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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.

Some thoughts on how people orient in the present quotidian

Earlier today, I was thinking about how people have a sort of "home base" in time. 💡A working definition of home base in time: – A time period that a person lives through that establishes (for better or for worse) the working model of what is "normal."

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

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,

The Convivial Society | On Language & the Symbolic Today

Writing in his email newsletter, The Convivial Society, L.M. Sacasas gives us the following: Close to the start of the year, I reflected on the plight of language under digital conditions. I was motivated by the sense that “something of consequence is happening to ordinary language, the lifeblood of

Freud, Lacan & the importance of linguistic analysis

On page 47 of the English edition of Seminar X: Anxiety (Amazon), Lacan says, Even from a superficial reading [of Freud], the first thing that leaps to yoru attention is the importance Freud attaches to linguistic analysis. I think psychotherapy often misses the importance of the language, the words, and

Quotidian Things & Stuff 003 | Liminality

Writing about things that he would like to have more of in 2024, Marc Wiedenbaum of Disquiet named “liminality. Transition time — bus rides, long lunches, and liminality in general have long since declined in my life, and I need to bring back that attenuated interstitial aspect of existence. Midday walks

The lack of presence

I found these words in the book Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: Over Thirty Years of Conversations with Robert Irwin. a photograph would capture none of what the painting was about and everything that it was not about. That is, a photograph could convey image

Blogging & RSS

Writing on disquiet, Marc Weidenbaum says, The key thing is that blogging is not about final drafts. Blogging is as much a public notepad as social media is at its best (to be clear, most of social media is social media at its worst). It’s not a magazine; it’