Videos by Jacob W Glazier
Building on recent research in science studies, the worldview of animism offers parapsychology a ... more Building on recent research in science studies, the worldview of animism offers parapsychology a viable alternative to physicalism entailing ethical implications for its methods and practices. 53 views
The emphasis on affective sensibility in critical pedagogy (Amsler, 2011) urges educators to furt... more The emphasis on affective sensibility in critical pedagogy (Amsler, 2011) urges educators to further student change using what is called ‘pedagogies of discomfort’. However, rather than solving the political nature of not only pedagogy but of subjectivity itself, this approach rather deflects from the more serious question of the ongoing, extant power dynamic that pervades affect, mood, and the like. In fact, Zembylas (2018) argues that scholars and others have not gone far enough in decolonizing what many view as a cornerstone of the educational endeavor: empathy - how this emotion has perpetuated classicist, racist, misogynistic, and other forms of bias. Yet, at the level of storytelling, educators are more likely to stay clear of reproducing these implicit power dynamics in the classroom through a critical narrative pedagogy (Nowak-Dziemianowicz, 2020). 61 views
Books by Jacob W Glazier
Paranormal Ruptures: Critical Approaches to Exceptional Experiences, 2023
The paranormal is more than just scary. It threatens our normal perceptions of reality and cuts t... more The paranormal is more than just scary. It threatens our normal perceptions of reality and cuts to the core of human experience. This book and each individual chapter, in its own unique way, make this case by bringing together scientific research and scholarship from cultural and critical studies. Indeed, if the paranormal terrifies you even a little bit, imagine the impact on society if some of these exceptional experiences turn out to be true. Truth, as we will see, is often times stranger than fiction and is not so easily assured in our modern world of advancing technology and social change. Often relegated to myths or tall tales, the paranormal is rather already here among us, summoning and sometimes bedeviling us to reconsider our usual ways of understanding. This book is an invitation to just such a journey.
Bringing thinking from the arts and digital humanities into dialogue with one another, this book ... more Bringing thinking from the arts and digital humanities into dialogue with one another, this book investigates what it means to be alive in a world that is structured by technology, the media, and an ever expanding sense of a global community.
In this unique time in our history, when we are bombarded by signs and symbols and constantly connected into gadgets, apps, and networks, it has become increasingly difficult to navigate what has been dubbed a 'post-truth' world. Critiques taken from post-colonial studies and neoanimism help challenge the paranoia that has become endemic and, indeed, symptomatic to global realities we are now witnessing. This pertains not only to the ecological degradation of the planet but also to the lingering remnants of eurocentrism and racism that have taken the forms of nationalism and fascism. As a guide, an updated version of what Michel Foucault called an arts of existence may help us sail in these treacherous and confusing waters.
Diving into post-structuralist French theory, through American feminism, and emerging out of media studies, this book argues for an ethical and aesthetic form of self-fashioning that runs counter to processes subjection and mediatization. This craft of life, as Plato called it, is a space of disjunction and liberation, between subjectivity and other, where something new and different has the potential to emerge and mould to our likeness.
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019
Bringing thinking from the arts and digital humanities into dialogue with one another, this book ... more Bringing thinking from the arts and digital humanities into dialogue with one another, this book investigates what it means to be alive in a world that is structured by technology, the media, and an ever expanding sense of a global community.
In this unique time in our history, when we are bombarded by signs and symbols and constantly connected into gadgets, apps, and networks, it has become increasingly difficult to navigate what has been dubbed a 'post-truth' world. Critiques taken from post-colonial studies and neoanimism help challenge the paranoia that has become endemic and, indeed, symptomatic to global realities we are now witnessing. This pertains not only to the ecological degradation of the planet but also to the lingering remnants of eurocentrism and racism that have taken the forms of nationalism and fascism. As a guide, an updated version of what Michel Foucault called an arts of existence may help us sail in these treacherous and confusing waters.
Diving into post-structuralist French theory, through American feminism, and emerging out of media studies, this book argues for an ethical and aesthetic form of self-fashioning that runs counter to processes subjection and mediatization. This craft of life, as Plato called it, is a space of disjunction and liberation, between subjectivity and other, where something new and different has the potential to emerge and mould to our likeness.
