoying in a public way, the subject becomes what we might call a fool. The fool is a subject who ceases to court the social authority’s approbation and becomes immune to the seduction of social recognition or rewards. Recognition has a value for the subject only insofar as the subject believes in the substantial s... | McGowan 13 (Todd McGowan PhD - Professor of English at the University of Vermont, “Enjoying What We Don’t Have”, University of Nebraska Press, Pages 136-139, 1 July 2013, MG) | By enjoying in a public way, the subject becomes what we might call a fool. The fool is a subject who ceases to court the social authority’s approbation and becomes immune to the seduction of social recognition or rewards The fool grasps that no such foundation exists and that no identity has any basis whatsoever. The ... | The alternative is to play the part of the Genuine Fool, the fool who defies the good and acts on its own enjoyment – it cannot be combined with any desire or identity, or else it will fail | 836 | 189 | 603 | 144 | 38 | 106 | 0.263889 | 0.736111 | K - Psychoanalysis - Michigan 7 2022 BFHR.html5 | Michigan (7-week) | Kritiks | 2022 |
240,514 | Psychoanalysis owes its existence to capitalist modernity. It emerges in response to the sense of dissatisfaction that capitalism produces through its incessant focus on the object of desire. Whereas capitalism privileges the object of desire to the exclusion of the lost object, psychoanalysis reverses this valuation a... | McGowan 16 (Todd McGowan PhD - Professor of English at the University of Vermont, “Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Costs of Free Markets”, Columbia University Press, Pages 183-184, 20 September 2016, MG) | Psychoanalysis owes its existence to capitalist modernity. It emerges in response to the sense of dissatisfaction that capitalism produces through its incessant focus on the object of desire. Whereas capitalism privileges the object of desire to the exclusion of the lost object, psychoanalysis reverses this valuation a... | Psychoanalysis is the only way to approach capitalism | 656 | 53 | 548 | 99 | 8 | 82 | 0.080808 | 0.828283 | K - Psychoanalysis - Michigan 7 2022 BFHR.html5 | Michigan (7-week) | Kritiks | 2022 |
240,515 | It is in this place of despair from which we should understand the politics of the sublime. Because it is an inevitable byproduct of discontinuous subjectivity, the death drive cannot be wished away. We will probably always desire continuity that we cannot have and the object from which we are rent by our separation fr... | Matheson 15 [Calum Matheson, PhD is Associate Professor of Public Deliberation and Civic Life and the incoming Chair of the Department of Communication at the University of Pittsburgh.; “Desired Ground Zeroes: Nuclear Imagination and the Death Drive”; 2015; https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/210598703.pdf]//eleanor | It is in this place of despair from which we should understand the politics of the sublime. Because it is an inevitable byproduct of discontinuous subjectivity, the death drive cannot be wished away. We will probably always desire continuity that we cannot have and the object from which we are rent by our separation fr... | The alternative is a politics of the sublime – rather than attempt to calculate and describe nuclear war, understand it through its sublime aspects, as something the stands in a place outside the symbolic order, thus revealing its cracks and reconfiguring desire towards more productive ends. | 7,027 | 293 | 4,977 | 1,161 | 46 | 837 | 0.039621 | 0.72093 | K - Psychoanalysis - Michigan 7 2022 BFHR.html5 | Michigan (7-week) | Kritiks | 2022 |
240,516 | I would like to conclude by outlining the implications that I see in this project for communication studies and the politics of anti-nuclear activism. The significance of the Real suggests that omissions, breakdowns, and silence are important objects of study. We should not think of the inability to capture and transla... | Matheson 15 [Calum Matheson, PhD is Associate Professor of Public Deliberation and Civic Life and the incoming Chair of the Department of Communication at the University of Pittsburgh.; “Desired Ground Zeroes: Nuclear Imagination and the Death Drive”; 2015; https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/210598703.pdf]//eleanor | The significance of the Real suggests that omissions, breakdowns, and silence are important objects of study. We should not think of the inability to capture and translate something just as the failure of mediation but also the triumph of excess. The former centers the Symbolic order of human mediation as the key agent... | The silence of Trinity was the ultimate triumph of the real – nuclear war can only be understood through metaphor, futile attempts to calculate the gap in the symbolic order – trying to make nuclear war present through language sustains investment in those very myths and tropes in the first place . | 14,009 | 299 | 7,027 | 2,235 | 52 | 1,129 | 0.023266 | 0.505145 | K - Psychoanalysis - Michigan 7 2022 BFHR.html5 | Michigan (7-week) | Kritiks | 2022 |
240,517 | The structure of the fantasy The racist fantasy is a structure that operates regardless of the actual identity of those occupying the various positions within the fantasy. It is a shared social structure rather than the product of a certain individuals. Although individuals are necessary to sustain the fantasy, it is a... | McGowan 22 (Todd McGowan, Professor of English at the University of Vermont, USA, “The Bedlam of the Lynch Mob: Racism and Enjoying Through the Other,” Lacan and Race: Racism, Identity, and Psychoanalytic Theory, pgs. 22-25)//JRD | The racist fantasy is a structure that operates regardless of the actual identity of those occupying the various positions within the fantasy. It is a shared social structure rather than the product of a certain individuals. Although individuals are necessary to sustain the fantasy, it is a part of the basic social str... | This is a debate first and foremost about desire – race as social structure exists not as an absolute truth but rather as a product of fantasy, of the unconscious construction of a racialized other as the barrier to the subject’s enjoyment. We must challenge race as a signifier on the level of the unconscious or we do ... | 13,262 | 345 | 10,413 | 2,134 | 63 | 1,670 | 0.029522 | 0.782568 | K - Psychoanalysis - Michigan 7 2022 BFHR.html5 | Michigan (7-week) | Kritiks | 2022 |
240,518 | In contrast to Marxism and left -wing theories, which take justice as the point of departure in arguing against class society, psychoanalysis begins with freedom — or, more precisely, with the lack of freedom that exists under capitalism. In other words, psychoanalysis shares with Marxism a critical attitude toward cap... | McGowan 13 (Todd McGowan PhD - Professor of English at the University of Vermont, “Enjoying What We Don’t Have”, University of Nebraska Press, Pages 80-82, 1 July 2013, MG) | In contrast to Marxism and which take justice as the point of departure in arguing against class society, psychoanalysis begins with freedom — or, more precisely, with the lack of freedom that exists under capitalism. In other words, psychoanalysis shares with Marxism a critical attitude toward capitalism (though this ... | Their vision can’t take down capitalism because it begins with a vision for justice not freedom – they’ll result in unfreedom of subjects | 1,461 | 137 | 810 | 225 | 23 | 120 | 0.102222 | 0.533333 | K - Psychoanalysis - Michigan 7 2022 BFHR.html5 | Michigan (7-week) | Kritiks | 2022 |
