Black Hole Paradoxes Reveal a Fundamental Link Between Energy and Order

By Tamar SchwartzMay 29, 2020May 29, 2020 Science

Click Here to Read: Black Hole Paradoxes Reveal a Fundamental Link Between Energy and Order: By chewing on the problems posed by “extremal” black holes, physicists have exposed a surprising and universal connection between energy and entropy by Natalie Wolchover on the Quanta website on May 28, 2020.
Extremal Kerr-Newman black hole Image: Yukterez (Simon Tyran, Vienna). Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

How Red Vienna Revolutionized Sigmund Freud

By Tamar SchwartzMay 29, 2020May 29, 2020 History, Politics, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: How Red Vienna Revolutionized Sigmund Freud by Phillip Henry on the Jacobin website on on May 28, 2020.

MITPP Online Courses

By Tamar SchwartzMay 28, 2020May 28, 2020 EVENTS

Click Here for a list of Summer Institute Online Mini-Courses and Workshops. All offerings are approved for contact hours/CEUs.

Shavuot

By Tamar SchwartzMay 27, 2020May 27, 2020 Arts, History, Literature

Click Here to Read: Holiday Edition: Shavuot on the Tablet website on May 27, 2020.
Western Wall, Jerusalem, Shavuot. Image: Daniel Majewski. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Speech, Signifier, Letter with Alain Vanier Online with Après-Coup

By Tamar SchwartzMay 27, 2020May 27, 2020 Uncategorized

FOUNDATIONS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS Speech, Signifier, Letter Alain Vanier Saturday, May 30, 2020 10:00 am – 1:00 pm To register, click here.

We will study the difference between signifier and letter without overlooking the sign, a notion Lacan rethought at various points of his teaching. Particular attention will be paid to their relation to the act of speech and the subject of language. Continue reading Speech, Signifier, Letter with Alain Vanier Online with Après-Coup