Software for Textual Analysis Workshop (Feb 27th)
In recent years powerful new tools for analysing large quantities of textual data have emerged. Yet in many cases, there is little awareness of these tools or how fruitfully they … Continue reading
Here’s Looking At You, Kid
You can tell Gayle, if she calls, That I’m famous now for all of these rock and roll songs. And even if that’s a lie, she should’ve given me a … Continue reading
The Last of the Dreamers
This is for the messed up kids bound like dynamite, The wandering drunks out on the town tonight, For the romantic killer that’s never been caught, For the crackpot who … Continue reading
Sexual anxiety in late capitalism
Although I agree that as long as there have been human beings there have been questions about sex, I believe that the current deluge reflects less eternal inquisitiveness than a … Continue reading
The fallacy of sexual naturalism
My mother is a professional musician, and the metaphor of music has helped me explain sexuality to numerous audiences. Open a textbook on human sexuality, and nine times out of … Continue reading
A few quick thoughts on the next sexual revolution
In the 1960s a range of political, social, economic and cultural factors intersected to generate a dramatic increase in the range and scope of everyday discourse about sex and sexuality. … Continue reading
The government of an ‘economy’ and the emergence of a ‘bioeconomy’
As Peter Miller and I have argued elsewhere, the government of an “economy” becomes possible only through discursive mechanisms that represent the domain to be governed as an intelligible field … Continue reading
The tension at the heart of the DSM
DSM IV cautions that individuals within any diagnostic group are heterogeneous: its categories are only intended as aids to clinical judgement. But it promotes an idea of specificity in diagnosis … Continue reading
The transition from psy discourse to neurochemical discourse
The psy discourses that took shape across the twentieth century brought into existence a whole new way of relating to ourselves – in terms of neuroses, trauma, unconscious desires, repression, and, of … Continue reading
