White Nights with Lacan

Greetings, my good people. Beware, the following has a spoiler. Today I reflect upon a film that I recently got the occasion to watch, a film inspired by Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel “White Nights” and directed by Ivan Pyryev. Here, I will not give you the entire background and

The Hoax of Power: Robert Greene’s Schizoid Fantasy of Control

Greetings, my good people. Today’s blog is not merely a critique of Robert Greene, the now-iconic author of The 48 Laws of Power and its literary cousins (The Art of Seduction, The Laws of Human Nature, Mastery). It is a critique of the readers who devour his works with