🎭 Don’t miss our next Story/Teller Arts event with Theatre Communications Group (@tcg_gram ) featuring Annie Baker and Hannah Zeavin discussing Baker’s revelatory play, INFINITE LIFE.
Examining what it means to inhabit a body that refuses to cooperate, INFINITE LIFE portrays five women over the course of several days as they philosophize, divulge family secrets, and share recommendations, while navigating the complex intersections of physical fragility and emotional desire.
🎤 Get your tickets to hear Baker and @hzea discuss this both devastating and darkly funny play at the link in our bio.
honored, and in some disbelief, to be among many scholars, artists, and writers I admire, and so grateful for the support in writing my book All Freud’s Children, on the kids of psychoanalysts.
@guggfellows
For @nplusonemag ’s 50th Issue, I wrote about my time as a tween in the RevComs, and what followed from there.
with huge thanks to my editors, and my comrades who read the essay and talked to me for it.
About a month ago I gave at talk on psychoanalysis and poetry at the @poetry_project . Today, it appears in the @parisreview . I wrote it in February at JClo’s house, and he makes a cameo. with so much thanks to @sophiehaigney & @ethanphilbrick for the original invitation. and with tremendous gratitude to the friends who spoke to me for the essay, as I figured this one out.
I met Joshua at the port, blocking a boat, about 11 years ago now. I was 23 and an idiot. I offered him an altoid. He asked if it were red or green. It was green. He took it. Basically from then on, JClo was there. The FTP march, the bar, at the pool, at our wedding with the playlist on an iPod mini, after Mal’s birth. Geoffrey had known Joshua since ’94, and I got welcomed into their new / old intimacy, but we also had our own thing. We both woke up early to write and so many days, he was the first person I interacted with.
Not that long ago, JClo told me this story, about when he was about to turn 13 and Gary Wright’s Dreamweaver dropped, and that was when Joshua resolved to never turn the radio off —he literally slept in bed with the portable transistor radio on so “as to never miss anything again.”
Everyone who loved him is destroyed by this. Mally said something strange when I told him, something like: but Joshua is a dolphin, I know he’ll keep swimming. And he won’t but he also will.
Today, we’re releasing our folio and retrospective on Wilhelm Reich, featured in our Issue 05 on Economies:
Hannah Zeavin | Too Communist, Too Freudian (@hzea
Wilhelm Reich | The Mass Psychology of Fascism
Håvard Friis Nilsen | The First Freudian Analysis of Fascism
Wilhelm Reich’s own documentary images of Red Vienna comprise their own entry in the folio, and to see them, and a half dozen or so images of Reich and his family, you can order issue 05 of the magazine.
i have basically been away from home since November 30 and that’s kind of intense and i still have very little language for how much these trips meant to me, let alone for the book that gave shape to the itinerary. one thing i do know is it had been since the early time of having mal, when beloved friends moved in for a week or two at a time, that i hung out like that. and it had been many years since id been in archives that continuously. i’m deeply grateful to geoffrey for coming with and driving around france to glimpse a radical history— and then taking mal home so the rest of the thing could happen, and to @jakeromm , @brostova , @erlinsker , @shaabiranks , and the one @wenderlottyman for our time in Algeria and @akshi______________ and @birkv_ida for taking me in and up in London so fully. Bay Area, I’m OMW let’s hang i’ve missed you terribly.
Ok, leaving the beauty of Algeria for London. I’d love to see you, and will be kicking it, archives, but I am doing seven events in twelve days, two of which are online:
Jan 23: 11:45 am at Oxford, a talk on MOTHER MEDIA
Jan 23: 4pm “Writing, Psychoanalysis, and History” at Oxford
Jan 25: Distinguished Lecture for @nip_nyc (online, on MOTHER MEDIA)
Jan 28: Overidentifications with genius @akshi______________ at @camdenartcentre for our psychoanalysis books (@fernpress_ / @penguinpress / @penguinukbooks )
Jan 29: a round table on ON HAVING WHITENESS by Donald Moss, with Don, @akshi______________ and @francis_gooding , returning to my @nplusonemag essay, at @thehorsehospital
Jan 30: SOLD OUT party for @parapraxis_mag
Feb 1: a round table on Anna Freud and her queerness for @queer_encounters at @freudmuseum (online)
For @nplusonemag , I wrote an essay about Dr. Lara Sheehi and psychoanalysis’ Palestine Exception in the year leading up to the genocide. Trying to tell this story was the honor of a lifetime. With huge thanks to the whole team at n+1. link in stories.
ARCs are in for MOTHER MEDIA! DM me if you’d like one for review, etc.
From @mitpress
An essential history for understanding how we mother now, and how motherhood itself became a medium—winner of the Brooke Hindle Award from the Society for the History of Technology.
From the nursery to the prison, from the clinic to the commune, Mother Media tells the story of how our contemporary understanding of what a mother is came to be and how understandings of “bad” mothering formed our contemporary panics about “bad” media. In this book, leading historian of psychology Hannah Zeavin examines twentieth century pediatric, psychological, educational, industrial, and economic norms around mediated mothering and technologized parenting. The book charts the crisis of the family across the twentieth century and the many ingenious attempts to remediate nursemaid and mother via speculative technologies and screen media.
Growing out of her previous award-winning book The Distance Cure, which considered technologized care, the book lays bare the contradictions of techno-parenting and how it relates to conceptions of “maternal fitness,” medical redlining, and surveillance of children, parents, and other caregivers. The author offers narratives of parenting in its extremity (for example, Shaken Baby Syndrome) and its ostensible banality (for example, the Nanny Cam) and how the two are often intertwined. Ultimately, Zeavin grapples with a simple contradiction: technology is seen and judged as harmful in domestic and educational spaces, even as it is a saving grace in the unending labor of raising a family.
another big day of @psychosocial_foundation / @parapraxis_mag announcements!
First: Announcing A RETURN TO FREUD? NEW HISTORIES OF PSYCHOANALYSIS, a three-day symposium at UC Berkeley, co-hosted by @psychosocial_foundation , co-organized with the wonderful, brilliant @ramseymcglazer .
Second: issue 05 of @parapraxis_mag , on political and libidinal economy, is now available for pre-order.
Links, more info, in stories.
