This article uses psychoanalytically derived perspectives on the voice – in particular Lacan's work – to shed light on the political functions of the BBC's Empire Service and the foreign language services that developed out of it. Focusing on the formal qualities of the voice, it analyses how the voice as broadcast on the Empire Service was deployed as a means of linking up the British Empire, and above all the British diaspora. It examines how – with the emergence of the BBC's first foreign language services directed at indigenous, colonial populations – the voice came to play a rather different role, as an instrument of imperial administration. The article concludes by applying the model of ventriloquism to illuminate how these services allowed the imperial centre to speak in the voice of its peoples.

The BBC Empire Service: the voice, the discourse of the master and ventriloquism

The politics of precarity have emerged on the contemporary scene of critical theory with great social force in recent years This paper looks at the risks and obstacles of positing precariousness and vulnerability as the basis of a universal ethics while also arguing for the socially transformative potential of such a model More broadly, it considers the crucial question of what stands in the way of human relation and ethical life in an age of neoliberalism and biopolitics, and posits an ethics of resemblance grounded in the commonality of flesh and in the at once singular and universal experience of loss

Common Bodies: the ethics of precarity politics

Meta-psychological bridges between neuroscience and psychoanalysis have focused on Freud’s structural model [Kaplan-Solms & Solms, 2002. Clinical studies in neuro-psychoanalysis: Introduction to a ...

Of brains and Borromean knots: A Lacanian meta-neuropsychology

The promise of constitutionalisation is, according to Kratochwil, the existential comfort that comes from having a coherent framework for judgement and action. This apparent epistemological confidence comes at the price of parting with a realistic assessment of the concrete situation, and it conceals that politics operate across all levels all the time. This paper critiques this vision and points beyond the idea of exhaustive frameworks. Figuring out contextually appropriate configurations of constitutionalisation and fragmentation allows for greater agency and pluralism. A more fundamental tension in Kratochwil's work remains, however, his falling back on the abstract to articulate the experiential.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/14F3603E9C7C152B50469B4071A8E10D/S1752971920000573a.pdf/div-class-title-politics-as-span-class-italic-realitatsprinzip-span-in-the-debate-on-constitutions-and-fragmented-orders-remarks-on-constitutions-and-fragmented-orders-div.pdf

Politics as Realitätsprinzip in the debate on constitutions and fragmented orders: remarks ‘On constitutions and fragmented orders’

This contribution explores the perspective of a group of parents whose children are hosted in a residential community in Northern Italy. This community hosts children with diagnosis of psychosis, separated from their families by medical decision or by judgement. This compulsory separation leads to a relationship between the institutional network and parents characterised by a struggle for power. In Hegelian terms, there is a creation of an imaginary relation between master and slave. In this situation, three main questions emerged: (1) What can be done with the parental suffering, anguish and aggression caused by this separation? (2) Where placing these affections inside the institutional work with children? (3) What effect will produce this situation, on the institutional transference? A place named ‘Parents’ place’ was created. During these meetings, parents were invited to speak about their own children with the professionals of the community. Using a theory-driven conceptual framework, Imagina...

Therapeutic community for children with diagnosis of psychosis: What place for parents? The relation between subject and the institutional ‘Other’

Jacques Lacan: The Other Side of Psychoanalysis

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