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Associate Prof at St Mary's University. I write about digital media and psychoanalysis. Don't use this account much. https://www.stmarys.ac.uk/staff-directory/jacob-johanssen

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Event information for the Association for Psychosocial Studies 2026 Annual Conference. The top features a blue and red abstract ink-style banner and an infinity symbol logo. The title is "Trust, Mistrust and Community: Call for Papers," taking place 12-13th June 2026 at St Mary’s University, London. The text describes the psychosocial dynamics of trust, digital infrastructures, and "dystopian imaginaries." It invites submissions from clinicians and academics for papers and creative productions. A QR code is in the bottom right, and a dark blue banner at the bottom highlights the submission deadline: 8th March 2026.

Event information for the Association for Psychosocial Studies 2026 Annual Conference. The top features a blue and red abstract ink-style banner and an infinity symbol logo. The title is "Trust, Mistrust and Community: Call for Papers," taking place 12-13th June 2026 at St Mary’s University, London. The text describes the psychosocial dynamics of trust, digital infrastructures, and "dystopian imaginaries." It invites submissions from clinicians and academics for papers and creative productions. A QR code is in the bottom right, and a dark blue banner at the bottom highlights the submission deadline: 8th March 2026.

The Association for Psychosocial Studies is extending the submission deadline for the 2026 Annual Conference, titled "Trust, Mistrust and Community."

The new deadline for all abstracts is now 8th March 2026.

03.03.2026 16:08 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Parasocial Feminism and Social Media Communities: Subjective Empowerment and its Ambivalences | Psicologia di Comunità - Open access

New article in Psicologia di Comunità-Open Access ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Parasocial Feminism and Social Media Communities: Subjective Empowerment and its Ambivalences

Johanna Lisa Degen  &
Jacob Johanssen 

journals.francoangeli.it/index.php/ps...

10.01.2026 13:35 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
First Monday @ 30 | First Monday

Saddened to learn that First Monday will cease publication. It was a quality open-access journal that eschewed the traps of big publishing and promoted innovative thinking & research regarding tech and society. #academicsky
firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

06.02.2026 22:22 👍 25 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 1
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New as Online First: Jack Black and Jacob Johanssen, 'The Subject of AI: A Psychoanalytic Intervention' - explores psychoanalytic perspectives, particularly Lacanian theory, on artificial intelligence, with a focus on chatbots, such as, ChatGPT. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

11.11.2025 20:50 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Jack Black & Jacob Johanssen, The Subject of AI: A Psychoanalytic Intervention - PhilArchive This article explores psychoanalytic perspectives, particularly Lacanian theory, on artificial intelligence, with a focus on chatbots, such as, ChatGPT. While ChatGPT is often viewed as mimicking human traits, such conceptions overlook ...

Black, Jack & Johanssen, Jacob: The Subject of AI: A Psychoanalytic Intervention _Theory, Culture and Society_ (xx). 2025This article explores psychoanalytic perspectives, particularly Lacanian...


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11.11.2025 21:47 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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09.12.2025 21:57 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

«ChatGPT told a young mother in Maine that she could talk to spirits in another dimension. It told an accountant in Manhattan that he was in a computer-simulated reality … It told a corporate recruiter in Toronto that he had invented a math formula that would break the internet …» #ParanoiaMachine

24.11.2025 05:55 👍 47 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 1

Ooh looks great!

11.11.2025 18:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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New article with Jack Black now in Theory, Culture & Society:
The Subject of AI: A Psychoanalytic Intervention
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

11.11.2025 17:42 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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📯 APS Conference 2026
Trust, Mistrust and Community
www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/conference-2...

06.11.2025 16:22 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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کتاب رسانه و روانکاوی مقدمه‌ای انتقادی | برخط بوک <ul><li><span style="color:hsl(0, 75%, 60%);"><strong>ارسال و توزیع از یکشنبه 11 آبان&nbsp;</strong></span><br>مطالعات روان‌کاوانه‌ی رسانه حوزه‌ای میان‌رشته‌ای است که با استفاده از مفاهیم و نظریه‌های ...

