The Object Lesson #1: Samir Gandesha, What's Left: On the Prohibition of Language
Paris Institute for Critical Thinking
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Cancel Culture? Is It a Thing?
I think cancel culture is a thing. I do find the psychoanalytic perspective useful here in terms of the kind of the Lacanian problematic of Jewish songs. One feels compelled to participate in this game of cancellation while knowing deep in one's heart that at some point one could oneself be canceled. We all have desires and drives, fantasies that are not pure. And so what happens then if that is revealed in some form of pare praxis? So you can see where the logic is pointing. The logic is pointing to the fact that everybody in a sense is cancelable. Think of our foibles today and how they might appear to a generation 10 years from now, 20 years
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