N I H I L S E N T I M E N T A L G I A,
a blog about photography by Sofia Silva
In chapter XI (Courtly love as anamorphosis) of Lacan‘s Seminar VII (The Ethics of Psychoanalysis), Lacan suggests the term “extimacy” (extimité) to talk about the “intimate exteriority” that is at the core of the Thing. The Thing (das Ding) is a concept that Lacan develops from Freud to identify a primordial element that has been lost and…
Read More© Américo Marcelino, CAMERA OBSCURA drawing, Untitled For his PhD Project, Américo Marcelino went on a big adventure: he set out to find how does the drawing represent beyond its basic mimetic qualities. For that, he decided to use a couple of optical devices and went on to create them himself. The drawings here shown…
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The cover of the August edition of Rolling Stone mag features Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of Boston’s bombers. People are furious. At first sight, that hysteria could be reasonably understood. Given the suffering he allegedly caused, people might not want him to have protagonism (though they like reading about crimes in the newspaper and watch crime…
Read More© Gaëtan Gatian de Clerambault, photographs taken between 1914 and 1918, while C was in Morocco recuperating from a war wound. “…consider the relation of this figure to the photographs taken by Clerambault. Does this historical fantasy of colonial cloth underlie his photographs? Do we see in them not, as some of them seemed earlier…
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N I H I L S E N T I M E N T A L G I A, 