β Newsletter v.4.7 | Before You Talk to Me About "Being in the Moment" Hello from the American Midwest. Having little kids changes the way time works. One of the effects of having two little kids is that I spend far more time "in the moment," paying close attention to what my kids are doing. This is radically different than my life
Durable Unconcious v. Transient Consciousness More from the essay Dora by Janet Malcolm [https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Janet+Malcolm&crid=13WSY105TB697&sprefix=janet+malcolm%2Caps%2C100&ref=nb_sb_noss_1] , the first essay in The Purloined Clinic [https://www.amazon.com/Purloined-Clinic-Selected-Writings/dp/0679748105/ref=sr_1_1?crid=
Intellectual Life as Specialized Craftsmanship From a New York Magazine profile on Adam Tooze [https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/adam-tooze-profile.html], where the years Tooze spent at university are described. > With its entrenched traditions and exacting, unquestionable standards, the Cambridge approach to pedagogy makes intellectual life a kind of specialized craftsmanship. After I read
The End of Analysis | Making Nonsense of Our Neurosis The quote below appears in the essay Dora by Janet Malcolm [https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Janet+Malcolm&crid=13WSY105TB697&sprefix=janet+malcolm%2Caps%2C100&ref=nb_sb_noss_1] , which is the first essay in The Purloined Clinic [https://www.amazon.com/Purloined-Clinic-Selected-Writings/dp/0679748105/
Some Notes on Algorithms | For a Presentation I'll Give Next Month I'm working on a short presentation that I'll give next month at the monthly member's meeting of the Lacanian Compass [https://www.lacaniancompass.com/]. The point of the presentation will be to present a potential new discourse which I'm calling the discourse
Making Sentences I've been writing every day for some time now. Be that as it may, I don't have a massive amount of writing done. The bit of text [https://www.surplusjouissance.com/something-went-wrong/] I sent out/posted about my experience of being a kid when the Challenger
β Something Went Wrong Below is a copy of the rough draft of an introduction I'm working on for something about the connection between civilization, the state, and psychoanalysis. The text is a personal story that does not explicitly mention civilization, the state, or psychoanalysis. However, I plan to use the story
Ride a Bus & Get University Course Credits?! Yesterday I posted about the chapter, Everyone Longs for a Master: Lacan and 1968 [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9780230250857_7] by Stephen Frosh [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9780230250857_7#auth-Stephen-Frosh]. I got my hands on a (digital) version of the book this chapter is
Some thoughts on teaching about Lacan's Object (petit) a One of the books I use in a class I'm teaching this semester is The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves [https://www.amazon.com/Examined-Life-Lose-Find-Ourselves/dp/0393349322/ref=sr_1_1?crid=TFUBG95CEF5U&keywords=stephen+grosz+s+the+examined+life&qid=1648554225&