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General Head-Noise

21/2/24 General Head-Noise posts are started at the beginning of my day and updated throughout the day. The posts contain a semi-structured collection of thoughts, reflections, reactions, associations, and observations. There are far from fully formed / completely thought out ideas. Instead, they are ideas in an emergent state,

QTS-007 | Hypoallergenic

Content: A silly remark about my kid being a hypoallergenic kid leads into a silly story about something a former roommate said regarding hypoallergenic dogs. This leads to a little bit of paranoia, a comparison of the Internet now to the Internet that existed from about 2000-2010. A discussion of

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 the year, I reflected on the plight of language under digital conditions. I was motivated by the sense that “something of consequence is happening to ordinary language, the lifeblood of

Quotidian Things & Stuff 006 | Identifying with a Younger Version of Me & Professional Wrestling

Content: I try to describe the ephemeral phenomena of retroactively recognizing that I just identified with a younger version of me more than the current version of "me." Referenced: - WWE (Formerly WWF) - The Ultimate Warrior beating the Honky Talk man

InForm: Re-Release/Cross-post From78 Interview with Jason from the Regrettable Century

This episode of InForm:Podcast is a re-release and cross-post of an interview I did as part of From78 (another interview podcast). The interview was with Jason Netek, one of the hosts of The Regrettable Century podcast. It was originally released in 2020. At that time, I was still figuring

Quotidian Things & Stuff 005 |Relaxed Seriousness

Content: I talk about what is top of mind... the ways that I'd like my life to be... a sort of relaxed seriousness. Referenced: - Biran Eno - Adam Phillips - Jim Schmidt

Quotidian Things & Stuff 004 | The Vulnerables

Content: This episode is me talking about reading a great book that captures how our quotidian lives can be astonishingly beautiful and the way real (mundane) human drama is more interesting than Hollywood blockbusters. Referenced: - My wife - My book collection - The Vulnerables, by Stigrid Nunez

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 Freud], the first thing that leaps to yoru attention is the importance Freud attaches to linguistic analysis. I think psychotherapy often misses the importance of the language, the words, and

My favorite Adam Phillips video

This is the first time in seven years that I'm not returning to teaching. Be that as it may, I found myself thinking about things that I would typically do at the start of a semester. One of the things that came to mind was how I would

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 time — bus rides, long lunches, and liminality in general have long since declined in my life, and I need to bring back that attenuated interstitial aspect of existence. Midday walks