''Lacanian Ink'' is a cultural journal based in New York City and founded in the Autumn of 1990 by
Josefina Ayerza to provide the American intellectual scene with the theoretical perspective of European
post-structuralism
Post-structuralism is a term for philosophical and literary forms of theory that both build upon and reject ideas established by structuralism, the intellectual project that preceded it. Though post-structuralists all present different critiques ...
. It features major analyses of
psychoanalytic theory
Psychoanalytic theory is the theory of personality organization and the dynamics of personality development that guides psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology. First laid out by Sigmund Freud in the late 19th century, psy ...
, poetry, philosophy and contemporary art. A distinctive element of its contents is the dissemination of the work of French psychoanalyst
Jacques Lacan
Jacques Marie Émile Lacan (, , ; 13 April 1901 – 9 September 1981) was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. Described as "the most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud", Lacan gave yearly seminars in Paris from 1953 to 1981, and ...
, whereby the seminars given by
Jacques-Alain Miller at Paris VIII on Lacanian theory have become available in English.
Richard Kostelanetz in his book ''The Decline and Fall of a Soho Art Community'' notes that ''Lacanian Ink'', together with a number of other journals involved in contemporary culture, have been witnesses to the century's last decade phenomena. "Today, there are but three of these magazines that continue... ''Bomb Magazine'' and ''Lacanian Ink'' are two of them."
History
From its inception Slovene philosopher
Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek (, ; ; born 21 March 1949) is a Slovenian philosopher, cultural theorist and public intellectual. He is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London, visiting professor at New ...
joined the editorial board bringing out first drafts of his books in the magazine; since then, he has been published in ''Lacanian Ink'' regularly. He aptly expressed the axiom guiding the work of ''Lacanian Ink'': "By rejecting the assertion of identities associated with
cultural studies
Cultural studies is an interdisciplinary field that examines the political dynamics of contemporary culture (including popular culture) and its historical foundations. Cultural studies researchers generally investigate how cultural practices re ...
''Lacanian Ink'' outlines a new philosophical universalism." In 2000 French philosopher
Alain Badiou
Alain Badiou (; ; born 17 January 1937) is a French philosopher, formerly chair of Philosophy at the École normale supérieure (ENS) and founder of the faculty of Philosophy of the Université de Paris VIII with Gilles Deleuze, Michel Fouc ...
joined the editorial board with specialized writing on Lacanian theory and the European
Marxist
Marxism is a left-wing to far-left method of socioeconomic analysis that uses a materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to understand class relations and social conflict and a dialecti ...
tradition.
In 1997, ''Lacan dot com'' became the official site for ''Lacanian Ink'', integrating the texts of its various theorists with an extensive special section on contemporary artists. Notably, the archives of the site include a wide variety of articles and essays by Slavoj Žižek,
Jean-Luc Nancy and Alain Badiou, as well as by modern French theorists.
See also
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Bomb (magazine)
References
External links
Lacan dot com
Jacques Lacan
Post-structuralism
Magazines established in 1990
Visual arts magazines published in the United States
Magazines published in New York City
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