Drafts by Jacob W Glazier
The articulation of a performative theory of assembly stems, historically, from Butler’s earlier ... more The articulation of a performative theory of assembly stems, historically, from Butler’s earlier iterations of performativity coming out of, most notably, her work in Gender Trouble and Bodies That Matter. As a consistent thread that runs through her theoretical oeuvre, performativity maintains that gender (and perhaps sexuality) is, in a certain sense, a construction embedded in the repetition of the subject and its positionality in discourses of power - between creation and destruction - such that one cannot ‘will’ gendered formations, relatively speaking, but that a place of freedom and, indeed, agency is found in being able to be disloyal to one’s own repetitive emplacement. What this entails for a theory of the commons and, more politically, assembly is that the public sphere is also subject to a similar set of possibilities with regard to its repetitive repertoire. Butler will need to argue, however, how the move from a gendered embodiment as a site of possibly subversive performances, the paragon example being drag, connects and, moreover, becomes theoretically essential for assembled political and social action.
A tripartite advance, that of the unconscious, policing, and desire - and unconscious policing de... more A tripartite advance, that of the unconscious, policing, and desire - and unconscious policing desire - sets ready a three-pronged cipher helping to unlock Lacan's, at times, cryptic text: his 1956 Seminar on "The Purloined Letter". The three are not meant in the terms of the three interlocutors for today's discussion, Lacan, Derrida, and Poe nor even in relation to Derrida's 'reading into Lacan's text' - to paraphrase Barbra Johnson (1977) - figures of triangulation, whether psychoanalytic, strictly Oedipal or otherwise. The first of the three, not that the three have a privileged seriality to the listing, the unconscious, goes more or less left presupposed throughout the presentation in the sense this short story is precisely the scene of the unconscious; therein, Lacan stages its encounter, sometimes subtly, sometimes too brazenly. “Is that how we are kept in suspense?” (Lacan, 1988, p. 33, emphasis in original), Lacan asks us.
A return to Freud’s primary source material may be able to shed light on some of the more ‘hot bu... more A return to Freud’s primary source material may be able to shed light on some of the more ‘hot button’ issues that are currently circulating within the university discourse. Under a particular high degree of disputation has been Freud’s views of homosexuality (Dean & Lane, 2001). In order to further investigate what Freud actually says about the issue, the present article seeks to articulate a close reading of Freud’s 1922 essay “Some Neurotic Mechanisms In Jealousy: Paranoia and Homosexuality” as well as bring into dialogue his famous dictum of polymorphous perversion from his 1925 article, “An Autobiographical Study.” The examination reveals that Freud (1922) developed a particular kind of “psychic life” for the ‘jealous type’ homosexual that, far from symbolizing it at as deficient in relation to the heterosexual subject configuration, actually codes it as the paragon figure that bespeaks the ‘truth’ of a more primordial sexual difference within the structure of the subject as such. Foregrounded by the this fact, the ‘jealous type’ marks, then, a threat to all other empirical or phenomenal sexual arrangements of the subject precisely because it reveals, again phenomenally in the world, the underlying impasse of sexual difference.
Teaching Documents by Jacob W Glazier
While psychoanalysis has traditionally encouraged interdisciplinary engagement, following Freud’s... more While psychoanalysis has traditionally encouraged interdisciplinary engagement, following Freud’s advice that analysts should be cultured in many fields of study, it may not have been until the advent of Deleuze and Guattari’s schizoanalysis that Freud’s advice came to theoretical fruition. In this course, we will attempt to chart the complicated and somewhat notorious relationship between Jacques Lacan and his protégée and heir apparent Félix Guattari. This sometimes strained, sometimes collaborative relationship created a ‘mutation’ in psychoanalysis, transforming it into, most specifically, schizoanalysis, but also helping it to inform many other disciplines including nomadic theory, post-humanism, the affective turn, feminism, semiotics, and political theory. One concept that cuts across all of these disciplines, as well as the social sciences and humanities in general, is the concept of subjectivity. As such, we will focus in on Lacan’s appropriation of the subject from Freud’s text in light of Saussurean Structuralism and how this plays out within the Lacanian analytic practice. Shifting, then, to the critique of psychoanalysis by Deleuze and Guattari in Anti-Oedipus, we will explore how Guattari’s thinking shifted during this pivotal time in French history by using the Anti-Oedipus Papers, just as Guattari did, as a sort of workbook. Finally, in the latter portion of the course, we will see Guattari’s mature theorization of the production of subjectivity or subjectivation, under what he called Integrated World Capitalism, which bears theoretical similarities to some of his contemporaries; most notably, Michel Foucault.
