There is no ideal partner
I don't know when I started to do this or why I started to do it.
Now, when I'm reading Lacan (or the writing of Lacanians), and I encounter the phrase "There is no such thing as a sexual relationship" or "the sexual
More issues
QTS-009 | DDials & The Porto-Internet
Content:
It's a real ramble fest / jog down memory lane.
I consider walking when 36 degrees Fahrenheit / 3 degrees Celsius feels warm, DDials, the early internet, gathering as opposed to parties.
The audio is not as clean as I normally make it (sorry for some of those mouth
The drive to transcend all limits
From Pynchon’s Prophecy, by Gus Mitchell:
Pynchon shows us that the drive to transcend all limits has constructed systems of another order. These systems, though based first on human networks of power and control, eventually exceed our individual and collective grasp, and take on a life, or rather an
The body is an instrument we play when we speak
This morning, I was reading The Pinning of Someone Unplaceable by Dominique Holvoet in The Lacanian Review #9: Still Life? (pp. 81-86), and I read the following sentence that highlights something that Jacques-Alain Miller said in the text Habeas Corpus.
J.-A. Miller [said] "man, unlike the subject, has
General Head-Noise
22/1/24
Starting
The day is overcast. I look out the window and see the gray sky and the white snow. The contrast is pleasant and matches my emotional landscape.
7:14 am
Up and moving…
QTS-008 | Benevolent Pressure
Content:
I am picking up on something that was mentioned last time: The artist/musician Chilly Gonzales. I talk about the concepts of "benevolent pressure," talk about professional wrestling, and Godzilla movies, and consider the question of why people might make things.
Referenced:
Last episode
Chilly Gonzales, in
Our past influences but does not determine
When I taught in a school of social work, one of the things I found a little unsettling was the propensity of some students to over-emphasize the effects of a person’s contest (i.e., a person’s past circumstances) on their present situation.
I thought about this recently when
Gil Caroz on Psychosis v. Neurosis.
From the text, The Degree Zero of Madness, by Gil Caroz:
The psychotic, however, distinguishes himself in that he recognizes the foreign presence of this Other who speaks through him, who occasionally speaks to him and intrudes. In contrast, the neurotic ignores the fact that the Other speaks within him,
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I was trying to get my middle kid to nap because he was super tired, and I'm 100% positive he would have benefitted from a nap. The child disagreed with this and kept himself awake by singing jingle bells at high volume.
"You're
General Head-Noise
21/2/24
General Head-Noise posts are started at the beginning of my day and updated throughout the day. The posts contain a semi-structured collection of thoughts, reflections, reactions, associations, and observations.
There are far from fully formed / completely thought out ideas. Instead, they are ideas in an emergent state,