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Notebook

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.

A public sort of thinking process

In his email newsletter Carton Gravity Julian Simpson, wrote: As of today, I am setting up a reminder to post to this site DAILY. Yes, you read that right, DAILY. The posts don't have to be long or even particularly coherent, but they need to happen because I

Information density & time

The text below is the opening paragraph of The Convivial Society email newsletter, which was sent out this week: Here’s an analogy for your consideration. Just as physical density bends time, so does information density bend the experience of time. (Disclaimer: I’m not a physicist and don’t

Pro wrestling & jouissance

From an article on Wrestling Inc. on the work that Al Snow is doing at OVW: I'm also doing something here that no one's teaching anymore. I'm teaching the art of how to work a professional wrestling match — not wrestle a professional wrestling match

Compasses, then & now

On the back of Desire and Its Interpretations: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book VI Jacques-Alain Miller writes: Up until recently, all of our compasses, no matter how varied, pointed in the same direction: toward the Father [the Law]. We considered the patriarch to be an anthropological invariant. His decline

Living in the jackpot

From this post on disquiet: ▰ CLONE WARS: “Your group should set up a password for situations where you need to confirm identities over the phone. Let’s say it’s ‘raspberry beret.’ If you get a call from a loved one in trouble, you can say, ‘Look, there are scams,

QTS-012 | Minimalism & desire

In her post titled Don't make simplicity complicated, Clare Devlin writes: Anything taken to the extreme can be complicated. And simplicity is no exception. Minimalism is, I think, about not being tormented by the insatiability of desire. However, the desire to become more minimal can become as distracting

The fantasy of an evil Other

Writing in The Atlantic, David Brooks focuses on a turn in how people “self-identified” and calls our attention to the following: Sometime around 1970, the American personality changed. In prior decades, people tended to define themselves according to the social roles they played: I’m a farmer, teacher, housewife, priest.

Not everything is an interpretation

In a text titled, What words, What Body?, Anne Lysy writes,[1] There are words that carry some weight, and others that don't. That's what we call interpretation,[2]" Lacan said in Nice at the end of 1974. The whole question is: how to they

Psychoanalysis & Cultural Studies

Jacques-Alain Miller says in The Experience of the Real in Psychoanalysis: The waning [of transference] becomes manifest among the advocates of cultural studies, whose interest in decoding Lacan remains purely intellectual, that is to say, disjointed from the analytical experience. They talk psychoanalysis, yet for them psychoanalysis is confined to

Could anything become normal?

“Even time travel becomes normal when it’s your day job.” A line from the novel Permafroat by Alastair Reynolds. So far, this is one of the most interesting time travel novels I’ve ever read. (The most interesting time travel book I’ve ever read was The Time Traveler’