ben gook

Lecturer in cultural studies, unimelb. Working on disaffection and alienation. @bengook.bsky.social

[ben gook @bengook]

New book is out and free to download!
Libidinal Economies of Crisis Times: The Psychic Life of Contemporary Capitalism.
feat. Benjamin Noys, Julie Gaillard, Jason Read (@Unemployedneg), Samo Tomšič, Adriana Zaharijević, Luce deLire (@Luce_deLire), Todd McGowan [1/3]

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@zeithistoriker Still the OG podcast for me: I remember downloading mp3 files of episodes and putting them on a portable player in mid-2000s

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Applications open for the Melbourne Critical Theory Winter School 2025 on ‘Forms of Life’ with Claire Colebrook and Vanessa Lemm presiding. Masterclasses, reading groups, public lectures, and screenings. Mon 21 Jul to Fri 25 Jul. @CRAMUnimelb @KTB_Berlin
https://t.co/Bh7at24gYR

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@stsbstn @valueformhater Interested!

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"Free City of Dresden (CCP Occupation)" sounds like a wild bit of AfD sloganeering

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@LaMuertedelPop Thanks for letting me know the link was down. Not sure what happened!

[ben gook @bengook]

New book is out and free to download!
Libidinal Economies of Crisis Times: The Psychic Life of Contemporary Capitalism.
feat. Benjamin Noys, Julie Gaillard, Jason Read (@Unemployedneg), Samo Tomšič, Adriana Zaharijević, Luce deLire (@Luce_deLire), Todd McGowan [1/3]

[ben gook @bengook]

@LaMuertedelPop https://t.co/flr0psfU4L

[sweatshop @sweatshopws]

Sweatshop is honoured to officially launch The Library of Palestinian and Lebanese Australian Authors.

Now more than ever, it is imperative that we support the impeccable scholarship and stories of our Palestinian and Lebanese communities.

Link: https://t.co/jlr4n5LDuT

[James B @piercepenniless]

This piece on Gillian Rose by @neepmail is simply magnificent. It is the best thing on Rose I have read in a long time, as multifaceted as its subject. Read it read it read it: https://t.co/g6uwSx1eQP

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@JGovrin 🙏

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15. The Renewed Desire for the Critique of Libidinal Economy: Pain, Stress, Flesh
https://t.co/BDTF8r1oeH

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The individual chapters from Libidinal Economies of Crisis Times are available to download here:
1. Libido, Economy, Crisis https://t.co/YmeQ5RMsIb

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14. Deviant and Diseased: Metaphors of Crisis and the Sexual Semantics of Excess and Perversion by @JGovrin
https://t.co/iEq1DOIxkC