“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves”—confucius

“If there is a utopian sensibility running through Lynch’s films, it is here – in this boyish, inchoate, but touchingly stubborn intuition that a single woman’s suffering can tear the fabric of the world.”-https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/women-in-trouble

We've lost a moral giant who embodied humility. President Jimmy Carter was a visionary leader and a singularly good person, and his remarkable lifetime of service—from Plains, Georgia to the White House and beyond—exemplified the best of what America could be.

“Optimism is a refusal to face facts. Hope aims to change them.”- Susan Neiman.

"The body is the vehicle of being in the world’, says the phenomenological philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1962). It is the "horizon latent in all our experience …and anterior to every determining thought."

If memory is not in the head and implicit memory is not amenable to verbal explication and our lived past is enacted then memory is more than a category of cognition it becomes a superordinate capacity for orienting the lived body to its horizons of I cans.

“To see the modern world from the point of view of a parent is to see it in the worst possible light.”—Christopher Lasch, 1991

"Lichtenberg’s prescient early contribution to the “enactive” (action-oriented) turn in developmental theory holds implications that extend far beyond the world self-psychology or even psychoanalysis..." 1/2 read my FREE paper on the late great Joe Lichtenberg: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Possible Profession: Joe Lichtenberg and the Restoration of the Bodily Self

Beginning with “The Psychoanalytic Situation and Infancy,” I consider Joe Lichtenberg’s legacy of creating an experience-near holistic psychology of the self in terms of a larger attempt to make ps...

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God i love @propublica.org so much

Daniel Martin@fizbin.bsky.social · 2y ago

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases) projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

Let's do this everywhere. www.publicnotice.co/p/wisconsin-...

Searching for a ray of hope? Look at Wisconsin.

Stringing together small wins can lead to big progress.

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"A philosophy of the flesh is the condition without which psychoanalysis remains anthropology." -Merleau-Ponty, The Visible and the Invisible

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Check out our freshly recorded Helix roundtable on Otherness with George Makari, Jessica Benjamin, Eyal Rozmarin, Jasper St. Bernard, Daniel Goldin, Janice Edwards and Daniel Posner: www.youtube.com/live/WFgsxkX...

Let’s do this.