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23, cellist | she | learning things (rn: lacan)
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JOHN CARPENTERS DARK STAR dvd image of a guy in a spacesuit surfing some metal shrapnel into like a black hole I think
October 13, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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got some new guys at the bookshop :)
Bookstack! Melanie klein love guilt and reparation, another melanie Klein without a spine title (it's psychoanalysis of children), kristeva black sun, birth of neurosis. In the background is a bookshelf and a guitar
September 16, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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screencap i think from tar, Cate blanchett in grey jumper and shirt and blazer, caption reads "I'm Petra's father"
August 28, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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yes !
emma and sloth ! I'm hiding my face behind sloth who's quite big and grey and smiley and has sloth face markings
August 27, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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one thing i like abt lacan is the articulation of how Bad it can feel. always feel he starts from the point of suffering. my analyst might call it taking suffering seriously
What is the famous traumatism we began with, the famous primal scene that enters into the subjects economy, which is in play at the heart and on the horizon of the discovery of the unconscious? What is it if not a signifier whose impact on life i began describing to you earlier? The living being is grasped as living, as alive, but with this gap or distance that is precisely what constitutes both the signifying dimension's autonomy and the trauma or primitive scene. What is this then, if it's not this life that grasps itself in a horrible apperception of itself, in its total foreignness and opaque brutality as the pure signifier of an intolerable existence for life itself as soon as it moves away from it to see the trauma and the primal scene? This is how life sees itself as a signifier in a pure state, which can in no way be articulated or resolved. When Freud begins
August 16, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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i want to work some more at it yet, these earlier exercises w cantus firmi had better flow n voice leading i think. but pleased all things considered
apologies I've yet to find a way to alt-text music notation. This is a page of 3 short exercises, like 12 bars each, 3-part florid counterpoint with a cantus line.
August 9, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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subject to revision i think it's Done
apologies I've yet to find a way to alt-text music notation. Basically it's a page of 3-part handwritten counterpoint with imitations (2nd page) apologies I've yet to find a way to alt-text music notation. Basically it's a page of 3-part handwritten counterpoint with imitations
August 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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found out the opposition party in poland is literally called "law and justice" lmao
Twitter screenshot: victoria da silva (@njsilvadyne) every European election: 🔵 The People's Democrats (center -right) 31% 🔴soviet workers party (center/center-left) 22% ⚫ citizens forum (fascist) 19% 🟠wow! (Center) 11% 🟣 friendship is magic (left) 9% 🟢 green party 8%
August 7, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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reading foucault think he's rather good
dures of the law, that might explain the overall workings of what I would call a "normalizing society." To be more specific, what I mean is this: I think that normalization, that disciplinary normalizations, are increasingly in conflict with the juridical system of sovereignty; the incompatibility of the two is increasingly apparent; there is a greater and greater need for a sort of arbitrating discourse, for a sort of power and knowledge that has been rendered neutral because its scientificity has become sacred. And it is precisely in the expansion of medicine that we are seeing-I wouldn't call it a combination of, a reduction of but a perpetual exchange or confrontation between the mechanics of discipline and the principle of right. The development of medicine, the general medicalization of behavior, modes of conduct, discourses, desires, and so on, is taking place on the front where the heterogeneous layers of discipline and sovereignty meet. That is why we now find ourselves in a situation where the only existing and apparently solid recourse we have against the usurpations of disciplinary mechanics and against the rise of a power that is bound up with scientific knowledge is precisely a recourse or a return to a right that is organized around sovereignty, or that is articulated on that old principle. Which means in concrete terms that when we want to make some objection against disciplines and all the knowledge-effects and power-effects that are bound up with them, what do we do in concrete terms? What do we do in real life? What do the Syndicat de la magistrature and other institutions like it do? What do we do? We obviously invoke right, the famous old formal, bourgeois right. And it is in reality the right of sovereignty. And I think
August 5, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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went to bookshop dostoevsky and two above are new guys :)
Bookstack! Jakarta method, solenoid, minimal moralia, devils by dostoevsky, Foucault society must be defended, scramble for Africa, lacan ecrits
August 1, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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right basically thats bookshelf
July 26, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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basically that's bookshelf
Six full shelves of books, 5 stacks of abt a half dozen each on the floor. Probably main points are a half shelf of lacan 1-10ish and a dozen freuds, and a half shelf of quran, torah, different scripture commentaries etc. otherwise mostly mix of fiction, philosophy, history
July 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Close-up black and white headshot of jacques lacan smoking a cigar and looking pensive
July 26, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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he's got many funnier bits but the cadence of this one occasionally reappears in my head
[Stewart lee BBC comedy series] Lot of people think the Loch Ness Monster doesn't exist, don't they, actually? Now, I don't know anything [close-up of stewart lee BBC series, he's deadpan holding a mic] about evolutionary theory, evolutionary biology, meteorology, limnology, history, herpetology [Stewart lee BBC series, first panel he's silent looking into the middle distance, second panel he's smiling a tiny bit looking down] ... what if a dinosaur had got in the lake?
