What Happened to Desire?

A response to Liza Featherstone

In classic psychoanalytic fashion, Featherstone doesn’t reduce the political dividends of desire to the consequences of sex as most of us understand and experience it: as “genital fun.”  She’s interested in something “more broadly libidinal,” something more dangerous to order and to hierarchy of any kind. In short, she’s interested in what Freud called ...
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What Happened to Desire?

The #MeToo Moment and the Reproduction of Silence

Can we talk and listen at the same time?

On February 8, 2018, The New School hosted an event entitled "Sexual Harassment and Assault: Eros, Power, Violation, and Consent." Psychologist Jeremy Safran moderated a panel featuring Lew Aron and Adrienne Harris from NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Katie Gentile from John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and ...
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The #MeToo Moment and the Reproduction of Silence

What Makes for Ethical Sex?

The status of the ‘other’ in hetero-sex

On February 8, 2018, The New School will host an event entitled "Sexual Harassment and Assault: Eros, Power, Violation, and Consent." Psychologist Jeremy Safran will moderate a panel featuring Lew Aron and Adrienne Harris from NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Katie Gentile from John Jay College of Criminal ...
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What Makes for Ethical Sex?

The Masturbatory Logic of Fake News Sites

This post is part of the Bodies, Gender, and Domination OOPS Series. On December 4th a man walked into a warehouse-sized pizza and Ping-Pong establishment in Washington D.C. armed with a rifle and fired it once. Nobody was harmed, though pizza patrons fled the business and the neighborhood was put on lock-down ...
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The Masturbatory Logic of Fake News Sites