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This category is stuff that I come across in stuff I read, or watch, or listen to, and don’t want to forget. It’s also a record of thoughts that make up my head noise.

Adventures in Wikipedia | Pt. 1

Today, I came across the word heteronym when reading To Write as if Already Dead by Kate Zambreno. I knew I had seen this word before, but I could not remember what it meant. I was reading the book in the kindle app on my iPhone, so I highlighted the

The Imaginary is Ascendant | This has Political Effects

In the argument for Clinical Study Days 15, Thomas Svolos writes: The word or the text is no longer enough, and language now needs an image to go with it, to be linked or connected to the text in the narrative. The image is linked to the imaginary register, and

How to use silence as an intervention

From Speedboat by Renata Adler: Describing herself, the protagonist says, I love the laconic. Clearly, I am not of their number. When animated conversations are going on, even with people interrupting one another, I have to curb an impulse to field every remark, by everybody, as though it were addressed

The Theory of the Subject ($)

More from the 1986 article Lacan and the Ethics by John Rajchman. This article is full of good stuff. Unlike "centering" theories of ourselves, the theory of the subject is thus a theory about what divides us from ourselves and so from each other. It raises a new

The end of the analysis is beyond the pleasure principle

Another significant bit from the 1986 article Lacan and the Ethics by John Rajchman, where he makes a very astute observation about the "end of analysis" (i.e., the analytic cure in so far as such a thing exists). The aim or "end" of analysis is

The Ethical Position of the Analyst

In a fantastic paragraph in his 1986 article Lacan and the Ethics, John Rajchman says, Psychoanalysis is not a medical treatment any more than the unconscious is a medical disorder —a dysfunction or maladaptation. Rather the unconscious is a “structural or constitutive fact about ourselves as speaking subjects, and analysis

Ha!

This morning, I read the following I. Warren Ellis’s Orbital Operations email newsletter. I keep getting newsflashes from newspapers on my phone telling me that Twitter's on fire and Meta has fucked itself and in my RSS feed I'm seeing more "this is the

Meta-Modernism

I’ve been doing some looking into the terms post-postmodernism and metamodernism. For the metamodern generation, according to [Timotheus] Vermeulen, "grand narratives are as necessary as they are problematic, hope is not simply something to distrust, love not necessarily something to be ridiculed.” [...] The return of a Romantic sensibility

Subjectivity Between Consciousness & The Unconscious

From The World of Fragile Things: Psychyand the Art of Living , by Mari Ruti. psychoanalysis recognizes the unconscious as an essential component of psychic life, it shifts our conception of what it means to be a human being: rather than equating personhood with structures of consciousness, rationality, or the ego,

A note on The Transferential Unconscious V. The Real Unconscious

In doing some work, I came across this bit of text that I had highlighted in Thomas Svolos's book Twenty-First Century Psychoanalysis. (Let me add parenthetically, that in the later work of Lacan, more relevant today in practice, as further developed by Jacques-Alain Miller, in addition to this