Published Documents by Jacob W Glazier
Anthropology of Consciousness, 2025
This essay explores the conceptual and philosophical complexities surrounding ayahuasca use, focu... more This essay explores the conceptual and philosophical complexities surrounding ayahuasca use, focusing on its ability to reveal ghosts through the lens of hauntology. Ayahuasca, a psychoactive brew traditionally used in shamanic rituals, is known to evoke profound experiences involving spirits, mystical entities, and transformative states of consciousness. The brew's active compound, dimethyltryptamine (DMT), is notable for its dual nature as both an endogenous neurotransmitter and an exogenous psychedelic. This duality unsettles the boundary between what is natural to the human body and what is external, inviting a reconsideration of anthropocentric and biomedical assumptions. Furthermore, encounters with discarnate beings during ayahuasca journeys blur the lines between corporeality and incorporeality, suggesting that these entities-while phenomenologically real-defy categorization within traditional ontological frameworks. Ultimately, we argue that ayahuasca's spectral residues disrupt materialist understandings of reality, leaving traces that haunt these models and invite broader reflections on consciousness, interconnection, death, and metaphysical limits. By listening to these ghosts, both as conceptual provocations and as subjective experiences, we can challenge and expand our understanding of reality while embracing the transformative and scary possibilities ayahuasca presents.
Paranormal Ruptures: Critical Approaches to Exceptional Experiences, 2023
The paranormal shares an affinity for critical theory. They operate on the outskirts and borderla... more The paranormal shares an affinity for critical theory. They operate on the outskirts and borderlands of well-codified systems representing the subterranean underbelly of normative reality, and, when marshaled, engender vicious and destabilizing critiques of those forces that render them as Other. As it should be—that which is ostracized and pathologized, whether people or phenomena, return from this banishment transformed and with greater power.
Journal of Scientific Exploration, 2025
The experience of being possessed by an invisible and outside spirit seems archaic and outdated t... more The experience of being possessed by an invisible and outside spirit seems archaic and outdated to many people today. However, the scientific and medical field of psychiatry contains diagnoses that classify this experience as a form of psychopathology, most notably Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). Moreover, indigenous peoples and researchers have detailed many accounts of how the experience of possession makes sense within their cultural and local backdrop. In this essay, we employ the strategy of decolonization to demonstrate how psychiatry continues to exert colonial power to manage cases of possession. In so doing, we argue that psychiatry lacks a robust phenomenological and culturally sensitive understanding of spirituality. We also put forward an animistic framework more congruent with the possession experience by examining the influence of invisible worlds.
Paranormal Folklore in Western Georgia: A Critical Narrative Analysis of Apparitions.
Anthropology of Consciousness, 2025
We use Critical Narrative Analysis (CNA) to examine collected apparitional accounts within the ge... more We use Critical Narrative Analysis (CNA) to examine collected apparitional accounts within the geographic region of Western Georgia in the United States. We discuss the extant local folklore on ghosts in the literature while providing a methodological backdrop. The analysis of the data yields four dominant discourses, which are countered in five salient ways: through (1) the extension of consciousness across space and time, (2) lucid perceptual experience, (3) the presence of anomalous phenomena, (4) adjudication to story and hearsay, and (5) consensual or repeated verification. We discuss the implications of these countermoves and recommend further critical research on exceptional experiences.
