Everyday Analysis

04/12/2024

Bit of advertising for our best pamphlet yet, YOUR LIFE IS NOT A (FU***NG) STORY by Simon Critchley.

Special thanks to Gilbert May for the beautiful new design.

In this new collected edition of his recent articles, Critchley - one of the most important living philosophers - takes us through his reflections on death, questions of doubt and reason, the legacy of David Bowie, the nature of fear and empathy in a broken society and a critique of narrative identity - among other things. YOUR LIFE IS NOT A (FU***NG) STORY explores the contemporary world and its psychological impact on us, offering us a way to see our situation different and resist its tricks and contrivances.

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22/11/2024

DUGIN, VANCE, LACAN by Slavoj Žižek (and Conrad Bongard Hamilton)

This pamphlet comes with a free copy of Conrad Bognard Hamilton's The Apostate Fascism of Alexander Dugin.

Aleksandr Dugin’s influence should not be overrated: he advocates for an extreme new Eurasian empire dominated by Russian Orthodoxy through military victory, and his supporters consider Putin too soft. However, what Dugin writes should be followed as an indicator of neo-fascist dangers. In a short text from September 2024, Dugin does something that shocked even me, accustomed as I am to all kinds of surprises in theory and politics: he applies Lacan’s triad of Real/Symbolic/Imaginary to analyze the roles of Donald Trump and Kamala Harris in the forthcoming U.S. presidential elections.

In this pamphlet, Slavoj Žižek discusses how Lacanian ideas are adopted by bad faith actors, and what this means for theory and its afterlife - in relation to contemporary political actors such as Dugin, Trump, Harris and - in particular - JD Vance. In a response essay, Conrad Bongard Hamilton assesses the future of the left and its relationship to international communism, asking whether a moderate Zizekian approach to communism can ever be enough.
In The Apostate Fascism of Alexander Dugin, free with this pamphlet, Hamilton explores the anti-imperialist quasi Fascism in Dugin’s thought and the history that shaped “Putin’s Brain.”

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06/05/2024

OUT NOW: CLIMATE DISTRESS AND THE PROBLEM OF 'ACTION' by Anouchka Grose

"Once enough of us have had ‘the ecological thought’ our combined actions may start to surge in more ecologically feasible directions. Somewhat idealistic, it hardly needs to be said, but at least this kind of openness to manifold possibilities might enable people to begin to find the kinds of action that suit them."

Anouchka Grose is a writer and psychoanalyst practising in South East London. She is a member of The College of Psychoanalysts and The Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research, where she regularly lectures. She has been working one-to-one since 2003. Before that she ran writing workshops for people experiencing mental health difficulties. She writes about psychoanalysis, current affairs, art and fashion, and has contributed to The Guardian, Radio 4, and Resonance FM.

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23/04/2024

The next in our psychoanalytic pamphlet series - following Slavoj Zizek, Julie Reshe, Anouchka Grose and Jamieson Webster - will be THE PROFANE TEMPLE by Peter Rollins.

The fantasy of consumer capitalism consists of endless promises of wholeness and completeness and all manner of suggestions as to how we might get from A to B. To combat this form of capitalism, Peter Rollins proposes a form of psychoanalytic belief - a pyrotheology - in which we can avoid the ideological drive to move from A to B and the promise of completeness and instead learn to stay at A, be in the present and accept the nothingness that brings us together.

Peter Rollins is an author, philosopher, storyteller, producer and public speaker who has gained an international reputation for overturning traditional notions of religion and forming “churches” that preach the Good News that we can’t be satisfied, that life is difficult, and that we don’t know the secret.

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This is a pre-order. Pamphlets will be printed and despatched in June 2024. Your digital copy will be emailed to you on the day of release.The fantasy of consumer capitalism consists of endless promises of wholeness and completeness and all manner of suggestions as to how we might get from A to B. T

11/02/2024

Check out the new pamphlets we have from Jamieson Webster, Ian Parker, Slavoj Zizek and Julie Reshe. For 20% off use code LACAN20.

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08/12/2023

05/12/2023

STALINIST REALISM AND IDENTITY

These three essays are about the rotten underbelly of today’s dominant ideology, the ‘capitalist realism’ that Mark Fisher explored as the potent story we are told, and tell ourselves, that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism. The rotten underbelly is the equally potent and toxic story that tells us that there is only one alternative, a fixed worldview functional to what remains of the old ‘workers states’ which is a caricature of Marxism and which is obsessed with identities, some identities that are marked out as progressive and the rest that are marked out as degenerate, ‘woke’. That rotten underbelly is stalinist realism.

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This pamphlet will be printed in December 2023 and posted to you (internationally) on the date of printing. The digital version of the pamphlet will be available to download immediately after purchase.  STALINIST REALISM AND IDENTITY These three essays are about the rotten underbelly

05/12/2023

I am writing a book on comedy and I need some good jokes. Anyone got one you can tell me? Edgy, political, etc. You can always DM me, if its not appropriate to share publicly!

