On Beck’s Departure
- June 30th, 2011
- By Mark Limacher
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My personal favorite moment from the Glenn Beck show (despite the dated optimism):
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My personal favorite moment from the Glenn Beck show (despite the dated optimism):
When a week’s worth of Feldman just doesn’t do.
I highly suggest anyone in the Philadelphia area right now to attend some of the “American Sublime” Morton Feldman Festival taking place until June 12th. Last night’s concert with the JACK Quartet was thrilling.
I somehow managed to lose my recording of this- an unforgivable crime.
Renata Salecl on Love:
How is love connected to the “big Other”? There is no love outside speech: nonspeaking beings do not love. As La Rochefoucauld observed, people do not love if they do not speak about it. Love emerges out of speech as a demand that is not linked to any need. Love is a demand that constitutes itself as such only because the subject is the subject of the signifier. As such the subject is split, barred, marked by a fundamental lack. And it is in this lack that one encounters the object cause of desire. This object has a paradoxical status: it is what the subject lacks, and at the same time what fills this lack. The enchantment of love is how the subject deals, on the one hand, with his or her own lack, and, on the other hand, with the lack in the loved one1.