I read this paragraph so many times in my attempt to understand it that even my computer gave up and fell asleep 😂🤯🫠 #Lacan #PhDlife #philosophy

...and then looking for a 'How to read Lacan' guide and finding that the most popular one is written by none other than Slavoj Žižek, king of the labyrinthine and convoluted writing style, does not bode well.

The abject horror of the realisation that Lacan is in fact highly relevant to my PhD so I'm going to have to just roll up my sleeves and work out how to read him... 🫠 #phdlife #philosophy

OK so I've previously read all the statistics etc., but jfc attempting to make a promotional video for my PhD, which is about pregnancy + childbirth, using stock video clips is really underlining how ALL the default options are heterosexual white people. smh

Just a brief PSA to anyone who might find it helpful: refried beans and wet cat food look very similar. It is therefore important that you double check which one you are holding before spooning it into your tortilla. 🤢😄

I got an email this morning informing me that 2019 was seven years ago and it turned out they're right. SEVEN YEARS?! What is this timeline.

tfw you present a paper about death, abuse and trauma, yet somehow by the end of the conference people are saying "we should ask Chindilani that question, she's the love and peace one."

I mean, it's not the first expression that springs to mind when I'm asked to define myself, but I'll take it 😁

t-shirt that reads 'my unyielding melancholy brings all the existentialists to the yard'

Presented at a conference for other existential psychotherapists and philosophers this afternoon, so obviously I had to dress appropriately 😁

brb just gonna scream this through a loudspeaker in every street until ppl start to understand it

- open the doc you were working on last time
- read the 207 words you wrote
- delete 33 of them

#phdlife

The outdoor wheelchair has gone to the great wheelchair graveyard in the sky. Thank you for your service, friend ❤️

(Now we have to see how long I’m stuck indoors before the NHS gets me a new one…)

P.S. Yes, this wheelchair brand is called ‘Karma.’ Which feels like an… interesting… decision 😂

I have a conference presentation next weekend and a thesis chapter due the week after that.

So anyway, who’s heard of fridgescaping? 😂

Hmm, which part of my thesis am I working on today?

...ah yes, I remember.

Dasein – Existence – Mortality in Daseinanalysis and Psychotherapy In honour of the 50th anniversary of Martin Heidegger´s death, The European Centre for Heidegger Studies (ECHS) is organising an international online conference on Heidegger's work and the field...

I’m presenting at this conference next Saturday morning. My presentation is about the overlap between psychotherapy and philosophy, and how engaging with being-towards-death in a Heideggerian sense can make us better therapists.

Come along!

philevents.org/event/show/1...

Admittedly there aren’t loads of advantages to being in a wheelchair, but one of them is that if you have the right equipment you can do your PhD in the park ⛲️ ☀️💚

A notebook with some writing about the philosophy of nonsense.

“What are you writing about today, Chindi?”

“Oh, just some nonsense.”

“Don’t be self-deprecating.”

“…I’m not.” 😁

Ah, the joys of dysphagia, aka eating a piece of toast by swallowing most of it and then hawking the rest of it back up through your nasal canal 🤢

Backrooms | Official Teaser HD | A24 YouTube video by A24

Speaking of the backrooms... as a longtime lurker in liminal spaces, this is the film I'm most looking forward to this year.

AAAAANYWAY, back to the thesis.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKGh...

White text on a black background reads: r/cryptiddogs - what makes a dog a cryptiddog? What's the thing called where you see faces in stuff? Perceived (/uncertain) intent? Can be resolvable but doesn't have to be. If resolved, stops being uncanny. ('the collapse.' -- falling?) LIMINALITY Backrooms -- religion? (liminality + sacricore)

At the end of each writing session I make a few notes about where I plan to go next. Opening my thesis doc today has informed me that I am planning to think about Reddit's r/cryptiddogs forum, pareidolia, the backrooms, and the sacricore aesthetic, among other things.

A review of The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) (2011) I had heard from multiple sources that The Human Centipede 2 was more horrifying than the first one. Who knows what could possibly be worse than creating a human centipede, I wondered? This film does....

I had heard from multiple sources that The Human Centipede 2 was more horrifying than the first one.

Who knows what could possibly be worse than creating a human centipede, I wondered?

This film does. This film knows.

And now, unfortunately, so do I.

boxd.it/dl3CZl

The words 'phantom TROUSERS' in a Notes app

Today in "notes I half-woke-up and wrote in the middle of the night because they apparently felt very important at the time"

A ★★ review of Relic (2020) What if the home that raised you suddenly turned against you? A somewhat confused but nonetheless haunting exploration of intergenerational trauma, dementia and the overlapping memories in a space. Em...

What if the home that raised you suddenly turned against you?

A confused but nonetheless haunting exploration of intergenerational trauma, dementia and spatiotemporal memory.

boxd.it/dkZrol

Dasein – Existence – Mortality in Daseinanalysis and Psychotherapy In honour of the 50th anniversary of Martin Heidegger´s death, The European Centre for Heidegger Studies (ECHS) is organising an international online conference on Heidegger's work and the field...

On March 14th I will be speaking at this event re. the overlap between psychotherapy and philosophy. My talk will focus on an experience I had during therapy training which really underlined to me what it means to be-with another. Come along if you can! It's on Zoom.

philevents.org/event/show/1...

stg having this unexpectedly pop up in full-screen right in front of my face when I opened a new tab nearly gave me a heart attack 😅

A demonic-looking goat/wolf like creature with big teeth and empty staring eyes forms the background image of an internet browser.

HELP I WAS GOOGLING HORRIFYING PICTURES FOR MY PHD RESEARCH AND I SOMEHOW ACCIDENTALLY MADE THIS MY VIVALDI BACKGROUND AND I DONT KNOW HOW TO UNDO IT 😂😂😱

Therapy friends: any good paper recommendations re. generalised anxiety disorder from an existential perspective?

A screenshot of a questionnaire. The question reads: 'EDI Question 2: Are there any topics that you feel should be covered in future EDI centred panels/ conversations we may run? If so, are there any speakers ou might recommend? Please list, if so. The text in the answer box reads: It would be really nice if we could be included in the general stuff rather than siphoned off into a 'these people are incovenient but they help us look inclusive' side panel.

When you're doing your annual admin for your PhD funding body but they happened to catch you on a day when you're sick of being nice about feeling sidelined all the time. #phdlife

A chaotic mess of open and closed notebooks on a desk in front of a laptop which is open at a folder named 'Thesis'.

Yeah ok, I’ll admit that sometimes when I’m trying to keep three notebooks open in the right places whilst also typing up a chapter I do see that those of you who say I should digitise things might have a point 😁

Yes, Star Trek fans.
@chanda.blacksky.app tells it like it is here.
Or as I’ve posted before:

Looking for a place to stay as a wheelchair user like