July 23, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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i think this page is very good
Nabokov 'What a gruesome place, kakoy zhutkiy dom," she said, sitting on the chair near the telephone and taking off her galoshes... such familiar movements! 'Look at that aquarelle with the minarets. They must be terrible people. 'No,' said Pnin, 'they are my friends.' 'My dear Timofey," she said, as he escorted her upstairs, 'you have had some pretty awful friends in your time." And here is my room,' said Pnin. 'I think I'll lie on your virgin bed, Timofey. And I'll recite you some verses in a minute. That hellish headache of mine is seeping back again. I felt so splendid all day.' 'I have some aspirin.' "Uhn-uhn," she said, and this acquired negative stood out strangely against her native speech. He turned away as she started to take off her shoes, and the sound they made toppling to the floor reminded him of very old days. She lay back, black-skirted, white-bloused, brown-haired, with one pink hand over her eyes. 'How is everything with you?' asked Pnin (have her say what she wants of me, quick!) as he sank into the white rocker near the radiator. 'Our work is very interesting, she said, still shielding her eyes, "but I must tell you I don't love Eric any more. Our rela-tions have disintegrated. Incidentally, Erič dislikes his child. He says he is the land father and you, Timofey, are the water father. Pnin started to laugh: he rolled with laughter, the rather juvenile rocker fairly cracking under him. His eyes were like stars and quite wet. She looked at him curiously for an instant from under her plump hand and went on:
July 21, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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he's silly
emma mostly obscured by sloth (he's got a silly 3 smile and brown markings round his eyes)
July 12, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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fuck i gotta get a greek new testament this is fascinating. "turned" and then "gave them over" ???
know what has become of him.' 41 And they made a calf in those days, and offered a sacrifice to the idol and rejoiced in the works of their hands. 42 But God turned and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is
June 29, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Columbo with half a baguette in one hand saying "He's too small" to an old guy in a suit
June 14, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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being in the flat was rly upsetting honestly. here are the books i brought back
Pile of books on my desk, background is a plant and tv. books: jewish study bible, abdullah yusuf ali's quran translation, moby dick, minima moralia, Absalom Absalom, augustine confessions
June 13, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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oh absolutely, my strategy for a bit has been marking up the contents pages w references n questions to come back to
apologies not sure how to usefully alt-text: basically it's the contents page of lacan 5 that I've scribbled all notes and questions to myself in brown pen, various references to other texts. do ask if I could give anything clearer?
May 21, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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so im *very* dubious abt "media literacy", think it tends to displace problems of investment n power etc onto itself, dismisses real factors so forth. which is not to say there isnt some kind of problem! but anyway look at this little bit- kittenbeloved.substack.com/p/college-en...
Um, talk about the November weather. Uh, mud in the streets. And, uh, I do probably need to look up "Megalosaurus"- "meet a
May 21, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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o7
books: lacan 1-7, 10-11, 20, ecrits, jewish study bible, history of the arab peoples, postcolonialism, jenta som ville redde bokene, quran (yusuf ali), termination shock. stacked above: virtues of the table, Proust 1, house of leaves, then: penguin freud 6, 9-11, studies in hysteria, wild analysis, interpretation of dreams; late fascism, a-normality, discourse on colonialism, Ibsen 3, card play technique, brousse feminine jouissance, fear and trembling, Augustine confessions, joel dor lacan, clinical intro lacan, lacanian subject. Various books stacked behind, speakers, paper flower
May 21, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Grindr conversation: Single? Yeah hbu Gf but cheat Nice Love cheating
May 2, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Game screencap of a scroll which reads [circle button] Listen [Triangle button] Bite
April 30, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Red panda sideways, only head and paws visible out of a hole in a tree or wooden wall
April 30, 2025 at 12:13 PM