JORGE RODRIGUES SIMAO

Jacques Derrida

Jacques Lacan in Theory

Jacques Lacan

 The French psychoanalyst, Jacques Lacan (19011981) is frequently described as the architect of postmodern psychoanalytic semiotics. Drawing on the ideas of Freud, Saussure, and Lévi-Strauss, he argues that the unconscious is structured like a language; it is therefore crucial to identify the inner workings of that discourse that takes place within the unconscious – the repository of knowledge, power, agency, and desire. We do not control what we say; rather the structure of language is predetermined by thought and desire. He employs a psychoanalytical, Freudian conception of the divided human subject - ego, superego, and the unconscious - to demonstrate that the ‘I’ expressed by language (which he calls the ‘subject of the statement’) can never represent an individual’s ‘true’ identity (which he calls the ‘subject of enunciation’).

How to Control your Mind - Sarvangasana Yoga

We cannot control everything that happens to us. But we can control our response to those things.

We cannot control the feelings of others-their fear, their power trips, their issues.

All that we can choose is how we want to respond.

Maybe you have been wronged.

Everything Happens For A Reason

Mishaps are like knives that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

James Russell Lowell

Success rains down for no apparent reason.

Tragedy strikes like a freight train.

We’re left to deal with the results.

The Future of the Law

Protecting software

 Complex legal (and, in the United States, constitutional) issues surround the question of patenting software. A patent is the grant of an exclusive right to exploit or develop an invention. With the introduction of various forms of computer programs and other types of software, the law will continue to grapple with challenging, and often perplexing, problems as to whether there is sufficient novelty in the software to justify patentability. In general, the law takes the view that computer programs are not patentable unless they constitute a genuine invention with industrial application. There is, on the other hand, a greater readiness to provide copyright protection to software, web pages, and even email messages since their owners have, as the name implies, the right to copy the material and, by extension, the right to prevent others from doing so. Software piracy has grown into a significant menace to major software producers such as Microsoft, but the issue is extremely controversial since, though it is clear that certain countries (China, Vietnam) engage in the wholesale copying of software, it is argued that the huge losses (up to 12 billion US dollars) that companies such as Microsoft claim they suffer is illusory because many of those who purchase pirated software are unable to afford legitimate versions. Moreover, it is contended by opponents of copyright for computer programs such as the Free Software Foundation that ‘‘free software” is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of “free” as in “free speech,” not as in “free beer.” Free software is a matter of the users’ freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software.’