The emergence of “slop” was foretold as soon as we started consuming content via “the feed”

Reification all the way down baby!

Or, with Laplanche, you could go beyond both Freud (vulgar determinism) and Adler (retroactive hermeneutics) and affirm the reality of the Other’s message and detranslate the feeling

My new thing is that Laplanche is actually more “relational” than the relationals

Everyone hates it

Remember when people thought Gen Z was gonna save us

If I see one more sanctimonious therapist doing some milquetoast both-sides-ism trash political take…

Yawn

how a spinozist sees the world

Marxology walked so Freudology could run

Here's my translation of Giorgio Agamben's recent text, "On Artificial Intelligence and Natural Stupidity." Agamben suggests that imagination is the key to the present situation, as it is the critical bond linking individuals with separate intelligence. But he asks, what happens

The backlash against wonkery and the reduction of politics to data isn't "anti-intellectual." It is the recovery of intellectualism against the wave of shallow, gamified casino-empiricism that has drowned our public discourse.

All I’m gonna say is that I had a supervisor who claimed that if they experienced a lump in their throat in session it meant the client had a history of sexual abuse. You can criticize IFS but psychodynamic people who idealize maternal countertransference can be just as kooky…