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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.
24
Jan

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
23
Jan

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?
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22
Jan

Our past influences but does not determine

When I taught in a school of social work, one of the things I found a little unsettling was the
22
Jan

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
1 min read
21
Jan

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
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16
Jan

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
15
Jan

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
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12
Jan

The lack of presence

I found these words in the book Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: Over Thirty Years
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11
Jan

Blogging & RSS

Writing on disquiet, Marc Weidenbaum says, The key thing is that blogging is not about final drafts. Blogging is as
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10
Jan

Great sentence(s) | 001

I read a lot of stuff. Sometimes I come across sentences I like a lot. When that happens I’m
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