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Last week I walked past someone who was clearly in a mad spell. He loitered outside a shop, standing in place but spinning around and around, oblivious…
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Julia Macintosh
on listening
Today I should be working on my essay for the Mad Studies module. The deadline is creeping up closer and closer, and I still have much to write. But…
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dreaming big
I have been daydreaming about all the ways that I and my classmates on the Mad Studies course may bring our learning out of the academy and into the…
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Julia Macintosh
tipsy tonight
Forgive me dear reader, I am tipsy tonight with a full bottle of prosecco, enjoyed in the company of a wonderful friend who was helping me to celebrate…
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Julia Macintosh
on the island of misfit toys
I don’t like the clean-shaven boy with the necktie and the good job. I like desperate men, men with broken teeth and broken minds and broken ways. They…
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Julia Macintosh
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in the claypit
Nothing, not one thing, hurts us more — or causes us to hurt others more — than our certainties. The stories we tell ourselves about the world and the…
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Julia Macintosh
a brief reflection on medication
There's two people I know who are going through the mill just now. One is struggling with medications and the other is struggling without them. The…
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Julia Macintosh
madreality
madreality
an exploration of madness and mad scholarship

madreality

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