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"""Laurence Rickels offers blazing illumination of the invisible undertow of disquiet and uncanny in our knowledge of culture, consciousness and technology."" -Jonathan Lethem ""In Rickels's work-as, for instance, in Lars von Trier's films-misery is not a problem to be resolved and overcome, but the foundation for future insights, a setting in which new and difficult material will be revealed in a dialectic that often includes disaster."" -Artforum ""In SPECTRE, Rickels' use of psychoanalysis makes it something like wallpaper on a computer, just the unquestioned background that provides a support for everything else to appear."" -Critical Inquiry ""Laurence A. Rickels, the man with the golden pun."" -The Rumpus ""In Rickels's reading, psychosis, as a state of removal from reality, is tied to the integration brought about at the end of mourning, while in psychopathy, which involves more of a removal from society than from reality, 'the failure to empathize and mourn tests the limits of tolerance.' A resistance to mourning is important in that the subject becomes even more shaken than stirred."" -Los Angeles Review of Books ""The provocations of Rickels' genius combustion engine-Kulturindustrie, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, German idealism and Shakespeare-lures us into introjection from the mindless mass media projection Sensurround riding Bond's technological wave."" -The Huffington Post"

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