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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.

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[Reading] Ribbonfarm

Writing on his blog Ribbonfarm, Venkatesh Rao says, I was asked in a DM conversation whether I use AI for writing, and I said no, it would be like going for a walk in my car. This was a great opening sentence! It made me alight, and it said something

⌾ Recommendations | 3 Things

Hi, It is Friday when I send out an email about things that bring some surplus jouissance to my life. I hope that you will enjoy them as well. My kids have been on spring break this week. I've been spending lots of time with them and not

⚯ Reading Notes | Analysis Terminable and Interminable

1. Freud starts by saying something clearly. Experience has taught us that psycho-analytic therapy —the freeing someone from his neurotic symptoms, inhibitions, and abnormalities of character— is a time-consuming business. I notice he says "psycho-analytic therapy" and not just psychoanalysis. That's interesting. Perhaps Freud does not

Good Text in Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

I'm reading Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. I'm enjoying it a lot. Here are some bits from the text that I like: “Always remember, mine Sadie: life is very long, unless it is not.” Sadie knew this to be a tautology, but it

Subject of the enunciation, tomorrow

I found this very early in the novel Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. He found himself uttering a series of “excuse mes” that he did not mean. A truly magnificent thing about the way the brain was coded, Sam thought, was that it could say “Excuse me”

Percival Everett & Subjective Meaning

From a New Yorker profile of Percival Everett (who I had never heard of before reading the profile). Everett is American literature’s philosopher king—and its sharpest satirist. The significant insignificance of language has long been a preoccupation of his fiction, which plumbs the failures of storytelling to capture

QCP-017 | Made something

Content: In this episode, I go on riffing on the stuff I talked about in CEP-016, an then I share something I made when doing other things I normally do was off the table. Referenced: - Logic Pro - Ghostbusters - Derrida Writing & Difference

Reading, research, & procrastination

From the most recent this wonderful post on disquiet: Reading is a form of writing procrastination that sort of doubles as research. Yeah.

⌾ Recommendations | Things | 3 Things

Hi, It is Friday, the day that I send out an email about things and stuff that brings some surplus jouissance to my life. My hope is that you might enjoy them as well. My kids have been on spring break this week. I’ve been spending lots of time

The dopamine-stupidity slope

In issue [227/21] of his [Nightingalingale], Craig Mod writes about the process of making his next book and how he started and completed five hours of productive work. Knocked out a good five hours of focused work today. How? No phone in the morning. The key to a good