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Omri Ceren is a PhD candidate studying Rhetoric at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication. He lives in downtown Los Angeles.
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Sigmund Freud Archive
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Scientist Who Doesn’t Understand Judgment Tries To Persuade People To Drink Own Waste, Produces Rhetorical And Psychoanalytic Train Wreck, Comedy Gold
Orange County has just launched a Toilet To Tap water program to reclaim flushed waste, distill it, and return it into the drinking supply after a few years. The scientific side of the debate is a crush: even ignoring the Southern California water crises, the tap water is cleaned until it’s near-bottle quality and certainly [...] -
Sigmund Freud Head Lollipops. Yes, Really.
The Internet is over. You can all go home now: Sigmund Freud’s head yields subtle contours and watermelon flavors when you suck on it. Of course it does. Post tagged ’s’ for stupid. References: * Watermelon Flavored Sigmund Freud Head Lollipops Previously: * [Edit] * Quantitative Hints Of The Big Other * Watermelon Flavored Sigmund Freud Head Lollipops Permanent link to this post [...] -
Quantitative Hints Of The Big Other
Lacanian theory can be justified simply as an approach that reveals interesting problematics and generates tensions with conventional wisdom. But that’s almost certainly unnecessarily modest. Lacan’s ontological assumptions are philosophically rigorous, especially when refracted through Zizek’s Hegelian rereading of the real as the Night of the World, etc. Far downstream, Lacanian social theory converges with [...] -
Cog Sci Blog Roundup
We’ve got a couple posts in the hopper – a Peirce vs. Deleuze post (of all things) and a post about how scientific triumphalism empowering anti-science right and the left – but little time to clean them up right now. Plus we’re still working our way through posts going back to May – quals was [...] -
Amazon Marketing And Its Discontents – Collected Works Of Freud Published
Sigh. About a minute and a half elapsed between Amazon’s server firing this email off and us purchasing the book. This – despite already having most of it in various pieces from various classes. We apparently have what marketers refer to as “low self-control”. And what creditors refer to as “debt”. So it goes: Get yours. [...]
