A Lacan-inflected newsletter pairing psychoanalytic theory with art and theatre, covering topics like the sinthome, the talking cure, and the future of the subject under algorithmic systems. Issues mix essays with experimental dramatic writing, including a bilingual Polish-English play about redundancy and artificial intelligence.
Website: https://www.theaterdoppelganger.com/
Essays by philosopher Slavoj Žižek applying Lacanian and Hegelian theory to current politics, culture, media and technology. Recent issues cover D'Annunzio's Free State of Fiume, ideology in everyday events, and a two-part analysis of AI and the Lacanian Real.
A Substack publication featuring essays and guest posts on philosophical, critical and scientific debates in psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. Readers get first-person accounts of lived experience, clinical reflections and scholarly commentary on how care, medication and moral values intersect with mental health practice.
A psychoanalytically informed newsletter that critiques cinema, comics and niche subcultures in rigorous but non-academic prose. Readers get long-form essays on films and shows, along with notes on the author's viewing and publications.
A personal, theory-driven newsletter that mixes critical theory, phenomenology and psychoanalysis with reflections on tabletop role-playing games, affect and survival. The author writes from lived experience as a trans person in the United States, drawing on thinkers such as Berlant, Trammell and Moten.
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