Martin & His Discontents
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Hegel | Marx | Freud | Lacan | Žižek.
At the Palestine demonstration with the true Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn. Took a terrible photo.
November 23, 2024 at 5:09 PM
At the Palestine demonstration with the true Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn. Took a terrible photo.
If you're in Scotland, come to the national demonstration for Palestine and Lebanon today at 1pm, Edinburgh. Jeremy Corbyn will be one of the speakers. 🇵🇸
November 23, 2024 at 8:50 AM
If you're in Scotland, come to the national demonstration for Palestine and Lebanon today at 1pm, Edinburgh. Jeremy Corbyn will be one of the speakers. 🇵🇸
Not exactly scholarly, but someone made a really cool visual illustrating the narrator's use of the first-person "I" in Moby-Dick. It's fascinating to see how Ishmael's "self" seems to disappear slowly, and then almost entirely by the end. I think distant reading can be super insightful.
November 16, 2024 at 6:38 PM
Not exactly scholarly, but someone made a really cool visual illustrating the narrator's use of the first-person "I" in Moby-Dick. It's fascinating to see how Ishmael's "self" seems to disappear slowly, and then almost entirely by the end. I think distant reading can be super insightful.
I've very kindly been added to a psychoanalysis-themed starter pack, and I've been waiting to share this photo of me hanging out with Sigmund.
November 15, 2024 at 2:29 PM
I've very kindly been added to a psychoanalysis-themed starter pack, and I've been waiting to share this photo of me hanging out with Sigmund.
This is maybe a bit off the tracks for my research but I just started reading 'The Indivisible Remainder' by Žižek.
His work on Schelling is not discussed very often (neither is Schelling himself, I suppose) so I'm excited to see where this goes.
His work on Schelling is not discussed very often (neither is Schelling himself, I suppose) so I'm excited to see where this goes.
October 21, 2024 at 2:36 PM
This is maybe a bit off the tracks for my research but I just started reading 'The Indivisible Remainder' by Žižek.
His work on Schelling is not discussed very often (neither is Schelling himself, I suppose) so I'm excited to see where this goes.
His work on Schelling is not discussed very often (neither is Schelling himself, I suppose) so I'm excited to see where this goes.
The exhibition was Oscar Murillo's "The Flooded Garden". It consisted of tons of giant canvases where you could just pick up a brush and paint whatever you wanted. The size itself was impressive.
September 25, 2024 at 1:20 PM
The exhibition was Oscar Murillo's "The Flooded Garden". It consisted of tons of giant canvases where you could just pick up a brush and paint whatever you wanted. The size itself was impressive.
Last month, Kitty and I queued behind forty tiny toddlers and their distressed parents for about twenty minutes so that we could paint a cool whale at the Tate Modern.
September 25, 2024 at 1:10 PM
Last month, Kitty and I queued behind forty tiny toddlers and their distressed parents for about twenty minutes so that we could paint a cool whale at the Tate Modern.
The psychoanalyst, crossing the border between normality and abnormality, is a smuggler of language. Smuggling dangerous goods, accompanying people from one border to the next, that's his job. Between two languages, he impregnates himself with madness, writing, and science.
— Catherine Clément
— Catherine Clément
August 26, 2024 at 11:31 AM
The psychoanalyst, crossing the border between normality and abnormality, is a smuggler of language. Smuggling dangerous goods, accompanying people from one border to the next, that's his job. Between two languages, he impregnates himself with madness, writing, and science.
— Catherine Clément
— Catherine Clément
'But all these [fingers] are permanently lodged in their fleshy covering [...] "However recklessly the whale may sometimes serve us", said humourous Stubb one day, "he can never be truly said to handle us without mittens".'
— Herman Melville, Moby-Dick.
— Herman Melville, Moby-Dick.
July 26, 2024 at 1:02 PM
'But all these [fingers] are permanently lodged in their fleshy covering [...] "However recklessly the whale may sometimes serve us", said humourous Stubb one day, "he can never be truly said to handle us without mittens".'
— Herman Melville, Moby-Dick.
— Herman Melville, Moby-Dick.
National demonstration for a ceasefire and a free Palestine in Edinburgh. 🇵🇸
May 18, 2024 at 3:36 PM
National demonstration for a ceasefire and a free Palestine in Edinburgh. 🇵🇸
Dissertation reading.
