Brian Connolly

Anyone interested in a panel on psychoanalysis and history? something that approaches psychoanalysis as method/theory and not only object of inquiry (the more common approach of the many recent and very good intellectual histories of psychoanalysis)

The Government of Desire Liberalism, Miguel de Beistegui argues in The Government of Desire, is best described as a technique of government directed towards the self, with desire as its central mechanism.  Whether as economic...

i don't know if it is interesting, wild, or creative, but i just read this book, which argues that his primary concern, across a wide swath of his work, was a genealogy of desire. Struck me as an original (and pretty convincing) reading: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Margaret Mead was really ahead of the curve on polyamory

For at least that past several decades the real fantasy of most administrators and, to be honest, some of our faculty colleagues, is a university without faculty or students. In that context, AI is not degradation but rather long-delayed wish fulfillment...

Incest, in This Economy? — Parapraxis The 21st-Century Family Romance BRIAN CONNOLLY

www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/inc...

Been wondering "what's with all the incest?" - boy mom tik tok, incest porn, White Lotus, Jonathan Haidt, 1970s pro incest sexology - and how the libidinal economy of incest might be the remainder of the collapsed political economy of the family?
Well, I've got some thoughts...

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Incest, in This Economy? — Parapraxis The 21st-Century Family Romance BRIAN CONNOLLY

now online in the ROMANCE issue of Parapraxis, Brian Connolly:

"the incest imaginary of the C21 suggests an erotic plentitude at the heart of our alienating+alienated homes. barely holding onto family property, you can still get what you really want."
www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/inc...

Try this again….

www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/inc...

these people are such clowns, from the fantasy that these absurd centers are necessary to the shock of the guy in the photo here that students were unaware of a marginal, nonsense center offering one credit courses

Incest, in This Economy? — Parapraxis The 21st-Century Family Romance BRIAN CONNOLLY

“Is this really the last taboo, after which we will be liberated from repression itself? Would we even want to be?”

www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/inc...

Essay came out today - apparently Bluesky thinks is it “adult content”

Incest, in This Economy? — Parapraxis The 21st-Century Family Romance BRIAN CONNOLLY

Been wondering "what's with all the incest?" - boy mom tik tok, incest porn, White Lotus, Jonathan Haidt, 1970s pro incest sexology - and how the libidinal economy of incest might be the remainder of the collapsed political economy of the family? Great!

www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/inc...

Sometimes people wonder why I hate/left Florida….

Just the most useless people in the world

the Silicon Valley-White House connection is just an utter contempt for humans and has been ruling over us for the last few decades

i know it's not on the table but it really should be down with the nation-state abolish borders, not "they are even taking legal immigrants"

There will never not be an opportunity for me to repost this: lareviewofbooks.org/article/our-...

one of my children just said this to me: "on the outside you are pretty manly you drink black coffee, like a firm mattress, wear tapered jeans, have a big dog...but you also read about Marxism, psychoanalysis, and the philosophical ideas of penises. It's confusing"

I think there should be a moratorium on the phrase “the past is never past”

one way to track the difference between Bluesky and Twitter is that here like 10 people have liked this whereas on Twitter hundreds did and some people said awful things about me - Twitter is Big Incest

it will be online at some point - came out in print first

“Incest as a liberation from repressive and outdated inhibitions…sustained by the precarious circuits of financialized capital…is captured effectively in what is, in most other regards, one of the least compelling commentaries on late modern wealth,The White Lotus.”

New Parapraxis arrived….terrific essays including my most recent musings on incest

We Refuse to be Silenced: The Palestinian Historians Group Responds to the AHA Council Vetoes We, the Palestinian Historians Group, are outraged by the American Historical Association Council’s decision to veto two resolutions that members passed by 78 and 79 percent at the AHA Annual Business...

We will win because history and the majority of historian are on our side. The Palestinian Historians Group respond to the @historians.org latest veto

www.jadaliyya.com/Details/47115

History of the Present – Critical Noise New vernaculars of the geohistorical refusing the insistent march of capital, authoritarianism, and empire.

The first essays won't appear until March, but here is Critical Noise, the new open access forum for History of the Present. It has sections on the geopolitics of historiography with emphasis on the Global South; keywords for critical history; and reviews and occasional essays
criticalnoise.org

History of the Present – Critical Noise New vernaculars of the geohistorical refusing the insistent march of capital, authoritarianism, and empire.

The first essays won't appear until March, but here is Critical Noise, the new open access forum for History of the Present. It has sections on the geopolitics of historiography with emphasis on the Global South; keywords for critical history; and reviews and occasional essays
criticalnoise.org

Volume 15 Issue 2 | History of the Present | Duke University Press

there's a forum in here on reading Klaus Theweleit's Male Fantasies now that might be of relevance: read.dukeupress.edu/history-of-t...

Imagine being like really into the United States….totally bizarre affect

This has been the case since at least 2015 and in the end, specific issues aside, this is the single thing that his supporters find appealing about him - his pretense to being the primal father, not to bending the world to his will but to acting as if it has already been bent.

Classic great book