Tracing much of the ground David Smail did before, Moloney’s book is critical in keeping the critique of the consulting room model of insight psychotherapy relevant.
Critical psychiatrist Joanna Moncrieff, author of The Myth of the Chemical Cure (2009) and The Bitterest Pill (2013), discusses what psychiatrists do and, more importantly, do not know about psychoactive […]
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In this post, Lynne Friedli and Robert Stearn look at the role of psychological coercion, notably through the imposition of positive affect, in…
Crawl’til dawn On my hands and knees God damn these vampires For what they’ve done to me – The Mountain Goats. It might well be pointless at this point to […]
You can read & download the new edition of the excellent Occupied Times here. OT23 features articles by a host of people including McKenzie Walk. This issue features on networks […]
Roy Scranton has written an article for the New York Times‘s “smart thinking” section The Stone, ‘‘Learnig how to die in the Anthropocene‘ I’m not sure the objective nihilism of our age […]
Clearly, something went wrong with the practice of “mythopoesis” or “myth-making from the bottom up”, which was – and still is – at the core of our philosophy. By “myth” […]
http://vimeo.com/28736926 First came across Fuchs during nursing research into schizophrenia as a disorder of embodiment. People often ask what alternatives there might be to contemporary psychiatry and psychotherapy, and […]
Provisional Theses on the hypothesis 1. So many philosophical arguments regarding subjectivity are grounded in theories of the body as either a depth or a surface. Commonly thought of as […]
The US anarchosyndicalist group Recomposition published an article, that is well worth reading, on the same day (uncannily) that I published my last post on black blocs. My last post dealt with the black […]
A mass of black clad bodies move through a thick haze, smoke or tear-gas coagulating the air. Incendiary flashes in the dark; sparks illuminating nothing of the masked faces. […]
In a the comments to a previous post by Michael- on the Anthropocene, Kai asked me a few questions. I’d like to begin to answer those questions, and this is […]
Originally posted at attemptsatliving in February 2013. If humans can only have structural access to things-in-themselves, and only ever fashion approximate knowledge of objects and assemblages through signification practices and […]
Joseph Kay’s call for an affective politics is one I agree with and have made in other (non-anarchist) circles. For me part of the problem of leaving affect out of the picture […]
The question of ecological ethics and politics has been raised once again. I occasionally fear that our images of ecology and politics remain stills rather than cinematic motion pictures. This […]
The elimination and ratification of belief The problem of nihilism is also the problem of belief. If our highest values have corroded and our firmest foundations have been removed from […]
The Undeath of God. God is dead: If there is a more paradigmatic, concise, and ecstatic expression of nihilism it has yet to be uttered. God is dead: there are […]
The present is filled with catastrophe and apocalypticism. A certain phrase has been deployed and redeployed in summarising the condition we find ourselves in: it is easier to imagine the end […]
This post originally published on attemptatliving in April. Terence Blake is currently translating the latest seminar with Bernard Stiegler. In scanning through it I am reminded of the reasons I […]
My entire generation is traumatised by something that hasn’t happened yet. Shaking and sleeplessness, autoimmolatory alcoholism, fits of violent rage and sobbing breakdowns, weeks of self-imposed seclusion, an epidemic of […]
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