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Dr Mandy Pierlejewski. Have you watched the Marvel series Moon Knight (2022) or the cult film Fight Club (Fincher, 1999)? In these and many other stories, the protagonist comes face to face with another version of themselves- a doppelganger. The idea of a doppelganger or ghostly double is a feature of the gothic genre of…
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It wasn’t really an academic discussion about Foucault. It was an academic discussion about something else. For reasons I cannot exactly remember, Foucault popped into the conversation and orbits shifted. I suggested Peppa Pig was a transmitter of some of Foucault’s thinking and exampled Peppa at the Dentist. Left field, right? Surprisingly, I wasn’t ushered…
Altered States of Academia 