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Felicity Callard
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So at this wonderful event yesterday, we learned from Nigel Fabb (one of the organisers of The Linguistics of Writing) that he bought a 'The Linguistics of Writing Venue' sign from the AA after the event (see image below) & sent it to Derrida & Derrida wrote back & said he had put it in his garden
Whole logic pernicious on countless fronts.
Note how Wales doesn’t even figure - even at the level of pointing out its absence policyexchange.org.uk/wp-content/u...
Am also reposting link to Danielle Carr's long essay from 2023 in @nymag.com on trauma through the lens of Bessel van der Kolk nymag.com/intelligence...
Danforth-Appell quotes Danielle Carr (an interview she gave with @jacobinmag.bsky.social jacobin.com/2023/12/psyc...)
‘Talwar [art therapy professor with tenure] told the Guardian…that she was “stunned” by a suspension that appeared to be motivated by “the mere mention of the word Palestine”’
We watched most of the Channel 4 documentary on The Linguistics of Writing conference, which is hosted by @r-williams-soc.bsky.social online.
11/10 would recommend youtu.be/qqeS417i0KE?...
If for nothing else, watch for the out-of-control 1980s montage youtu.be/qqeS417i0KE?...
An important piece by Jon Danforth-Appell in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social (now out from beyhind the paywall) challenging the models of trauma that have been taken up in some accounts of attachments to Zionism jewishcurrents.org/does-the-jew...
Really looking forward to reading this
Come and join us at this workshop on political pathologies and psychic life at University of Strathclyde (Glasgow).
Joelle Abi-Rached @joelleabirached.bsky.social is giving the keynote, 'Trauma without Aftermath: Gaza, Lebanon, & the Psychic Life of Injustice'
www.eventbrite.com/e/political-...
