Mark Carrigan

Social theorist and social media geek.

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

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My TEDx talk: late capitalism and a/sexual culture

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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

February 24, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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

February 24, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Female Sexual Dysfunction, Marketing, and Disease-Mongering

February 20, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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

February 20, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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

February 20, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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

February 19, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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

February 19, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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

February 19, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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

February 19, 2012 · Leave a Comment
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