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16/11/2023

Great to have Ian Parker back in Sublation Magazine today, with a great piece on antisemitism and Stalinist realism in light of the current crisis.

Antisemitism and Stalinist Realism Ian Parker 16 November 2023 An obsession with identities and boundaries is toxic to open Marxism, and we need to grasp that in order to combat antisemitism. Stalinist realism, which turns Marxism into a bizarre worldview, is no alternative to capitalism, but it is,...

05/11/2023

😱SCREAM PAIN LOVE❤️‍🔥

Excited to work on this new pamphlet by the fantastic Julie Reshe.

At the core of human love - in its very essence - is it's opposite: absence. Those who promise to fulfill our expectations of love give us hope for eternal bliss, but in doing so they deprive us of this core of love itself.

At the moment of being disappointed by the promise of another’s love, we face the fact that love is in fact an illusion covering its absence. At this moment we see that this absence has always been there, just before, before the instant of disappointment, when we still had the ability to believe in the illusions of love.

Negative psychoanalytst Julie Reshe explores the relationship between love, dispointment and pain in this short pamphlet, arguing that Edvard Munch's painting The Vampire (alternatively titled Love and Pain), painted in 1893, captures this tragic essence of human intimacy.

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03/11/2023

🐸WHERE WE GO ONE, WE GO NOT-ALL🛸

I was joined by Sean A Witters and Frank Smecker to discuss their Lacanian analysis of the politics of QAnon, and Al Anon...

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Watch the interview: https://youtu.be/p8dC8IP0Qhk?si=7uP17YaFnnYUq8kb

Their Everyday Analysis pamphlet is a must read for anyone interested in Lacan, addiciton or conspiracy theory!

I was joined be Sean and Frank to talk about QAnon, Al Alon and everything conspiratorial in Lacanian thinking!Get their new Everyday Analysis pamphlet on th...

03/11/2023

SMOOTH CRIMINAL by Christopher Hogg.

Prepare to be transported, as if by a cosmic rift, to the 1980s, when Michael Jackson's music reigned supreme, ET was Hollywood’s biggest star and Chris Hogg’s Dad walks in a Casino as roguish tyre-fitter and walks out with enough money to buy several Rolls Royces. Come on a riches to rags story, where everything goes right and everything goes wrong. Where one final piece of epic luck, leads to a final epic adventure that only has one outcome because our sins added to time always equal death.

Delve into the history of the ‘Michael Jackson News International’ and ‘Michael Jackson World Network’.

Chris Hogg is an award-winning podcast and creator of Rathband and Casey and Corey. He is a Lecturer at Royal Holloway University of London.

02/11/2023

📻PUBLICATION DAY🔴

For I WAS A TEENAGE ANARCHIST by of !

How does one tear down society when the scene is so opposed to being a part of it?

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01/11/2023

One of the things that makes Everyday Analysis such a pleasure is all the new writers who've been part of it. I'm extremely happy to have this pamphlet to share with you by one of the best new writers from the last year of Sublation Magazine, Florian Mwld.

THE REGRESSIVE ILLUSION OF WOKE CAPITALISM by Florian Maiwald

Is capitalism really woke? Or is woke capitalism rather a symptom that has initiated a permanent sleep and prevents real emancipation?

Florian Maiwald explores the relationship between economics and culture in society today, arguing that being truly woke would be mean not to show 'solidarity' with corporations and causes but to recognise that the neoliberal economic system is not the solution but the problem. He argues that it is indeed time to wake up, but properly!

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03/10/2023

🔨NEW BOOK🔴

FOUR ESSAYS ON THE REVOLUTIONARY SUBJECT by the inimitable Benjamin Studebaker. I'm very happy to put out this collection by one of the most insightful political theorists of the moment.

How does the capitalist state today manage its subjects, conceding the proliferation of critique whilst preventing critique from generating revolutionary subjectivity?

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Thanks for supporting our leftist pamphlet house. As always, if you can't afford one and want to read one, you can email me via the website or here for a free one.

24/09/2023

🛸BIG NEWS🛋️

Big announcement for Everyday Analysis. We'll be publishing a new short story from the Phillip K Dick Award nominee and outspoken Sublation Media CEO Douglas Lain. In my view, one of the best of all sci-fi writers.

Psychoanalyst Jake Trabor's analysand disappears from a Beach party in Newport. The boy's mother suspects foul play and Trabor finds himself involved in an investigation that exposes secrets that go beyond the personal.

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16/09/2023

We're excited to be publishing TERMINAL DECLINE by
Ted Reese.

Francis Fukuyama may continue to insist that 'liberal capitalism' is 'the end of history', but Ted Reese makes the argument that capitalism itself is in terminal decline.

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This is a pre-order. Terminal Decline will be released on in October 2023 and will be despatched immediately. Terminal Decline The likes of Francis Fukuyama may continue to insist that 'liberal capitalism' is 'the end of history', but looking at long- and short-term economic trends arouses