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Gail Newman & Mari Ruti - Against Neoliberal Self-Optimization: Marion Milner and D.W. Winnicott

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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How I Become a Social Scientist in the 1990s

I entered Harvard in sociology thinking that I was going to be a sociologist. And then one day I randomly struggled upon a course taught by Alice Turin, she's still at Harvard teaching theory. She hooked me in like four hours, the first two weeks of lectures and so I became so convinced that I had to study this stuff in detail. So very quickly started to teach it myself because for financial reasons because I had switched fields,. They made me pay, they didn't make me pay tuition but I lost my kind of fellowship fundingSo I had to start supporting myself and I was teaching courses for Barbara Johnson when I was 13. "There's no better way though to learn it than

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