#Trauma and Long #Covid are also factors in the equation, especially for children that previously had #neurodiversities/ #neurodisabilities then were repeatedly infected with COVID which we know infiltrates the #brain, and central nervous system #CNS. Everything you said + these factors is the path.
Got to know the work of the young poet DJ Savarase tonight by watching #Deej, a documentary about his desire for “molding free” a world for all. The film is also interspersed with brilliant poetic sequences animated by Em Cooper
#Neurodiversities
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Autist Jamie Burke tells Ralph Savarese: “William Blake taught me how to tie my shoelaces,” the poetic tetrameter anchoring him via rhythm and pattern, to not become lost in vast time. #Neurodiversities
“Books are patterning on thoughts.” -
Jamie Burke, one of six autistic readers featured in Ralph Savarese’s “See It Feelingly” (@DukePress 2018)
#Neurodiversities
Always fun to see @Nsousanis in action! Talking #Unflattening at @DukeHHL @fhi_duke #Neurodiversities symposium
Deborah Jenson discusses Flaubert’s “neurological education” -his firm belief that writing repeatedly & with great descriptive detail of his seizures was a way to undo the epileptic tendencies of his ‘brain box.”
#tgifhi #Neurodiversities
The global dissemination of psychoanalysis (institutions, standard language of diagnosis) and the legacy of psychoanalytic ‘worlding’ (Derrida, translation) in the 20thc could be thought of as based on “cruelty” (Grausamkeit)? Cate Reilly on cruel translation #Neurodiversities
Pondering madness on a rainy Friday morning.
Nima Bassiri kicks off @DukeHHL @fhi_duke's #Neurodiversities symposium with a discussion of the moral economy of mental illness in the nineteenth century
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