Been obsessively thinking about parallels between "personal boundaries" & national borders. Did some googling this morning & found this amazing essay by @lilyscherlis.bsky.social historicizing pop psych "boundaries" talk in Cold War (60s) & neoliberal (early 90s) moments. Highly recommend.

MLA dance card makers! The Forum on Literary Criticism has 3 sessions: Genres of Criticism (15); Psychoanalytic Criticism Today (316); Portable Concepts for Non-Eurocentric Theory (719). I'll be speaking at Psychic Life Under Polycrisis (34), + hosting Comparative Theory social hour Fri at 6:30.

literally every pop psychology topic I research winds up tracing back to 1969–73

in the wellness dystopia of the future they will call church services weekly appointments with the Master Psychiatrist

a total honor to make the list. thanks for reading! thedriftmag.com/skill-issues

@lilyscherlis.bsky.social on the politics of Dialectical Behavior Therapy www.thedriftmag.com/skill-issues/

just found the prequel to Mating in Captivity, which features the word "Palestine" exactly four times

glaring omission indeed

a literary man at this cafe is reading a very long passage from Taming of the Shrew aloud to his gf and i’m thinking of asking him to disappear

if they did have mensa for EQ no one in this kitchen would qualify

BREAKING: Autonomous anti-genocide activists bring the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade to a grinding halt after blockading the McDonald’s float for a second year in a row. “Those grinches who thinks they can disrupt the parade: it’s not going to happen,” Mayor Eric Adams said yesterday.

11 months later, I’ve still yet to say anything nice about Germany especially after withdrawing a museum exhibition I curated about genocide denialism because the directors of the museum and museum system told me I couldn’t say Germany hadn’t properly recognized the genocide in Namibia.

Love “booster shot for the revolutionary imagination” as a description of our book.

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the most academic thing about me is whenever someone says “good question” I feel like a dog being given a treat

I too exist elsewhere

i'm "writing dialectically," aka starting every other paragraph with the word "unfortunately"

I vote in PA and I voted for Harris. It was utterly maddening to fill in that bubble and I’ll be there for the struggle to come, whichever way this goes

tried to print an article on Bion's concept of emotional containment and my printer leaked a shit ton of toner all over the floor and I have never related to a machine more

feels like all of us are rapid-cycling between finding words to describe our horror and finding words to describe the total failure of words to describe our horror

Jameson on finding his way into Marxism. He also happens to be describing exactly what his work has often done for me

ok which one of you did this

if someone asks if you’ve read something you haven’t, you

everyone who says sartre's critique of dialectical reason is sooooo dry stopped reading before they got to the horny parts

pretty soon service work for humanities scholars is just going to be babysitting people like this guy

ok guys shitposting is over it's time to Express Political Outrage Skillfully https://www.thedriftmag.com/skill-issues/

ok which NYT journalist learned the word “flotilla” reading about the freedom flotilla and decided to get colorful with the metaphors

Berlant on why I’m such a ridiculously slow reader

excited for the future when university administrations pay a tech company to quantify every book’s difficulty as a ratio of “standard novel pages per page” and profs are given a hard weekly quota based on the mean attentiveness score of the individual students in their classroom

I wrote about DBT and how emotional wellbeing became a matter of skill for @driftmag's new issue! https://www.thedriftmag.com/skill-issues/

while you guys are hung up on NYT lists I'm proud to say I get all my reading recs straight from the source

jameson on finding marxism: "that, however, was the decisive moment in which what you dimly think or experience suddenly acquires a name"

as a totally oblivious person randomly in Paris this week I fully believed all the cheering on the street last night was about soccer right up until a smiling elderly lady looked me in the eye and said “bonne nouvelle” with such utter glee that I had to check the news

I wrote this about debate performances for @thebafflermag before rightwing cringe gave way to total despair and I'm sharing it again now because it gets at why bullshit categories like "likability" feel so markedly irrelevant whatever is going on...

I have made yet another trip around the sun

how many times do you typically sit down and overhaul the full structure of an essay/article?

vibe check on the email greeting trend of eschewing "Hi [name]," or "Dear [name]," and just starting the email with "[Name],"

the guy who rents the storage unit across from mine said "hey do you want a gun" and when I turned around he was pointing one of these at me

cognitive behavior therapy is totally unhinged

UCLA

my relationship to time is a disaster

is anyone not feeling like they’re living in a berlantian impasse rn?

all of the good granola bars are gone

really absurd seeing the undergrad zionists you just deescalated doing homework in the library

Chicago, today at 12 pm I am giving a performance lecture about the perils of predictive technology in the insight industry, if you want to swing by hutchinson courtyard on your lunch break https://www.loganexhibitions.uchicago.edu/exhibitions/stockholder-events

ah yes, the weekend, when every cafe is required to invite a guy to do something awful on a mod synth all day

just discovered that they call emotional resilience "psychological capital"; bourdieu is rolling in his grave

nobody: Management Science: depression is an infectious disease; don't hire anyone who has spent time in a negative corporate culture because they might have caught it

straight out of the CBT handbook