Since the onset of the 2008 economic crisis and the resurgence of various forms of transnational radical politics (the Arab Spring, Occupy etc), several left-wing thinkers have argued that the era of left melancholia is now over. This paper examines such claims, paying particular attention to the recent re-engagement with the idea of communism in contemporary critical theory. Foregrounding the ...

What is Wrong with Our System? Right at the very beginning of pandemic, Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek published a monograph about his thoughts on first few weeks new situation. In it, he presents both personal experience pandemic and opinions overall changes that it might subsequently bring forth. As many times before, once again calls for global order, basing faults current system reveale...

The struggle for domination clearly persists in Homecoming as it does almost all of Pinter’s works. Because the vague atmosphere, enigmatic characters, and dark, tragicomic dialogue action, a single decisive meaning play cannot be identified. Many character analyses have been carried out on play, frequently focusing Ruth her decision at end. Moreover, critics sought to read light psychoanalysis...

The reality of suffering and the existence natural moral evils appear to present significant obstacles doctrine God’s omnipotence, omniscience, omnibenevolence. Theodicy is an attempt resolve problem evil. One formerly prominent theodicean response can be termed “compensation theodicy” (or “afterlife theodicy”), premised on notion that, in words philosopher Stephen Maitzen, “Heaven swamps every...

Drawing on the work of Eric Santner, Slavoj Žižek, and Alenka Zupančič, this paper constructs a theory of subjective singularity from a Lacanian perspective. It argues that, unlike the "subject" (who comes into existence as a result of symbolic prohibition), or the "person" (who is aligned with the narcissistic conceits of the imaginary), the singular self emerges in response to a galvanizing d...

Although the spiritual vibration of conversion can be felt (by the curious outsider) through what conversion performers say in their testimonial discourse, what transforms the convert 'on stage' into a 'new being' and what is 'the real' (le réel) in conversion performance remain unclear. An important question in this connection is, What is 'real' in a conversion representation, both with respec...