the categorification of lacan's mathemes

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abstract nonsense amirite

Tachyon

mathemes

oh no

Tachyon

in all seriousness, these were a classic case of physics envy, imo

math is sophisticated, sometimes humanities people get jealous

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the one thing with mathemes i saw seemed to literally contradict itself.  so i don't even know what he was trying to say

Tachyon

That is par for the course with Lacan.  Much of his writing is confusing waffle, and his mathemes are pretty much the worst of the lot.  Whatever meaning they have is inextricable from Lacan's own work, so why he felt the need to formalize them is something of a mystery.  my guess is it was just an attempt to make his work appear more rigorous than it really is.

i may be doing him a disservice; psychoanalysis has never been my strong suit and i've never had much patience with Lacan.  But that's the impression i get, anyway.

Odradek

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/20/health/film-about-treatment-of-autism-strongly-criticized-in-france.html?pagewanted=all

Miss Miko Mayonegg

^ fuck you france