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Neil Gorman

Neil Gorman

Neil Gorman is an assistant professor at the Aurora University School of Social Work, and a practicing Lacanian analyst, and a maker of podcasts, newsletters, & other sundry things.

📍 Near Chicago http://neilgorman.com

QTS-014 | Books

Content: I talk about * The Weather * Buying books and then reading them... or... as is more likely, not reading them. * WWE Elimination Chamber * [S][J][P] - Surplus Jouissance Projects. Referenced: * WWE * Elimination Chamber 2024 * Peacock

An example of the intact its best: Manu’s blog

I read the post On Dreams and Goals on Manu’s blog this morning. That post is an example of the internet at its best. If you’re reading this please click the link and read what he wrote. It’s not long, and it is very very cool.

QTS-013 | Friends & Enemies

INTRO: It has been too long since I last made a QTS. Here is episode 013. REFERENCED: * Cyberpunk genre * These dino eggs from Lakeshroe Learning * Joe Frank * Anne Carson's Grief Lessons: four Plays by Euripides (Amazon)

Anne Carson

Several years ago, the university I taught at asked me to go to an academic conference and offered to pay for it. The conference was in Minneapolis. My then girlfriend (now wife) had lived in Minneapolis and still knew lots of people there that she wanted to see. Given that

Joe Frank

It would have been in the early 2000s. I was working the second shift on an inpatient unit of a substance abuse treatment center. I'd often work from 2:00 pm to 10:00 pm but stay later than that, doing paperwork or talking with other people who

⌾ Recommendations | 4 Things

As we approach the end of the week, I'm sending out a list of things that I think will bring you some surplus enjoyment. 1. READING (short): I posted about the beautiful email newsletter, The Convivial Society, written by L.M. Sacasas, a few times this week. Here

[Reading] Fassbinder Thousandsof Mirrors by Ian Penman

These are passages I highlighted in the book Fassbinder Thousandsof Mirrors by Ian Penman because I like them. I don't recall ever feeling particularly English or British or Anglo Saxon or Celtic or whatever; this may have been partly the punkish, puckish spirit of the times, and partly

[Reading] Ian Penman on using theory as an autodidactic

From an interview with Ian Penman done for Interview Magazine by Sarah Nicole Prickett. PRICKETT: Your pieces for NME are infamously full of references to French theory. Do you feel that you read more, or more widely, because you were reading as a writer or a fan and not as

The more accelerated our life becomes…

The text below is from The Novel of the Future by Anaïs Nin. The more accelerated our life becomes, the more we have to learn to select only the essential, to create our own repose and meditation islands within an uncluttered mental space. I did not come across the text

Being enchanted with the quotidian

Also, from The Convivial Society email newsletter, which was sent out this week and I already blogged about here: In The Enchantment of Modern Life, political theorist Jane Bennett argued that “the contemporary world retains the power to enchant humans and that humans can cultivate themselves so as to experience