Dependent. Detached. Trauma Bonded. The Incest Lobby. Revolution Against Romance. Reading for Love and Labor. Surrealist Bedfellows. Mad Love. Essays by Nadia Bou Ali, hannah baer, Moon Charania, Davey Davis, Kaleem Hawa, Anna Kornbluh, Thomas Ogden, and more.
Issue 07: Romance
This year's conference is fast approaching! Today, we want to highlight APT's Standing Committee on Mentorship and Professional Development's new workshop at this year’s conference in Chicago. On Saturday, November 8th at 11am, come join us at “How to Get Into Public-Facing Writing."
i'll say it again, my loud and vigorous support for any democrat who calls for televised hearings and criminal charges for everyone involved in DOGE. this guy should never be able to live in peace again.
Political Theory has a new format, the state of the field essay, and Kevin Duong is kicking things off with a terrific essay on Decolonization and World Order. Check it out!
on the one hand we should want people to change their mind so we can stop what's happening now. On the other hand there need to be costs for the ghoulish behavior that got us here, as these people absolutely will do this again given half a chance
thank you!
There was so much I wanted to discuss in more detail, but it's already at 36 pages. In the end, the essay reflects my own narrow intellectual formation. I hope it's helpful to others interested in what political theorists are droning on about.
I wrote an idiosyncratic snapshot of the state of political theory. Basically, I don't think the study of decolonization grows out of postcolonial theory. It's the intellectual afterlife of the global financial crisis and the protest decade that followed.
doi.org/10.1177/0090...
i thought the vibe felt particularly evil in the neighborhood today
On July 23, join APT from 12-2pm EDT for a virtual summer panel on navigating the political theory job market w/ @kdpham.bsky.social, Pinar Kemerli, and @kyebarker.bsky.social.
All are welcome - membership encouraged but not required. Register here for the zoom link: albany.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
The sixth issue of Parapraxis, on "Resistance," is going to become available for tomorrow for pre-order. Support our work by subscribing.
say it again:
4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities
ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x
demolishing higher education is economic sabotage
Friends of community psychoanalysis, please consider signing the following petition. Santé Quebec is unilaterally closing the "388" in Quebec City, one of the few institutions designed for psychoanalytic treatment of psychotics. It's been around 1982 and is a monumental institution.
t.co/gDdTY419wC
The AHA Council vetoed the Scholasticide Resolution. Time to cancel your membership. www.historians.org/news/busines...
Absolutely delighted about the publication of UNCONQUERED STATES (Oxford University Press), which looks at the global history of non-European powers in the imperial age.
Announcing:
A RETURN TO FREUD? NEW HISTORIES OF PSYCHOANALYSIS, a three-day symposium at UC Berkeley, co-organizeed with Ramsey McGlazer.
March 20-22. In-person.
More info & registration here:
thepsychosocialfoundation.org/events/
Parapraxis and the Psychosocial Foundation are growing. New clinical work (!!), refreshed website, the usual extra-academic seminars, etc. Hannah Z, Alex C, etc. are working their butts off. It's changed my life to have them around. If you feel the same, please subscribe.
there's no link but if you send me a DM I can email you my pdf scan
Oldie but a goodie, students still love hating it in class: "the original and paradoxical contradiction of capitalism—a form that, on the one hand, develops sublime sentiments and on the other, represses and irritates them, thus preparing a psychological misery as intense as the misery of desire."
“We make our community,” Kristin Ross insists, “by defending it.”
Yeah, at the gym in Charlottesville. I just assumed I was misreading it, it was so bewildering. But it's crystal clear.
Today, first time seeing guys wearing Southern Rhodesia shirts around in public. I knew this was a thing but hadn't actually seen it yet.
For Public Books, I wrote on life in the Hudson Valley, the ZAD in France, the agrarian Left, and Freud. It's a review of Kristin Ross's latest book, THE COMMUNE FORM, published recently by Verso. If you’re looking for a long read for distraction, check it out. www.publicbooks.org/how-to-build...
The Asian American Center for Psychoanalysis is organizing an event on "Psychoanalysis as Social Criticism" on Aug 25. Ft. two great analysts, Betty Teng and Jyoti Rao, + me. 100% proceeds go to Palestine Legal, Asian Health Services, and Asian Women Giving Circle
taacp.org/psychoanalys...
"psychoanalysis deserves to be communal luxury" -- in Parapraxis, @ktduong.bsky.social on the Lafargue Clinic in Harlem. www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/bro...
!! Longer treatment of the comics stuff in the book chapter version. Kind of incredible, wrong, fascinating, brilliant stuff in turn...
Comrades, the Winter issue of PARAPRAXIS is coming soon. I have an essay in it, "Broke Psychoanalysis: In Memory of Harlem's Lafargue Clinic." You can preorder the issue to see the high-res photographs in the essay: www.parapraxismagazine.com/store/p/para...
Two nice post-docs for historians, political theorists, and literary studies folks on "American Revolution and its Legacies" here at UVA
jobs.virginia.edu/jobs/R005333...
If you have time to spare or are already enrolled, come listen to me yap about my hobby horses at the Parapraxis Seminar tomorrow: Cold War modernism, surrealism and anticolonialism, Nixon and Khrushchev "kitchen debate," etc
www.thepsychosocialfoundation.org/seminars
our zoning code is being revamped to allow this sort of development — as well as apartment-style homes — in every part of the city. naturally, opponents are screaming that it will destroy the city’s character
