#radical thought

[thirdity]

The simulacrum now hides, not the truth, but the fact that there is none, that is to say, the continuation of Nothingness.

Jean Baudrillard, Radical Thought

[oh-dear-so-queer]

The idea that a single woman might think of herself as the equal to a man was derided by the late nineteenth-century radical thinker and poet Edward Carpenter, who said in 1897 that spinster feminists were 'out of line . . . Such women do not altogether represent their sex; some are rather mannish in temperament; some are "homogenic", that is inclined to attachments to their own sex rather than the opposite sex; such women are ultra-rationalising and brain-cultured; to many, children are more or less a bore; to others, man's sex-passion is a mere impertinence, which they do not understand, and whose place they consequently misjudge.'

"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory

[goblin-gardens]

When they don’t use my given name, my family usually calls me T-bird or just T, and though I’ve suggested Teddy as a nickname as well it’s been slow to catch on outside of my other queer cousins. But my nephew is starting to form syllables and everyone’s getting excited over him calling us by name. My sister-in-law asked me if I want him to call me Teddy, and whether I want to be Aunt Teddy or something else entirely (she left it even more open and less gendered than that)

It took less than a minute, but it just totally filled me to the brim with emotion

[niallerlovesirishamericans]

Let this sink in, a lot of people struggle with their own mental devices, it’s how we choose to manage those thoughts and react to them, that really counts.

[endlessandrea]

“Many of the people who have produced radical thought have not been imagined to be involved in the task of thinking at all." – Saidiya Hartman (from a portrait in The New Y*rker)

[redshift-13]

Parapraxis

A new journal of left psychoanalytic thought.  Very intriguing.

ABOUT

To inquire into and uncover the psychosocial dimension of our lives—investigating social, political, and personal issues in relation to violence and conflict, gender and sexuality, racism and diasporic experience, and care and welfare—is the mission of this magazine. Hitching a ride to society’s ongoing return to Sigmund Freud in the twenty-first century, Parapraxis is a psychoanalytically oriented supplement to the existing venues of radical critique and historical materialism. Critically aware of the limits of psychoanalytic thinking and institutions, the magazine includes reviews, reported pieces, columns on culture and social movements, and thematic clusters of feature essays. We believe this magazine will reinvigorate leftist psychoanalytic thought in the academy and the clinic, but we address a more general audience. Whereas there are many literary magazines and leftist magazines, there are no popular magazines devoted exclusively to the advancement of psychoanalytic thinking.

The magazine will not hew dogmatically to any particular psychoanalytic persuasion (whether organized under the name of Jacques Lacan, Melanie Klein, Donald Winnicott, Wilfred Bion, Frantz Fanon, or Freud himself). This is not because our contributors don’t think from within those traditions, but because we are committed to the relatively unknown endeavor of trying to engender a psychoanalysis for the twenty-first century. The magazine draws upon the practice’s older traditions, but we are not entombed within them. Our editorial team reflects this diversity of persuasion in theoretical and clinical approaches, and our contributing editors range from academic literary theorists to artists to clinicians to organizers; some of them are public-facing writers; some of them are experts in race; and others in sex / gender. Likewise, our editorial advisory board is comprised of some of the most talented and well-known thinkers in the field. We are all, nevertheless, committed to the radical horizon of political emancipation, and we are a resource for clinics, universities, and the public alike.

This magazine is a venue for theoretical debate about the meaning and role of psychoanalysis today by placing and translating psychoanalytic practice and thought into the popular idiom of existing social and political critique. We also maintain the theoretical and practical rigor germane to the psychoanalytic tradition. At the start of every issue, the editors orient the reader to the issue and a salient set of psychoanalytic problems—along with the issue’s writers and insights. In keeping with the name of the magazine, we will close each issue with a meditation on a historical, theoretical, or practical blunder from within the psychoanalytic tradition, either committed by Freud himself or those who have thought and practiced in his name. “From error to error,” Freud wrote, “one discovers the whole truth.” This is the guiding light of the magazine, editorially and otherwise.

In order to weather today's difficult realities, or to read and write about the psychical dimensions of everyday life, it is hard to know where to turn. For many, psychotherapy and psychoanalysis might be available, but it is often too costly on top of the drudgery of making a living and then, well, spending that life. Likewise, it's perhaps not very clear to people, who would avail themselves of psychoanalysis, what exactly psychoanalytic practice and the cure entails. This is part and parcel of the fact that psychoanalysis in the twenty-first century is often cloistered and inward-looking, sometimes violent, and the more popular and public-minded thinking around psychoanalysis is passed through the academy and broader clinical institutions, or shoehorned into other publishing venues. Parapraxis aims to provide a home for psychoanalytic writing and creativity, addressed to the public. We exist not merely to educate about psychoanalytic theory and practice, but also to provide a concrete way for readers and writers to work through their psychic life by way of the written word.

[consultingreaders]

What I would really like is for Tumblr to pin reblogs with IDs at the top of the notes, so I don’t have to endlessly scroll looking for one that may or may not be there @staff