240,519 | Where is the other? The contemporary proliferation of racism in spite of our knowledge about its wrongs suggests that we have an unconscious investment in racism that continues and multiplies. Armed with education and a belief in racism’s fundamental immorality, people today should have no problem leaving racist ideas ... | McGowan 22 (Todd McGowan, Professor of English at the University of Vermont, USA, “The Bedlam of the Lynch Mob: Racism and Enjoying Through the Other,” Lacan and Race: Racism, Identity, and Psychoanalytic Theory, pgs. 19-21)//JRD | The contemporary proliferation of racism in spite of our knowledge about its wrongs suggests that we have an unconscious investment in racism that continues and multiplies. Armed with education and a belief in racism’s fundamental immorality, people today should have no problem leaving racist ideas and practices behind... | They have missed the mark – racism is not a product of ignorance but one of enjoyment. Their politics can only ever re-entrench hierarchies of racialization as they represent racism as a caricature of epistemological formations rather than that of the unconscious. The truth of racial hierarchies lies not in the failure... | 8,942 | 428 | 6,641 | 1,439 | 73 | 1,083 | 0.05073 | 0.752606 | K - Psychoanalysis - Michigan 7 2022 BFHR.html5 | Michigan (7-week) | Kritiks | 2022 |
240,520 | Perhaps the most vexing question for those who challenge capitalist relations of production is the one that asks what system will replace the capitalist one. Communism has been discredited, and those who hold onto the idea of communism, like Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek, have no concrete account of what this idea woul... | McGowan 16 (Todd McGowan PhD - Professor of English at the University of Vermont, “Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Costs of Free Markets”, Columbia University Press, Pages 197-199, 20 September 2016, MG) | Perhaps the most vexing question for those who challenge capitalist relations of production is the one that asks what system will replace the capitalist one. Communism has been discredited, and those who hold onto the idea of communism have no concrete account of what this idea would look like in practice. It is commun... | Imagining a communist society is a thought experiment gone wrong that embraces the horror of the real, enables catastrophic dissatisfaction, and creates disaster | 1,007 | 161 | 779 | 163 | 23 | 127 | 0.141104 | 0.779141 | K - Psychoanalysis - Michigan 7 2022 BFHR.html5 | Michigan (7-week) | Kritiks | 2022 |
240,521 | Capitalism has a parasitic relationship to signification. It mirrors the effects that language has on the speaking being, while cementing the psychic dependence that the speaking being has on the illusory desire of the Other that emerges through signification. Capitalism remolds the subject in its own image and protect... | McGowan 16 (Todd McGowan PhD - Professor of English at the University of Vermont, “Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Costs of Free Markets”, Columbia University Press, Pages 63-65, 20 September 2016, MG) | Capitalism has a parasitic relationship to signification. It mirrors the effects that language has on the speaking being, while cementing the psychic dependence that the speaking being has on the illusory desire of the Other that emerges through signification. Capitalism remolds the subject in its own image and protect... | Deleuze and Guattari are goofy – the system wants you to invest into desire which cements psychic dependence on capitalism | 548 | 122 | 381 | 87 | 20 | 57 | 0.229885 | 0.655172 | K - Psychoanalysis - Michigan 7 2022 BFHR.html5 | Michigan (7-week) | Kritiks | 2022 |
240,522 | The brilliance of Ricardo’s formulation has stood the test of time, and we should have a proper appreciation for it. Prominent defenders of capitalism in the twentieth century, like F. A. Hayek and Milton Friedman, continued to reason like this in order to justify the ways of capitalism to humanity. Ricardo’s logic can... | McGowan 16 (Todd McGowan PhD - Professor of English at the University of Vermont, “Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Costs of Free Markets”, Columbia University Press, Pages 129-130, 20 September 2016, MG) | capitalism gratifies human desires, but it is only through the free market that we can know those desires any attempt to argue for an alternative would ipso facto represent a loss of touch with desire as such | Deleuze and Guattari can’t explain the denial of desire but we can – reject the goofballs | 986 | 89 | 208 | 160 | 16 | 37 | 0.1 | 0.23125 | K - Psychoanalysis - Michigan 7 2022 BFHR.html5 | Michigan (7-week) | Kritiks | 2022 |
240,523 | When experts become the voice of authority, the political landscape undergoes a dramatic change, the ramifications of which have become increasingly visible in the last few decades. The transformation of authority that began in the seventeenth century realized itself at the conclusion of the twentieth, and the result h... | McGowan 13 (Todd McGowan, Professor of English at the University of Vermont, USA, “Enjoying What We Don’t Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis,” pgs. 170-172)//JRD | When experts become the voice of authority, the political landscape undergoes a dramatic change, the ramifications of which have become increasingly visible in the last few decades. This social revolution strips the forces of social change of their favorite weapon — knowledge — because use of this weapon has the effect... | Reject their illusions of grandeur and dictum of expertise. | 6,997 | 59 | 3,912 | 1,110 | 9 | 613 | 0.008108 | 0.552252 | K - Psychoanalysis - Michigan 7 2022 BFHR.html5 | Michigan (7-week) | Kritiks | 2022 |
240,524 | Throughout most of his seminars, Jacques Lacan attacks love as a narcissistic illusion. When the subject loves, it places the other in exactly the same position that the ego occupies in the narcissistic relation. Both narcissism and love enable the subject to short-circuit the relationship with social authority while s... | McGowan 16 (Todd McGowan PhD - Professor of English at the University of Vermont, “Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Costs of Free Markets”, Columbia University Press, Pages 211-213, 20 September 2016, MG) | love as a narcissistic illusion. When the subject loves, it places the other in exactly the same position that the ego occupies in the narcissistic relation. Both narcissism and love enable the subject to short-circuit the relationship with social authority while still remaining within the domain of that authority. One... | Embracing an ethic of love is a narcissistic illusion that traumatizes the subject and forces others to change in dissatisfying ways | 885 | 132 | 655 | 142 | 21 | 106 | 0.147887 | 0.746479 | K - Psychoanalysis - Michigan 7 2022 BFHR.html5 | Michigan (7-week) | Kritiks | 2022 |
240,525 | But the inescapability of the idea of progress goes still further. It is not just the normative appeal that implies this idea; any system of thought, even one that confines itself to pure descriptions, inevitably points toward the possibility of progress. The act of articulating a system of thought implies the belief t... | McGowan 13 (Todd McGowan PhD - Professor of English at the University of Vermont, “Enjoying What We Don’t Have”, University of Nebraska Press, Pages 17-19, 1 July 2013, MG) | But the inescapability of the idea of progress goes still further any system of thought, even one that confines itself to pure descriptions, inevitably points toward the possibility of progress. The act of articulating a system of thought implies the belief that a better world is possible and that the knowledge the sys... | Formulating alternative systems of knowledge production is a ruse of progress and solely amplifies the power of the death drive, confronting bodies with a horror of knowing | 1,178 | 172 | 902 | 194 | 27 | 146 | 0.139175 | 0.752577 | K - Psychoanalysis - Michigan 7 2022 BFHR.html5 | Michigan (7-week) | Kritiks | 2022 |
