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Comment on Neuroscience fiction by Molly Flatt

Molly Flatt — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:26:38 +0000

Wow. Astrophysics plus neuroscience? That’s some serious oneupmanship right there. I’m heading right over to check out your first bash – thanks for sharing and good luck!

Comment on ‘WE FIRST’: CAN WE REMAKE CAPITALISM? by Mikecornwell

Mikecornwell — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:24:00 +0000

Like you, love most of the language on vid and the pace of it overall – just want to re-edit and reduce graphics fatigue and overkill. What’s the book like? M

Comment on Neuroscience fiction by Michael

Michael — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:53:00 +0000

Hi Molly. Great blog. It’s a bit of an inverse coincidence that David Eagleman is a neuroscientist fascinated by astrophysics, as I’m an astrophysicist fascinated by neuroscience. Another coincidence is that like you, I also have a neuroscience fiction novel in the making (great term for the genre BTW). Being new to this game it’s proving to be a lot harder and a lot more interesting a journey than I first thought. It’s a thriller that’s trying to share the latest findings in neuroscience to weave a dystopian near-future but is really an attempt to understand consciousness and the anomalies of existence. I’m not so organised to keep a regular blog going, but my first bash can be found at http://inallconsciousness.blogspot.com/2011/03/consciousness-and-free-will.html?spref=tw
Good luck with the book!

Comment on ‘WE FIRST’: CAN WE REMAKE CAPITALISM? by Theoharis Papadakis

Theoharis Papadakis — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:45:00 +0000

I love ‘saving capitalism from capitalists’ themes. ‘We’ as a powerful social subject, only arises with social media, but these billions of long-tail communicative acts in no way resemble a unified subject. The question is whether this fragmented ‘we’ subject will share the desire for ‘we’ qua environment-humanity and does not disintegrate into various ‘us-now’ micro subjets that only put forth their own short-term social agenda. In short social media gives power and assists in the formation of semi-autonomous, decentralised social subjects that go beyond the marketers inert target group, but the question of what they will do with it is by no means guaranteed by the medium itself.

Comment on Literary Resolutions by Richard Galbraith

Richard Galbraith — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:10:00 +0000

No, not yet! It’s still on my wishlist after you recommended to me a while ago, I’ve got a load of Christmas present books to get through first, but will get it sooner rather than later.

Comment on Literary Resolutions by Molly

Molly — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:55:00 +0000

Have you read his short story collection Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives? Think you’d love that.

Comment on Literary Resolutions by Richard Galbraith

Richard Galbraith — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:45:00 +0000

I’m about half way through Incognito at the moment and finding it pretty disappointing for everything that it promised, I’ve read quite a bit of literature and papers around the brain and consciousness as it is, so maybe that’s it, I was just expecting more from it. Hopefully in the second half he’ll go deeper in exploring why and less how.

Comment on Neuroscience fiction by Literary Resolutions

Literary Resolutions — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:06:31 +0000

[...] me started on a transatlantic roll. And I’ve gorged on neuroscience – David Eagleman’s Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain rather appropriately blew my mind. But Japanese writers and biographies? Not so much. Although [...]

Comment on Hamlet @ Young Vic by Molly Flatt

Molly Flatt — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 09:49:00 +0000

Good question – the Old Vic has very strong links to the US and indeed a sort of Shakespeare exchange programme but not sure about the Young Vic! Will keep my ear to the ground. It deserves to transfer for sure and I’m sure New Yorkers with their love of therapy and neuroticism would lap it up Glad you liked the piece Peggy x

Comment on Hamlet @ Young Vic by Margaret Wise Chapman

Margaret Wise Chapman — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:54:00 +0000

I’ve seen so many “Hamlets”, some at Yale Rep, Long Wharf and others elsewhere. Your review makes me very interested in seeing the Ian Rickman one at the Young Vic. Would it ever come to the U.S.? Love your writing. All the best, Peggy Chapman