the Words Made Flesh

 Julia Kristeva, 1941  The psychoanalytic concept of symbolic law refers to the form-giving function of social structures and institutions including language itself;  Symbolic law supports bodily experiences and semiotic drives in meaningful signifying systems.  Today, loving forms of social support are rare, as bodies silently suffer the disconnection from form-giving law, law itself "suffers" the disconnection of drives and affects [...].  These resonances deepen in Kristeva's more recent three-volume series on the "powers and limits of psychoanalysis" - The Sense and Nonsense of Revolt (1996), - Intimate Revolt (1997), -Hatred and Forgiveness (2005).  There, she connects the emptying of symbolic law to the elaboration of regulatory power that reduces subjects to bodies of organs, bios to zoe.  Engaging implicitly, if not explicitly with biopolitical themes, Kristeva warns that the expansion of regulation produces a "Life and Death" [...] a life for

  In a culture  like ours, long accustomed to splitting and divinding all things as a means of control, it is sometimes a bit of a shock to be reminded that, the medium  is the message . This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium-that is, of any extension of ourselves-result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs  by each extension of ourselves, or by any  technology  [...]. For the "message" of any medium or technology is the change of scale or pace or pattern that it introduces into human affairs. [...] If the formative power  in the media are the media themselves, that raises a host of large matters that [...] deserve volumes. [...] In a society whose economy  is dependent upon one or two makor staples like cotton, or grain, or lumber, or fish, or cattle, is going to have some obvious social patterns of organization as a result [...] The pathos and humor of the American South  are embedded in such an economy of limited sta

https://bnr.bg/el/post/100149795/--- "Οι ζωγραφισμένες νύφες δεν κλαίνε" - ντοκιμαντέρ για τους παραμυθένιους γάμους στο χωριό Ρίμπνοβο Σε ένα από τα ορεινά χωριά της νοτιοδυτικής Βουλγαρίας, βρίσκεται το πομάκικο χωριό  Ρίμπνοβο . Εδώ ο χρόνος λες κι έχει σταματήσει. Οι χωρικοί τηρούν πιστά τις αξίες της πατριαρχικής οικογένειες, τον τρόπο ζωής και τις παραδόσεις. Οι γάμοι κρατούν τρεις μέρες και τρεις νύχτες, με υπέροχα φαγητά, παραδοσιακούς χορούς και τραγούδια. Γάμοι, τόσο όμορφοι, που λες και είναι παραμυθένιοι. Ένα από τους υπέροχους αυτούς γάμους που γίνονται στο χωριό Ρίμπνοβο, μας περιγράφει το ντοκιμαντέρ της τουριστικής τηλεόρασης TVT, με τίτλο "Οι ζωγραφισμένες νύφες δεν κλαίνε". Δημιουργός του ντοκιμαντέρ είναι η κα Βενέτα Νικόλοβα, δημοσιογράφος της Βουλγαρικής Ραδιοφωνίας. Τα καταπληκτικά τραβήγματα του βυθισμένου στην υπέροχη φύση της Ροδόπης χωριού, η αυθεντική μουσική και η αισθησιακή αφήγηση, μας βάζουν σε ένα άγνωστο και θα λέγαμε, φανταστικό κόσ

What the philosopher learned from his time in elementary-school classrooms. Every philosophy major has at some point had to answer the standard challenge: “What are you going to do, teach?” It’s especially frustrating after you realize that, for someone with a humanist bent and a disinterest in worldlier things, teaching is a pretty good career […] https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/03/05/wittgenstein-schoolteacher/

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  Walking down a snowy street in Tehran in 1976:  "You cannot stop women walking in the streets of Iran, but you wouldn't see this today - her earrings and make up so clearly on show," Prof Afshar says. "There is this concept of 'decency' in Iran - so nowadays women walking in the streets are likely to wear a coat down to her knees and a scarf."  In the decades [1941-1979] prior to the Islamic Revolution of 1979, Iran was ruled by the Shah-King Mohammad Reza Pahlavi  from: Max Style catalogue  Shah's dictatorship repressed dissent and restricted political freedoms  Under Shah's rule, Iran's economy and educational opportunities expanded  Britain and the U.S counted Iran as their major ally in the Middle East  from: Iranian women - before and after the Islamic Revolution - BBC News   Watch:  https://youtu.be/T4M_EJzjItk from: Iranian Historical and Information Center  Due to Iran's supply of oil, proximity to India and shared border with t

  [Lotman] acknowledges that the semiotician has the habit of transforming the surrounding world so as to show up the semiotic structures: "Everything that King Midas touched with his golden hand turned to gold. In the same way, everything which the semiotic researcher turns her attention to, becomes semioticized in his hands" (Lotman, 1990) --Yuri (Mikhailovich) Lotman, 1922-1993, Soviet structuralist, semiotician and literary thinker. Founder of Moscow-Tartu semiotic school https://filosofia.dickinson.edu/encyclopedia/lotman-yuri/

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