Our book Media and Psychoanalysis: A Critical Introduction has just been published in Persian! 🎉
Many thanks to Saeid Ghobadi for the translation:
barkhatbook.com/product/bk_2...

31.10.2025 16:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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is Spotify (and its distribution partners) retaliating against artists who boycott?

this video is about what happened after I removed my music from Spotify.

please reach out if you’ve experienced something similar

13.10.2025 14:04 👍 39 🔁 21 💬 7 📌 3

Thanks, Justin!

27.09.2025 16:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Academics are under unrelenting pressure to accept the narrative of the inevitability of #generativeAI & to embrace it in teaching & learning. We resist - because it is ecologically destructive, ethically corrupt, & because it undermines the thinking abilities that make us both human & intelligent.

04.09.2025 09:31 👍 414 🔁 196 💬 6 📌 11
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This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

13.08.2025 06:06 👍 22094 🔁 8416 💬 465 📌 1177

This fits perfectly, as the default aesthetic of #AIslop already owes a lot to Kinkade: If you look at algorithmically curated databases used to fine-tune AI models such as «LAION aesthetics,» you'll find Kinkade's paintings ranked higher than almost anything else in terms of «aesthetic score»
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02.07.2025 07:34 👍 262 🔁 86 💬 9 📌 16

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.

Stop using WeTransfer.

14.07.2025 23:05 👍 7591 🔁 5276 💬 128 📌 464

Herzlichen Glückwunsch!

15.07.2025 08:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The 4th annual Henderson Heritage Group 'Experiences in Communities' public event: Friday 10 October 6-8pm
THE event of the autumn in the world of #democratictherapeuticcommunities and #activistresearch - tickets available now! ❤️‍🔥 #survivor #practicesofequality
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1440614559... ❤️

03.07.2025 10:47 👍 19 🔁 11 💬 4 📌 3

Thanks, Tom!

12.06.2025 20:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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APS 2025 - We are ready! See you tomorrow
@assocpsychosocial.bsky.social

08.06.2025 14:54 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

We're getting ready, see you all soon!

07.06.2025 15:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
APS 2025 - ConfTool Pro - BrowseSessions

We are incredibly excited about the programme for our upcoming annual APS conference: www.conftool.net/aps-2025/ses...
You can still register! @assocpsychosocial.bsky.social

20.05.2025 10:36 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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Hope and Despair: Crisis and Opportunity - APS 2025
Registration closing soon!
www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/conference-2...

16.04.2025 09:28 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Penned by Thomas Mann for Freud’s 80th birthday:

“A thinker and investigator who knew how to stand alone and then drew many to him and with him, he went his way and penetrated to truths which seemed dangerous because they revealed what had been anxiously hidden, and illumined dark places.

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15.04.2025 20:30 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Hope and Despair: Crisis and Opportunity - APS 2025
Registration closing soon!
www.psychosocial-studies-association.org/conference-2...

16.04.2025 09:28 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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New publication:
Rethinking Symbolic Violence on Social Media: Incels and Mentalisation

ojs.ub.rub.de/index.php/HA...

12.04.2025 13:31 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Radicalised Adolescence? Hit series sparks calls to counter toxic masculinity The Netherlands now following the UK in launching initiatives to show Netflix's four-part series Adolescence in middle schools while France's education ministry ponders tighter controls on teens exposed to hate speech and porn. We’ll ask about a fiction inspired by real life cases of boys who went so far as to murder girls.

Radicalised Adolescence? Hit series sparks calls to counter toxic masculinity

10.04.2025 18:19 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Adolescence and Toxic Masculinity by Jacob Johanssen

Adolescence and Toxic Masculinity
everydayinquiry.substack.com/p/adolescenc...

04.04.2025 11:59 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0