Not quite 5th January yet, but it’s time to wrap up another very theory Christmas. Deleuze and Guattari are desperate to take down the tree…

There are rumours around that #JacquesLacansHootenanny is not really live but was prerecorded in 1967. Such claims are ideology at its purest. #hootenanny

Next on Jacques Lacan’s Hootenanny - Freud joins Mick Hucknall on “Something Got Me Started (But I Can’t Identify What)”. #JacquesLacansHootenanny

Jacques Lacan’s guests on the Hootenanny include Derrida, Foucault, Zizek, Kristeva, Barthes, Irigaray, and Tom Jones.

Joolsissance.

Who’s watching Jacques Lacan’s Hootenanny tonight? Who’s traversing the fantasy through boogie-Woogie piano? #JacquesLacansHootenanny

Lacan wishes you a happy new year, from the first seminar of Lacan.

On the fifth day of Christmas my true love gave to me - five Goldblatt rings.

When you’ve lost the gift receipt.

We’re here until New Year - there’s still Jacques Lacan’s Hootenanny to look forward to.

“You scumbag, you maggot/You trace of the abject…”

This reminds me one of my lecturers went to a conference as a phD student and Derrida was there and he followed him round the breakfast buffet going "Hmm, so Derrida drinks orange juice. Hmm, so Derrida likes eggs. Weird."

Marx: it’s not the thought that counts, it’s the labour.

Discipline and Nourish.

It’s Christmaaaassss! Derrida says raise a Glas.

Derrida’s rushing around Sainsbury’s to get his last few bits. He always gets stuff from the Taste the Differance range.

Difference and Repetition. youtu.be/-k4yjCo8JWs?...

We would never rise to this level.

Still need to get those gifts? You can get this done! Remember, it’s Jacques Lacan, not Jacques Lacan’t.

Paranoid Gifting and Reparative Gifting

Epistemology of the Chimney

Between the Three Wise Men

It’s Christmas Eve Sedgwick!

The author was dead: to begin with.

Elton John asks us to step into Christmas, as if there were an outside of Christmas.

Althusserian Santa simply yells “hey you, nice person!” and gives gifts to whoever turns around.

Sianne Ngai’s Our Aesthetic Categories, Christmas Edition: Cosy, Spectral, Inebriated (inspired by @averytheoryxmas.bsky.social being haunted by Noddy Holder)

"Yow can keep yer thankses - Oi'll have a point of Banks's!"

A spectre is haunting Europe: the spectre of Noddy Holder.

Watching _The Muppet Christmas Carol_ this year? Just remember that you can't spell Fozzie and Kermit without Zizek.

We would begin. Before beginning, we would begin. We would make a gesture, a gesture towards beginning. To begin before beginning. To sign, if that were possible, the beginning of a beginning. Only then, we would begin. We would begin before beginning to be simply having a wonderful Christmas time.

paging @averytheoryxmas.bsky.social

Rhetorical terms: Synonym - a word meaning a similar thing to another. Metonym - a word or concept representing a wider concept to which it is related. Boneym - the claim that Mary's Boy Child, Jesus Christ, was born on Christmas Day.

SIMPLY HAVING A

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

The reception area at @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social is looking festive as formalism. @averytheoryxmas.bsky.social may or may not approve.

Merry Xmas without Marx!

People often ask me why we should be having a theory Christmas, to which I always say “you can’t spell sleighbell without Hegel.”

My god, I thought you were someone to rely on / But you were ideology at its purest #LastZizekIGaveYouTheReal

Only 17 days or two new Zizek books until Christmas.

To wish it could be Christmas every day - is this not to speculate on the end of history?

This feels very @averytheoryxmas.bsky.social:

He sees you when you’re sleeping He knows when you’re awake In fact, neither of those things is actually the case, but you will act as if they were.

Maybe having a Christmastime.

Last Christmas I gave you my heart But the very next day you gave it away This year, to save me from tears I am becoming a Body without Organs