5LL #376: Resilience, Palestine Action, Psychoanalysis, Tech, Neoliberalism
“The Rapid Killing Stopped, and the Slow Killing Began”: A Conversation with Wasim Said
Séamus Malekafzali, Substack
Palestinian author Wasim Said speaks from the Gaza Strip about current winter conditions, writing a book during a genocide, and how he sees narratives of reconstruction and resilience.
I’m on Hunger Strike in a British Prison. This Is Why
Amu Gib, The Guardian
Our demands are simple – and they start with stopping the flow of arms to Israel.
The Impossible Patient
Amia Srinivasan, London Review of Books
What has returned of late is not the unconscious itself, but the felt need, in some quarters, for the unconscious and its workings as a diagnostic tool, as an explanans for the explanandum of irrationalism that seems to be taking hold everywhere.
The Technology Question Today
The Editors, Disjunctions
A sense of disorientation characterises our relationship to technology today.
Post-Neoliberalism Is the New Centrism
Quinn Slobodian, LPE
The shadowboxing and kabuki hosted by Harvard suggests that post-neoliberalism today is not engaged in a war of ideas or an insurgency against institutions, but is instead doing the status-quo stabilization work that think tanks have performed for decades.