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The clinic and critique of patriarchy via Nobodaddy has been in full swing for six months. Together with the eleven texts in this latest issue, there are more than one hundred and twenty contributions from...

The tripartition of the paternal function – real, imaginary and symbolic – in Lacan’s teaching is a fundamental conceptual reference point for distinguishing the fathers targeted in the various critiques of patriarchy. The symbolic father insofar as...

The word “patriarchy” traditionally referred to the historically indisputable prevalence of the signifier “father” in cultural structuring. Today, its semantic field has shifted from the Other to the One; at its most intense, it designates...

Ohad Naharin is a dancer and choreographer of contemporary dance. Since 1990, he has been the resident choreographer of the well-known Batsheva Dance Company, based in Tel-Aviv. He has also developed a teaching method, Gaga...

The father declines The father déclines. Let us highlight the effect of the paradox: the more the father declines, the more the father comes in a thousand different forms and shapes. The more...

In recent years, “patriarchy” has become a slogan-word, a combat phrase, that has spread like wildfire in activists’ minority communities, there, where it fell out of use. Its signification is vague and floating – even feminists...

We read here about a range of contemporary responses to the evaporation of the father. Some rely on « neo » claims, others are entirely legally based. Sometimes it is a question of leveraging a work, which...

While the economic consequences of war are making headlines all over Europe, Olivier De Ville devotes a reflection in this issue on the economic causes of war. Indeed, what becomes of the economy – always of...

In this edition of Nobodaddy we will talk about laughter. If already in Genesis, Ham, son of Noah, laughed at the decline of the naked and devirilised father, we find today, in the TV series...

The father of patriarchy is the father who is confused with God. This all-father is a sweet myth that is gradually evaporating under the effect of the discourse of science. It is because no father...