New Forms of Melancholia with Massimo Recalcati at Apres-Coup

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 10, 2020March 10, 2020 EVENTS

Giorgio De Chirico, Les jeux terribles, 1925-1926.
FOUNDATIONS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS New Forms of Melancholia Massimo Recalcati Wednesday, April 8, 2020 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm zasa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò at New York University 24 West 12th Street, NYC

The Freudian clinic has described melancholia as a moral delusion mostly based on a sense of guilt. Due to the way in which repression is now being understood, we are identifying forms of melancholia that indicate an Continue reading New Forms of Melancholia with Massimo Recalcati at Apres-Coup

The controversy surrounding Jeanine Cummins’s novel American Dirt

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 9, 2020March 9, 2020 Books, Literature

Click Here to Read: The controversy surrounding Jeanine Cummins’s novel American Dirt By Sandy English on the World Socialist Web Site on March 3, 2020.

Delegate battle ahead likely favors Biden

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 9, 2020March 9, 2020 Politics

Click Here to Read: Delegate battle ahead likely favors Biden by Reid Wilson on the The Hill website on March 4, 2020.
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Landmark Computer Science Proof Cascades Through Physics and Math

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 9, 2020March 9, 2020 Science

Click Here to Read: Landmark Computer Science Proof Cascades Through Physics and Math: Computer scientists established a new boundary on computationally verifiable knowledge. In doing so, they solved major open problems in quantum mechanics and pure mathematics by Kevin Hartnett
on the Quanta Magazine website on March 4, 2020.
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The race to unravel the United States’ biggest coronavirus outbreak

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 9, 2020March 9, 2020 Science

Click Here to Read: The race to unravel the United States’ biggest coronavirus outbreak: As cases in Washington state soar, virologists are working around the clock to diagnose cases, reveal routes of transmission and test treatments by Amy Maxmen on the Nature website on March 6, 2020.
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Has teaching objective truths become inconvenient?

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 9, 2020March 9, 2020 Literature, Science

Click Here to Read: Has teaching objective truths become inconvenient?
Nathan M Greenfield on the University World News website on March 7, 2020.
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How does the coronavirus outbreak end?

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 9, 2020March 9, 2020 Science

Click Here to Read: How does the coronavirus outbreak end? Governments’ failure to contain the coronavirus means it may be here to stay .By Brian Resnick on the Vox website on March 7, 2020.
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