Rain where? It rained at the top of Greenland for the first time in recorded history [https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/08/19/weather/greenland-summit-rain-climate-change/index.html] .
InForm | Surplus Jouissance in Art, Psychoanalysis in the Hospital, Meds, & [S][J][P] Silly intro 0:00 - 1:00 * We decided that Jared will do The Psychoanalysis of Everyday Life The Psychoanalysis of Everyday Life 1:00 - 20:45 * Useless things I have & adore [https://www.preslavarobert.com/sculptureexperiment?pgid=kj5jw7cq-48fa418b-7c53-4719-bdcd-7afe321dd27c] * Preslava Robert [https://www.preslavarobert.com/about] * Surplus Jouissance
Newsletter v.3.16 | Here We Go... Hi, This week was the opening week at the university where I teach. Lots of the meetings were done through Zoom because of concerns about the delta variant. Still, on Wednesday, the administration had everyone (faculty and staff) come in and be physically present on the campus for an all-day
PD-004 8/20/21 | Cold Coffee on a Hot Humid Morning Photographing Democratically 004 β Iced coffee on a humid summer morning in the midwest. I liked how the cold drink stood pit against the condensation-covered glass in the background. Taken on with an iPhone 11 with the Firstlight app [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/filmic-firstlight-photo-app/id1482338564] and then processed in
PD-003 8/17/21 | Light on a Ceiling Making an Interesting Texture Photographing Democratically 003 β I saw this light, which is made of three lightbulbs wooden beads making an interesting texture of light and dark. I took a picture with FiLMic's Firstlight app [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/filmic-firstlight-photo-app/id1482338564] and then did some minimal processing in the Photos
PD-002 8/17/21 | Doorbell in B&W Photographing Democratically 002 β Doorbell in B&W. Taken with an iPhone 11's camera app and then processed in the photos app. The light-up circle of the doorbell's button made that echo (is it a lens flare?). I liked that.
PD-001 8/17/21 | Patriotic Ball in a Suburban Yard Photographing Democratically 001 β I watched this YouTube video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj6efh1mSH4] where Alec Sloth [https://www.alecsoth.com/photography/] talks about a book of photos by William Eggleston [https://egglestonartfoundation.org]. Sloth says that Eggleston was "photographing democratically," which meant that he treated that
β Drafts β12 & Newsletter v.3.15 | The State of Things Hello, And welcome to what will be the final issue of this season of β Drafts. Since July 5'th, I've mostly sent out a version of drafts or a β¬ Podcast Lecture Monday through Thursday and a digest sort of Newsletter on Fridays. The open rates on the
β Drafts β10 | Theses Hi, Over the past few weeks that I've been writing β Drafts, I've been thinking more and more about the ways that I can use psychoanalysis and social work that does not suck to engage with, and possibly change, the different ways that ideology (i.e., fundamental