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Neil Gorman

Neil Gorman

Neil Gorman is an assistant professor at the Aurora University School of Social Work, and a practicing Lacanian analyst, and a maker of podcasts, newsletters, & other sundry things.

📍 Near Chicago http://neilgorman.com

[Listening] The Collective by Kim Gordon

I’ve been listening to the new Kim Gordon album The Collective (Apple Music, Spotify, Bandcamp) a lot over the past few days. The year is still young, but I think this is the most interesting album I’ve heard in 2024. From the Pitchfork review by Shaad D’Souza

⌾ Recommendations | 3 Things

Hi, It is Friday, and that is the day that I send out a list of things that I suspect you might enjoy. |1| WATCHING (Film): I watched the film Person Shopper, directed by Olivier Assayas and starring Kristen Stewart. I really liked this film! I wrote a longer post

[Listening] Saisei by DJ Krush

Earlier today, I went for a walk. While walking, I listened to Saisei, the newest DJ Krush album (Apple Music, Spotify, Bandcamp). These are some observations that came to mind while listening to the album. There are no skippable tracks Usually, when I listen to an album, there is a

Bots fighting bots

From Warren Ellis’s blog post: I read something the other day – didn’t save the link – wherein winter is predicted for the web. This was the nut of it: AI search engines like Perplexity run around the web at your prompt, scrape info out of a bunch of web

Art & Living

From the The Convivial Society newsletter: I’m drawn to the idea of an art of living much more so than to the compulsive search for life hacks, regimens of self-improvement, or self-optimization schemes. These too often feel like a doubling down on the insistence that we can always do

Semblance of truth & Lying truth (Pt. 1)

I’ve been exploring texts written in antiquity to see if there are things in them that can help me understand how truth functions in an experience of psychoanalysis today. Today, I want to focus on a text titled De Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods) by Cicero.

Some thoughts on the Mirror Phase

The following was a note I wrote to myself today. I'm not sure where I had to stop writing it and do other stuff, and then when I came back to it, I had lost the thread. Be that as it may, I want to post something here

Personal Shopper | Observations

Last night, I watched the film Personal Shopper, which stars Kristen Stewart and was directed by Olivier Assayas. Here is the film’s description on Criterion. With this intimate supernatural drama, the celebrated French filmmaker Olivier Assayas conjures a melancholy ghost story set in the world of celebrity and haute

⌾ Recommendations | 6 Things

Hello, It is Friday, the day of the week when I send out a short list of things I think might be worth your time and attention over the coming weekend. (1) READING (online): Craig Mod's email newsletters are lovely. His central newsletters are Roden and Ridge Lines.

If some comes to you for help and you’re bored

From the introduction of Holding and Interpretation: Fragment of an Analysis. The book is by Winnicott, and the introduction is by Masud R. Khan. Some six months before Dr. Winnicott’s death in January 1971. A group of young Anglican priests invited him to come talk to them. He accepted,