Pollen

Matt Valentine is a Ph.D. Candidate at Duquesne University. “Queer Theorists” contend all identities, including gay and straight, are socially constructed. This challenges the essentialist positions of those who wish to say everyone is born with an innate gender and sexuality, usually argued as heterosexual. How would you describe the constructed identity that “Queer Theorists” [...]

Todd McGowan is a professor at the University of Vermont. He has recently authored The Impossible David Lynch (Columbia University Press) and The Real Gaze: Film Theory After Lacan (SUNY Press). From University of Vermont web site: Todd McGowan teaches courses in film theory, history, and genre. His areas of interest include Hegel, psychoanalysis, and [...]

By Nick Scipione There exists a fundamental divide between drive and desire, as pointed out by Jacques Lacan1, which is all too often over-looked.Before the nervous system can become excited and produce drives, there must be that which initiated the enticing. Past environs indicate how production can occur, and present environs determine the necessity to [...]