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Friday, August 12, 2011

Philosopher Paul Fearne on his Schizophrenic Episode

...a downloadable mp3 here, HT (drum roll) Dirk Felleman. Watching my brother going insane was really hard. I spent a lot of nights up with him at that time. It put me off Deleuze and Guattari for a while, I can tell you!

Fearne talks about a feeling of his “mind breaking.” I remember my brother saying that a piece of his brain had come loose and that he needed brain surgery. I'm only just starting to hear this interview but it's very congruent with some of the things I've talked about with him.

Fearne's account is very very detailed phenomenological work. It's interesting how much he experiences aesthetic events as causal, and vice versa (apropos of the book I'm writing).

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