Posts
2026
"Too much visibility is the same as invisibility": why I use Claude to run my research
Claude's new Reflect feature sees me and my research, partially.
Archive, 2014–2018
2018
Dagmar Herzog to present "On Aggression: Psychoanalysis as Moral Politics in Post-Nazi Germany" at UC on Feb. 22, 2018
Notice for Dagmar Herzog's UC lecture "On Aggression: Psychoanalysis as Moral Politics in Post-Nazi Germany", 22 February 2018.
Exploring Groundhog Day: Screening and Discussion
Notice for a psychoanalytic screening and discussion of Groundhog Day at the Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute, 2 February 2018.
UC European Film Festival 2018
Notice for the 2018 UC European Film Festival: ten films, 20 January to 8 March, at the Mini Microcinema and other Cincinnati venues.
Psychoanalysts as Novelists
Notice for an APT evening on novels by psychoanalysts, Kristeva's Possessions and Ogden's The Parts Left Out, 19 January 2018.
2017
Third Annual UCBA Faculty & Staff Art Exhibition
Notice for the third annual UCBA Faculty & Staff Art Exhibition, 20 March to 21 April 2017.
New Publication in The International Journal of the Literary Humanities
My article "L'Art Noir: The Perfidy of Images in Film Noir", in The International Journal of the Literary Humanities 15.1.
Narrative Portraiture Opening Reception
Notice for Narrative Portraiture, a five-artist show at the UC Blue Ash College Art Gallery, February to March 2017.
New Publication in The International Journal of the Literary Humanities
My article on the elegiac photography of Hannah Maynard, the Victorian studio photographer, in The International Journal of the Literary Humanities 14.4.
2016
Fake Blood - Questions (unofficial music video)
A fan music video I edited for Fake Blood's track "Questions".
Where the Wild Things Are
Notice for an APT screening of Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are, with a discussion of grief, 24 June 2016.
Dada Lives! Opening Reception: Friday, April 29, 5pm
Notice for Dada Lives!, an international centenary exhibition of Dada-inspired artists at the UCBA College Art Gallery, 29 April 2016.
New publication in PsyArt Journal
My article in PsyArt, volume 20: Sookie Stackhouse's telepathy as a symptom and the vampire as the Real in HBO's True Blood.
Psi episode 4, "Believing in the Afterlife"
On an episode of Psi about a man who believes his dead wife is reaching him, read through Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia".
2015
A Story about Psicanálise (Psychoanalysis) in Latin America
Notice for an APT screening and discussion of HBO Latin America's Psi, 22 January 2016, Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute.
The Irruption of the Real in the CW's The Flash
The Flash's impossible speed as the Real returning from the trauma of his mother's murder, read through the show's many father figures.
Psychoanalysis and Non-Western Art
Should psychoanalysis be applied to Japanese art? An open question after an APT round table, with Yoshitoshi's ghost of Okiku as the test case.
Sookie and Symptom, Vampire and Void: Irruption of the Real in True Blood
My 21-minute conference talk: Sookie Stackhouse's telepathy as a symptom, and the vampire as the Real breaking through, in HBO's True Blood.
Scooby-Dooing Lacan
Why Scooby-Doo never runs out of mysteries: the endless chase as a model of Lacanian desire, and what is really behind the mask.
Hermia's Desire
A reply to a paper on empathy in A Midsummer Night's Dream: what Hermia desires is a lost object, and Lysander is only its stand-in.
Psychotopography Triptych 1
My first still image experiment with Google's Deep Dream artificial neural network.
The Uncanny -cont.-
Part two: in It Follows the uncanny lies less in the monster than in Paul's desire, an encounter with something that resists being put into words.
The Uncanny
After an APT screening of Purana Mandir: why the uncanny lingers when a scare does not, read through Lacan, with The Babadook as the counter-example.
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - Your Love (Fake Blood Remix)
My contribution to a collaborative video project Betsy Fischer and I have been engaging in, 312: a Trilogy of Unique Détournements Doubles.
Rich Man (Venus and Mars) - Mike Roos
Music and lyrics: Mike Roos. Video design and editing: Matt Bennett and Mike Roos.
Ship of Fools - Mike Roos
Music and lyrics: Mike Roos. Video design and editing: Matt Bennett and Mike Roos.
2014
purgatory, pa
nothing is wasted. nothing.
ideation to beat outline / treatment
how you develop ideas is unique to you.
more on setting your writing and on writing your settings
as much detail as is necessary and relevant to the story.
a room of your own
you must have a writing space of your own. or, preferably, several of them.
idea cistern
make capturing your ideas when they happen a habit.
fertile crescent
don't try to force yourself into an unnatural writing schedule. it will work against you.