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Hannah Zeavin
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historian of mind & media @ucbhistory I book: The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy bit.ly/distancecure I Founder of @parapraxis_mag & @PsychosocialFo1
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    Hannah Zeavin
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    May 25, 2023
    i am so excited that, for the next two years, i'll be working on ALL FREUD'S CHILDREN, a new book about the children of psychoanalysts, and taking on some of the myths that run my life. with deepest thanks to @kfzbarrow, @penguinpress, & @dimarutman.
    May 24, 2023 - ALL FREUD'S CHILDREN, by Hannah Zeavin Non-fiction: Biography Author of THE DISTANCE CURE: A HISTORY OF TELETHERAPY, founding editor of Parapraxis, and historian at UC Berkeley Hannah Zeavin's ALL FREUD'S CHILDREN: A STORY OF INHERITANCE, a group biography of noteworthy psychoanalysts and their children-beginning with Sigmund and Anna Freud-that traces some of the most significant contributions of psychoanalysis back to their intimate origins, examining how the home lives of these thinkers shaped the theories that made them famous, framed by personal reflections from the author's own experience of being raised by analysts, to Kiara Barrow at Penguin Press, at auction, by Jim Rutman at Sterling Lord Literistic (NA).
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    Hannah Zeavin
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    Jun 8, 2022
    I am really relieved to say that, after 4 years of contingent labor at UC Berkeley, I'm starting a TT job at Indiana University in the Informatics Dept, for social histories & ethics of AI. I remain in solidarity with contingent faculty and graduate student colleagues 1/3
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    Hannah Zeavin
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    Nov 15, 2023
    no surprise that, thanks to zionist agitation, a psychoanalytic institute--considered one of the "radical" places--cancelled a panel *they asked me to lead* about psychoanalysis, the alt-right, and...censorship because it "no longer serves its members." we were not the only ones.
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    Hannah Zeavin
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    Apr 12, 2024
    I wrote about Aaron Bushnell, his death, and the history of pathologizing protest for @bookforum:
    Diagnosing Resistance
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    Hannah Zeavin
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    Mar 31, 2024
    best psychoanalytic (or anything, really, if you love it) essays etc on secrets?
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    Hannah Zeavin
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    Jun 27, 2023
    i've been asked to curate the psychoanalysis section of a new left bookstore (yay new bookstore!) Obviously there's much too much to include (I've been tasks with 40 or so books) but I am wondering what is your favorite, *underrated*, psa fav? old, new, etc.
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    Hannah Zeavin
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    Dec 12, 2022
    ugh 1 more thing about bookforum is that they, with regularity, reviewed academic books. and treated UP books like they mattered to the culture, because they do. and they got really great critics to take those books on, sometimes academics and sometimes not.
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    Hannah Zeavin
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    Apr 24, 2023
    We're moving again! Starting July 1, I'll be an assistant professor of the history of science at UC Berkeley, w/ a joint appointment in @UCBHistory & @calnewmedia. I'm thrilled to be going home & very sad to leave my beloved friends in Bloomington (ie, the depressive position).
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    Hannah Zeavin
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    Jun 5, 2024
    For @WIRED, I spent over a year speaking with the brilliant, wonderful China Miéville (and one afternoon talking to Keanu Reeves). Come for the celebrity encounter, stay for the random Freud appearance:
    China Miéville Writes a Secret Novel With the Internet’s Boyfriend (It’s Keanu Reeves)
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    Hannah Zeavin
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    Nov 23, 2022
    i met Bernadette for the first time when i was 16 working at naropa. i finally worked up the courage to show her my poems using the excuse of a raspberry pie. when my book came out she blurbed it “This author bribed me with a raspberry pie.” i’m too sad to do anything but 1/2
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    Hannah Zeavin
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    Mar 21, 2022
    It's Zizek's birthday, and I do not care, but I survived the first year of graduate school watching this video with my cohort, such that "precisely but no" became our motto: youtube.com/watch?v=KjEtmZ…
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    Hannah Zeavin
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    Sep 9, 2024
    MOTHER MEDIA now has a cover! "Mother Media tells the story of how our contemporary understanding of what a mother is came to be and how understandings of 'bad' mothering formed our contemporary panics about 'bad' media": mitpress.mit.edu/9780262049559/…
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    Hannah Zeavin
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    Sep 6, 2022
    Going on being is hard work, especially when even non-revolution feels far, when “being” as a propulsive verb feels impossible. For @bookforum, I reviewed Lauren Berlant's posthumous ON THE INCONVENIENCE OF OTHER PEOPLE (@DukePress) bookforum.com/print/2903/lau…
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    Hannah Zeavin
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    Feb 7, 2023
    just received an order for parapraxis from berggasse 19, vienna, for Freud's library (even if Freud hasn't been home for about 84 years).
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