A Very Theory Xmas

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...and Freud bless us, every one!

(Oh, and AI can do one too)

So until the end of November, make sure your wine is not just mulled, but deconstructed...

Remember my top tips for 2026: always historicise! Resist fascism! Fuck Trump! Fuck Musk!

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.

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

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.

Freud says that auld acquaintance can never truly be forgot.

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

A portrait in oils of Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri, known as Dante, in red robes and hood, crowned with laurel leaves

Samuel Beckett. His face as contoured with thought and age as a Henry Moore sculpture

Jools Holland. The horror, the horror

Lasciate ogni speranza voi ch'entrate

#JacquesLacansHootenanny

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Next on #JacquesLacansHootenanny, it's Michel Foucault and Tom Jones with History of Sex Bomb.

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

Jacques Lacan, reader of Freud and psychoanalysis' foremost proponent of boogie-woogie piano, wearing a bow tie.

Boogie Woogie! Boogie Woogie! Traverse the fantasy! #JacquesLacansHootenanny

Can we get #JacquesLacansHootenanny trending this year?

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

And looking very relaxed, Martin Heidegger on vibes

Patrick Stewart explaining transgressive sex and post structuralism to Jimmy Fallon

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

When Derrida went on Letterman

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

Wish there were still TV programmmes interviewing French critical theorists

A spectre is haunting TV-AM.

Five Lucien Goldmann rings!

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

Jake Paul and Andrew Tate have set up a reading group!

They're comparing notes on Kristeva's discussion of the abject body ...

Last post: Biggins v Derrida.

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

Oh no we shouldn't.

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

Beautiful!

Christmas cracker joke:

Why does Derrida always buy the expensive stuff in Sainsbury's?

Because he likes to Taste the Differance!