Christian Gelder
@GelderChristian
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🇵🇸 Macquarie University Research Fellow @MQEnglish; PhD from @englishunicam. Literature, psychoanalysis and the political history of 'mental hygiene'. 🇵🇸
Joined October 2021
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.
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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
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Brilliant @GelderChristian will be giving the keynote at our MA conference today! Title: ‘Laura Riding Against the Professionals’ 🔥🔥🔥
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Together with @GelderChristian, we're holding a symposium on the aesthetics of the clinic on June 11th – three weeks today – with a keynote from @kjavadizadeh. You can find the programme and register here:
eventbrite.co.uk
A one-day symposium, at Jesus College, University of Cambridge, on the intersection of literature, aesthetics and mental health.
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https://t.co/PBjOcoE05d 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!
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In June, Christian Gelder (@GelderChristian) and I are organising a symposium on the representations and transformations of psychoanalytic and psychiatric space @JesusCollegeCam. Join us!
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#NEWonSRB: Reviewing books by two of the world’s leading psychoanalytic writers, @GelderChristian explores the challenge that psychoanalysis poses not only to conventional understandings of self and sex, but also to the prevailing therapeutic culture. https://t.co/k4i0F5bFLa
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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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An update on this update: the registration link is here! Fink on Lacan in Sydney!
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!!
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EVENT: The Art and Industry of Public Intellectual Practice Join us as @KateRossmanith, @MarcusSharon, @KatieEBarclay, @GelderChristian, and @sprezzafuror discuss the challenges and affordances of public intellectual practice. Thursday 10 October https://t.co/GSUkxaZk8i
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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".
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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!!
Bruce Fink will be giving a lecture in Sydney on Lacan and Love, December 4—mark it in the calendar! 🙏🙏
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Or worse yet—universities now offering casual contracts of 6-8 weeks, so as to avoid any claim of conversion
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What I've heard on the rumour mill across multiple universities in the last few weeks is chilling: no more casual work, for fear of conversion claims, with the hope of moving existing staff from 40% teaching to 70%
@MichelleArrow1 And the closing the loophole bill, too—which wasn't intended to be an excuse to fire loads of casuals
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'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
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To recommence: https://t.co/wAqUYgBVQ2 Come along to the 'priority of philosophy', because the question of education never goes away.
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Essential reading for casualised and stolen-from tertiary ed workers, written by casualised and stolen-from tertiary ed workers 🤌
New open-access article from me and Nick Robinson on “Professorial Autonomy, Casualisation, and Wage Theft in Australian Universities”. We think thru Guillory’s “Professing Criticism” from the perspective of rank-and-file organising in Aus higher ed 💪 https://t.co/0iWCKyuTLi
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