Tag: subjectivity

Automating the all-about-me: On Apple’s new Mental Health App

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Mark Furlong

7 Sep 2023

AI that seeks recognise, interpret and simulate human emotions may or may not be a pseudo-science, but it certainly is a jostling field that should be critiqued as a commercial rhizome.

i-dolatry: The cult of autonomy is degrading the prospects for relationships

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Mark Furlong

4 May 2023

What effect does a preoccupation with autonomy – with the i-me-my-mine – have on the prospects for ethical relationship and reliable attachment?

Beyond Burnout: Finding Meaning in Contradictions

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Matt Rogers

23 Mar 2023

Overcoming burnout doesn’t mean we have to add more and more activities to our schedules to balance our lives at work. Fitting in another yoga class, a run before work and a counselling session on top of all of our other responsibilities may contribute to a feeling of burnout in some, despite how useful these activities may themselves be to others.

Will climate collapse do our heads in?

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Mark Furlong

9 Sep 2022

The breakdown of the climate will produce a febrile emotional milieu. Fear and blame, grief and helplessness, among a larger set of intense feelings, will wash over and within us.

‘Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?’: Join the in-group, recognise the conspiracy

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Mark Furlong

14 Oct 2021

To be sensibly upbeat about what is coming round the corner is a big ask. Much easier is to sum it up and say, ‘It’s not my fault. We have been cheated’.

Proboscises Unbound: The psychopathology of Silicon Valley

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Mark Furlong

15 Apr 2021

…the acceleration of net worth enjoyed by the digital czars is unlike anything history has ever seen: Musk’s net worth increased by US$25 billion in a single day in March 2021.

Non-consensual reality: Conspiracy thinking, delusions and disputed truth

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Mark Furlong

12 Nov 2020

Feeding into this inchoate state of transgression is a cross-current of vectors: our knowledge of impending climate catastrophe, the disavowed madness of the economic system, the danger and transformative power of COVID-19, galloping I-centredness, social fragmentations, and more. This welter of concerns raises the deepest anxiety.

Trump as political calculator, narcissism as design for living

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Mark Furlong

13 Aug 2020

For Trump, it is better to bring the whole country down than to experience the private horror show that would be his lot if he were to be publicly rejected in the forthcoming election.

Addressing Interiority

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Mark Furlong

28 Apr 2020

In the time of coronavirus, what happens to psychic life, to individual and collective subjectivity?
"Entitlement, like normativity, sits upon unspoken cultural commitments, and perhaps even forms of otherness that…

Subjectivity, Surrogacy and Entitlement, by Alison Caddick

Arena Magazine 131

Alison Caddick

Aug 2014

Entitlement, like normativity, sits upon unspoken cultural commitments, and perhaps even forms of otherness that have been or will be turned into utility
"Four Larks, the young theatre collective based in Brunswick, Melbourne, have a well-earned reputation for…

Four Larks’ Temptation of St Antony by Tom Rigby

Arena Magazine 122

Tom Rigby

Feb 2013

Four Larks, the young theatre collective based in Brunswick, Melbourne, have a well-earned reputation for ambitious adaptations. Having tackled Peer Gynt, Alice in Wonderland, The Master and Margarita and the Orpheus myth in the past, the collective has become highly adept at transforming its former auto repair shop into all manner of complex literary spaces. […]