Seth Brodsky

@matthiasellis He's a good writer and kind of an awful dude

@jmrphy @TuttReal Stephanie Swales is brilliant and located in Dallas (far, I know). But she might have recommendations, and does phone/tele-analysis, which can be realy transformative.

@TuttReal Funny enough I was recently looking into it seriously for the first time in my life. I found one Lacanian in Austin who seems serious. I'm considering it!

As I get older, I’m increasingly impressed by psychoanalysis as a school of thought, and Freud’s accomplishment in particular. Probably the most underrated body of ideas in 2026. Its stock price has never been lower because it was gradually dominated in terms of therapeutic efficiency for mentally ill people. But modern man has plenty of psychological problems that are not quite clinical illness. Psychoanalysis was the most learned and courageous attempt to think about this larger class of problems, which are serious and real, but more philosophical than clinical.

It's true

It's true

@mcmansionhell it won't be meeeeee

getting way too into psychoanalysis. someone, anyone needs to put a stop to this before it gets out of control. preferably my mother

@MitchTherieau @mcmansionhell I know it will sound corny but truly no one else could writer either of your two books not a chance

@mcmansionhell Mine too. I’m 2/3 with current book projects feeling obsolete before even being written, but trying to remember it’s all in the telling 🫡

If you wait too long to write a book, eventually someone else just writes it

Notice how they're not attacking the journalists.

@dee_of_e it's true! (2 for 2 on this week's music takes)

never heard of Cheekface before so I listened and a) sorry this is Reddit music (I’m standing by this pejorative), b) it sucks shit, and c) it’s brutal to hear lyrics where every line is a string of words you’ve already heard before. like, every lyric is a meme. Absolute garbage

@matthiasellis Wait really? The "more movies need voice over" guy?

@dee_of_e It's true!

I was one of those people who liked Vampire Weekend from the beginning because I enjoyed that kind of pop sound (even though it was very “of its time”) but when Modern Vampires of the City dropped I felt vindicated because that is a truly great record that still holds up

guys I think I'm going to write about "fall on me." I've seen a few pieces published in major outlets over the past 10 years or so but none of them with my particular beat. if you are interested in me writing about "fall on me" by REM please let me know, I'd love to pitch you!

@dee_of_e I read that first as " my role as the Ideological State Apparatus" and was like, not humble but not false

Avi Lewis I have already begun sowing the seeds necessary for Canada’s transition out of capitalism through my role in the Ideological State Apparatus. I am ready to implement Phase 2: The NHL Purges

also i'm sorry but i'm not some podunk writer i am one of the only fully employed architecture critics in the entire country

@James_Martell_ "Cronenberg's weird sci-fi speculation, 'What if you were born with lysergic acid as part of your metabolism?' is no weirder than our actual circumstances: as humans, we are all born with the signifier as part of our metabolism." (Copjec)

that is correct

@eleanoir hahaha no fucking way

yesterday I chatted with a guy at a gay bar about theatre and books for like 3 hours and I just looked him up and he's literally the grandson of Alfred Döblin

Alexander Kluge und Theodor W. Adorno während Adornos Selbstporträt 1963.

@James_Martell_ it's true

to all the "Lynch is conservative" guys, please read this book, thank you, bye:

Alexander Kluge speaks to Michael Haneke

@chrisjudetaylor never too late for the eagles to finally do something good

To celebrate Don’s funding a good cause, I was gonna blast “You Belong to the City" as the only tolerable song in the Eagles’ extended universe, but then realized it’s Glenn Frey

@melnickjeffrey1 All haaaaaaaiiillll

Tonite I worship at the altar of Chic—particularly their post-hits 1980 masterpiece Real People. It is a monument of Black popular art: churchy in its intensity, avant-garde in its ambition, strangely prescient in its metaphors of infection and collective action.