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    • Weird Studies/Hysteria with Asti Hustvedt

    09 Aug 2026 - 10 Aug 2026
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      • Not so into the medium stuff, although...
      • Charcot, the controversy about hysteria, psychological vs neurological causes
      • Watch for the thought that isn't yours
      • Hysteria out of fashion, but there are still "non-epileptic seizures", etc
      • Wandering womb resonates with delocalized ideas in brain. OK.
      • Right at 30:00 – they are going on about how inside/outside is permeable, and all categories are sort of artificial impositions – then immediately go on to debate if spirits are outside (real, objective) rather than mere inside brain spasms. Damn, something clinically interesing about that, want to post (but need to at least listen tot he whole thing)
        • Some later talk of nondualism
      • Weirding reading
      • Paul Auster is her brother-in-law!
      • she studied with Deleuze and Kristeva
      • PFs father got pericarditis (sounds more serious than my own).
      • JFM on Deleuze's sensitivity (Logic and Sense about Lewis Carroll? I should check that out). Doesnt locate voices preferring "the clamor of being"
      • Reading as being possessed by an outside consciousness.
      • Reading as friendship (with the author, with the dead)...
        • vs meta-communication of academia (mastery, solitary authority). Not sure I buy this but what do I know about academic communication at this point.
        • Vs the genuine somewhat childish intent to share wondrous things. Why he has a podcast (why I have whatever this is)
      • "books are haunted houses"
      • A commenter on Discord mentions Rewriting the Soul - Wikipedia
        • Hacking's work is both a theoretical account of the concepts and modes of agentic engagement through which people encounter the world and make sense of themselves, and a psychological account of how minds relate to memories and the fragility of this relationship, especially in the lives of people exposed to extremes of suffering and cruelty. Through a study of the history and manifestations of multiple personality disorder, Hacking describes how people come to an understanding of their lives through their own memories and autobiographies