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MAY 2025
Number 19
ENCOUNTERS WITH CHRISTIANITY, The Dostoevsky Labyrinth
• Empire of Sadness
I: unDER THE INFLUENCE
II: history and prophecy
III: suspicion
IV: a poet remembers
POSTSCRIPT

JULY 2024
Number 18
nostalgia, On / With Mark Fisher, The Soviet Union, The Dostoevsky Labyrinth
• Memory-essay #1
I: CROCODILE PHILOSOPHY
II: THEN AND NOW
III: SILENCED
IV: WHO KNOWS WHERE THE TIME GOES
V: ETHOPOEIA

July 2023
number 17
encounters with christianity
• Asceticism and the Problem of Evil
I: The Desert and the Sea
II: Gethsemane
III: The Prison

June 2023
number 16
encounters with christianity
• Notes on Gethsemane

February 2022
number 15
NAZI GERMANY, dialectics of lockdown, metaphysics of captivity and escape, CINEMA
• Concentration Camp World

December 2021
number 14
dialectics of lockdown, metaphysics of captivity and escape, HOPE AND ITS DISCONTENTS
• The Digital Waste Land
I: Game Show
II: The Politics of Hope

October 2021
number 13
dialectics of lockdown, metaphysics of captivity and escape, therapy / politics
• Asylum Politics
I: UNDERCOVER
II: FLIGHT PATH

July 2021
number 12
on / with mark fisher, metaphysics of captivity and escape
• Hostage Situation: Notes on Mark Fisher

August 2020
number 11
on / with mark fisher, HOPE AND ITS DISCONTENTS, metaphysics of captivity and escape
• Hope in the Dark: In Memory of Mark Fisher

July 2018
number 10
CINEMA, metaphysics of captivity and escape
• The Gaslighting Doesn’t Stop

February 2018
number 9
therapy / politics
• The Cost of Positive Thinking
I: No Other Way
II: Pros and Cons
III: The Right Way

November 2017
number 8
therapy / politics, HOPE AND ITS DISCONTENTS
• The X Process: Anti-psychiatry and Its Hopes
I: JOURNEYS
II: The Facts of Half-life
III: No King Lear

February 2017
number 7
therapy / politics, metaphysics of captivity and escape
• Times Change with the Treatments: On Asylum Writing
I: IT’S A KIND OF MAGNET
II: TOTALLY INSTITUTIONAL
III: THROUGH THE CLOUDS

December 2015
number 6
therapy / politics, metaphysics of captivity and escape
• On the Inside, Looking Out

May 2014
number 5
THERapy / politics
• Rose-tinted Ruins

September 2012
number 4
CINEMA, on / with mark fisher
• The Politics of The Dark Knight Rises: A Discussion
by Mark Fisher and Rob White

July 2012
number 3
CINEMA
• After-effects: Interview with Patricio Guzmán

March 2011
number 2
cINEMA
• A Safe Circus

February 2010
number 1
CINEMA
• Close to Ozu

SERIES

SERIES FOUR: ENCOUNTERS WITH CHRISTIANITY
2023–25 1. Asceticism and the Problem of Evil I: The Desert and the Sea
II: Gethsemane
III: The Prison
2. Empire of Sadness
I: unDER THE INFLUENCE
II: history and prophecy
III: suspicion
IV: a poet remembers
POSTSCRIPT

SERIES THREE: DIALECTICS OF LOCKDOWN
2021–221. Asylum Politics
I: UNDERCOVER
II: FLIGHT PATH
2. The Digital Waste Land
I: Game Show
II: The Politics of Hope
3. Concentration Camp World

SERIES TWO: PADDED WORLD
2014–181. Rose-tinted Ruins
2. On the Inside, Looking Out
3. Times Change with the Treatments: On Asylum Writing
I: IT’S A KIND OF MAGNET
II: TOTALLY INSTITUTIONAL
III: THROUGH THE CLOUDS
4. The X Process: Anti-psychiatry and Its Hopes
I: JOURNEYS
II: The Facts of Half-life
III: No King Lear
5. The Cost of Positive Thinking
I: No Other Way
II: Pros and Cons
III: The Right Way

SERIES ONE: On / WITH MARK FISHER
2012–211. The Politics of The Dark Knight Rises: A Discussion
BY MARK FISHER AND ROB WHITE
2. Hostage Situation: Notes on Mark Fisher
3. Hope in the Dark: In Memory of Mark Fisher

ALPHABETICAL
+ TOPICS

• After-effects: Interview with Patricio Guzmán

• Asceticism and the Problem of Evil
I: The Desert and the Sea
II: Gethsemane
III: The Prison

• Asylum Politics
I: UNDERCOVER
II: FLIGHT PATH
on One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest

• Close to Ozu
on Claire Denis’ 35 Shots of Rum

• Concentration Camp World

• The Cost of Positive Thinking
I: No Other Way
II: Pros and Cons
III: The Right Way
on Erhard Seminars Training and anti-psychiatry

• The Digital Waste Land
I: Game Show
II: The Politics of Hope
on Squid Game and Byung-Chul Han

• Empire of Sadness
I: unDER THE INFLUENCE
II: history and prophecy
III: suspicion
IV: a poet remembers
POSTSCRIPT
on BYZANTINE HISTORIOGRAPHY

• The Gaslighting Doesn’t Stop
on George Cukor’s Gaslight

• Hope in the Dark: In Memory of Mark Fisher

• Hostage Situation: Notes on Mark Fisher

• Memory-essay #1
I: CROCODILE PHILOSOPHY
II: THEN AND NOW
III: SILENCED
IV: WHO KNOWS WHERE THE TIME GOES
V: ETHOPOEIA
On Fukuyama, Derrida, Fisher, Adamovich

• Notes on Gethsemane

• On the Inside, Looking Out
review of J. M. Coetzee on therapy

• The Politics of The Dark Knight Rises: A Discussion
by Mark Fisher and Rob White

• Rose-tinted Ruins
on asylum photography

• A Safe Circus
on Jacques Rivette’s Around a Small Mountain

• Times Change with the Treatments: On Asylum Writing
I: IT’S A KIND OF MAGNET
II: TOTALLY INSTITUTIONAL
III: THROUGH THE CLOUDS

• The X Process: Anti-psychiatry and Its Hopes
I: JOURNEYS
II: The Facts of Half-life
III: No King Lear

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