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World in the Rear-View Mirror - A review of Worldlessness After Heidegger: Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis, Deconstruction. Roland Végső (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020)
(University of Canterbury, 2021)Even though the notion of world obviously plays an important role in the history of philosophy, its proper conceptualisations often get lost among its functioning simply as a synonym for reality, objectivity or totality. ... -
When Words Fail. A review of Wittgenstein and Lacan at the Limit: Meaning and Astonishment, Maria Balaska (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
(University of Canterbury, 2021)In his 1955-’56 seminar on psychosis, which was primarily devoted to an intricate analysis of Freud’s case-study of the memoirs of Daniel Paul Schreber, Lacan at one point invited his listeners to contemplate the possibility ... -
Notes on ultra-realism: A response to Raymen and Kuldova
(University of Canterbury, 2021)We thank the editors of Continental Theory and Thought for providing us the opportunity to respond to Raymen and Kuldová’s article, ‘Clarifying ultra-realism: A response to Wood et al’ (hereafter ‘Clarifying Ultra-realism’). ... -
Anthropie: Beside the Pleasure Principle
(University of Canterbury, 2021)According to Lacan the notion of discourse should both be associated with and distinguished from those of speech and language. By way of approximation, we could suggest that discourse lies in between the virtuality of ... -
Enjoying All Things in Common: Toward a Theology of Hoarding
(University of Canterbury, 2021)We have probably all heard reports and seen video footage of people hoarding numerous essential and, in some cases, non-essential items during the COVID-19 pandemic, which disrupted the global economy and life in general ... -
Abjection Accomplished - On Jouissance as an Ontological Factor
(University of Canterbury, 2021)Lacan’s concept jouissance marks the both painful and joyful disturbance of a mind’s libidinal equilibrium which also gives coherence to the basic structure of reality from the point of view of the individual. Because ... -
Dialectics of Sin: snokhachestvo Incest in Maxim Gorky’s Fiction
(University of Canterbury, 2021)Russian literature famously contributed to thinking about sin in the works of its most celebrated writers, such as Fyodor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy, dubbed as “Russian thinkers” to denote their contribution to moral, ... -
Ecological Sin: Novelty or Necessity?
(University of Canterbury, 2021)Surrounding mountains, high altitude, an active volcano, and a steep drop at the end of a short runway make flying into La Aurora International Airport in Guatemala City an interesting experience at any time of the year. ... -
Sin as the Abandonment of physis & the Serpent-Mother Goddess
(University of Canterbury, 2021)The genealogy of sin will always begin with Eve in what has become known as the Western narrative. In communion with the wicked serpent, Eve betrayed humanity when she ate the forbidden fruit from the Sycamore Tree. Since, ... -
Neopentecostalism as a Neoliberal Grammar of Suffering
(University of Canterbury, 2021)This article proposes an understanding of Brazilian Neopentecostalism, emerging in the 2000-2019 decades, considering processes related to mass psychology, identifications and ideological fantasies described by psychoanalysis. ... -
Apocolypse Now
(University of Canterbury, 2021)Every theology, as with archaic societies, has its own eschatology. Endings precipitate new beginnings, and beginnings recapitulate the original cosmogonic acts of endings that preceded it, the Chaos before Creation. ... -
Introduction (CTT&T V3, Issue 2)
(University of Canterbury, 2021)Why think about Sin in the 21st century? We have surely left Sin and such associated beliefs and morality behind? So would argue those who see themselves in the continuing wake of the Enlightenment, rationality and science. ... -
Sin and Justice: Healing the Breach Between Theology and Political Philosophy
(University of Canterbury, 2021)Whatever happened to “sin”? The concept itself, so integral and central to the Western theological tradition, has faded away over the most recent decades and centuries as even a topic for serious contention. While ... -
Backsliders, Opportunists, and Renegades: A Contribution to a Pauline Marxist Theory of Sin
(University of Canterbury, 2021)What is sin for a Marxist? It is inapplicable, irrelevant, null and void. Or so it would seem if we are correct to attribute to Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels a critical theory and practice of proletarian self-emancipation ... -
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It ain't over until it's over: English auctions with subsequent negotiations
(Elsevier BV, 2020)We consider a standard private value ascending-bid auction and show that subsequent negotiations make a seller worse off. The reason is that the seller’s optimal strategy does not change if she can make a take-it-orleave-it ... -
Aspirational yet precarious: Compliance of New Zealand refugee settlement policy with international human rights obligations
(Inderscience Publishers, 2017)Despite New Zealand’s ratification of similar international obligations to the other ‘Group of 5’ states, the prevalence of broad strategies with little specificity in relation to policy or supporting funds suggests ... -
‘Here’ and ‘back home’: Imagining diasporic connections through Aotearoa New Zealand’s Pacific news media
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)This case study of Pacific news media and their audiences demonstrates how ethnic news media use discourses and practices of ‘homeland’ and ‘diaspora’ to build identity and community belonging, and thereby serve a connective ... -
Unpacking the efficacy of Reading to Learn using Cognitive Load Theory
(2020)This paper synthesises the key findings of past separate studies conducted by the same authors, which sought to assess the efficacy of the Reading to Learn (RtL) literacy intervention on students' academic writing performance. ... -
When Cultivate Thrives: Developing Criteria for Community Economy Return on Investment
(2019)Project overview: Urban communities around the world are using farming and gardening to promote food security, social inclusion and wellbeing. For Christchurch-based Cultivate, urban farms are not only physical places ...