I wrote about DBT and how emotional wellbeing became a matter of skill for Drift Magazine's new issue! thedriftmag.com/skill-issues/

Skill Issues | Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Its Discontents, Lily Scherlis Sobre la DBT y la normalidad psicológica: thedriftmag.com/skill-issues/?…

Very excited to share our revolutionary novel Everything for Everyonr was made into an audiobook! So grateful for all the work that went into this, and glad it is in the world in an accessible format.

DBT’s ethic of present-tense thinking and skilled self-reliance is met with an equal and opposite reaction: a culture fixated on the trauma plot, where people hold tightly to their stories as evidence that their lives aren’t their fault

excited for the future when university administrations pay a tech company to quantify every book’s difficulty as a ratio of “standard novel pages per page” and profs are given a hard weekly quota based on the mean attentiveness score of the individual students in their classroom

Berlant on why I’m such a ridiculously slow reader

ok which NYT journalist learned the word “flotilla” reading about the freedom flotilla and decided to get colorful with the metaphors

ok guys shitposting is over it's time to Express Political Outrage Skillfully thedriftmag.com/skill-issues/

it's actually a performance piece performed by the security guard

pretty soon service work for humanities scholars is just going to be babysitting people like this guy

It's on us in the US to apply the pressure to validate these hopes al-monitor.com/originals/2024…

I opened the new The Drift after dinner and ended up reading it cover to cover. Wonderful: from the essays to the fiction, an exciting sense of earnest engagement, craft care, and derring-do. Admired Simon Leser on Proust translation, Lily Scherlis on DBT—and several others.

everyone who says sartre's critique of dialectical reason is sooooo dry stopped reading before they got to the horny parts

.The University of Chicago officials say they are allowing one of their dorms to be used to house out of town cops who will be 'providing additional security' during the #DNC. A spox did not say if/how much compensation the university is getting from the City of Chicago for the arrangement.

It's online! My reflections on the surreal 18 months ('98-'99) I worked with Andersen consultants on a fake project: to save global advertising from a predicted millennial meltdown, or Y2K. When people ask: how did you get interested in Marx & economy? Here's the answer, folks.

best thing I've read in a long time, hands down

Long live Tagvverk! Back in December Reed McConnell and I were utterly thrilled to have our experimental video work on weird water infrastructure included in their lineup tagvverk.info/2023/12/19/lil…

Writing costs your time, a portion of your life, and is endlessly dissatisfying at that—part of why it’s enjoyable to consume oneself with it—all of which a machine that runs on extracting future ecological time can know nothing about, and can’t relieve at all. Next question.

“Most people I spend time with—leftists prone to anxiety and depression—are skeptical of ‘self-improvement.’” Fascinating essay on DBT and its history

if someone asks if you’ve read something you haven’t, you