Samuel Baudinette
@sambaudinette.bsky.social
phd from uchicago. once a scholar of the middle ages, philosophy, theology, and religion. now an aspiring psychoanalyst obsessed with surrealism. on the aristotelian left
Truer words about the technocratic politics and culture of positivism and pragmatism have yet to be written!
November 29, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Truer words about the technocratic politics and culture of positivism and pragmatism have yet to be written!
Penda’s* Fen is of course what I meant to type 😔
November 28, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Penda’s* Fen is of course what I meant to type 😔
I’d also highly recommend giving this retrospective review a read!
warped-perspective.com/2024/03/the-...
warped-perspective.com/2024/03/the-...
“The Flame Still Flickers in the Fen”: Penda’s Fen at 50
A wounded hand disappears into nothingness as a modern, chain link fence divides us, at least initially, from an idyllic English churchyard; if Penda’s Fen (1973) can be seen as fairly recusa…
warped-perspective.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I’d also highly recommend giving this retrospective review a read!
warped-perspective.com/2024/03/the-...
warped-perspective.com/2024/03/the-...
(I already fed him a little bit before we sat down to eat so he’s just being opportunistic!)
November 27, 2025 at 10:44 PM
(I already fed him a little bit before we sat down to eat so he’s just being opportunistic!)
“This vertigo, a product of imprisonment, has not escaped unnoticed… it is echoed both in mind and body, so that deviation soon becomes their only means of functioning. For when incarcerated, deviation is the only mode of behavior which does not deceive or give rise to deception.”
November 24, 2025 at 9:54 PM
“This vertigo, a product of imprisonment, has not escaped unnoticed… it is echoed both in mind and body, so that deviation soon becomes their only means of functioning. For when incarcerated, deviation is the only mode of behavior which does not deceive or give rise to deception.”
Compare to Adam Phillips:
“There is, I think, an inevitable connection between the analyst already in position as mother… and psychoanalysis as the coercion or simulation of normality.”
Adam Phillips, “Playing Mothers: Between Pedagogy and Tranaference”
Adam Phillips, “Playing Mothers: Between Pedagogy and Tranaference”
November 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Compare to Adam Phillips:
An absolute politics of refusal is obviously not feasible to my mind. But a pragmatism that insists that it is necessary to play the established rules of the game appear equally suspect to me. Not sure where I’ve landed just yet as I think about the tension here.
November 23, 2025 at 5:10 PM
An absolute politics of refusal is obviously not feasible to my mind. But a pragmatism that insists that it is necessary to play the established rules of the game appear equally suspect to me. Not sure where I’ve landed just yet as I think about the tension here.
I find it disheartening whenever those who claim to be on the left dismiss criticism because it is easier to hope for the best than it is to pause and think. Provided one grant that a lack of passionate hope and recourse to a critical thinking that is paralytic is also a real problem!
November 23, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I find it disheartening whenever those who claim to be on the left dismiss criticism because it is easier to hope for the best than it is to pause and think. Provided one grant that a lack of passionate hope and recourse to a critical thinking that is paralytic is also a real problem!