It's time to bring another very theory Christmas to an end. Make sure to take your tree down before 6 January; Deleuze and Guattari are happy to help.

Looks like I picked the wrong week to give up this year's very theory Xmas.

People are saying that the credibility of #JacquesLacansHootenanny is undermined by the fact that it was recorded in August. Such a claim, however, remains trapped within a metaphysics of presence.

Freud says that auld acquaintance can never truly be forgot.

That was great, Tom. Next tonight - please welcome Miley Cyrus and Walter Benjamin with 'The Twerk of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction'! #JacquesLacansHootenanny

Lasciate ogni speranza voi ch'entrate

Next on #JacquesLacansHootenanny, it's Michel Foucault and Tom Jones with History of Sex Bomb.

First tonight on #JacquesLacansHootenanny - it's Sigmund Freud and his tribute band The Interpretation of D:Ream.

Boogie Woogie! Boogie Woogie! Traverse the fantasy! #JacquesLacansHootenanny

Can we get #JacquesLacansHootenanny trending this year?

Shaun Keaveny the 6 music DJ had a funny skit in which he argues Jools Holland mispronounces the names of acts to show he thinks they’re uncool: ‘and now Kuh-old Puh-lay’! Imagining Jacques introducing Der-RIDA like the rapper Flo Rida

And looking very relaxed, Martin Heidegger on vibes

When Foucault wowed on Fallon with his five minutes on discipline and punishment, and meeting Richard Pryor on the set of "Stir Crazy"

When Derrida went on Letterman

Guest list announced for #JacquesLacansHootenanny tomorrow night: Deleuze and Guattari, Foucault on drums, Judith Butler, Derrida feat. Husserl, and Tom Jones.

Wish there were still TV programmmes interviewing French critical theorists

A spectre is haunting TV-AM.

Five Lucien Goldmann rings!

The return of the repressed? Not without a gift receipt, Sigmund.

Jake Paul and Andrew Tate have set up a reading group! They're comparing notes on Kristeva's discussion of the abject body ...

Last post: Biggins v Derrida.

Oh no we shouldn't.

We're not done yet - we've still got Jacques Lacan's New Year Hootenanny coming up!

Beautiful!

Christmas cracker joke: Why does Derrida always buy the expensive stuff in Sainsbury's? Because he likes to Taste the Differance!

Christmas Cracker joke: Why does Edmund Burke put a small citrus fruit at the top of his Christmas tree? Because he wants his decorations to be sublime!

Happy Boxing Day!

Postcolonial melancholia: when you get a Lynx Africa set on Christmas morning.

Foucault’s Christmas - "a Christmas day without writing, that was impossible! ... a day when, as he said, 'nothing has happened for several thousand years' " progressivegeographies.com/2024/12/25/f...

SCROOGE: You, boy, what day is it? DERRIDA: No moment is ever fully present to itself.

Always historicise mince pies.

So here it is, Merry Christmas Everybody's having fun Look to the future now L'avenir, that to come

Derrida in Shangri-la, it's the best I've got

Poststructuralist writing is often unfairly criticised for lacking clarity, but have these people even seen some of these perfume adverts?

You've heard of Elf on the Shelf, but are you ready for

In his essay on the uncanny, Freud discusses Jentsch's argument that uncanniness arises from uncertainty as to whether something is animate or inanimate, such as a doll, automaton, or Michael Buble.

I asked Foucault what his top three post-Beatles Paul McCartney albums were, and he said 'Band on the Run', 'Venus and Mars', and 'Back to the Egg.' That's The Order of Wings.

God rest ye Terry Eagleton.

My god I thought you were someone to rely on / But was there not a sense in which you were ideology at its purest? #LastZizekIGaveYouTheReal

Decided I'm going to start pronouncing Grinch with an outrageous faux-French accent Gronsh

A nativity play is unusually close as performances go tho

It'll be lonely this Christmas, without the metaphysics of presence.

MCCARTNEY: The mood is right The spirit’s up We’re here tonight- DERRIDA: Not so fast, Macca.

BUTLER: Gender is the effect of endlessly repeated normative acts, a kind of performance. NEARLY EVERYONE ELSE: A performance like a nativity play? BUTLER: How many times do I have to explain this-

Last Christmas I gave you my heart But the very next day came Irigaray This year, to save me from tears I’ll give it to someone Cixous

Christmas tree light settings: 1 - Slow flash 2 - Rapid flash 3 - Fade in/out 4 - Chasing 5 - Dialectics at a standstill

As of course it should be! 🎄

Carey: I don't care about the presents underneath the Christmas tree Freud: And yet you know where these presents are.

Birth of the Biscuit