john Scalzi’s Interdependence Trilogy
May 12, 2020
Si-Fi & Steven Shaviro & John Scalzi's & Marxism & Economics & Utopia & Dystopia & Capitalist Realism & Dialectical Pessimism
Steven Shaviro writing about John Scalzi’s Interdependence Trilogy. Scalzi provides us with a (semi-)utopian alternative, which is a laudable thing
Freelancers & COVID-19
May 12, 2020
COVID-19 & Warren Ellis
From Warren Ellis’s weekly newsletter —> I said to someone on Friday afternoon, in some shock as it dawned on me: “I’m actually bored.” I mean,
Jouissance is flexible
May 11, 2020
Jouissance & COVID-19
In my newsletter this week, I’ve been writing about how my thoughts on the flexibility of jouissance. This morning I read the following, which is a
Jail is better than the “freedom” to live in isolation?
May 11, 2020
Necropolitics
When I read this today I was shocked at first but after a few seconds it made started to make sense, which is very sad. In Japan, the number of
The Neurotic v. The Pervert
May 10, 2020
Neurotic & Pervert & Psychic Structures & Lacan
Whenever I teach about the psychological strictires I have an easy time distinguishing between psychotic steuctires and neurotic structires. I’ve
The ability to “code” things
April 28, 2020
Deleuze
Need, scarcity, famine, a society can code these, what it cannot code, is when this thing appears, when it says to itself: what is up with these
Deleuze on flows
April 27, 2020
Deleuze
Recently I started to read Anti-Oedipus by Deleuze and Guattari, and (of course) I’m having some difficulty understanding it. In an effort to
The incarcerated: These in a “state of exception”. & COVID-19
April 24, 2020
COVID-19 & State of Exception & Agamben
The following is from the _Popular Information email newsletter, which you can subscribe to here. In New York City, at least 1200 inmates and
The Uncanny, the Double, dad Ding…
April 22, 2020
Freud & Das Ding & the Double & Uncanny & Monsterology & Hauntology
As a consequence, we comprehend that the whole issue of stigmatization revolves around the “Uncanny”1 problematic. The uncanny, ο “xsenos”(ξένος,
Good advice from Taylor Adkins
April 17, 2020
Taylor Adkins & Podcast & Guattari & Lacan & Name-of-the-Father & Hysteric & Monsterology
I was listening to an episode of Cooper Cherry’s Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour Podcast where coop talks with Taylor Adkins and DC Barker At about
Paul Kingnorth on just how fragile our “Everyday life” is.
April 15, 2020
Dialectical Pessimism & Paul Kingsnorth & COVID-19
From the most recent edition of author Paul Kingsnorth’s email newsletter: “The pattern of ordinary life, in which so much stays the same from one
The lockdown is the “neutron bomb” for the economy
April 14, 2020
COVID-19
Writing on his blog Interconnected, Matt Webb reminisces about growing up during the Cold War… One of the things we’d talk about was the neutron
This is not fine, and it was not fine then either.
April 13, 2020
Dialectical Pessimism & COVID-19
Written by Sean Bonner on his blog. There’s no question that 2020 is shaping up to be a disaster, and people are understandably asking how long
We are not all “I this together.”
April 13, 2020
Dialectical Pessimism & COVID-19
This morning I read what I think is a very good article from The Atlantic. The article, by Eric Liu, talks about how many people and institutions
Necropolitics
April 7, 2020
Necropolitics & Namos & Polis & Achille Mbembe
I’ve been doing lots of reading on the idea of Necropolitics, a concept articulated by the theorist Achille Mbembe. Here is a bit from the Wikipedia
Warren Ellis’s email newsletter
April 6, 2020
Funny & Warren Ellis
One of the main ways I consume content created by others is through email newsletters (the other is through RSS), and one of the newsletters I
Keep it fake
March 31, 2020
COVID-19 & The Real & Lacan & Heat Death & Huantology
The effects of the coronavirus, beyond the public health questions, will leave an irreversible impact on the culture. I have been reflecting on what
In these liquid times
March 21, 2020
Liquid Times & Elisabeth Roudinesco & Name-of-the-Father
I just received a copy of a the book Philosophy in Turbulent Times by Elisabeth Roudinesco. I’m not going to start it for awhile because I’ve too
Hannah Arendt in lies
March 19, 2020
Arendt & Monsterology & Semblant
If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. 1 Arendt
The last teaching of Lacan does not mean we set fire to what came before it
March 14, 2020
Jacques-Alain Miller & Lacan & The Real
The last teaching of Lacan, that I only now address thematically, and with caution, does not invite you to set fire to that which you adored. I
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