Tuesday
2/1/24
I spent most of the day doing clinical work. During breaks, I picked up different things I'm going to need for the trip and packed.
Top of mind:
I've been thinking a lot about the Lacanian concept of the lying truth. This started
Monday
1/4/24
I will be traveling to Clinical Study Days later in the week, and I'm feeling pre-travel nervous energy accumulate, as it always does for me.
The morning has been divided between clinical work (e.g., psychoanalytic sessions) and video calls with people to plan and
Storms, Doom-Music, Anne Carson, Rage, Grief, & Castration
Yesterday was a very warm day. As I was wrapping up my work day, the sky filled with huge thunderheads that were filled with lightning. When the sun went down, the sky was like a strobe light. I stayed at my office because tornado sirens went off, and shortly after,
The more accelerated our life becomes…
The text below is from The Novel of the Future by Anaïs Nin.
The more accelerated our life becomes, the more we have to learn to select only the essential, to create our own repose and meditation islands within an uncluttered mental space.
I did not come across the text
Could anything become normal?
“Even time travel becomes normal when it’s your day job.”
A line from the novel Permafrost 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’
Kishōtenketsu
I first heard the term Kishōtenketsu in an interview that poet/writer Ocean Vong did with City Arts & Lectures, where Vong said:
I knew I wasn’t interested in plot. I was inspired by Miyazaki’s films, and particularly a Japanese form of narratology called kishōtenketsu, where plot is
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."