Essential reading for casualised and stolen-from tertiary ed workers, written by casualised and stolen-from tertiary ed workers 🤌

To recommence: mscp.org.au/courses/evenin… Come along to the 'priority of philosophy', because the question of education never goes away.

'Does one really believe that wage theft in bars and restaurants would have been so open, so gluttonous, so cruel and indifferent, had hospo and retail had a major union as militant as the CFMEU?' — GR

An update: Fink will be giving a public lecture on Dec 4th at Gleebooks in Sydney entitled “What Distinguishes the Lacanian Approach to Psychoanalytic Practice?”. Again, mark it in the calendar!!

LEAKED from USyd HR briefing for managers on "Overcoming" Closing Loopholes. TLDR: Casual academics must no longer be "engaged for a fixed term" (i.e. a semester) because we "could ask to convert to continuing employment if current practices continue".

unsurprised to see the the ALP shill for environmentally disastrous scab tech, real party of workers lmao… we need fewer people using genAI, not more

EVENT: The Art and Industry of Public Intellectual Practice Join us as Kate Rossmanith, SharonMarcus, Katie Barclay, Christian Gelder, and James Jiang discuss the challenges and affordances of public intellectual practice. Thursday 10 October buff.ly/404CUOD

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An update on this update: the registration link is here! Fink on Lacan in Sydney! gleebooks.com.au/event/bruce-fi…

Thank god democrats secured the Dick Cheney endorsement during an election year marked by some of the largest anti-war demonstrations in history

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#NEWonSRB: Reviewing books by two of the world’s leading psychoanalytic writers, Christian Gelder explores the challenge that psychoanalysis poses not only to conventional understandings of self and sex, but also to the prevailing therapeutic culture. buff.ly/49C5VE5

In June, Christian Gelder (Christian Gelder) and I are organising a symposium on the representations and transformations of psychoanalytic and psychiatric space Jesus College. Join us!

euppublishing.com/doi/epub/10.33… A new essay on the origins of the notion of 'adaptation' in psychoanalysis and the ambivalences many American analysts felt it. DM me for a pdf if interested!

Together with Christian Gelder, we're holding a symposium on the aesthetics of the clinic on June 11th – three weeks today – with a keynote from Kamran Javadizadeh. You can find the programme and register here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-aestheti…

Brilliant ⁦Christian Gelder⁩ will be giving the keynote at our MA conference today! Title: ‘Laura Riding Against the Professionals’ 🔥🔥🔥

Imagine a politics which has none of those orientations, subtractive in its effects from all subservience to property, family or the state. It’s almost impossible today.

Macquarie University is preparing to dismantle two foundational disciplines: Sociology and Politics. Under the current proposal, Sociology will no longer be offered as a major in the Bachelor of Arts, and 11 of the department’s 14 academics — including long-time colleagues I’ve