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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.

How does the CCP respond to the jouissance of slacking?

From the Axios AM/PM newsletter [https://www.axios.com/signup/am-pm] today: > Rejecting China's work culture, some young people are embracing a loafing movement that includes traveling and living off savings — "lying flat" (tangping in Mandarin) This, in and of itself is not that

Its getting hot

For the Living in the Jackpot section of an upcoming newsletter. From the NYtimes The Morning email newsletter [https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/24/briefing/climate-change-drought-us-heat-wave.html] > In Arizona and Nevada, it’s been so hot that doctors warned people they could get third-degree burns from the asphalt.

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/]. When I read this: It got me thinking about psychoanalysis, and now a one way I think about

Chainsaw

My wife’s birthday is coming up, and the other day (jokingly) I asked her, “You want a chainsaw for your birthday?” “You know, the chainsaw was originally made to widen the birth Canal.” She replied. I thought she was joking and I said, “That makes sense.” “I’m serious.

More Great Blog Posts from This Weekend 5/8/21

From Atlas Minor [https://atlasminor.com/southbound/]: > Somewhere between Knoxville and Chattanooga, we ate bún xào in a parking lot. Then we hacked our way through Atlanta traffic, its tailgaters and stunt drivers declaring their political opinions on their bumpers. On a sleepy Sunday street in Macon, I ate

Great bits from blogs this weekend 5/8/21

From Disquiet [https://disquiet.com/2021/05/08/twitter-com-disquiet-theater-anxiety-and-media-ambience/] : > Netflix needs a third button for “I really enjoyed this and I never want to watch it or anything like it anytime again in the near or foreseeable future.” Pondering what that hand gesture is. So true!

The Reason for Going into Analysis (Pt. 2)

Continuing to riff on why someone might go into analysis, I want to highlight something the Jacques-Alain Miller [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques-Alain_Miller] says in the video below. At the 4:40 point of the video, JAM says, “At the root of all knowledge, you have a practice.

The Reason to Go into Analysis (Pt. 1)

In her wonder book, The Ethics of Opting Out [https://www.amazon.com/dp/0231180918?tag=neilgorman-20], Mari Ruti [https://www.mari-ruti.com/]states: > In analysis, the exploration of our destiny is more gradual, more self-reflexive. [...] the point is not to obliterate our foundational destiny (or fundamental fantasies) but

Safe Spaces

The Right, The Left, & the Desire for Safe Space I listened to the episode of titled Shame, Safety and Moving Beyond Cancel Culture [https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/27/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-cancel-culture.html] where Ezra has a conversation withWill Wilkinson [https://modelcitizen.substack.com/] and Natalie Wynn [https://www.

How Father James Martin Writes

Today I got around to reading this post by Austin Kleon [https://austinkleon.com/2021/04/15/writing-as-a-spiritual-practice/] about a James Martin [https://twitter.com/JamesMartinSJ] interview where Martin was asked about how he writes. Kleon points out, > Out of all the interesting subjects they discussed, I think I