A Very Theory Xmas

Eve Sedgwick is only interested in the green ones in the Quality Street tub, though, because she has a desire of triangulation.

Franco Moretti is making a chart of how many of each chocolate he's got in the Quality Street tub.

I'm dreaming of an unheimlich Christmas
Just like the ones that seem vaguely familiar for some reason

2025's Christmas Radio Times costs £6.50, that's 55p up from last year

How was everyone's 2025? I was fortunate enough to have two fellowships in the same Czech city, at the Universities of Brno and Brno Brookes.

Saussure isn’t interested in the reason why you bought him all those presents, only how they relate to each other underneath the tree.

I don't want a lot for Christmas
There is just one thing I need-

Lacan: This is what we would call the *objet petit a*.

You can't spell "Merry Xmas" without "Yes Mr Marx".

Foucault is directing the nativity play this year. He's going to have Melchior come on first, followed by Caspar, and then finally Balthasar.

That's The Order of Kings.

It's the most wonderful time of the year.

Yessssss, it's @averytheoryxmas.bsky.social time!

YES! Now it’s Christmas! 🎄🎄🎄

Have just discovered that @averytheoryxmas.bsky.social has moved over here from the Other Place with the rest of us. An essential part of online festivities!

Oh yes!

@averytheoryxmas.bsky.social has arrived !

Now the run up to the festive season has really started!

🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄

The author was dead: to begin with.

A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of Noddy Holder.

What a lovely audience you are. So much better than last year's.

The culture outside is frightful
But critique is so delightful
And since we've no place to know
Adorno, Adorno, Adorno

Yes, everyone, it's time for another Very Theory Xmas. We're here until early January with Terry Eagleton's chocolate orange, shameless theory puns, and of course #LastZizekIGaveYouTheReal. Rejoice!

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“Assuming the theoretical scene I have imagined takes place in the street, the hailed individual will turn around. By this mere 180 degree physical conversion, he becomes a subject. Why? Because IT'S CHRISTMAAAAAAS."

…and Freud bless us, every one!

…until then, make sure your wine is not only mulled but also deconstructed…

…but like Frosty the Snowman or the repressed, we’ll be back again some day (at the end of November 2025)…

Not quite 5th January yet, but it’s time to wrap up another very theory Christmas. Deleuze and Guattari are desperate to take down the tree…

There are rumours around that #JacquesLacansHootenanny is not really live but was prerecorded in 1967. Such claims are ideology at its purest. #hootenanny

#JacquesLacansHootenanny

Next on Jacques Lacan’s Hootenanny - Freud joins Mick Hucknall on “Something Got Me Started (But I Can’t Identify What)”. #JacquesLacansHootenanny

Jacques Lacan’s guests on the Hootenanny include Derrida, Foucault, Zizek, Kristeva, Barthes, Irigaray, and Tom Jones.

Joolsissance.

Who’s watching Jacques Lacan’s Hootenanny tonight? Who’s traversing the fantasy through boogie-Woogie piano? #JacquesLacansHootenanny