Season Three of HBO's therapy verite series is now airing, so of course I am glued to the tube. This season's analysands -- whose sessions grants us a fly-on-the-wall view of -- are especially engrossing. Jesse, the promiscuous, talented gay teen; Frances, the narcissistic mid-career actress; and Sunil, the postcolonial melancholic. >>
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Neuroculture
The articles here by Kim Cunningham, Victoria Pitts-Taylor, Jesse Prinz, Deboleena Roy, and Alyson Spurgas are the outcome of a year-long critical interdisciplinary engagement with neuroscience. The articles include technophiles and neuroskeptics, empiricists and social constructionists, those who believe that science can be made better and those who reject its basic assumptions about objectivity and the material world in the first place. Their aim is not consensus, but to proliferate thought in multiple directions. >>
