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A thread of my discussions on Afropessimism and the Lacanian signfier, and topology.

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“Topology does not claim to get us out of the phantasm but to account for it.”—Jean-Michel Vappereau

.@lacancircle

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.@aph_ekapa

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When Marriott referred to blackness as “[an] x-of-x” he was doubling the unknown therein. He quantify it via the identification with the One. Also, you can say he was thinking it via fungibility. At the intersection of the Cartesian line/circle (feminine) and number (masculine).

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That is, even if the feminine is a fetish, it relies, in the words of Dany Nobus, on a “black fetish,” too. Like a Russellian set: x ∈ x, or {{1}, Ø}.

Artwork: “Anxiogenic black spots I” (2023), Vusumzi Nkomo, .@aphaekapa

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“Jouissance is the opposite pole of desire.”

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https://t.co/8fuN8wRvFX

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“[A]partheid can be seen from space.”—Gabrielle Hecht, .@gabriellehecht

This is a place where I was born. Taken as of 2021.

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Thusly, expelling blackness from the graph of desire is not the transformation of blackness from obsessional symptoms to hysteria, as topology teaches us. It will be the end of the world.

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I just realised this argument precedes Marriott’s discussion of atomism and desire in Lacan Noir. To expel blackness from the graph of desire is, somehow, equivalent to the Badiouian event.

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He further says n’est pas is an “abyss”—a rupture “exterior and radically intimate”—that’s not a representation of “[a] thing” but of a “Fanonian object”a “radically symbolic work of racialization” whose a discourse is “[the] expulsion of blackness from the graph of desire.”

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Many Lacanians have came to rectify Badiou: the event is not One. It’s only with Fanon’s teachings, we find the event as One. That’s why Lacan himself opted for a moment of war that is substitutive, while Fanon argued for inventivity in a moment of war.

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“[T]he ground forms the link between the potential and singularity.”—François Recanati
https://t.co/ycjoEvKK9h

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“Africa is a slave estate.”

[African News feed. @africansinnews]

The Government of Malawi has declared that it's sending its unemployed young people to Israel to work on farms as part of President Lazarus Chakwera's commitment to job creation !!!!

[Vuvu Videos @VideosVuvu]

This is Spar Sinoville in Pretoria. This Chris is a problem😳

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@vudoomunkyfut @nomos_ii DM’d you.

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@vudoomunkyfut @nomos_ii A lot of people have been asking me about a psychoanalysis reading group. It might have to happen.

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“The discourse of capitalism is Verwerfung [foreclosure], outside all the fields of rhe symbolic.”—Lacan

“In psychosis, meaning is reversed.”—David Marriott

“In psychosis, the unconscious is created through foreclosure.”—Raul Moncayo

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4) The family “invents” medicine however iatrogenic; the children die from their “inventions,” too. Meaning is reversed.
5) Roderick, when asked about the deaths: “life is madness.”

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OG Lacanians were right. The Lacanian signifier is in most sense filmic. I didn’t know I’d grasp those parts of his capitalist’s discourse (Cd) that were escaping me by watching ‘The Fall of the House of Usher.’

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1) Number of generations to be psychotic is there; n=3.
2) Hallucinations are primal, but Roderick says his family can displace [“metaphor”] but only him can sublimate. Imaginary compensation is there.
3) The One is semblant; everyone compensates by copying the Father (or One).