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📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

(Building on 2024 and 2025‘s habit in the hope I continue to feel pressured by the Big Other to actually finish reading the books I start)

Books I’ve read in 2026:

  1. Nietzsche, by Stefan Zweig
  2. How To Read Like A Parasite: Why The Left Got High On Nietzsche, by Daniel Tutt
  3. The Naturals, by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
  4. The Four Quartets, by T.S. Eliot
  5. On Friendship, by Andrew O’Hagan
  6. Three Characters: Narcissist, Borderline, Manic Depressive, by Christopher Bollas
  7. Mayflies, by Andrew O’Hagan
  8. The Evocative Object World, by Christopher Bollas
  9. The Infinite Question, by Christopher Bollas
  10. Forces of Destiny: Psychoanalysis and Human Idiom, by Christopher Bollas.

Papers I’ve read in 2025:

  1. Hayles, N. Katherine. 2025. “My First Book and Where It Led.” Media Theory 9 (2): 191–200.
  2. Aydin, Ciano, and Luca Possati. 2025. “Less and More than Data: A Lacanian Inquiry into Self-Formation in the Age of Data Mining.” AI & Society 40 (8): 6123–34.
  3. Blackwell, Dick. 2002. “Out of Their Class: Class, Colonization and Resistance in Analytic Psychotherapy and Group Analysis.” Group Analysis 35 (3): 367–80.