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historian of mind & media I book: The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy I Founding Editor of @parapraxismag.bsky.social
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tomorrow!

Starts Thursday!

BREAKING: Several Palestinians have been killed across Gaza as Israeli attacks resume after Israeli PM Netanyahu announced that Hamas rejected a US proposal to extend the ceasefire. 🔴 LIVE updates:

For those of us not in California, this is going to be live-streamed. Registration details below

very much looking forward to being in conversation with the estimable @hzeavin.bsky.social and Anthony Ryan Hatch at Wesleyan STS/Black Box Labs in a few short weeks for a too-timely discussion of the psychotechnical and technocarceral

Two weeks from today! A RETURN TO FREUD? NEW HISTORIES OF PSYCHOANALYSIS. Full program and livestream registration, available here: www.thepsychosocialfoundation.org/events

Today, we're releasing our folio and retrospective on Wilhelm Reich, featured in Issue 05: Economies. The folio's brilliant intro—"Too Communist, Too Freudian—was written by @hzeavin.bsky.social www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/too...

Last year, when I was in the archive researching the Reich family for my book, I came across an envelope of photos from Red Vienna. It turns out, they were taken by the analyst. This became the impetus for a new folio on Reich and fascism, published today at @parapraxismag.bsky.social:

tfw you go uptown to the Jameson memorial but you also get to stop by your old apt to get the issue of Parapraxis on Economies you accidentally mailed there 💅 * also @benjamincrais.bsky.social did a fantastic job !!

“Let’s add some more slogans or lessons. Wrest the collective from the individual. Wrest the political from moralism.”— @nicobaumbach.bsky.social's memoriam on Fredric Jameson’s pedagogy: www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the...

“In writing a new political history of motherhood, Charman lays claim to the concept of hysteria as her analytic ally.”— Sarah Stoller on Helen Charman’s Mother State: www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/aus...

The commonplace story about the rational and transparent ‘neoliberal subject’ is simply wrong, at least when it comes to the movement’s founders.” —@medinamora.bsky.social on neoliberalism's unconscious rationality: www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/neo...

Excited to see previews from the new Parapraxis issue on Economies are online @parapraxismag.bsky.social (such an excellent project & publication) www.parapraxismagazine.com

Looks as though @hzeavin.bsky.social’s important essay “parallel processes” on psychoanalysis and Palestine is currently not inside the paywall at nplusone www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/pol...

In the face of the monstrous violence being meted out to trans people, I read, again, @maxfox.bsky.social’s “The traffic in children” published a couple of years ago in @parapraxismag.bsky.social Such an important essay www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the...

Now out from behind the paywall: @hzeavin.bsky.social on the Palestine exception in the classroom and the clinic. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/pol...

Thread of pictures from the Algerian Sahara

This essay is now out from behind the paywall:

we're back to work today at @parapraxismag.bsky.social and The Psychosocial Foundation. We'd love to invite you to join us for Seminar 06: Resistance, w/ speakers Jackie Wang, Ussama Makdisi, Joshua Clover, Fred Moten, Jamieson Webster & many others: thepsychosocialfoundation.org/seminars

in this bad year, the best thing I did, as usual, was work with the all-time crew of @parapraxismag.bsky.social, but I also had unusually wonderful assignments:

This @hzeavin.bsky.social piece in the new issue of @nplusonemag.com is a stunning piece on the institutional defects of psychoanalyis and academia. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/pol...

Recommended reading: @hzeavin.bsky.social on psychoanalysis and academia, harassment, and the Palestine exception before and after 10/7/23 www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/pol...

Another must-read from @hzeavin.bsky.social www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/pol...

Extending what feels like a very personal invitation to my few followers on Bluesky 😂 to these two events at the Freud Museum early next year about Anna Freud and Dorothy Birmingham’s long relationship. Hope to see some of you there! www.freud.org.uk/event/queer-...