Political Preferences and Unrealizable Hopes
A politics grounded in personal preference not only extends the pervasive commodification of life; it is a practical hindrance to mature, strategic political action.
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The Return of the Lonely Crowd
How David Riesman's theory of traditional, inner, and other-directed character types helps explain the new range of psychological symptoms hobbling today’s young people.
Alienation as EBP
Evidence-Based Psychotherapy reifies neoliberal subjectivities, rendering psychotherapy complicit with efforts to manage the poor by rationalizing inequality and privatizing responsibility.
Remain in Light
In paranoia, as opposed to in psychoanalysis, things <em>always</em> have a deeper meaning.
Tomorrow Never Comes
It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of class.
Clean
Fantasies of disembodiment defend against the calamity of the contemporary world.
The Anus: An FAQ, Part Four
Obsessives fear that without the silly rituals, their own anality might seep out in the form of paranoia.
