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Jadine (JD) Pluecker @jdpluecker.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Been obsessively thinking about parallels between "personal boundaries" & national borders. Did some googling this morning & found this amazing essay by @lilyscherlis.bsky.social historicizing pop psych "boundaries" talk in Cold War (60s) & neoliberal (early 90s) moments. Highly recommend.

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Boundary Issues — Parapraxis

How boundaries became the rules for mental health—and explain everything Lily Scherlis

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

MLA dance card makers! The Forum on Literary Criticism has 3 sessions: Genres of Criticism (15); Psychoanalytic Criticism Today (316); Portable Concepts for Non-Eurocentric Theory (719). I'll be speaking at Psychic Life Under Polycrisis (34), + hosting Comparative Theory social hour Fri at 6:30.

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lily scherlis @lilyscherlis.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

literally every pop psychology topic I research winds up tracing back to 1969–73

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lily scherlis @lilyscherlis.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

in the wellness dystopia of the future they will call church services weekly appointments with the Master Psychiatrist

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The Drift @thedriftmag.com · 20/12/2024

@lilyscherlis.bsky.social on the politics of Dialectical Behavior Therapy www.thedriftmag.com/skill-issues/

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Skill Issues

Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Its Discontents

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lily scherlis @lilyscherlis.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

just found the prequel to Mating in Captivity, which features the word "Palestine" exactly four times

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

glaring omission indeed

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lily scherlis @lilyscherlis.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

a literary man at this cafe is reading a very long passage from Taming of the Shrew aloud to his gf and i’m thinking of asking him to disappear

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lily scherlis @lilyscherlis.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

if they did have mensa for EQ no one in this kitchen would qualify

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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

BREAKING: Autonomous anti-genocide activists bring the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade to a grinding halt after blockading the McDonald’s float for a second year in a row. “Those grinches who thinks they can disrupt the parade: it’s not going to happen,” Mayor Eric Adams said yesterday.

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Z Samudzi @zsamudzi.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

11 months later, I’ve still yet to say anything nice about Germany especially after withdrawing a museum exhibition I curated about genocide denialism because the directors of the museum and museum system told me I couldn’t say Germany hadn’t properly recognized the genocide in Namibia.

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Love “booster shot for the revolutionary imagination” as a description of our book.

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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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lily scherlis @lilyscherlis.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

the most academic thing about me is whenever someone says “good question” I feel like a dog being given a treat

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lily scherlis @lilyscherlis.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

i'm "writing dialectically," aka starting every other paragraph with the word "unfortunately"

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lily scherlis @lilyscherlis.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

I vote in PA and I voted for Harris. It was utterly maddening to fill in that bubble and I’ll be there for the struggle to come, whichever way this goes

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lily scherlis @lilyscherlis.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

tried to print an article on Bion's concept of emotional containment and my printer leaked a shit ton of toner all over the floor and I have never related to a machine more

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lily scherlis @lilyscherlis.bsky.social · 14/10/2024

feels like all of us are rapid-cycling between finding words to describe our horror and finding words to describe the total failure of words to describe our horror

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lily scherlis @lilyscherlis.bsky.social · 23/09/2024

Jameson on finding his way into Marxism. He also happens to be describing exactly what his work has often done for me

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lily scherlis @lilyscherlis.bsky.social · 14/09/2024

if someone asks if you’ve read something you haven’t, you

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lily scherlis @lilyscherlis.bsky.social · 01/08/2024

everyone who says sartre's critique of dialectical reason is sooooo dry stopped reading before they got to the horny parts

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lily scherlis @lilyscherlis.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

pretty soon service work for humanities scholars is just going to be babysitting people like this guy

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lily scherlis @lilyscherlis.bsky.social · 22/07/2024

ok guys shitposting is over it's time to Express Political Outrage Skillfully www.thedriftmag.com/skill-issues

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lily scherlis @lilyscherlis.bsky.social · 22/07/2024

ok which NYT journalist learned the word “flotilla” reading about the freedom flotilla and decided to get colorful with the metaphors

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lily scherlis @lilyscherlis.bsky.social · 21/07/2024

Berlant on why I’m such a ridiculously slow reader

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lily scherlis @lilyscherlis.bsky.social · 20/07/2024

excited for the future when university administrations pay a tech company to quantify every book’s difficulty as a ratio of “standard novel pages per page” and profs are given a hard weekly quota based on the mean attentiveness score of the individual students in their classroom

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lily scherlis @lilyscherlis.bsky.social · 11/07/2024

while you guys are hung up on NYT lists I'm proud to say I get all my reading recs straight from the source

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lily scherlis @lilyscherlis.bsky.social · 10/07/2024

jameson on finding marxism: "that, however, was the decisive moment in which what you dimly think or experience suddenly acquires a name"

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lily scherlis @lilyscherlis.bsky.social · 08/07/2024

as a totally oblivious person randomly in Paris this week I fully believed all the cheering on the street last night was about soccer right up until a smiling elderly lady looked me in the eye and said “bonne nouvelle” with such utter glee that I had to check the news

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lily scherlis @lilyscherlis.bsky.social · 28/06/2024

I wrote this about debate performances for @thebafflermag before rightwing cringe gave way to total despair and I'm sharing it again now because it gets at why bullshit categories like "likability" feel so markedly irrelevant whatever is going on...

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lily scherlis @lilyscherlis.bsky.social · 23/06/2024

I have made yet another trip around the sun

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lily scherlis @lilyscherlis.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

how many times do you typically sit down and overhaul the full structure of an essay/article?

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lily scherlis @lilyscherlis.bsky.social · 10/06/2024

vibe check on the email greeting trend of eschewing "Hi [name]," or "Dear [name]," and just starting the email with "[Name],"

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lily scherlis @lilyscherlis.bsky.social · 07/06/2024

the guy who rents the storage unit across from mine said "hey do you want a gun" and when I turned around he was pointing one of these at me

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lily scherlis @lilyscherlis.bsky.social · 25/05/2024

cognitive behavior therapy is totally unhinged

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lily scherlis @lilyscherlis.bsky.social · 21/05/2024

my relationship to time is a disaster

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lily scherlis @lilyscherlis.bsky.social · 19/05/2024

is anyone not feeling like they’re living in a berlantian impasse rn?

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lily scherlis @lilyscherlis.bsky.social · 06/05/2024

all of the good granola bars are gone

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lily scherlis @lilyscherlis.bsky.social · 05/05/2024

really absurd seeing the undergrad zionists you just deescalated doing homework in the library

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lily scherlis @lilyscherlis.bsky.social · 22/04/2024

Chicago, today at 12 pm I am giving a performance lecture about the perils of predictive technology in the insight industry, if you want to swing by hutchinson courtyard on your lunch break www.loganexhibitions.uchicago.edu/e…

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lily scherlis @lilyscherlis.bsky.social · 14/04/2024

ah yes, the weekend, when every cafe is required to invite a guy to do something awful on a mod synth all day

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lily scherlis @lilyscherlis.bsky.social · 11/04/2024

just discovered that they call emotional resilience "psychological capital"; bourdieu is rolling in his grave

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lily scherlis @lilyscherlis.bsky.social · 10/04/2024

nobody: Management Science: depression is an infectious disease; don't hire anyone who has spent time in a negative corporate culture because they might have caught it

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lily scherlis @lilyscherlis.bsky.social · 04/04/2024

straight out of the CBT handbook

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