Essays

  1. the temporality of waiting: désir and the suspension of time

    Waiting in love as suspended time: désir and repetition through Lacan, Heidegger, Bergson and Radiohead's Let Down.

  2. useless optimization via neoliberal terminator of constant simulation

    How neoliberalism and social media turn love into self-optimization, read through Lacan, Žižek and Foucault, and what unquantified intimacy could be.

  3. paradox of self-dissolution in love

    Can the self dissolve into the Other without disappearing? Hegel's recognition, Nietzsche's amor fati and Beauvoir's critique of romantic love.

  4. the stranger and absurdisme: beyond static posture

    A reading of Camus' The Stranger against its petrified interpreters, through Hegel, Lacan, Foucault and René Girard's mimetic desire.

  5. reflection: love, désir and the unknowable Other

    Why love means giving what you don't have: Lacan's objet petit a, Žižek on falling, Hegel's mutual becoming and Deleuze's desiring-production.