Barbara Cassin and Alain Badiou discuss Lacan's "L'Etourdit" and his axiom: there's no such thing as a sexual relationship.
Good intro by Kenneth Reinhard, too.
Barbara Cassin and Alain Badiou discuss Lacan's "L'Etourdit" and his axiom: there's no such thing as a sexual relationship.
Good intro by Kenneth Reinhard, too.
May 15, 2024 at 1:13 PM
Dissertation reading.
Barbara Cassin and Alain Badiou discuss Lacan's "L'Etourdit" and his axiom: there's no such thing as a sexual relationship.
Good intro by Kenneth Reinhard, too.
Barbara Cassin and Alain Badiou discuss Lacan's "L'Etourdit" and his axiom: there's no such thing as a sexual relationship.
Good intro by Kenneth Reinhard, too.
Žižek with Connie the Caterpillar.
April 3, 2024 at 9:35 AM
Žižek with Connie the Caterpillar.
Reading Andrea Long Chu in public and hoping people won't mistake me for a TERF reading a sex anatomy manifesto or something.
So far, pretty impressed by how easily and succinctly she can write on Lacanian sexuation for the average person - Freud meets SCUM manifesto is a very cool reading.
So far, pretty impressed by how easily and succinctly she can write on Lacanian sexuation for the average person - Freud meets SCUM manifesto is a very cool reading.
April 2, 2024 at 12:02 PM
Reading Andrea Long Chu in public and hoping people won't mistake me for a TERF reading a sex anatomy manifesto or something.
So far, pretty impressed by how easily and succinctly she can write on Lacanian sexuation for the average person - Freud meets SCUM manifesto is a very cool reading.
So far, pretty impressed by how easily and succinctly she can write on Lacanian sexuation for the average person - Freud meets SCUM manifesto is a very cool reading.
Read this for my dissertation on the structure of world literature.
Distant Reading by Franco Moretti.
Distant Reading by Franco Moretti.
April 2, 2024 at 8:57 AM
Read this for my dissertation on the structure of world literature.
Distant Reading by Franco Moretti.
Distant Reading by Franco Moretti.
An offensively low quality image for the cover of a book I chanced upon in a secondhand bookshop. It's like I'm waiting for the book to load.
But 'Conversations with Žižek' by Slavoj Žižek and Glyn Daly has been insightful so far. Not sure how popular this book is.
But 'Conversations with Žižek' by Slavoj Žižek and Glyn Daly has been insightful so far. Not sure how popular this book is.
March 8, 2024 at 11:20 PM
An offensively low quality image for the cover of a book I chanced upon in a secondhand bookshop. It's like I'm waiting for the book to load.
But 'Conversations with Žižek' by Slavoj Žižek and Glyn Daly has been insightful so far. Not sure how popular this book is.
But 'Conversations with Žižek' by Slavoj Žižek and Glyn Daly has been insightful so far. Not sure how popular this book is.
Guernica for Gaza.
February 13, 2024 at 2:41 PM
Guernica for Gaza.
It's short, but finally read "Romeo and Juliet in Palestine" by Tom Sperlinger. It's a very unique insight into the occupied territories, and the daily life of its students. It's curious to see them equally anxious about the occupation as they are about their exam mark for English Lit.
December 18, 2023 at 10:49 AM
It's short, but finally read "Romeo and Juliet in Palestine" by Tom Sperlinger. It's a very unique insight into the occupied territories, and the daily life of its students. It's curious to see them equally anxious about the occupation as they are about their exam mark for English Lit.
Everything in life is about sex, except for sex. This is straightforward and makes things very simple. There is sex and and then there's sex, which isn't sex. This will cause no further confusion.
December 13, 2023 at 5:57 PM
Everything in life is about sex, except for sex. This is straightforward and makes things very simple. There is sex and and then there's sex, which isn't sex. This will cause no further confusion.
Spotted somewhere in Edinburgh. @bombsfall.bsky.social
November 24, 2023 at 11:03 AM
Spotted somewhere in Edinburgh. @bombsfall.bsky.social
A #bitsy birthday present for @kittty.bsky.social .
November 20, 2023 at 11:54 AM
A #bitsy birthday present for @kittty.bsky.social .