Dominic Pettman

(apologies for pre-caffeine pirate-speak typo)

Going to tell me students this was Baudrillard.

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I wonder why critical theory is such a hard sell to young folks. I mean, it's AWESOME to be pre-alienated from every cultural artifact in the universe.

YouTube video by Acid Horizon The Politics of Ghosting: Dominic Pettman on Absence, Intimacy, and Digital Life

Always a fun brain-buzz talking to the Acid Horizon guys.
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Stop The Chop NY/NJ Stop The Chop NY/NJ is a grassroots organization formed to reduce helicopter noise and ban nonessential flights over the New York City Metropolitan Area.

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Chutzpah Foot Spa

ghosted by a season!
:-(

I first noticed this when they started describing faculty as "workload wieners."

I need this on a t-shirt . . .

WINNICOTT IN WINNIPEG . . . a gentle and whimsical film depicting an alternative reality in which one of the world's most renowned psychoanalysts finds himself stranded in one of Canada's most frozen cities, during his personal search for his "good enough mother."
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Ghosting: On Disappearance Abandonment is as old as time, but ghosting is a modern twist on this ancient experience. It translates this age-old phenomenon into our modern world of screens, delete buttons and blocking options. Ghosting is not only an unpleasant experience, or cowardly act, but a symptom of our increasingly spectral &ndash; that is, mediated and virtual &ndash; relationship to the world. The overabundance of new modes of communication has invited an almost infinite number of contacts and conversations. At the same time, it has also offered an unprecedented opportunity for&nbsp;<i>ignoring</i>&nbsp;messages from others. And just as we invented the car crash when we invented automobiles, we also encouraged ghosting when we created the internet.<br /><br />Ghosting creates an empty space in our minds: a space faithfully tracing the silhouette of the one who ghosted us. But unlike traditional ghosts, today&rsquo;s ghosters simply disappear, leaving behind a form of haunting that is closer to mourning: mourning for someone who is not in fact dead. In putting a kind of preemptive mourning into our everyday affairs, ghosting tells us much about the current human relationship &ndash; or&nbsp;<i>non</i>-relationship &ndash; to a shared sense of mortality, purpose, and spirit.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br /><br />This book &ndash; the first sustained analysis of ghosting &ndash; traces the source of this vexed experience to, and through, our current media ecology, technological networks, political landscape, collective psychology, romantic mantras, and deep sense of social neglect.

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Delivery apps be like:
"Your dinner is scheduled to go via the Mines of Moria. . . . unless you're willing to pay an extra $4.95 to be brought direct to you by Nazgûl."

When you’re trying to find the confidence to slide into her direct messages . . . carpe DMs!

Let me save all of you a lot of time. The answer to every question is "yes and no."

SEIN UND ZEITGEIST:
UPDATING DASEIN IN THE AGE OF VIBES

E-harmony: helps you find a romantic partner.
E-piphany: helps you realize you were better off single.

Misheard phrase of the day:
"Extreme leather event"

I had to stop seeing my chiropractor because he kept talking behind my back.

{badoom-cha}

There's probably a bladder symptom / affliction that urologists are well familiar with: OOCOS (Overly-Obliging Cat Owner Syndrome).

I have trouble getting past the libidinal, for whatever libidinal reason . . . cf. Peak Libido, which tries to unpack Stiegler's rather idiosyncratic definition of libido (as distinct from drive). . . . Serres is a different kettle of tapeworm for me . . . but fascinating, of course . . .

Few people know that the very first “Open Mike Night” was a public anatomy lesson in Delft, 1502.

a randy noosphere, as it were . . . (also my new burlesque name)

I mean . . . I was proposing a funny word, more than anything.
:-)

But I might characterize it as the point where mimetic desire flows into memetic desire (according to the digital circuits of the new libidinal media ecology) . . . Girard was more inter-subjective; this is more environmental . .

"Works Not Cited" section for books that are 1) over-rated 2) over-cited 3) relevant, but not helpful 4) helpful, but not relevant 5) too long 6) written by a nemesis 7) written by someone with a better job than you 8) written by someone who patronized you during a conference panel Q&A session . .

New baby-wear idea:
"I was wrenched out of the insentient bliss of metaphysical continuity and all I got was this lousy T-shirt."

Elvis . . . yes indeed! . . Crowds and Power meets Wilhelm Reich meets Kevin Kelly meets etc. etc.

The outpouring of thirst on main for Robert Redford, for one!

Hivemind is the name we give the general intellect. But what about the collective libido? For this, I propose “hiveloins.”