Programme and registration now live!
Trust, Mistrust and Community @assocpsychosocial.bsky.social 12-13 June 2026
Keynote: Yasmin Gunaratnam
Conference programme: www.conftool.net/aps-2026/ind...
Registration and conference information: www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/conference-2...
Programme and registration is now live!
Trust, Mistrust and Community
St Mary’s University 12th-13th June
Keynote: Yasmin Gunaratnam
Conference programme: www.conftool.net/aps-2026/ind...
Registration and further information: www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/conference-2...
Programme and registration now live!
Trust, Mistrust and Community @assocpsychosocial.bsky.social 12-13 June 2026
Keynote: Yasmin Gunaratnam
Conference programme: www.conftool.net/aps-2026/ind...
Registration and conference information: www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/conference-2...
Next week:
Event information for the Association for Psychosocial Studies 2026 Annual Conference. The top features a blue and red abstract ink-style banner and an infinity symbol logo. The title is "Trust, Mistrust and Community: Call for Papers," taking place 12-13th June 2026 at St Mary’s University, London. The text describes the psychosocial dynamics of trust, digital infrastructures, and "dystopian imaginaries." It invites submissions from clinicians and academics for papers and creative productions. A QR code is in the bottom right, and a dark blue banner at the bottom highlights the submission deadline: 8th March 2026.
The Association for Psychosocial Studies is extending the submission deadline for the 2026 Annual Conference, titled "Trust, Mistrust and Community."
The new deadline for all abstracts is now 8th March 2026.
New article in Psicologia di Comunità-Open Access ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Parasocial Feminism and Social Media Communities: Subjective Empowerment and its Ambivalences
Johanna Lisa Degen &
Jacob Johanssen
journals.francoangeli.it/index.php/ps...
Saddened to learn that First Monday will cease publication. It was a quality open-access journal that eschewed the traps of big publishing and promoted innovative thinking & research regarding tech and society. #academicsky
firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...
New as Online First: Jack Black and Jacob Johanssen, 'The Subject of AI: A Psychoanalytic Intervention' - explores psychoanalytic perspectives, particularly Lacanian theory, on artificial intelligence, with a focus on chatbots, such as, ChatGPT. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Black, Jack & Johanssen, Jacob: The Subject of AI: A Psychoanalytic Intervention _Theory, Culture and Society_ (xx). 2025This article explores psychoanalytic perspectives, particularly Lacanian...
Origin | Interest | Match
«ChatGPT told a young mother in Maine that she could talk to spirits in another dimension. It told an accountant in Manhattan that he was in a computer-simulated reality … It told a corporate recruiter in Toronto that he had invented a math formula that would break the internet …» #ParanoiaMachine
Ooh looks great!
New article with Jack Black now in Theory, Culture & Society:
The Subject of AI: A Psychoanalytic Intervention
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
📯 APS Conference 2026
Trust, Mistrust and Community
www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/conference-2...
Our book Media and Psychoanalysis: A Critical Introduction has just been published in Persian! 🎉
Many thanks to Saeid Ghobadi for the translation:
barkhatbook.com/product/bk_2...
is Spotify (and its distribution partners) retaliating against artists who boycott?
this video is about what happened after I removed my music from Spotify.
please reach out if you’ve experienced something similar
Thanks, Justin!
Academics are under unrelenting pressure to accept the narrative of the inevitability of #generativeAI & to embrace it in teaching & learning. We resist - because it is ecologically destructive, ethically corrupt, & because it undermines the thinking abilities that make us both human & intelligent.
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
This fits perfectly, as the default aesthetic of #AIslop already owes a lot to Kinkade: If you look at algorithmically curated databases used to fine-tune AI models such as «LAION aesthetics,» you'll find Kinkade's paintings ranked higher than almost anything else in terms of «aesthetic score»
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WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.
Stop using WeTransfer.
Herzlichen Glückwunsch!
The 4th annual Henderson Heritage Group 'Experiences in Communities' public event: Friday 10 October 6-8pm
THE event of the autumn in the world of #democratictherapeuticcommunities and #activistresearch - tickets available now! ❤️🔥 #survivor #practicesofequality
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1440614559... ❤️
Thanks, Tom!
APS 2025 - We are ready! See you tomorrow
@assocpsychosocial.bsky.social
We're getting ready, see you all soon!
We are incredibly excited about the programme for our upcoming annual APS conference: www.conftool.net/aps-2025/ses...
You can still register! @assocpsychosocial.bsky.social
Hope and Despair: Crisis and Opportunity - APS 2025
Registration closing soon!
www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/conference-2...
Penned by Thomas Mann for Freud’s 80th birthday:
“A thinker and investigator who knew how to stand alone and then drew many to him and with him, he went his way and penetrated to truths which seemed dangerous because they revealed what had been anxiously hidden, and illumined dark places.
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