240,526 | We have all had the experience of watching two people talking, despite that both are effectively really only talking about – and listening to – themselves. Lacan confronts this problem of substance-less speech, the dead-end alley of selfproclaiming talk, with his notion of ‘empty speech’. It is not hard to guess why he... | Hook 18 (Derek Hook, Associate Professor in Psychology at Duquesne University, “Six Moments in Lacan: Communication and identification in psychology and psychoanalysis,” pgs. 48-49)//JRD | We have all had the experience of watching two people talking, despite that both are effectively really only talking about – and listening to – themselves. Lacan confronts of substance-less speech , with his notion of ‘empty speech’. This ego-led type of interpersonal communication is like a comedic parody of a dialogu... | Starting dialogue from the position of a personal narrative is nothing more than a cover up for the chasm at the heart of subjectivity, a meager forwarding of narcissism and a self-absorbed empty speech act as a comedic parody of dialogue. | 4,887 | 239 | 2,593 | 794 | 41 | 409 | 0.051637 | 0.515113 | K - Psychoanalysis - Michigan 7 2022 BFHR.html5 | Michigan (7-week) | Kritiks | 2022 |
240,527 | In his rhetorical construction of the self as racial, Du Bois subjects himself to a domination by the signifiers of race in ways that can be understood in relation to Lacan’s reading of the mechanisms of metaphor and metonymy as central to subjective activity. Lacan’s work “links metaphor to the question of being and m... | George 16 (Sheldon George, Professor of English at Simmons University, 2016 , "Trauma and Race: A Lacanian Study of African American Racial Identity", pp 48-53)//guyB | Du Bois subjects himself to a domination by the signifiers of race in ways that can be understood in relation to Lacan’s reading of the mechanisms of metaphor and metonymy as central to subjective activity Lacan’s work “links metaphor to the question of being and metonymy to its lack. Metonymy expresses what Lacan iden... | They place racial alliance as the object of desire which both incentivizes incentivizes authenticity testing and defines personal being via the trauma of slavery | 12,399 | 161 | 9,898 | 1,965 | 24 | 1,566 | 0.012214 | 0.796947 | K - Psychoanalysis - Michigan 7 2022 BFHR.html5 | Michigan (7-week) | Kritiks | 2022 |
240,528 | This is the limitation of pseudo-Hegelian political projects oriented around garnering recognition. They necessarily remain within the confines of the order that they challenge, and even success will never provide the satisfaction that the project promises. Full recognition would bring with it not the sense of finally ... | McGowan 13 (Todd McGowan PhD - Professor of English at the University of Vermont, “Enjoying What We Don’t Have”, University of Nebraska Press, Pages 88-91, 1 July 2013, MG) | This is the limitation of political projects oriented around garnering recognition. They necessarily remain within the confines of the order that they challenge, and even success will never provide the satisfaction that the project promises. Full recognition would bring with it not the sense of finally penetrating into... | Their politics of recognition play right into the hands of the social order – they’ll never be satisfied through their infinite struggle causing frustration, and will only be more subjected to the social authority | 1,107 | 213 | 485 | 168 | 34 | 74 | 0.202381 | 0.440476 | K - Psychoanalysis - Michigan 7 2022 BFHR.html5 | Michigan (7-week) | Kritiks | 2022 |
240,529 | It is this excess that motivates the philosophy of Georges Bataille, perhaps the foremost thinker of sacrifice. Of all those who confront this mysterious phenomenon, Bataille is the one who does not try to reduce sacrifice to some form of interest. Instead, he accepts sacrifice as an act performed for its own sake. Soc... | McGowan 13 (Todd McGowan PhD - Professor of English at the University of Vermont, “Enjoying What We Don’t Have”, University of Nebraska Press, Pages 148-150, 1 July 2013, MG) | Bataille is the one who does not try to reduce sacrifice to some form of interest. Instead, he accepts sacrifice as an act performed for its own sake. Societies sacrifice, according to Bataille, because sacrifice is essential to their functioning and because they enjoy it | The desire to sacrifice is one that masks the loss underneath that is imposed onto bodies to endure – it ends up reenacting the state | 1,016 | 133 | 272 | 162 | 25 | 45 | 0.154321 | 0.277778 | K - Psychoanalysis - Michigan 7 2022 BFHR.html5 | Michigan (7-week) | Kritiks | 2022 |
240,530 | The problem with Bataille, however, is that his theory of sacrifice is grounded in an ontology of excess energy. We enjoy sacrifice because we are burdened with too much energy: there is enjoyment in the diminution of this burden. But Bataille never explains how this excess arises and how we obtain it. In this way, he ... | McGowan 16 (Todd McGowan PhD - Professor of English at the University of Vermont, “Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Costs of Free Markets”, Columbia University Press, Pages 131-133, 20 September 2016, MG) | The problem with Bataille is that his theory of sacrifice is grounded in an ontology of excess energy. We enjoy sacrifice because we are burdened with too much energy: there is enjoyment in the diminution of this burden. But Bataille never explains how this excess arises and how we obtain it. In this way, he misses the... | Bataille fell for the capitalist trap – sacrifice is a tool out of capitalism’s pocket to justify itself and forces dissatisfaction onto subjects | 623 | 145 | 460 | 105 | 23 | 80 | 0.219048 | 0.761905 | K - Psychoanalysis - Michigan 7 2022 BFHR.html5 | Michigan (7-week) | Kritiks | 2022 |
240,531 | Silva’s account of a transition to adulthood marked not by “entry into social groups and institutions but rather the explicit rejection of them” provides a poignant rejoinder to Sennett.19 One man tells Silva that “the hardest part about being an adult is finding a real fucking job.”20 People aren’t lacking a narrative... | Dean 16 [Jodi, Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and Erasmus Professor of the Humanities in the Faculty of Philosophy at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, Crowds and Party, Verso (Brookyn, NY): 2016, p. 33-35] | Capitalism presents adulthood as an individual project They tell heroic tales of self-sufficiency, turning inward as they manage feelings of betrayal, accept flexibility and flux, and buttress their sense of being utterly alone therapeutic language remains the vocabulary through which to account for individual success ... | ***K of survival strategies: | 953 | 28 | 331 | 139 | 4 | 47 | 0.028777 | 0.338129 | K - Psychoanalysis - Michigan 7 2022 BFHR.html5 | Michigan (7-week) | Kritiks | 2022 |
