The search for AI ROI continues. University admin gave a presentation to faculty senate on AI. They begged us to discover use cases for them. All they have is a bespoke Ai tutoring agent and hopes and dreams for improved internal operations All senate had to offer was complaints about cheating

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Clinician Chris Landry joins us to talk the life and legacy of analyst and philosopher Jonathan Lear (1948-2025), the transformative implications of Lear's ideas for psychotherapy, his own work in community psychoanalysis, and more! www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

141: Jonathan Lear and the “Good-Enough World” feat. Chris Landry - Ordinary Unhappiness

Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessClinician Chris Landry joins Abby and Patrick for a reflection on th...

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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.

ProPublica@propublica.org · last yr.

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

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!

Decolonization and World Order - Kevin Duong, 2025

Where does new work on decolonization stand in relation to preceding work on empire and postcolonial theory? In what circumstances should we situate decolonizat...

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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

Harms Committed@harmscommitted.com · last yr.

In May 2024, "Clinton said students who oppose Israel's policies in Gaza and the West Bank 'don't know very much.'" "Clinton and a number of European leaders are speaking out now because Israel has already 'carried out their final solution.'" #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #USA #Genocide

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

Andrew@tjsleakyroof.bsky.social · last yr.

this motherfucker

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...

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The Association for Political Theory is hosting its annual summer workshop on Navigating the Political Theory Job Market! The aim of the workshop will be to provide guidance, advice, and tips that...

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The sixth issue of Parapraxis, on "Resistance," is going to become available for tomorrow for pre-order. Support our work by subscribing.

Parapraxis Issue 06: Resistance — Parapraxis

Now available for pre-order. Copies will ship in July. In 1911, Sigmund Freud addressed his followers gathered at Nuremberg, where he restated the import of his practice: “the task of psychoanalysi...

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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

Evan Torner@guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · last yr.

There is a false dichotomy drawn between "the ivory tower" and "the real world," and I'm here to report that in a post-industrial society, your real-world economy absolutely hinges on the university. University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.

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...

Business Meeting Resolution Update - AHA

Update as of January 17, 2025: The AHA Council deplores any intentional destruction of Palestinian educational institutions, libraries, universities, and archives in Gaza. The Council considers the “R...

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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.

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.”

Kevin Duong@ktduong.bsky.social · 2y ago

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...

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...

How to Build a Wonder of the World

We notice the commune form whenever and wherever people grasp, against all odds, that what matters is life.

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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...

Broke Psychoanalysis — Parapraxis

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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...

*Pre-order* Parapraxis Issue 03: The Wish [Winter 2023/2024] — Parapraxis

IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WISH. Dreams are the only place we can have what we wish, but both the wish and its fulfillment will be distorted. This is the Freudian notion of the dream. By 1900, Freud�...

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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

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 3y ago

the city is redeveloping one if the public housing sites and the results look fantastic