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Felicity Callard — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 19:04:59 +0000

Hi Nev — yes, I have been fascinated at how Twitter feeds, in particular, help facilitate particular kinds of fantasy and projection. My own fall into Twitter came at roughly the same moment that I made a significant geographical move. The Twitter ‘feed’ became a strange projection screen as I sat, or lay, alone in a room that did not, yet, feel my own. I think a great deal about how both geographical and psychic distance and proximity work in relation to the strange rhythm of tweets that seem to fall down one’s screen. They cannot but remind me of my ferocious capture by Tetris many years ago. Though with Twitter, the instruction or command that those falling blocks give to me, the addressee, feels more opaque, if, at times, no less gripping.

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William Viney — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 15:55:46 +0000

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Comment on Diagnosis and disputation: “archiving” DSM–5 by Nev

Nev — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:18:23 +0000

One thought or question I have relates to the reception & interpretation of live Twitter feeds, Storify pieces, and even more fully fleshed bog posts by scholars and activists at a substantial geographical and cultural remove from events such as the IoP DSM conference: e.g. The UK seems to have acquired a mostly deserved (?) mystique or romantic status in the US as a kind of crucible of substantially more nuanced and intellectually rigorous explorations of key issues in the history, philosophy, and cultural theory of psychiatry. I wonder, however, how “realistic” a picture we (‘foreigners’/outsiders) acquire from social media, and what the implications of the myriad forms of projection and phantasy that the gaps in distance, context and access involved likely engender?

By perhaps the same token, these gaps also seem to underscore a whole new level of textual autonomy. If there is “nothing but context” (Derrida’s later re-phrasing) what is the context here? How does ‘it’ diverge from more traditional markers, linkages, ties and geographical/physical/cultural manifestations of discursive ‘embeddedness’?

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Hearing the Voice — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:37:16 +0000

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