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Mark Carrigan

Raiding the inarticulate since 2010

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  • A properly ethical attitude must risk an encounter with the unsettling real of the other’s being

  • The power of the signifier: why the power up sign is actually doing something real

  • The jouissance of writing

  • “Think of life as an open wound, which you poke with a stick to amuse yourself”

  • The jouissance of spleen, or, bitter cold wind whispers my name

  • The jouissance of the new far right

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

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

  • On getting what you want

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

  • Learning to enjoy your enjoyment

  • An example of how GAI hallucinations can be generative

  • What is fascism in the 2020s?

  • Nothing is more entertaining than fucking with words and their arrangement

  • On not getting what we want

  • Jouissance: Enjoying in the margins

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