240,532 | Every society makes use of sublimity. The sublime serves as the engine for social organization and for individual activity within that organization. Without some indication of the sublime, a society would become idle and cease even to reproduce itself. The sublime gives the subject the capacity for enjoyment by convinc... | McGowan 16 (Todd McGowan PhD - Professor of English at the University of Vermont, “Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Costs of Free Markets”, Columbia University Press, Pages 242-244, 20 September 2016, MG) | Every society makes use of sublimity. The sublime serves as the engine for social organization and for individual activity within that organization. Without some indication of the sublime, a society would become idle and cease even to reproduce The subject’s capacity for satisfaction emerges along with the idea of the ... | Sublimity is capitalism’s pet – their endorsement of it exposes subjectivities and desecrates them by leaving them terminally dissatisfied as well as recreating the system | 737 | 171 | 589 | 124 | 25 | 99 | 0.201613 | 0.798387 | K - Psychoanalysis - Michigan 7 2022 BFHR.html5 | Michigan (7-week) | Kritiks | 2022 |
240,533 | In a number of works dedicated to potentiality, Giorgio Agamben has advocated just this type of change in perspective. He identifies potentiality not with the capacity to realize one’s desire but with the satisfaction that comes from the failure to realize it. As he argues in the essay “On Potentiality,” “To be potenti... | McGowan 16 (Todd McGowan PhD - Professor of English at the University of Vermont, “Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Costs of Free Markets”, Columbia University Press, Pages 190-192, 20 September 2016, MG) | Beings that exist in the mode of potentiality are capable of their own impotentiality; and only in this way do they become potential. They can be because they are in relation to their own non-Being.”16 Potentiality implies impotentiality and failure, an ability to identify with one’s own inability to realize a desire. ... | Their radical act of unproductivity gets commodified and used for new surplus value for the system – they’ve provided the same potentiality to the system as Donald Trump and Bill Gates | 1,011 | 184 | 532 | 161 | 31 | 83 | 0.192547 | 0.515528 | K - Psychoanalysis - Michigan 7 2022 BFHR.html5 | Michigan (7-week) | Kritiks | 2022 |
240,534 | Capitalism’s reliance on the outburst of nonproductivity that is politically opposed to the system is manifest in the response to the student movement of the 1960s. For many leftists, the 1960s—and especially May 1968—represent a highpoint in recent political history. 22 In contrast with the apolitical years of the 198... | McGowan 16 (Todd McGowan PhD - Professor of English at the University of Vermont, “Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Costs of Free Markets”, Columbia University Press, Pages 193-196, 20 September 2016, MG) | Capitalism’s reliance on the outburst of nonproductivity that is politically opposed to the system is manifest in the response to the student movement of the 1960s student radicals took up a position of nonproductivity and refused to comply with capitalist society’s demand that they become productive members of this so... | Student movements, Vietnam, university reform, sexual liberty, civil rights, and the sexual revolution all prove that their ethic of unproductivity gets captured to fuel the regime, only the alt can solve | 863 | 204 | 415 | 136 | 31 | 64 | 0.227941 | 0.470588 | K - Psychoanalysis - Michigan 7 2022 BFHR.html5 | Michigan (7-week) | Kritiks | 2022 |
240,535 | Racial identification and the subversion of race Having foregrounded the centrality of fantasy and enjoyment to racism, and even fantasy’s centrality in previous psychoanalytic engagement with racialized others, we might ask: how are we to be liberated from such fantasies of race? Lacanian perspectives on race and raci... | George and Hook 22 (Sheldon George, Professor and Chair of the Department of Literature & Writing at Simmons University, Derek Hook, Associate Professor in Psychology at Duquesne University, “Introduction: Theorizing Race, Racism, and Racial Identification,” Lacan and Race: Racism, Identity, and Psychoanalytic Theory, ... | we might ask: how are we to be liberated from such fantasies of race? identification with the illusory object of race is tied to race’s promise to serve as a “medium” through which to decipher the truths of the racist social reality this illusion itself helps generate. Friedlander urges “disavowal” of race through a La... | Our alternative is to adopt the analytic of the Lacanian subject as a means to decipher the truths of the racially hierarchized social order. We must disavow the very fantasy of race in and of itself and move towards a new kind of imaged signifier that, drained of jouissance, stands for difference as such. | 16,605 | 307 | 5,953 | 2,503 | 54 | 910 | 0.021574 | 0.363564 | K - Psychoanalysis - Michigan 7 2022 BFHR.html5 | Michigan (7-week) | Kritiks | 2022 |
240,536 | The alternative — the ethical path that psychoanalysis identifies — demands an embrace of the anxiety that stems from the encounter with the enjoying other. If there is a certain ethical dimension to anxiety, it lies in the relationship that exists between anxiety and enjoyment. Contra Heidegger, the ethics of anxiety ... | McGowan 13 [Todd, Associate Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Vermont, Enjoying What We Don’t Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis, Symploke, University of Nebraska Press (Lincoln, NE): 2013, p. 112-120] | The alternative ethical path that psychoanalysis identifies demands an embrace of the anxiety that stems from the encounter with the enjoying other If there is a certain ethical dimension to anxiety, it lies in the relationship that exists between anxiety and enjoyment the ethics of anxiety does not stem from anxiety's... | Embracing the anxiety of the other’s enjoyment --- the death drive itself --- offers the only possibility of ethical encounter | 1,206 | 127 | 846 | 195 | 20 | 134 | 0.102564 | 0.687179 | K - Psychoanalysis - Michigan 7 2022 BFHR.html5 | Michigan (7-week) | Kritiks | 2022 |
240,537 | Written nine years after BSWM and from within the context of segregated French Algeria, the stakes in WOE are very different. French Algeria is a military occupation where the colonized live as bare lives and in a continuous state of siege. Therefore, the demolition of the blatant structural and material divisions betw... | Thakur 22 (Gautam Basu Thakur, Associate Professor and Director of Critical Theory at Boise State University, “Fanon’s ‘zone of non-being’: Blackness and the Politics of the Real,” Lacan and Race: Racism, Identity, and Psychoanalytic Theory, pgs. 293-296)//JRD | the demolition of the blatant structural and material divisions between the colonized and the colonizer must be accomplished before the subject-(un)making process of the decolonized masses can be possible. this is essential for the “substantive liberation of the colony from psychic neocolonialism” The goal is to free s... | Our alternative is to cultivate the Fanonian New Man, the subject neither of-lack, nor in-the-lack, but just “lack” in and of itself – the drive incarnate. We must break ourselves apart from our toxic attachments to racial structures of psychic oppression and move towards a decolonized subjectivity beyond the western f... | 6,906 | 346 | 4,648 | 1,101 | 54 | 741 | 0.049046 | 0.673025 | K - Psychoanalysis - Michigan 7 2022 BFHR.html5 | Michigan (7-week) | Kritiks | 2022 |
240,538 | Centering this study is the recognition that race functions not only at the social level but also at the psychic. We can more precisely say that the staying power of race, the inability to discard it despite our awareness of its illusory groundings, is founded in race’s capacity to structure a relation to jouissance fo... | George 16 (Sheldon George, Professor of English at Simmons University, 2016 , "Trauma and Race: A Lacanian Study of African American Racial Identity", pp 135-141)//guyB | race functions not only at the social level but also at the psychic the staying power of race, the inability to discard it despite our awareness of its illusory groundings, is founded in race’s capacity to structure a relation to jouissance for the subject of race , race grounds the fantasies and transgressions through... | The alternative endorses a process of self-naming—rather than attempting to fill or escape the Lack we ground ourselves within it and embrace the multiplicity of personal identity | 17,281 | 179 | 11,901 | 2,818 | 27 | 1,940 | 0.009581 | 0.688432 | K - Psychoanalysis - Michigan 7 2022 BFHR.html5 | Michigan (7-week) | Kritiks | 2022 |
