EXTRACT – Graham Harman in The Neurotic Turn
This is an extract from The Neurotic Turn, a new anthology of writing around neuroses edited by Charles Johns, which is out now. In it, Graham Harman considers the relationship between Deleuze, Freud, and Object-Oriented Ontology. Freud’s Wolf-Man in an Object-Oriented Light Graham Harman Gilles
Femme Fatales, ‘Female Psychopaths’ and Narrative ‘Science’: Part Two —Tristam Vivian Adams
This is part two of 'Femme Fatales, "Female Psychopaths" and Narrative "Science"' by Tristam Vivian Adams, author of The Psychopath Factory. Find part one here. Film and Television’s methods for hinting or alluding to the non-conforming private life, to the ‘deviant’
Femme Fatales, ‘Female Psychopaths’ and Narrative ‘Science’: Part One —Tristam Vivian Adams
This is part one of two of 'Femme Fatales, "Female Psychopaths" and Narrative "Science"' by Tristam Vivian Adams, author of The Psychopath Factory. Adams discussed the topic of this essay in a recent episode of Very Loose Women on Resonance FM. Read
“We live in loops as tight and as closed as the hosts do”—Tristam Vivian Adams on Westworld
Sci-fi has a pedigree of exploring contemporary issues through the engaging gauze of societies and contexts far removed from painful familiarity. Inequality is explicated through different life forms, nuclear anxiety masquerades as fears of interstellar warfare, loneliness through the guise
From honest sociopathy to charming psychopathy
One in five CEO’s have high levels of psychopathic traits! It is a common headline. Bankers have no empathy, are greedy narcissists or egomaniacs. But such vilification misses some important, perhaps uncomfortable, subtleties and similarities. Considering that the laissez-faire finance
The camouflage of conspicuity — Tristam Vivian Adams on psychopathy and sociopathy
Psychopathy and sociopathy In my forthcoming book, The Psychopath Factory: How Capitalism Organizes Empathy (forthcoming from Repeater), I make a distinction between psychopathy and sociopathy. The two terms are commonly used in an interchangeable way, as if they are one and