Journal of Anomalistics, 2022
Feminist theory today is now more relevant than ever. Reactionary cultural and political shifts h... more Feminist theory today is now more relevant than ever. Reactionary cultural and political shifts have taken away long held rights of women and those that remain are under threat. Far from being divorced from scientific practice, the implications of this trend have a bearing on research, communities, and institutions. By returning to some key insights from feminist thinkers in parapsychology, most important herein is Rhea White (1990, 1994a, 1994b, 2002) but also Carl Williams (1996) and Beverly Rubik (1994), we can more reflectively consider such cultural changes as necessarily implicated in parapsychological science. In this essay and opinion piece, I interface some of these insights gathered from the Women in Parapsychology conference (Coly & White, 1994) with selected feminist scholarship outside of parapsychology to argue for a revived feminist objectivity that counters the traditional androcentric view of science. In turn, I draw a connection between feminine embodiment and the paranormal that aids in disentangling both from political co-option. Finally, I suggest one critical strategy taken from the work of Félix Guattari (2015) called transversality that pushes interdisciplinary research further by demonstrating the political potential such collaboration entails. Critical approaches to exceptional experiences remain largely untapped by parapsychologists when their various concepts, interventive strategies, and reading tools could be put in the service of challenging unfair ideologies while also shifting psi studies toward a more transdisciplinary paradigm.
Journal for Cultural Research, 2022
I explore Martin Heidegger's figure of the last god found in his middle period of thinking from 1... more I explore Martin Heidegger's figure of the last god found in his middle period of thinking from 1936-1939 centring my analysis on Contributions to Philosophy: Of the Event (Beiträge) and how this conception is messianic in nature. The last god is a particular instantiation of a being among beings rather than representing a literary or philosophical structure that lies ahead in the future. I emphasise the notion of the turning that occurs within Ereignis, a revived playfulness, wherein the lightning-flash (das Blitzen) appears as a trace or guide towards a new beginning. I conclude by investigating the historical and cultural ramifications that the arrival of the last god would have.
AWRY: Journal of Critical Psychology, 2022
The global compulsion to ‘get clean’ has never been more palpable. This discourse of quarantine, ... more The global compulsion to ‘get clean’ has never been more palpable. This discourse of quarantine, as I call it, has mistakenly relied on a form of biopolitics in order to achieve this end. In doing so, the trademarks of subjection, those like docility, internalization, and self-policing, have reached a heightened state in functioning to keep the ‘psychosis of dirt’ at bay. Relying on the archaeology of critical psychology and psychoanalysis, I hope to show that playing in the dirt does not necessarily have to be a bad thing. In fact, it may even be the case that being dirty establishes bonds of closeness, affinity, and communion. Julia Kristeva (2014) goes so far to suggest that being dirty in this way - integrating those aesthetic forms of abjection - organizes new political action, what she calls a politics of intimacy or a sensual politics. With the rallying cry Revolt! we are reminded of the work that needs to be done in order to better understand the destructive and threatening potential of the negative, bound up in the word dirt as well as others, and invited to refine and embrace this power.
Mindfield: The Bulletin of the Parapsychological Association, 2022
What is the paranormal? What do we mean when we invoke this word? Who or what gets to define the ... more What is the paranormal? What do we mean when we invoke this word? Who or what gets to define the parameters by which the word gathers sense? How does ‘paranormal’ signify in popular and everyday discourse? The term paranormal, in terms of its genealogy, comes from combining two Greek-derived words into a portmanteau and signifies phenomena that seem to elude, escape, frustrate, or simply fail to make sense when understood through traditional scientific approaches and methodologies.
Apenas um trickster pode nos salvar: hiperordenando posições de identidade queer
A pesquisa de Donna Haraway realiza uma dura polemica contra a perspectiva essencialista presente... more A pesquisa de Donna Haraway realiza uma dura polemica contra a perspectiva essencialista presente nas teorias feministas e nos estudos de genero ao confiar em uma metodologia original, que nao rejeita as armadilhas de uma cultura viciada em tecnociencia, tampouco simplesmente as abraca; mas, ao contrario, desenvolve uma metodologia que habita as ditas posicoes criticas por meio da ironia, da hiperbole e da iconoclastia. Essa abordagem e batizada aqui de hiperordenamento [ hypercommandeering ]: um neologismo que combina a afinidade hiperativa do excesso, da decadencia e da superproducao na pos-modernidade com as conotacoes politicas de ordenacoes do blitzkrieg , necessarias a sobrevivencia num contexto como esse. Assim sendo, este projeto danca e se desvia entre figuras de linguagem na medida em que, dada a ontologia subjacente do trickster , o ato de exagerar e inverter significados revela mais a respeito da verdade do que um argumento linear, desmentindo uma metalinguagem fingida...
