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"Unlike the wolf, the coyote's range has expanded in the wake of human civilization, and coyotes readily reproduce in metropolitan areas" (Koler-Matznick, Janice).

Society of Coyotes is a comic of mine that began in mid-2010 for the University of Calgary’s independent student newspaper, the Gauntlet. Since then it has confused and bothered readers across not just campus, but in the larger community too. Its obsession with intentionally obscurantist philosophical humour has won it few, if any, fans at all.
jujutsu-with-zizek: Zizek on desire for the lost object and on drive as the loss of any object at all: “The weird movement called “drive” is not driven by the “impossible” quest for the lost object; it is a drive to directly enact the “loss” - the gap, cut, distance - itself. There is thus a distinction to be drawn between the lost object-cause of desire and the object-loss of the drive. This is what Lacan means by the “satisfaction of the drives”: a drive does not bring satisfaction because its object is a stand-in for the Thing, but because a drive turns failure into triumph - in it, the very failure to reach its goal, the repetition of this failure, generates a satisfaction of its own. The drive is a counter-movement to desire, it does not strive towards impossible fullness and then, being forced to renounce it, get stuck onto a partial object as its remainder. (art by kris knight)

jujutsu-with-zizek:

Zizek on desire for the lost object and on drive as the loss of any object at all:

“The weird movement called “drive” is not driven by the “impossible” quest for the lost object; it is a drive to directly enact the “loss” - the gap, cut, distance - itself. There is thus a distinction to be drawn between the lost object-cause of desire and the object-loss of the drive. This is what Lacan means by the “satisfaction of the drives”: a drive does not bring satisfaction because its object is a stand-in for the Thing, but because a drive turns failure into triumph - in it, the very failure to reach its goal, the repetition of this failure, generates a satisfaction of its own. The drive is a counter-movement to desire, it does not strive towards impossible fullness and then, being forced to renounce it, get stuck onto a partial object as its remainder.

(art by kris knight)

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