We are finding out more about this picture. |
Wednesday 25 February 2015
Captain America Commie Smasher September 1954 |
Talcott Parsons, one of the suspected communist sympathisers, wrote "McCarthyism and American Social Tensions: A Sociologist's View " to explain what was happening.
Friday 20 February 2015
Wednesday 18 February 2015
Alain Touraine 1984 |
Bethlem museum of the mind @bethlemmuseum and art gallery @Bethlem_Gallery opened today
Survivors History Group have been asked to help evaluate it.
Survivors History Group have been asked to help evaluate it.
Tuesday 17 February 2015
Sociology at MIddlesex University is reading Alain Touraine's After the
Crisis, 2014.
They say it offers an insightful sociological
analysis of the meaning and impacts of the economic crisis of 2008 and
concludes that our future requires not just new economic measures but
the deepest possible rethinking of society itself. See also Sociology October 2014 and Saint Simon and Comte on crisis.
Monday 16 February 2015
David Bakan published a book Sigmund Freud and the Jewish Mystical Tradition in 1959, and Joseph Berke held a seminar yesterday (15.2.2015) in which he argued that Hassidism, the Jewish mystical and religious renewal movement based on the Kabbalah, entered mainstream western culture through psychoanalysis (Information from Steve Tilley in Edinburgh). Berke, an existential psychoanalyst, is better known through his relationship with Mary Barnes, with whom he had discussions about the early Christianity of the desert fathers. The influence of world religions on modern thought is an enormous subject, but I am trying to outline some of it on the Social Science History timeline. Try scrolling up and down from the desert father Anthony
Saturday 14 February 2015
Recovery in the Bin have launched their eighteen point manifesto.
They "reject thenew neoliberal intrusion on the word 'recovery' that has been redefined,and taken over by market forces, humiliating treatment techniques andatomising outcome measurements".
Trying to understand this has led me to sort out my confusion over the words conservative and liberal. These lead up to two kinds of new (neo) liberalism: the one shown in the picture, which offered support to people with disabilities, and the one we associate with Margaret Thatcher.
They "reject thenew neoliberal intrusion on the word 'recovery' that has been redefined,and taken over by market forces, humiliating treatment techniques andatomising outcome measurements".
Trying to understand this has led me to sort out my confusion over the words conservative and liberal. These lead up to two kinds of new (neo) liberalism: the one shown in the picture, which offered support to people with disabilities, and the one we associate with Margaret Thatcher.
Friday 13 February 2015
See unofficial catalogue about this picture |
There are no labels on the paintings. We called this fire and water.
A form like a woman floats on the river (left)
"If I could have expressed what I was feeling so
openly, I might have overcome a lot of issues".
"Because you put the
feelings outside you, or because you shared them with other people?"
"I think because I shared
them."
Wednesday 11 February 2015
Some pictures in a book about 1930s scientific research disturbed me. I sought the person behind the science and developed my entry on degradation. I see this as an aspect of the sociology of clothes
Monday 9 February 2015
Mary Barnes wrote about the treasures of darkness (1971) and something sacred (1989).Her life has become an argument for the idea that
mental distress (madness - mental illness) is a psychic journey.
She described it as a journey to hell (darkness), but one with hidden
secrets - the treasures of darkness. I am exploring her ideas on the studymore website and invite you to join me.
Sunday 8 February 2015
Analysing the proposed revolution at http://studymore.org.uk/mpu.htm#HV15 - with help from Joanna @maddoggiejo
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