240,539 | Guattari's critique of psychoanalysis makes clear the myths which underlie it. 'Psychoanalysis transforms and deforms the unconscious by forcing it to pass through the grid of its system of inscription and representation. For psychoanalysis, the unconscious is always already there, genetically programmed, structured,... | Robinson 5 [Andrew, PhD in political theory at the University of Nottingham, Theory and Event, 8/1, “The Political Theory of Constitutive Lack: A Critique”, projectmuse] | R The idea of the "death instinct" leads to a cultural philosophy in which suffering is assumed to be inevitable, The "death instinct" is connected to an idea of primordial masochism Zizek in particular advocates masochism, in the guise of "shooting at" or "beating" oneself, as a radical gesture which reveals the essen... | There’s no utility in embracing the death drive—it just reinforces things that already suck | 4,710 | 92 | 1,042 | 702 | 14 | 165 | 0.019943 | 0.235043 | K - Psychoanalysis - Michigan 7 2022 BFHR.html5 | Michigan (7-week) | Kritiks | 2022 |
240,540 | Perhaps, then, what distant consumers express when they sit glued to the television watching a disaster replayed over and over, when they buy t-shirts or snow globes, when they mail teddy bears to a memorial, or when they tour a disaster site, is a deep, maybe subconscious, longing for those age-old forms of community ... | Recuber 11 Timothy Recuber is a doctoral candidate in sociology at the Graduate Center of the City. University of New York. He has taught at Hunter College in Manhattan "CONSUMING CATASTROPHE: AUTHENTICITY AND EMOTION IN MASS-MEDIATED DISASTER" gradworks.umi.com/3477831.pd | what consumers express when they sit glued watching a disaster is subconscious, longing for those age-old forms of community and real human compassion that emerge in a place when disaster has struck. It is a longing in some ways so alien to the world we currently live in that it requires catastrophe to call it forth th... | Death reps cause an empathic shift---this is especially crucial in the context of policy advocacy simulations | 3,694 | 109 | 2,469 | 605 | 16 | 399 | 0.026446 | 0.659504 | K - Psychoanalysis - Michigan 7 2022 BFHR.html5 | Michigan (7-week) | Kritiks | 2022 |
240,541 | This article pointed out that psychoanalysis — not only on its classic, but also with its contemporary version — ends up checking all of the seven items in Hansson’s multicriteria list. It also fits the eighth item that was introduced in this work. So, in this way, psychoanalysis checks eight out of eight demarcation o... | Ferreira 21 (Clarice de Madeiros Chaves Ferreira - Vice-President of the Brazilian Association of Evidence-Based Psychology and holds a degree in psychology from FUMEC University and Scientific Initiation at the Clinical Neuroscience Investigation Laboratory of the Federal University of Minas Gerais, “Is psychoanalysis... | psychoanalysis — not only on its classic, but also with its contemporary version checks eight out of eight demarcation of pseudoscience’s items psychoanalysis is indeed a pseudoscience. Even if the impression that it represents the most reliable human psychological theory is created by its proponents, that is not the c... | Falsifiability matters – treating psychoanalysis like it’s not a pseudoscience is a dogmatic move that leads to scientific stagnation and prevents discipline development | 770 | 169 | 394 | 118 | 23 | 59 | 0.194915 | 0.5 | K - Psychoanalysis - Michigan 7 2022 BFHR.html5 | Michigan (7-week) | Kritiks | 2022 |
240,542 | The key to moving beyond both positivism and the deconstruction of meaning is the foundation of questioning and the concept of the problematological answer. Politics is surely the sphere of debate over the meaning of public problems and how to solve them. If we disagree on a question, we argue about it, add to it with ... | Turnbull 05 (Nick Turnbull PhD – Lecturer in Politics at the University of Manchester, “Policy in question: from problem solving to problematology”, University of New South Wales, February 2005, https://www.academia.edu/download/66798539/SOURCE02.pdf, MG) | The key to moving beyond the deconstruction of meaning is the problematological answer. Politics is surely the sphere of debate over the meaning of public problems and how to solve them. If we disagree on a question, we argue about it, add to it with other questions and debate the pro and con of the possible answers. A... | Debating about policy is good, it’s the only way to reflect upon personal boundaries and engage with contingency – their model excludes that and causes dissatisfaction through thematizing politics | 2,583 | 196 | 1,004 | 406 | 29 | 166 | 0.071429 | 0.408867 | K - Psychoanalysis - Michigan 7 2022 BFHR.html5 | Michigan (7-week) | Kritiks | 2022 |
240,543 | If poststructuralism has a critical value it is because it questions established theory and therefore has at least questioning as a fundamental property (even if it does not affirm this, because it affirms nothing), which indicates that it is possible to answer. Policymaking involves posing questions and settling upon ... | Turnbull 05 (Nick Turnbull PhD – Lecturer in Politics at the University of Manchester, “Policy in question: from problem solving to problematology”, University of New South Wales, February 2005, https://www.academia.edu/download/66798539/SOURCE02.pdf, MG) | If poststructuralism has a critical value it is because it questions established theory (even if it does not affirm this, because it affirms nothing), which indicates that it is possible to answer. Policymaking involves posing questions and settling upon answers policymaking does seek practical solutions. Political rea... | Problem solving is good, it’s the only way to express identity and establish a foundation for knowledge – their theory is reductionist, paradoxically replicates the shortcomings of ontology, and crowds out politics | 695 | 214 | 449 | 102 | 32 | 66 | 0.313725 | 0.647059 | K - Psychoanalysis - Michigan 7 2022 BFHR.html5 | Michigan (7-week) | Kritiks | 2022 |
240,544 | DT. It seems to me that a frequent critique of psychoanalysis and politics is that in its inability, and perhaps unwillingness to propose concrete policy reforms or political projects, it falls back on a notion that everyone should just undergo analysis. Do you think that a political project that is informed by psychoa... | Daniel Tutt 13, Interviewing Todd McGowan, October 27, “Enjoying What We Don’t Have: Interview with Philosopher Todd McGowan”, http://danieltutt.com/2013/10/27/enjoying-what-we-dont-have-interview-with-philosopher-todd-mcgowan/ | It seems to me that a frequent critique of psychoanalysis and politics is that in its inability to propose concrete policy reforms it falls back on a notion that everyone should just undergo analysis What do you see as the role of analysis and political emancipatory work TM. I will alienate many of my analyst friends w... | McGowan votes for the perm---can integrate K’s insights and the 1AC | 2,034 | 67 | 1,284 | 323 | 11 | 207 | 0.034056 | 0.640867 | K - Psychoanalysis - Michigan 7 2022 BFHR.html5 | Michigan (7-week) | Kritiks | 2022 |
