About Me
Daniel Tutt is a philosopher with a focus on psychoanalytic theory and Marxist thought. He is the author of Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Family: The Crisis of Initiation with the Palgrave Lacan Series and How to Read Like a Parasite: Why the Left Got High on Nietzsche with Repeater Books. He has taught philosophy at George Washington University, Marymount University and the Washington, DC jail.
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All Posts
- New Book on Nietzsche: Exclusive Interview with Mehdi Belhaj Kacem
- An Update On My Book
- Public Sphere and Proletarian Experience
- The Tarantula Dance
- My Book, How to Read Like a Parasite is Now Out!
- On the importance of changing your mind
- An Explanation and Context on the Underground Theory Book
- Belonging on the Left Today: Or How to Avoid the Dissident Trap
- The Heroine of American Proletarian Realism
- Which Freud? Libertinism and the virtue of prudence
- The Foucault-Marx debate and the crisis of elite higher education
- The Growth Debate and Liberalism
- Notes Towards a Critique of Girardian Mimetic Desire Theory
- The Political is Personal
- Why Rozitchner’s Freud is so important
- Antagonisms All the Way Down: Class Denial and Left Unity
- How Are Philosophers Remembered in the Age of Meltdowns and Pile-Ons?
- Preface and Key Concepts from my book Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Family
- My current areas of research
- New interview on Nietzsche and Marx
- “The Concept is a Weapon” Interview with French Philosopher Mehdi Belhaj Kacem
- Pseudo aggression, Contradiction, Ideology
- Notes on Goldmann and the faith of Marxism
- the aesthetic is proletarianized
- Lumpenization and the Double
- Seminar on Paranoia in Hegel and Lacan
- Seminar with Bracha Ettinger
- Study Group on the Lumpenproletariat Today
- Lacan and the Logic of Structure with Ellie Ragland
- The Politics of Resentment with Samo Tomsic
- Announcing New Beyond the Pleasure Principle – Reading Series
- A book that may change left-Nietzscheanism for good
- The Materialism of Warm-Stream Marxism: Ernst Bloch on Ibn Sina
- The Subject Supposed to Rebel
- Reading Kojin Karatani’s The Structure of World History
- Political emancipation and representation – Interview with Alain Badiou
- Socialists Think: Study Group on the Thought of Sylvain Lazarus
- The Red-Green Conspiracy: On Messiah
- Best Books of 2019
- Upcoming Talk: On the Virtue of Modesty in Lacan
- A Lacanian Reading of Joker
- On Kołakowski and the Neoplatonist Pre-History of Marxism
- Overcoming Liberalism from Within: On Solidarity and American Socialism
- The Best Books of 2018
- Lacan And The Politics Of Psychoanalysis – An Interview With Thomas Svolos
- The Missed Encounter Between Critical Theory And American Pragmatism
- The Death of Storytelling and the Rise of Myth
- Is the Stock Market a “Camp”? Towards a Cosmic Politics
- Teaching Philosophy in Prison
- Dissolving the I in the We: Love and the Problem of Community
- Colloquium Workshop: “Islam and Psychoanalysis”
- Whither the critique of political economy in post-Marxism?
- Embracing Fragmentation
- Something Bigger: Lady Bird and the Divinity of the Name
- Vultures and Starlings: Class and Debt Feudalism in Ozark
- Obscure Subjects: Myth and Metapolitics on the alt-Right
- Insurrections Vol. 1 (SHORT FILM)
- Lukács, labor and the humanization of man
- A post clash of civilizations framework?
- The best books I read in 2016
- Jameson on Badiou: Ships Passing in the Night
- The Theory of the Social Bond in Gauchet
- Theory Without an Enemy
- Islamophobia and the Coming Trump Era
- Help Fund My Documentary Film on Philosophy and Revolt
- Is Conversion Possible?
- Insurrections and the Role of Philosophy
- The Political Appeal of Ibn Taymiyyah
- The Psychopolitics of the Oriental Father
- Equality and Nihilism
- Philosophy in Saturated Times
- Badiou’s Revision of Sartre’s Fused Group
- Mehdi Belhaj Kacem: A Catharsis of Pleonexia
- How to Win an Aesthetic War: On Bernard Stiegler’s Symbolic Misery
- Time and Voluntarism in Badiou and Lazarus
- Riots and Neoliberalism
- Confessions of a Mystical Freudian
- Affects and Lacanian Theology
- Elements of Islamophobia: The State, Class and Capital
- Identification in Lacanian Psychoanalysis – Audio Lecture
- New essay on Deleuze and Islamic Philosophy
- Identification and emancipation: unary trait or unary trace?
- David Foster Wallace and the Politics of Existential Loneliness
- Should Critical Theory Be Accessible?
- Islam as Empty Signifier and the Caliphate as Zero Institution: On Sayyid’s Recalling the Caliphate
- Philosophy as Confession
- Is All Identity a Social Construct? Towards a Political Taxonomy of Rachel Dolezal
- Religion and Communitas: Structure and Anti-Structure
- The Infantilization of Evangelicals in American Politics
- The Crowd and the Collective: Some Speculative Points
- Becoming Your Own Boss. On Nightcrawler
- Excerpt: Thinking Islamic Governance with Continental Philosophy
- The Amputated Father: Kojève’s Theory of Revolution and Authority
- My Book Review of The Left Hemisphere: Mapping Critical Theory Today
- Public Series of Lectures on Resistance, Protest and Social Struggles
- An Interview with Dr. Daniel Tutt about his GCAS Series, “Badiou & Philosophy”
- The Queen Mob’s Teahouse
- Why Do the Masses Posses Reason?
- Announcing New Badiou and Philosophy Seminars
- Mourning, Psychoanalysis, and the Death of Adulthood
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