From Julian Simpson’s email newsletter
November 7, 2020
Julian Simpson & Hollywood & Economics & COVID-19 **
Writing Julian Simpson has a great email newsletter called INFODUMP. This bit of text was in the most recent edition of that. The more you watch
Trump is a psychotic structure par excellence
May 22, 2020
COVID-19 & The Real & Psychosis
Today in a post at Daring Fireball John Gruber wrote about a Daily Beast article summering a paywalled article at the Finically Times where Trump
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
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
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
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