[lbo-talk] Philip Mirowski - Social Physicist

Vincent Clarke pclarkepvincent at gmail.com
Fri Mar 5 18:25:08 PST 2010


Dude, I'm a tenured Psychology professor. Try again!

Well then, Oswald Spengler was right... we're all fucked!

Seriously though - I say this to a lot of psychologists (and I hate having to do so) stop the fucking post-Focauldian criticism and come up with some positive psychology. I mean, come up with some genuine theories, instead of some quasi-empirical, pseudo-democratic nonsense - because that type of epistemology is what consumer capitalism thrives on...

I mean, really. Look around. Interview a concerned GP or two. There's something going very wrong in psychiatry/psychology, but since its outside of the evil psyche-ward and behind the closed doors of family practice no one pays attention. Most of them are still attacking Freud (I would argue for personal reasons, incidentally).



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