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Posts by Brian Connolly

I thought this was one of the laziest moments - they append a long bibliography, some of which seems not to have been seriously considered. What is actually cited in the text is telling I think, none more so than Haidt

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Our fourth essay in the forum on Zahid Cahudhary, this one from Eva Cherniavsky, is now up at Critical Noise. Subscribe for updates!
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here is out third essay on Zahid Chaudhary's Paranoid Publics - this one from Ben Baer. Check it out and subscribe while you are there for updates from Critical Noise....https://criticalnoise.org/out-of-your-mind/
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here is out third essay on Zahid Chaudhary's Paranoid Publics - this one from Ben Baer. Check it out and subscribe while you are there for updates from Critical Noise....https://criticalnoise.org/out-of-your-mind/
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Today is our second essay at Critical Noise on Zahid Chaudhary's Paranoid Publics - "The Libidinal Economy of Truth" by me. @dukepress.bsky.social @fordhampress.bsky.social

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Today is our second essay at Critical Noise on Zahid Chaudhary's Paranoid Publics - "The Libidinal Economy of Truth" by me. @dukepress.bsky.social @fordhampress.bsky.social

criticalnoise.org/the-libidina...

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Critical Noise, a new site from History of the Present, launching with a forum on Zahid Chaudhary’s Paranoid Public’s
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Symposium – History of the Present

New History of the Present compaion website is up with a book forum on Zahid Chaudhary's Paranoid Publics: The Psychopolitics of Truth. Over the course of this week there will be essays from Robyn Wiegman, Ben Baer, Eva Cherniavsky, Christina Leon, and me.

criticalnoise.org/symposium/

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It was the primary reason I assented to being chair while still associate. Of course, as with many things in higher education, the raises I received as chair are now gone for all future chairs

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If you are in the Lancaster area and want to watch one of the great films of the 1970s and hear me talk about desire, family, and crisis….

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This looks terrific!

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Anyone interested in a panel on psychoanalysis and history? something that approaches psychoanalysis as method/theory and not only object of inquiry (the more common approach of the many recent and very good intellectual histories of psychoanalysis)

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The Government of Desire Liberalism, Miguel de Beistegui argues in The Government of Desire, is best described as a technique of government directed towards the self, with desire as its central mechanism.  Whether as economic...

i don't know if it is interesting, wild, or creative, but i just read this book, which argues that his primary concern, across a wide swath of his work, was a genealogy of desire. Struck me as an original (and pretty convincing) reading: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Margaret Mead was really ahead of the curve on polyamory

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For at least that past several decades the real fantasy of most administrators and, to be honest, some of our faculty colleagues, is a university without faculty or students. In that context, AI is not degradation but rather long-delayed wish fulfillment...

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Incest, in This Economy? — Parapraxis The 21st-Century Family Romance BRIAN CONNOLLY

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Been wondering "what's with all the incest?" - boy mom tik tok, incest porn, White Lotus, Jonathan Haidt, 1970s pro incest sexology - and how the libidinal economy of incest might be the remainder of the collapsed political economy of the family?
Well, I've got some thoughts...

(Link below)

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Incest, in This Economy? — Parapraxis The 21st-Century Family Romance BRIAN CONNOLLY

now online in the ROMANCE issue of Parapraxis, Brian Connolly:

"the incest imaginary of the C21 suggests an erotic plentitude at the heart of our alienating+alienated homes. barely holding onto family property, you can still get what you really want."
www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/inc...

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Try this again….

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these people are such clowns, from the fantasy that these absurd centers are necessary to the shock of the guy in the photo here that students were unaware of a marginal, nonsense center offering one credit courses

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Incest, in This Economy? — Parapraxis The 21st-Century Family Romance BRIAN CONNOLLY

“Is this really the last taboo, after which we will be liberated from repression itself? Would we even want to be?”

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Essay came out today - apparently Bluesky thinks is it “adult content”

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Incest, in This Economy? — Parapraxis The 21st-Century Family Romance BRIAN CONNOLLY

Been wondering "what's with all the incest?" - boy mom tik tok, incest porn, White Lotus, Jonathan Haidt, 1970s pro incest sexology - and how the libidinal economy of incest might be the remainder of the collapsed political economy of the family? Great!

www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/inc...

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Sometimes people wonder why I hate/left Florida….

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Just the most useless people in the world

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the Silicon Valley-White House connection is just an utter contempt for humans and has been ruling over us for the last few decades

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i know it's not on the table but it really should be down with the nation-state abolish borders, not "they are even taking legal immigrants"

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There will never not be an opportunity for me to repost this: lareviewofbooks.org/article/our-...

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one of my children just said this to me: "on the outside you are pretty manly you drink black coffee, like a firm mattress, wear tapered jeans, have a big dog...but you also read about Marxism, psychoanalysis, and the philosophical ideas of penises. It's confusing"

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I think there should be a moratorium on the phrase “the past is never past”

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