In recent years, there has been renewed interest among the mental health professions in the princ... more In recent years, there has been renewed interest among the mental health professions in the principles of humanism. This rekindled discourse can be supplemented by an examination of the existential-phenomenological psychotherapy approach known as daseinsanalysis, as primarily influenced by the works of Martin Heidegger and Medard Boss. Daseinsanalysis complements humanistic values while providing a sophisticated philosophical scheme to frame the human way of being. The authors provide a brief explication of humanistic philosophy and daseinsanalysis, particularly as each are consistent in informing psychotherapeutic practitioners.
Neuropsychoanalysis
The SAGE Encyclopedia of Theory in Counseling and Psychotherapy, 2015
Cyborg Manifesto
The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies, 2016
The motion picture Spring Breakers, directed by Harmony Korine, is employed to illustrate a schiz... more The motion picture Spring Breakers, directed by Harmony Korine, is employed to illustrate a schizoanalysis of identity politics or neoliberal multiculturalism wherein specific subject positions that have become hypostatized, as for example in race, gender, or sexual categories, are set in motion toward a tactical and processual complexification. This is accomplished, primarily, via an analysis of the semantic drift and emptiness of the refrain, the apotheosis of surfaces, the deterritorializing powers of the black hole, the phallus as artifice, and the answer in becoming-sprite coinciding with the end result, which is ultimately a paroxysmal transversality. Future directions are outlined as it relates to diagrammatizing the girls in the film with Pussy Riot, the appointment of Jonas Åkerlund as the director of Spring Breakers: The Second Coming, and the continual creation of identities as a means to outmaneuver, strategically, the forms of imprisonment instituted by molar assemblages such as capitalist multiculturalism. Following the model of Brit and Candy, the unique form, suggested by the film, that this takes is to set upon becoming-sprite: a catalytic fairy always processing toward the virtual.
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In this unique time in our history, when we are bombarded by signs and symbols and constantly connected into gadgets, apps, and networks, it has become increasingly difficult to navigate what has been dubbed a 'post-truth' world. Critiques taken from post-colonial studies and neoanimism help challenge the paranoia that has become endemic and, indeed, symptomatic to global realities we are now witnessing. This pertains not only to the ecological degradation of the planet but also to the lingering remnants of eurocentrism and racism that have taken the forms of nationalism and fascism. As a guide, an updated version of what Michel Foucault called an arts of existence may help us sail in these treacherous and confusing waters.
Diving into post-structuralist French theory, through American feminism, and emerging out of media studies, this book argues for an ethical and aesthetic form of self-fashioning that runs counter to processes subjection and mediatization. This craft of life, as Plato called it, is a space of disjunction and liberation, between subjectivity and other, where something new and different has the potential to emerge and mould to our likeness.
In this unique time in our history, when we are bombarded by signs and symbols and constantly connected into gadgets, apps, and networks, it has become increasingly difficult to navigate what has been dubbed a 'post-truth' world. Critiques taken from post-colonial studies and neoanimism help challenge the paranoia that has become endemic and, indeed, symptomatic to global realities we are now witnessing. This pertains not only to the ecological degradation of the planet but also to the lingering remnants of eurocentrism and racism that have taken the forms of nationalism and fascism. As a guide, an updated version of what Michel Foucault called an arts of existence may help us sail in these treacherous and confusing waters.
Diving into post-structuralist French theory, through American feminism, and emerging out of media studies, this book argues for an ethical and aesthetic form of self-fashioning that runs counter to processes subjection and mediatization. This craft of life, as Plato called it, is a space of disjunction and liberation, between subjectivity and other, where something new and different has the potential to emerge and mould to our likeness.
Drafts by Jacob W Glazier
Teaching Documents by Jacob W Glazier
Published Documents by Jacob W Glazier