Lecturer in cultural studies, unimelb. Working on disaffection and alienation. @bengook.bsky.social
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New book is out and free to download!
Libidinal Economies of Crisis Times: The Psychic Life of Contemporary Capitalism.
feat. Benjamin Noys, Julie Gaillard, Jason Read (@Unemployedneg), Samo Tomšič, Adriana Zaharijević, Luce deLire (@Luce_deLire), Todd McGowan [1/3]
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My new article is just out in @FinSocNet cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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It started with the new book from @Amin_Samman and spiralled from there to the many faces of contemporary nihilism (i.e., prediction markets and streaming series about finance).
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Applications open for the Melbourne Critical Theory Winter School 2025 on ‘Forms of Life’ with Claire Colebrook and Vanessa Lemm presiding. Masterclasses, reading groups, public lectures, and screenings. Mon 21 Jul to Fri 25 Jul. @CRAMUnimelb @KTB_Berlin
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Sweatshop is honoured to officially launch The Library of Palestinian and Lebanese Australian Authors.
Now more than ever, it is imperative that we support the impeccable scholarship and stories of our Palestinian and Lebanese communities.
Link: sweatshop.ws/library-arab-au…
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This piece on Gillian Rose by @neepmail is simply magnificent. It is the best thing on Rose I have read in a long time, as multifaceted as its subject. Read it read it read it: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n21/…
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The individual chapters from Libidinal Economies of Crisis Times are available to download here:
1. Libido, Economy, Crisis degruyter.com/document/doi/1…
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14. Deviant and Diseased: Metaphors of Crisis and the Sexual Semantics of Excess and Perversion by @JGovrin
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15. The Renewed Desire for the Critique of Libidinal Economy: Pain, Stress, Flesh
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