Something I wrote last year and which, sadly, did not get anywhere. Lacan at the Scene Henry Bond Cambridge, Mass. and London: MIT Press, 2009 256 pp. $24.95/£18.95 ISBN-10: 0-262-01342-8 ISBN-13: 978-0-262-01342-0 Detectives and analysts see more than we do, moving between transference and interpretation with a perplexing ease, and picking up key details about [...]
A Lacanian murder mystery
Hard bound purple copy
Afterall, one work
This series of monographs really appeals to my obsessiveness with specific works of art. Just like having a private critical museum… They even have a lovely volume on Étant Donnés. How not to include it? It is one of the most recurring images I have ever encountered…
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Projecting Desire: Sex, Psychoanalysis and Cinema
A very interesting course at Tate Modern. I would so love to have the resources to teach something like this: Led by Lucy Scholes and Richard Martin 10.30-16.00 on 5 June only 10.30-13.00 all the other sessions Combining film, literary and psychoanalytic theory, this six-week course explores the fascinating theoretical connections within the work of [...]
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We take pictures, therefore we are
My review of Mike Robinson and David Picard’s The Framed World: Tourism, Tourists and Photography has been published in THES (No. 1,923, 19-25 November 2009, p. 50). If you want to find out what I think of it, click here.
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Matthias Schaller
I am reading a lovely book on Casanova’s self portraiture. It was written by Stefan Zweig and published by Pushkin Press. I do like the object books that Pushkin Press produce. They are tactile, and have wabi-sabi. The more the book lives in my handbag and travels with me, the more good-looking it becomes. But [...]
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