240,545 | Most former freeze activists retain at least some faith in the democratic process. According to Solo, the freeze campaign at least began a long process of “educating” the public, and for a time it successfully transformed “the issues and the language used by politicians” to facilitate discussion of nuclear issues, brea... | Hogan 94 [J. Michael Hogan, Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences at Pennsylvania State University, The Nuclear Freeze Campaign: Rhetoric and Foreign Policy in the Telepolitical Age, p. 6-7] | the freeze campaign began educating” the public, and successfully transformed “the issues and the language used by politicians” to facilitate discussion of nuclear issues, breaking from “the dominant discourse of arms control “the movement narrowed its agenda, which in turn constrained its educational program and confi... | We need to use the language of nuclear experts to challenge them --- solves co-option | 1,285 | 86 | 901 | 196 | 15 | 128 | 0.076531 | 0.653061 | K - Psychoanalysis - Michigan 7 2022 BFHR.html5 | Michigan (7-week) | Kritiks | 2022 |
240,546 | Now this contrasts with the argument of those who would "reinvent government" by putting up bureaucratic roadblocks to maintaining the reliability of the US nuclear arsenal through research and testing. They reason that if the reliability of everyone's nuclear arsenals declines, everyone will be less likely to try usin... | Futterman 94. J.A.H. Futterman, Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin and Physicist at the University of California’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, “Obscenity and Peace: Meditations on the Bomb,” http://web.archive.org/web/20060106211941/http://www.dogchurch.org/scriptorium/nuke.html | this contrasts with the argument of those who would "reinvent government" by putting up bureaucratic roadblocks to maintaining the reliability of the US nuclear arsenal through research and testing They reason that if the reliability of everyone's nuclear arsenals declines, everyone will be less likely to try using the... | Only effective discursive stewardship and technological power prevents the rogue usage of nuclear weapons – this turns and outweighs the K and proves the permutation is possible and desirable. | 2,907 | 193 | 2,525 | 457 | 29 | 401 | 0.063457 | 0.877462 | K - Psychoanalysis - Michigan 7 2022 BFHR.html5 | Michigan (7-week) | Kritiks | 2022 |
240,547 | From the nuclear critic's perspective, nuclear opponents unnecessarily constrain themselves when they adopt a first political assumption that is misleading and has not been subjected to the same reflection reserved for the other terms of the debate. The claim that nukes are "unspeakable" appears as an intolerable oppre... | Chaloupka 92. William Chaloupka, professor of political science at Colorado State University, Knowing Nukes: The Politics and Culture of the Atom, University of Minnesota Press, 1992, 20-23 | The claim that nukes are "unspeakable" appears as an intolerable oppression, a paternalistic admonition to "be quiet" that outdistances (and silences) all such preceding calls To speak is to reveal a paradox nuclear politics must repress We can begin to see the awkward, reversed influence of this repression when we con... | Their criticism of nukespeak fails – its nostalgia for a utopian world beyond language with authentic relationships to nuclear weapons merely feeds the fantasy of nuclear control they claim to resolve. Instead, a subtle struggle over the power of the meaning of nuclear weapons through our Foucaultien approach solves be... | 5,884 | 325 | 3,114 | 912 | 50 | 493 | 0.054825 | 0.54057 | K - Psychoanalysis - Michigan 7 2022 BFHR.html5 | Michigan (7-week) | Kritiks | 2022 |
240,548 | The pragmatist feminist perspective that I develop in this chapter is deeply indebted to and affirms in many respects the antiwar feminist approach outlined by Carol Cohn and Sara Ruddick in the preceding chapter, but with some marked differences. These differences, I argue, reveal more completely both the promise and ... | Peach 4 [Lucinda Joy, Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at American University, 2004, “A Pragmatist Feminist Approach to the Ethics of Weapons of Mass Destruction,” in Ethics and Weapons of Mass Destruction: Religious and Secular Perspectives, ed. Hashmi, p. 436-441] | The pragmatist feminist perspective affirms in many respects the antiwar feminist approach by Cohn and Ruddick but with some marked differences. These differences reveal the limitations of antiwar feminism The "pragmatist feminism" developed in this essay draws on several elements from American Pragmatism they share se... | Every central premise in their criticism of deterrence is wrong---retaining military force as a deterrent against highly destructive conflict is compatible with and key to long-term anti-imperialist goals of eliminating militarism and oppression. Even if violence exists on a continuum, the difference between war and it... | 15,598 | 502 | 6,953 | 2,385 | 76 | 1,075 | 0.031866 | 0.450734 | K - Psychoanalysis - Michigan 7 2022 BFHR.html5 | Michigan (7-week) | Kritiks | 2022 |
240,549 | While classical liberals focused on political structures, socialists analyzed the socioeconomic system of states as the primary factor in determining the propensity of states to engage in war. Socialists such as Karl Marx attributed war to the class structure of society; Marx believed that war resulted from a clash of ... | Sharp 8 [Gary, adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center, “Democracy and Deterrence. Foundations for an Enduring World Peace,” http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA493031&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf] | While classical liberals focused on political structures, socialists analyzed the socioeconomic system of states as the primary factor in determining the propensity of states to engage in war. These two schools of thought—war is caused by innate biological drives or social institutions—do not demonstrate any meaningful... | Zero empirical correlation between innate drives or social institutions and war – the only way to prevent conflict empirically is to look at the specific decision calculus of national leaders | 3,018 | 191 | 1,886 | 456 | 30 | 272 | 0.065789 | 0.596491 | K - Psychoanalysis - Michigan 7 2022 BFHR.html5 | Michigan (7-week) | Kritiks | 2022 |
240,550 | Wars are not simply accidents. Nor, contrary to our ordinary language, are they made by nations. Wars are made by people; more specifically they are decided on by the leaders of nation states—and other nonnational groups in the case of terrorism—who make the decision to commit aggression or otherwise use the military i... | Sharp 8 [Gary, adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center, “Democracy and Deterrence. Foundations for an Enduring World Peace,” http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA493031&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf] | Wars are decided on by the leaders of nation states who make the decision to commit aggression or otherwise use the military instrument These leaders make that decision based on the totality of incentives affecting them at the time of the decision Incentive theory focuses on the individual decisions that lead to war an... | The lack of deterrence is the most reliable predictor of war – instead of focusing on root causes, we should look to variables that directly affect decision-making, and deterrence is the most important factor | 1,916 | 208 | 931 | 311 | 34 | 151 | 0.109325 | 0.485531 | K - Psychoanalysis - Michigan 7 2022 BFHR.html5 | Michigan (7-week) | Kritiks | 2022 |
