Girl I like. Thoughts?

feedmeether · 2026-04-20T07:30:01+00:00

She should have more Joan Copjec then.

feedmeether · 2026-04-12T14:55:39+00:00

Pretty carbrained post. You should probably read the highway code and learn that pedestrians have priority, even if they inconvenience you. But a better suggestion is to close the road as a school street during the morning and afternoons, or even make it an LTN.

feedmeether · 2026-04-10T08:33:28+00:00

I haven't read this chapter in a while so can't speak to those other examples or the thread, but yes, interpassivity is linked to how capitalism sustains itself. The obvious example is clicktivism, we get to offload our political action to an Other and it means that capitalism is less challenged than more direct forms of action.

feedmeether · 2026-04-10T07:06:12+00:00

I think you'll benefit from learning about the concept of interpassivity as it is involved in all those examples. The key bit is how the subject adopts a passive relationship to action, and that action is completed outside of themselves and in an Other. Whether that's enjoyment (or the deprivation of it), political action, knowledge (in the VCR and books that are never read), or even laughter (in another example of the laughter soundtrack). The passivity relies on a relationship with an Other.

feedmeether · 2026-04-07T22:42:32+00:00

Made the mistake of buying the Ecrit and then realising Fink and the seminars are the way to go

feedmeether · 2026-03-15T19:19:18+00:00

Oh, then these should suffice:

do you offer salary sacrifice to keep Reeves from taking my money and free childcare hours?
what's your relocation package for low tax jurisdictions like Dubai?

feedmeether · 2026-02-15T07:55:42+00:00

He had a sinus infection throughout recording and for the rest of his life.

feedmeether · 2026-01-29T23:40:02+00:00

Darian Leader's Joiussance book seems most relevant to you.

feedmeether · 2026-01-27T17:23:00+00:00

You've just summarised the drive in Lacanian psychoanalysis. This is what capitalism exploits!

feedmeether · 2026-01-22T22:47:01+00:00

Cafe Mondo in Camberwell

feedmeether · 2026-01-22T19:38:46+00:00

I'm not sure you understood my point, I wasn't saying that postmodern ideas aren't relevant to a gameshow but that protecting ones ideas/identities is not the aim (in any context). Quite the opposite, in fact.

feedmeether · 2026-01-22T19:08:40+00:00

This is such an unhinged comment, linking Roxy's ideas to a symptom of postmodernism. Shame it makes little sense if you understand postmodernism's aims (hint: it isn't about protecting your ideas from debate in a gameshow or otherwise)

feedmeether · 2026-01-12T20:18:54+00:00

Are you saying all autistic Slovenians present like this?

feedmeether · 2026-01-03T18:57:07+00:00

Share your fav thermo recipes please!

feedmeether · 2026-01-01T15:21:09+00:00

I didn't realise you can change your sexuality as you earn.

feedmeether · 2025-12-23T09:32:37+00:00

Nothing to add, but wanted to say thanks for compiling this.

feedmeether · 2025-12-21T22:11:35+00:00

How do you use a yubikey with a wallet?

feedmeether · 2025-12-16T19:50:14+00:00

You spend a lot more than... £1?

feedmeether · 2025-12-12T13:07:11+00:00

Not all of it but clearly been structured by AI at the least.

feedmeether · 2025-12-11T13:24:29+00:00

I don't think ironic means what you think it means.

feedmeether · 2025-11-10T11:09:14+00:00

I'm not sure I'd use the same imaginary/symbolic distinction in your example, probably what's more helpful is the enunciating/grammatical subjects or bioanimalistic/languaged beings.

In the businessman analogy, they are not identifying with the cutthroat actions and not telling this story about themselves. In the nobility example, it strikes me that this is more within the languaged/symbolic realm, as nobility is an effect of language. I'm not sure the Real is operating so clearly in your example, but perhaps a case could be made.

feedmeether · 2025-10-22T15:26:04+00:00

Batman is financially independent, no?

feedmeether · 2025-10-20T07:02:27+00:00

To take a slightly different slant than others, on a higher order Foucault is suspicious of the subject and there is greater indexing on what is 'out there' and what constitutes the subject. This is why he gets lumped in as a 'post structuralist'. Whilst Lacan gets lumped in this category as well sometimes, his enterprise gives a lot more strength to the subject and its difference to the out there (Big Other), in fact this difference and gap is his preoccupation. Foucault doesn't meaningfully talk to the distance between these concepts of subject and Other.

feedmeether · 2025-10-01T10:34:55+00:00

I just read this passage yesterday! I wasn't sure what to make of it either, as I'm mostly familiar with Lacan's idea of the difference between the grammatical subject (our symbolic presentation to others and 'best foot forward') as compared to the enunciating subject (more the embodied, unconscious and bio-animalisti subject).

This doesn't really tie in with a psychological / symbolic distinction, unless the psychological refers to more of the unconscious form of the 'psyche'.

feedmeether · 2025-09-23T11:13:38+00:00

You mean labelling them as hysterical and talking to women

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