07
Feb
Compasses, then & now
On the back of Desire and Its Interpretations: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book VI Jacques-Alain Miller writes:
Up until
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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.
06
Feb
Living in the jackpot
From this post on disquiet:
▰ CLONE WARS: “Your group should set up a password for situations where you need to
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06
Feb
QTS-012 | Minimalism & desire
In her post titled Don't make simplicity complicated, Clare Devlin writes:
Anything taken to the extreme can be
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04
Feb
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
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01
Feb
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
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30
Jan
Psychoanalysis & Cultural Studies
Jacques-Alain Miller says in The Experience of the Real in Psychoanalysis:
The waning [of transference] becomes manifest among the advocates
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29
Jan
Could anything become normal?
“Even time travel becomes normal when it’s your day job.”
A line from the novel Permafroat by Alastair Reynolds.
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28
Jan
Psychoanalysis as "Cure"
Jacques-Alain Miller says in The Experience of the Real in Psychoanalysis:
It has been for many years now that health
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26
Jan
Quoditian stuides?
Another fragment of an idea:
I've started to think of (a lot of) what I'm trying
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26
Jan
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
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