240,551 | By his own admission, Stavrakakis does not provide blueprints (which is unsurprising), nor does he provide prescriptions, political direction or policy proposals (pp. 13-14, 30). This leaves the work of dubious relevance to people doing politics whether as activists, politicians or administrators. The aim is rather to ... | Robinson 8 [Andrew, political theorist and activist based in the UK Contemporary Political Theory. Avenel: Aug 2008. Vol. 7, Iss. 3; pg. 351, 7 pgs] | Stavrakakis does not provide blueprints nor does he provide political direction This leaves the work of dubious relevance to people doing politics The argumentation backing up these claims mostly amounts to assertion and exegesis | Psychoanalysis has zero logical or empirical basis, can’t be scaled up, and totalizes the existence of the human condition in pseudoscientific terms | 1,738 | 148 | 229 | 268 | 22 | 34 | 0.08209 | 0.126866 | K - Psychoanalysis - Michigan 7 2022 BFHR.html5 | Michigan (7-week) | Kritiks | 2022 |
240,552 | Given that racism works at an unconscious level, it follows, in Cohen's¶ view, that strategies to challenge it at a conscious level are doomed to¶ failure. They are bound to fail precisely because they are rational and¶ fail to appreciate that the power of racism lies in the fact that it is¶ unconscious. To deinstituti... | Gordon 1—psychotherapist living and working in London (Paul, Psychoanalysis and Racism: The politics of defeat Race & Class v. 42, n. 4) | Given that racism works at an unconscious level, it follows that strategies to challenge it at a conscious level are doomed to failure. What is all this evidence? Certainly it is neither presented nor cited racism is taken out of society and material reality and lodged very firmly in the minds, the unconscious minds, o... | Psychoanalytic explanations of racism are reductionist, non-falsifiable and anti-political | 11,965 | 90 | 2,813 | 1,950 | 9 | 468 | 0.004615 | 0.24 | K - Psychoanalysis - Michigan 7 2022 BFHR.html5 | Michigan (7-week) | Kritiks | 2022 |
240,553 | The rejection of positivism which is a central element of recent critiques of mainstream IR has tended to extend to rejection of the notion and possibility of science itself. Science, often written in quotation marks ‘science’, is seen as inherently part of the project of Enlightenment-modernity, a mode of technical in... | Jones 04 – (August 2004, Branwen Gruffydd, PhD in Development Studies from the University of Sussex, Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy at Goldsmiths University of London, “From Eurocentrism to Epistemological Internationalism: power, knowledge and objectivity in International Relations,” Paper presente... | The rejection of positivism has tended to extend to rejection of the possibility of science itself seen as inherently part of the project of Enlightenment-modernity a mode of technical instrumental knowledge which is necessarily a means of control and domination An important component of the critique is its coincidence... | Valid, descriptive theories of the world are an essential prerequisite to emancipatory critique – epistemic shifts from Eurocentric thought are impossible without reclaiming the concept of objectivity. | 1,051 | 201 | 439 | 164 | 27 | 69 | 0.164634 | 0.420732 | K - Psychoanalysis - Michigan 7 2022 BFHR.html5 | Michigan (7-week) | Kritiks | 2022 |
240,554 | The postmodernists' problem is that they cannot live with disappointment. All the tragedies of the political project of emancipation ± the evils of Stalinism in particular ± are seen as the inevitable product of men and women trying to create a better society. But, rather than engage in a critical assessment of how, fo... | Gordon 1—psychotherapist living and working in London (Paul, Psychoanalysis and Racism: The politics of defeat Race & Class v. 42, n. 4) | postmodernists' cannot live with disappointment the tragedies of the political project of emancipation are seen as the inevitable product of trying to create a better society. rather than engage in a critical assessment of how radical political movements go wrong, they discard the emancipatory project academics have fl... | Psychoanalysis cannot be the foundation for ethics or the political---it’s negativity denies any chance of emancipation while reproducing the logic of the squo | 5,168 | 159 | 2,038 | 833 | 23 | 323 | 0.027611 | 0.387755 | K - Psychoanalysis - Michigan 7 2022 BFHR.html5 | Michigan (7-week) | Kritiks | 2022 |
240,555 | NATO’s new strategic concept will incorporate the threat from China in a way that seeks to learn from failures to counter Russia’s influence, security analysts told the Washington Examiner, noting China is watching Russia’s techniques to drive wedges and weaken the alliance. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told... | Mahashie 21’ (Abraham, Defense Writer Washington Examiner, 06/15) https://news.yahoo.com/nato-pivots-toward-china-seeks-181700482.html?fr=yhssrp_catchall | NATO’s new strategic concept seeks to learn from failures to counter Russia’s influence the new framework must address an emerging threat posed by China. We need to take into account the challenges China poses to our alliance The warning is especially vital, considering how the alliance failed to fend off Russian aggre... | Uniqueness – NATO’s learning from its mistakes with Russia, shifting resources to focus on China in the newest strategy | 1,389 | 120 | 472 | 217 | 19 | 77 | 0.087558 | 0.354839 | DA - China Shift - NAUDL 2022.html5 | NAUDL | Disadvantages | 2022 |
240,556 | According to the theory of international relations, the world is constantly in a state of anarchy and countries always seek a balance of power to maintain their own security. With China’s rise, the US and its allies fear losing the equilibrium that supports American domination of the global order. Considering China a “... | Veriek 20’ (Sim, 06/15, https://asiatimes.com/2020/06/three-pathways-to-war-between-the-us-and-china/) | With China’s rise, the US and its allies fear losing the equilibrium that supports American domination of the global order. Considering China a “revisionist state,” they have raised concerns about Beijing’s unchecked attempt to change the status quo, to pursue military expansionism and follow a path toward hegemony. Wi... | Impact- China expansionism creates World War III, Cold War 2.0, and proxy wars | 3,549 | 78 | 1,149 | 599 | 13 | 195 | 0.021703 | 0.325543 | DA - China Shift - NAUDL 2022.html5 | NAUDL | Disadvantages | 2022 |
240,557 | In a recent interview with the Financial Times, Stoltenberg said that countering the security threat from the rise of China will be an important part of NATO’s future rationale. “NATO is an alliance of North America and Europe. But this region faces global challenges: terrorism, cyber, but also the rise of China. So wh... | Xi 21’ ( Jie, Reporter for VOA News 10/22) https://www.voanews.com/a/nato-s-new-focus-reflects-china-s-rise-/6282496.html | countering the security threat from the rise of China will be an important part of NATO’s future rationale China has had an impact on European security through its cyber capabilities, new technologies and long-range missiles. NATO will adopt a new strategic concept , which wil strengthen its engagement with China. | NATO pivot focus on China is vital to security for the future | 1,830 | 61 | 315 | 301 | 12 | 50 | 0.039867 | 0.166113 | DA - China Shift - NAUDL 2022.html5 | NAUDL | Disadvantages | 2022 |
