• Winter is coming

• Is there a middle ground between bourgeois theory and avant-garde theory?

• LLMs, thoughts and the thinking of those thoughts

• When Lacan came to America

• Calm creation that in opening closes, often ceases by starting

• Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: the essence of running, and a metaphor for life

• Living on the Other’s time

• Revisiting poststructuralist approaches to language in order to understand how we live and work with LLMs: the Pikachu Capybara effect

• The inevitability and irreversibility of loss

• The Covid-19 pandemic as a social mechanism driving biographical change

• Something will always be lacking

• A Lacanian analysis of addiction

• The most common use of LLMs in 2025 is therapy/companionship

• The jouissance of the new far right

• Black Pill Claude’s bleak vision of the coming future: the peaceful extinction of human agency

• Gen Z Reform voters who are sympathetic to Corbyn. Or, the jouissance of Nigel Farage

• We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand

• The unpredictable, unfathomable point of decision

• A reluctant (and partial) defence of Mark Zuckerberg’s claims about AI friends

• “You’re in charge of your life, you can do more than you are doing. Let’s see where it takes you”

• Are digital elites literally trying to establish a new species?

• The risk of (enshittified) LLMs for mental health

• The millions of instances of (accidental) torture which Ray Kurzweil believes will precede the Singularity

• Why do I write? The question generative AI implicitly poses to us

• The epistemopathic dimension of writing with LLMs

• Generative AI and the Anxieties of Academic Writing

• Generative AI and the challenge of unbidden thoughts

• On being a mystery to ourselves

• Machine writing and keeping your inner world awake

• Plants and animals don’t fight the winter

• Immense pleasure-domes of rhapsodic philosophical ecstasy

• An abundance of knowledge obliterates the lack which generates desire

• If we only concentrate on putting out the blaze, we’ll eventually burn out

• The growing popularity of cults in a transient, fragmented state of contemporary society

• Can LLMs sustain and transform affect

• Zupančič: How to live a life worth living

• René Girard as reductive Lacanianism

• Hope is a verb with its sleeves rolled up

• Hope is essential to our survival and our flourishing

• Rebecca Solnit on the politics of hope

• Lacan lecturing in English: Of Structure as an Inmixing of an Otherness Prerequisite to any Subject whatever

• The anxiety of individualisation

• Lacan on the anxiety of love

• Companions in the infinite rather than comfort animals

• Wrestling as an incubator of conspiracy culture

• The fantasy of knowledge as attempt to foreclose otherness

• The social imaginary of middle class 90s kids

• Music can grip us with the energy of a religious conversion. Once it is heard, one never experiences the world in quite the same way

• New couples employ basically the same tactics that cults do

• Every time you make a decision you confront your symbolic castration

• We who are your closet friends feel the time has come to tell you that every Thursday we have been meeting as a group

• What is the objet petit a for aspiring writers?

• Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises: a dialogue with Claude 3.5 about an incomplete book project

• We can’t escape the trap of desire, but we can approach that trap with greater poise

• Automatic writing with image generators

• Why spend two minutes trying to tell someone what they meant to you when the platform can write a ‘heartfelt’ message for you?

• The Lacanian understanding of love

• bell hooks on the difference between cathexis and love

• Epidemiological self-consciousness and the suddenly countercultural status of the sovereign individual

• Elon Musk’s social media addiction

• Liberal conspiracism and the parts of the psyche that media literacy training doesn’t touch

• Atomised society has stitched itself back together and it’s pretty awful really

• A symptom isn’t a symptom until it’s reflexively recognised as such by the analysand

• It seems, as one becomes older, that the past has another pattern

• There is always a missed understanding between people

• All trauma is preverbal

• The wayward temporality of psychic life

• The friendly face of objet petit a

• Burdened by the image of an unalienated future, one finds oneself fleeing from existence itself

• That secret that you know but you don’t know how to tell

• Fling the emptiness in your arms out into the spaces we breathe

• The best resource on Lacan I’ve encountered so far

• Words strain, crack and sometimes break under the burden

• Those whom we transform into myth are themselves myth-ridden

• Seeing my response under the new description allows me to experience it in a new way

• Disillusioned Awakenings in Dark Times: Reading Bernard Stiegler after the Covid Event

• I’ve been free associating with Claude 3 which is now enthusiastically free associating back to me

• How to free associate

• The more I consider the world, the more I realize that it’s supposed to have a cohesion that no longer exists

• On being sane in insane places

• I just discovered Therapist Reaction YouTube and I can’t stop watching it

• The liquidation of significance and symbolic misery

• On getting what you want

• The moral force of attention and its psychic foundations

• Gillian Rose on the satisfaction of writing and the joyful agony of loving

• An affective and aesthetic fullness that can attach even to experiences of cognitive frustration

• “The demons in your head are real and you can kill them”

• Playing in the ruins of your past expectations

• The libidinal economy of symbolisation

• Eudaimonic Bubbles as a normative rather than analytical concept

• Technosolutionism meets anomie

• The psyche is intrinsically constituted by its relation to infinity

• What need do conspiracy theories serve?

• The monster became self-conscious of its size and intoxicated by the belief in its own omnipotence

• You assumin’ I’m a human, what I gotta do to get it through to you I’m superhuman?

• Lacan on the trauma of birth

• Nothing can ever be beautiful enough to wipe out the traces of imperfections and faults

• “Mummy, I done an album!”: the excremental character of creative production

• A relational theory of existential challenge

• Our conception of the lifeworld needs the mundane as much as it needs the dramatic