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A Very Theory Xmas @averytheoryxmas.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

It's time to bring another very theory Christmas to an end. Make sure to take your tree down before 6 January; Deleuze and Guattari are happy to help.

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A Very Theory Xmas @averytheoryxmas.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Looks like I picked the wrong week to give up this year's very theory Xmas.

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A Very Theory Xmas @averytheoryxmas.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

People are saying that the credibility of #JacquesLacansHootenanny is undermined by the fact that it was recorded in August. Such a claim, however, remains trapped within a metaphysics of presence.

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A Very Theory Xmas @averytheoryxmas.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Freud says that auld acquaintance can never truly be forgot.

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A Very Theory Xmas @averytheoryxmas.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

That was great, Tom. Next tonight - please welcome Miley Cyrus and Walter Benjamin with 'The Twerk of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction'! #JacquesLacansHootenanny

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A Very Theory Xmas @averytheoryxmas.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

First tonight on #JacquesLacansHootenanny - it's Sigmund Freud and his tribute band The Interpretation of D:Ream.

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Shaun Keaveny the 6 music DJ had a funny skit in which he argues Jools Holland mispronounces the names of acts to show he thinks they’re uncool: ‘and now Kuh-old Puh-lay’! Imagining Jacques introducing Der-RIDA like the rapper Flo Rida

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Michael Shallcross @michaelshallcross.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

And looking very relaxed, Martin Heidegger on vibes

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Gargarin @gargarin.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

When Foucault wowed on Fallon with his five minutes on discipline and punishment, and meeting Richard Pryor on the set of "Stir Crazy"

Patrick Stewart explaining transgressive sex and post structuralism to Jimmy Fallon

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Dan Rebellato @danrebellato.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

When Derrida went on Letterman

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A Very Theory Xmas @averytheoryxmas.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Guest list announced for #JacquesLacansHootenanny tomorrow night: Deleuze and Guattari, Foucault on drums, Judith Butler, Derrida feat. Husserl, and Tom Jones.

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Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Wish there were still TV programmmes interviewing French critical theorists

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A Very Theory Xmas @averytheoryxmas.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

The return of the repressed? Not without a gift receipt, Sigmund.

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castleoatcake.bsky.social @castleoatcake.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Jake Paul and Andrew Tate have set up a reading group! They're comparing notes on Kristeva's discussion of the abject body ...

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Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Oh no we shouldn't.

The Saturday Interview | Christopher Biggins: 'We should bring back the death penalty'

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A Very Theory Xmas @averytheoryxmas.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

We're not done yet - we've still got Jacques Lacan's New Year Hootenanny coming up!

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Beautiful!

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A Very Theory Xmas @averytheoryxmas.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Christmas cracker joke: Why does Derrida always buy the expensive stuff in Sainsbury's? Because he likes to Taste the Differance!

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A Very Theory Xmas @averytheoryxmas.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Christmas Cracker joke: Why does Edmund Burke put a small citrus fruit at the top of his Christmas tree? Because he wants his decorations to be sublime!

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A Very Theory Xmas @averytheoryxmas.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Postcolonial melancholia: when you get a Lynx Africa set on Christmas morning.

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Foucault’s Christmas - "a Christmas day without writing, that was impossible! ... a day when, as he said, 'nothing has happened for several thousand years' " progressivegeographies.com/2024/12/25/f...

A photograph of Foucault sitting at a desk with bookshelves behind and a typewriter and papers in front of him. There is a large old-fashioned lampshade above him.

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A Very Theory Xmas @averytheoryxmas.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

SCROOGE: You, boy, what day is it? DERRIDA: No moment is ever fully present to itself.

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A Very Theory Xmas @averytheoryxmas.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

So here it is, Merry Christmas Everybody's having fun Look to the future now L'avenir, that to come

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Hannah Millenial @hannahmillen.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Derrida in Shangri-la, it's the best I've got

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A Very Theory Xmas @averytheoryxmas.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Poststructuralist writing is often unfairly criticised for lacking clarity, but have these people even seen some of these perfume adverts?

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A Very Theory Xmas @averytheoryxmas.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

You've heard of Elf on the Shelf, but are you ready for

Michel Foucault standing outside a bar called Brewco. If anyone can suggest one of these for Derrida that would be helpful.

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A Very Theory Xmas @averytheoryxmas.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

In his essay on the uncanny, Freud discusses Jentsch's argument that uncanniness arises from uncertainty as to whether something is animate or inanimate, such as a doll, automaton, or Michael Buble.

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A Very Theory Xmas @averytheoryxmas.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

I asked Foucault what his top three post-Beatles Paul McCartney albums were, and he said 'Band on the Run', 'Venus and Mars', and 'Back to the Egg.' That's The Order of Wings.

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A Very Theory Xmas @averytheoryxmas.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

My god I thought you were someone to rely on / But was there not a sense in which you were ideology at its purest? #LastZizekIGaveYouTheReal

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Chris WoooOOOOooomack @hollowoak.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Decided I'm going to start pronouncing Grinch with an outrageous faux-French accent Gronsh

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M. E. O'Brien @genderhorizon.com · 19/12/2025

A nativity play is unusually close as performances go tho

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A Very Theory Xmas @averytheoryxmas.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

It'll be lonely this Christmas, without the metaphysics of presence.

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A Very Theory Xmas @averytheoryxmas.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

MCCARTNEY: The mood is right The spirit’s up We’re here tonight- DERRIDA: Not so fast, Macca.

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A Very Theory Xmas @averytheoryxmas.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

BUTLER: Gender is the effect of endlessly repeated normative acts, a kind of performance. NEARLY EVERYONE ELSE: A performance like a nativity play? BUTLER: How many times do I have to explain this-

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A Very Theory Xmas @averytheoryxmas.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Last Christmas I gave you my heart But the very next day came Irigaray This year, to save me from tears I’ll give it to someone Cixous

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A Very Theory Xmas @averytheoryxmas.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Christmas tree light settings: 1 - Slow flash 2 - Rapid flash 3 - Fade in/out 4 - Chasing 5 - Dialectics at a standstill

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A Very Theory Xmas @averytheoryxmas.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Carey: I don't care about the presents underneath the Christmas tree Freud: And yet you know where these presents are.

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cobrunstrom.bsky.social @cobrunstrom.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Birth of the Biscuit

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