• We cannot do all things, become proficient in all areas, or master all fields

• Maybe there is some fucking magic in giving language to hidden things

• The days are reeling past in such squealing blasts

• What happens when we can’t stay on the stage any longer?

• The psychodynamics of the post-left

• Epistemic relativism and the escape from the real

• The myth of the ‘perfectly analysed’ person

• The existentialist Lacan

• Are the economic shocks of 2021-2023 a temporary phenomenon?

• What I really need is to be clear about what I am to do

• What is there in this which is intolerable and past bearing?

• Āditta Sutta – The Fire Sermon

• Germany: The discreet lives of the super rich

• What’s the use of starting if you must stop?

• The rise of sociophobia

• The moral economy of automaticity: sociological and psychoanalytical perspectives

• The future’s not what it used to be

• I can’t steal you

• Turning ghosts into ancestors

• The bodily foundation of selfhood: from appetite to breathing

• The inner adult and the inner child

• The hungry ghosts

• Peter Thiel at the Oxford Union

• Theorising permanent instability and volatility as necessary rather than contingent features of the environment

• Where Lacanian psychoanalysis meets Buddhism

• What if we have achieved postcapitalism but it isn’t socialism?

• AI, digitalisation and the crisis of post-pandemic capitalism

• CfP: The future of conspiracy scholarship: New epistemologies and imaginaries

• Bhaskar’s concept of ‘present-moment awareness’

• The power of giving language to hidden things

• A few thoughts about the difficulty of living a reparative life

• Societal collapse is a process rather an event

• Lacan’s ‘objet a’: you still haven’t found what you’re looking for (and you’re never going to)

• Nick Cave on the importance of humility in a bizarre and temporary world

• Shock as a narrative vacuum

• It’s all in the game though, right?

• “We all have a sense of what really living, and not just existing, would be. We know that there’s a level of life that’s rare to attain”

• Charles Taylor on the Four Modes of Modern Seeking

• Overcome difficulties by multiplying them

• What if those who lap up the eschatological enthusiasms of Left Behind and QAnon are in many cases survivors of their own chronic and acute disasters?

• To be traumatized is to be unable to innovate, or improvise, or surprise oneself

• “I try not to look ahead at the moment. If I don’t look ahead I don’t worry”

• The disavowed uncertainty of Kierkegaard’s eternal love

• “Well, given that we’re screwed in all of these conceivable ways, what would you want to do? Not, what do you have to do to survive, or appease the Other, but what would you just want?”

• Cliodynamics and social collapse

• The Lacanian theory of trauma

• When-I-finally get hold of objet petit a

• Lacan on Love: An Interview with Bruce Fink

• The Lacanian Left, Self-Help, and the Family

• AI and the politics of productivity in a crumbling UK

• Walking in the air

• Love is giving something you don’t have to someone who doesn’t want it

• The hidden treasure that turns an ordinary thing into a radiant prize

• Salvaging humanism in an era of ubiquitous generative AI

• On not getting what we want

• What would the young Slavoj Žižek think of the old Slavoj Žižek?

• Simone Weil’s apophatic concept of attention

• The accumulation of crises in comics

• Even in the darkest of times we have the right to expect some illumination

• The Entangled Forest

• “There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it” 

• Fantasy tells me what I am to my others

• Rilke on the single urgent task: to reach out with joy

• Gabor Mate’s definition of addiction

• On walking at dusk

• An accelerationist response to generative AI

• Escaping the crystallised pattern of our personal system

• Thirty years of running, thirty years of searching

• You know those times where everything was golden?

• Every discomfort is only an abortive metaphysical experience

• What it is like to be mistreated as an object, without having the capacity to assume the position of subject

• The metaverse and the next pandemic

• The tension between attachment and authenticity

• Nick Cave on extending a hand to assist the world

• On waiting for something to happen

• What is trauma?

• The romance of the ascent of the humanity

• John Stuart Mill on libidinal collapse: some thoughts on socialisation and human purpose

• Choose life: some notes on Lacan’s death drive

• But then why do you write? Nietzsche on the necessity of getting rid of your thoughts

• I’m a lifeless face that you’ll soon forget

• The death drive as a will to create from zero, to begin again

• Hope is optimism with a broken heart

• What would happen if every human suddenly disappeared?

• Nick Cave on creating on the edge of disaster

• Cultivating a relationship of gratitude towards the world

• Nick Cave on the terrible devastating opportunities that bring transformation

• Why (material) things matter to people

• Nick Cave on suffering, loss and renewal

• Being open to the world

• The chasm at the heart of our agency