Jacob Johanssen

«ChatGPT told a young mother in Maine that she could talk to spirits in another dimension. It told an accountant in Manhattan that he was in a computer-simulated reality … It told a corporate recruiter in Toronto that he had invented a math formula that would break the internet …» #ParanoiaMachine

Ooh looks great!

New article with Jack Black now in Theory, Culture & Society:
The Subject of AI: A Psychoanalytic Intervention
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📯 APS Conference 2026
Trust, Mistrust and Community
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کتاب رسانه و روانکاوی مقدمه‌ای انتقادی | برخط بوک <ul><li><span style="color:hsl(0, 75%, 60%);"><strong>ارسال و توزیع از یکشنبه 11 آبان&nbsp;</strong></span><br>مطالعات روان‌کاوانه‌ی رسانه حوزه‌ای میان‌رشته‌ای است که با استفاده از مفاهیم و نظریه‌های ...

Our book Media and Psychoanalysis: A Critical Introduction has just been published in Persian! 🎉
Many thanks to Saeid Ghobadi for the translation:
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is Spotify (and its distribution partners) retaliating against artists who boycott?

this video is about what happened after I removed my music from Spotify.

please reach out if you’ve experienced something similar

Thanks, Justin!

Academics are under unrelenting pressure to accept the narrative of the inevitability of #generativeAI & to embrace it in teaching & learning. We resist - because it is ecologically destructive, ethically corrupt, & because it undermines the thinking abilities that make us both human & intelligent.

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

This fits perfectly, as the default aesthetic of #AIslop already owes a lot to Kinkade: If you look at algorithmically curated databases used to fine-tune AI models such as «LAION aesthetics,» you'll find Kinkade's paintings ranked higher than almost anything else in terms of «aesthetic score»
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WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.

Stop using WeTransfer.

Herzlichen Glückwunsch!

The 4th annual Henderson Heritage Group 'Experiences in Communities' public event: Friday 10 October 6-8pm
THE event of the autumn in the world of #democratictherapeuticcommunities and #activistresearch - tickets available now! ❤️‍🔥 #survivor #practicesofequality
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Thanks, Tom!

APS 2025 - We are ready! See you tomorrow
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We're getting ready, see you all soon!

We are incredibly excited about the programme for our upcoming annual APS conference: www.conftool.net/aps-2025/ses...
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Hope and Despair: Crisis and Opportunity - APS 2025
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Penned by Thomas Mann for Freud’s 80th birthday:

“A thinker and investigator who knew how to stand alone and then drew many to him and with him, he went his way and penetrated to truths which seemed dangerous because they revealed what had been anxiously hidden, and illumined dark places.

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Hope and Despair: Crisis and Opportunity - APS 2025
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New publication:
Rethinking Symbolic Violence on Social Media: Incels and Mentalisation

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Radicalised Adolescence? Hit series sparks calls to counter toxic masculinity The Netherlands now following the UK in launching initiatives to show Netflix's four-part series Adolescence in middle schools while France's education ministry ponders tighter controls on teens exposed to hate speech and porn. We’ll ask about a fiction inspired by real life cases of boys who went so far as to murder girls.

Radicalised Adolescence? Hit series sparks calls to counter toxic masculinity

Adolescence and Toxic Masculinity by Jacob Johanssen

Adolescence and Toxic Masculinity
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Coming out in September…
#psychoanalysis

Adolescence and Toxic Masculinity Adolescence is about more than incels and toxic masculinity.

I have written a short piece on Adolescence. The series is about more than "toxic masculinity". Many thanks to Everyday Analysis for publishing.
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Fox News screenshot. JD Vance annoying Greenland in person. Chyron: VANCE: THIS ISLAND IS NOT SAFE

Consensus worst “LOST” ep

Netflix-Serie »Adolescence«: Incel-Mythos der 80-20-Regel im Faktencheck In der Netflix-Serie »Adolescence« begeht ein 13-Jähriger einen kaum fassbaren Mord. Wurde er von der sogenannten »Incel«-Community angestachelt? Der Kommunikationsforscher Jacob Johanssen dechiffriert die Codes und Werte der Subkultur.

In der Netflix-Serie »Adolescence« begeht ein 13-Jähriger einen kaum fassbaren Mord. Wurde er von der sogenannten »Incel«-Community angestachelt? Der Kommunikationsforscher Jacob Johanssen dechiffriert die Codes und Werte der Subkultur.

Alt text: A screenshot from The Telegraph’s website features a headline reading: “Labour benefit cuts may breach equality law, says human rights watchdog.” The subheading states: “Equality commission to consider how Liz Kendall’s £5b welfare reforms will impact disabled people.” Below the headline is a photo of Liz Kendall speaking at the dispatch box in the House of Commons. She is wearing large glasses and a dark blue suit, with a serious expression as MPs look on in the background.

NEW: The Equality and Human Right Commission is investigating Labour’s benefits cuts for potentially breaching the Equality Act. Spoiler alert: it is. I’m half way through all these PIP scoring forms and changing to needing 4 in one item is clearly discriminatory.