Notebook

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.
28
Dec

Chè voui?

I'm re-reading The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire (again), and today I read this.
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25
Dec

Foucault on Art

In her book To Write as if Already Dead, Kate Zambreno quotes Foucault two times. (She may quote him more.
1 min read
24
Dec

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
1 min read
19
Dec

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,
1 min read
18
Dec

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
1 min read
18
Dec

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
1 min read
17
Dec

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
2 min read
17
Dec

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
2 min read
06
Nov

Ha!

This morning, I read the following I. Warren Ellis’s Orbital Operations email newsletter. I keep getting newsflashes from newspapers
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05
Nov

Meta-Modernism

I’ve been doing some looking into the terms post-postmodernism and metamodernism. For the metamodern generation, according to [Timotheus] Vermeulen,