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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

AM⌭PM | 003

Hi, I'm writing this one mid-day, right at the border of when AM becomes PM. Reason for this: A Friday with a full dance card of things and stuff that need my time and attention. I started to write about how living this way was affecting me yesterday

AM⌭PM | 002

Hello, Welcome to the second edition of AM⌭PM [https://www.surplusjouissance.com/tag/am-pm/], an experimental email newsletter blog sort of thing, written by me --Neil Gorman [https://www.surplusjouissance.com/about-neil/] as part of [S][J][P] [https://www.surplusjouissance.com/]. -◉- AM As I write these

Peng Shuai is missing

From The Skimm today [https://www.theskimm.com/news/2021-11-18-3hriSbBsgxtLzfxPAv3u1y]: > Earlier this month, [Peng Shuai [https://link.theskimm.com/click/25745016.886455/aHR0cHM6Ly9za2ltbXRoLmlzLzMwdmFZWGQ/5bb525872ddf9c50a3ace324B7ec2e60f] ] the Chinese tennis star publicly accused a former top gov official of sexual assault. It’s the first time anyone’s made such an allegation

AM⌭PM | 001

Trying a new process/structure today. In the morning (am) write something. Ideally, before the day gets rolling. (I say "ideally" because I know this will not always be possible.) Then, at the end of the day (pm) write something.

◎ Drafts | An Intermission...

⚯ Reading Notes | Miles Law via David French

In his Third Rail Email Newsletter [https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/the-third-rail/], political commentator David French [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_French_(political_commentator)] says the following: > I’d like to introduce you to an obscure but commonsense statement about human nature. It’s called Miles’s law [https:

Cancelation is a problem, regardless of if it comes from the left or the right

From the Wait, What? [https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/wait-what/] Newsletter by Molly Jong-Fast [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Jong-Fast] (Part of The Atlantic's new email newsletter program [https://www.theatlantic.com/subscriber-newsletters/].) > Earlier this month, a Hill-HarrisX poll [https://emails.theatlantic.com/c/eJwdUMuOwyAM_JpycwUkJOTAYS_7HzxMYMujIqRV_

It is the performance inside the legal procedure that might be more important than the legal procedure...

In an article in The Atlantic [https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/trump-strategy-steve-bannon-indictment/620704/] David Frum [https://www.theatlantic.com/author/david-frum/] shares some well articulated insights about some of the things playing out around the Jany6’th commission. Comparing what Bannon is doing the what the Chicago

Open Notebooks

One of the things that I make here at [S][J][J] is a series of open notebooks. You can use the links below to explore those. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Currently, I have a few preoccupations that get a dedicated notebook, a general sort of "catch-all" notebook, and a journal.

⚯ Reading Notes | Notes on Attacking & Defending, from Dust of Dreams

Hello, And welcome to ⚯ Reading Notes [www.surplusjouissance.com/tag/reading-notes/], which is a new project under [S][J][P] [www.surplusjouissance.com] where I keep the notes I take on what I'm reading. These notes are written for me, so I'm not 100% sure they