240,558 | During the March 23-24 meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) council, Anthony Blinken, the U.S. secretary of state, encouraged NATO members to join the U.S. in viewing China as an economic and security threat to the U.S. as well as to NATO countries, thereby expanding NATO’s areas of focus to include... | Wright 21’ (Ann, 03/29,https://truthout.org/articles/in-alarmist-turn-nato-is-increasingly-positioning-itself-in-opposition-to-china/) | encouraged NATO members to join the U.S. in viewing China as an economic and security threat to the U.S. as well as to NATO countries, thereby expanding NATO’s areas of focus to include the Pacific. “ It is as much about China and the Asia/Pacific region as it is about NATO’s traditional area of operations and concern,... | NATO Expanding its Technology With China in its Sights | 3,391 | 54 | 1,713 | 560 | 9 | 292 | 0.016071 | 0.521429 | DA - China Shift - NAUDL 2022.html5 | NAUDL | Disadvantages | 2022 |
240,559 | Big differences over how to treat autonomous weapons could undermine NATO’s drive. On paper, NATO is the ideal organization to go about setting standards for military applications of artificial intelligence. But the widely divergent priorities and budgets of its 30 members could get in the way. The Western military all... | HEIKKILÄ 21’ (Melissa, 03/29, https://www.politico.eu/article/nato-ai-artificial-intelligence-standards-priorities/) | Big differences over how to treat autonomous weapons could undermine NATO’s drive. The Western military alliance has identified artificial intelligence as a key technology needed to maintain an edge over adversaries, and it wants to lead the way in establishing common ground rules for its use. "I'm ... not sure that th... | NATO wants to set AI standards. If only its members agreed on the basics. | 2,772 | 73 | 1,155 | 445 | 14 | 189 | 0.031461 | 0.424719 | DA - China Shift - NAUDL 2022.html5 | NAUDL | Disadvantages | 2022 |
240,560 | Converging technologies also pose fundamental human security challenges. As Francis Fukuyama once argued in Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution, converging technologies could inequitably transform the world we live in and, in the process, undermine the very foundations that underpin liber... | Walsh 13’ (Eddie, 9/16, https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/natosource/danger-of-emerging-technologies-dividing-nato/) | Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution . serious ethical and moral issues “the traditional transatlantic compact [European political support in return for US military guarantees]”, they must change the way NATO approaches cooperative security around emerging technologies. And, they need to d... | Danger of Emerging Technologies Dividing NATO | 2,973 | 45 | 1,271 | 442 | 6 | 190 | 0.013575 | 0.429864 | DA - China Shift - NAUDL 2022.html5 | NAUDL | Disadvantages | 2022 |
240,561 | The bombing was said to be one of the major triggers of the consolidation of the Khmer Rouge’s power and the genocide that followed. While other parts of Southeast Asia remained peaceful, half of the Mekong region experienced prolonged bloodshed during the Cold War until the late 1990s when the civil war finally came t... | Veriek 20’ (Sim, 06/15, https://asiatimes.com/2020/06/three-pathways-to-war-between-the-us-and-china/) | one cannot ignore the fact that these two countries did experience multiple wars between each other after World War II, including a brief and bloody battle in 1974 over the Paracel Islands. Even if the US and China themselves do not want direct war, proxy wars could re-emerge, and small states would pay the price, as w... | War spirals into Proxy wars | 1,641 | 27 | 577 | 289 | 5 | 101 | 0.017301 | 0.349481 | DA - China Shift - NAUDL 2022.html5 | NAUDL | Disadvantages | 2022 |
240,562 | China participated in the 2014 RIMPAC with four ships and in 2016 but was disinvited in 2018 due to its military activities in the South China Sea. According to the Congressional Research Service, the Light Amphibious Warship, a proposed new class of Navy vessel, will be between 200 and 400 feet long and cost $100 mill... | Wright 21 (Ann, 3/31, Truthout Reporter https://truthout.org/articles/in-alarmist-turn-nato-is-increasingly-positioning-itself-in-opposition-to-china/) | China participated in the 2014 RIMPAC with four ships and in 2016 but was disinvited in 2018 due to its military activities in the South China Sea. According to the Congressional Research Service, the Light Amphibious Warship, a proposed new class of Navy vessel, will be between 200 and 400 feet long and cost $100 mill... | Countering ‘Threat’ From China | 2,257 | 30 | 1,273 | 385 | 4 | 218 | 0.01039 | 0.566234 | DA - China Shift - NAUDL 2022.html5 | NAUDL | Disadvantages | 2022 |
240,563 | Some suggest communist China is a greater challenge to U.S. supremacy. China’s rise is a story of rags to riches. Today, the country draws its strength from its new status as a manufacturing superpower, making it the only rival to the economic supremacy of the United States. There is no doubting the connection between ... | King 19’ (Ian, 11/27, https://nationalinterest.org/feature/why-nato-stronger-ever-100482) | Some suggest communist China is a greater challenge to U.S. supremacy. China’s rise is a story of rags to riches. Today, the country draws its strength from its new status as a manufacturing superpower, making it the only rival to the economic supremacy of the United States. | No Alt Cause – NATO is strong and united right now, China is the only thing that can cause a rift but standing together against them in the squo will draw NATO closer, the aff tears them apart | 1,228 | 192 | 275 | 191 | 38 | 47 | 0.198953 | 0.246073 | DA - China Shift - NAUDL 2022.html5 | NAUDL | Disadvantages | 2022 |
240,564 | The key to this model of deterrence is the maintenance of secure second-strike capabilities—the ability to absorb an enemy nuclear attack and respond with a devastating counterattack. Recently analysts have begun to worry, however, that new strategic military technologies may make it possible for a state to conduct a s... | Gopalaswamy 2018 (Kroenig, 11, 12 https://thebulletin.org/2018/11/will-disruptive-technology-cause-nuclear-war/) | The key to this model of deterrence is the maintenance of secure second-strike capabilities—the ability to absorb an enemy nuclear attack and respond with a devastating counterattack. Recently analysts have begun to worry, however, that new strategic military technologies may make it possible for a state to conduct a s... | --- Yes impact, US would overreact and exasperate a war along with China, ropes everyone else in and causes nuclear escalation Disrupting the balance between maintaining relations and new technology leads to nuke war | 1,393 | 216 | 842 | 213 | 34 | 125 | 0.159624 | 0.586854 | DA - China Shift - NAUDL 2022.html5 | NAUDL | Disadvantages | 2022 |
240,565 | Cyberattacks against NATO countries originating from Chinese IP addresses have increased 116% since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, new research shows. Cyberattacks from Chinese IPs have also risen 72% worldwide, according to trends analyzed before and after Russia's invasion of Ukraine by cybersecurity firm Check P... | Conklin 22’ (Audrey, 03/26 https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/chinese-cyberattacks-nato-increase-ukraine) | Cyberattacks against NATO countries originating from Chinese IP addresses have increased 116% since Russia invaded Ukraine Cyberattacks from Chinese IPs have also risen 72% worldwide | -- Extend Harr 2018’ – Any further attempts to balance tech advancements with relations and international disputes will give China an opening to further creep in the shadows | 334 | 173 | 182 | 48 | 28 | 25 | 0.583333 | 0.520833 | DA - China Shift - NAUDL 2022.html5 | NAUDL | Disadvantages | 2022 |
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