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.
26
Aug

A new “Hello world!”

From The Journal 1837-1861 by Henry David Thoreau. Oct. 22 [1837] "What are you doing now?" he asked.
25
Aug

Dark matter as information

From Warren Ellis’s Orbital Operations email newsletter: I’d tripped over an article somewhere that suggests that dark matter
23
Aug

Between Generations.

From the post Best Days on Jack Cheng’s blog, where he is writing g about becoming a parent. [I
18
Aug

On going on

From A Single Man, by Christopher Isherwood. The creature we are watching will struggle on and on until it drops.
02
Aug

Story as carrier of other things

From the July 20th post on Ganzeer Today: Story is carrier wave for philosophical pondering, parable, moral compass tuning, and
17
Jun

Vincente Palomera on Symptom v. Drive

Continuing to read from the essay What May I Expect From Psychoanalysis? by Vicente Palomera, which I posted about earlier
4 min read
12
Jun

A path

From L’étourdit (1972), ‘A Bilingual Presentation of the First Turn’ Summer 2009, via Lacan in Ireland. One can discourse
1 min read
24
May

Vicente Palomera on turning misery into ordinary unhappiness

From the essay What May I Expect From Psychoanalysis? by Vicente Palomera, which I posted about earlier this week. Freud
1 min read
21
May

Vincente Palomera on Unconscious knowledge

From the essay What May I Expect From Psychoanalysis? by Vicente Palomera. Unconscious knowledge is that it is a knowledge
1 min read
17
May

The Symptom: Then & Now

From I Have Heard the Mermaids Singing, by Christopher Bollas. In the essay he traced the origin of the idea
1 min read