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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

The Social Ownership of Soccer Clubs

Ryan O’Hanlon [https://www.ryanohanlon.com/] interviewed economist Mark Blyth [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Blyth] for his newsletter: How the Spectacular, Comical Failure of the Super League Explains the World [https://nograssintheclouds.substack.com/p/how-the-spectacular-comical-failure] > Blyth: I think it’s heartening in the following sense.

1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything

Read the following on The Loop [https://www.loopinsight.com/2021/04/26/apple-tv-announces-new-music-docuseries-1971-the-year-that-music-changed-everything/] > An immersive, deep-dive rich with archival footage and interviews, “1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything,” will show how the musical icons of the time were influenced by the changing tides of history; and, in

1000 Reasons to Ride

I’m an consistent reader/follower of the ambient music blog Headphone Commute. Today I saw a link to this playlist posted there [https://headphonecommute.com/2021/04/23/1000-reasons-to-ride/]. I started to listen, and it’s a huge playlist of the sort if music I can use for thinking.

Matt Robertson’s Enveleau

From the Fluid Radio review of the album [https://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2021/04/matt-robertson-enveleau/]: > The pandemic has been a ripe blossom for creativity, even at a time when the rest of the world experienced stagnation, confinement, and death. In 2020, music, creativity, and the arts in general

Rewards

[https://twitter.com/disquiet/status/1381632964065255429]Well said! Also, I really love reading the disquiet blog [https://disquiet.com/]. There is nothing like it on the internet. I discovered it I don't know how long ago when I was looking for some info on Richard D. James [https:

Newsletter v.3.1 | Launching [S][J][P]

This will be the title of the archive of all the stuff that I've done (and I want to preserve), the stuff I'm currently working on, and it will

Play + Archive + Deadine = Good Output

Time to play (i.e., pissing around") + deadline = making better things.

Souvenir

From a blog post of Austin Kelon [https://austinkleon.com/2021/03/30/a-certain-souvenir-made-in-gratitude/]. > [Vincent Van Goth] was fond of that word, “souvenir,” and used it for many of his works. It’s worth remembering that the word comes from the Old French word meaning memory, or “to recall,

We all have different versions of our self, but

> I do love a man who contains multitudes… especially multitudes who hate each other. What a great line from this post by Austin Kleon [https://austinkleon.com/2021/04/20/a-book-of-words/].

Good mood, eh?

I took this picture so long ago... Looking at it today I can see lots of flaws in the image: The background is more in focus than the person (who is really the subject of the image). Be all that as it may, the me that looks at the image