In this week's episode of Thinking Allowed, Professor of English at the University of Chicago, Lauren Berlant, and Bev Skeggs from Goldsmiths College, University of London, discuss Lauren Berlant’s Cruel Optimism, which explores the impossibility of the ‘Good Life’. Obesity will also be discussed alongside the reasons people have surgery for it.
Check out what Open University academics have to say below on this subject. For example, in his Brave New World article, Geoff Andrews wonders how Aldous Huxley might re-imagine his utopian 'Good Life' today.
Thinking Allowed is on BBC Radio 4 at 4.00pm, Wednesday 1st February. For further broadcast details, and to listen again, visit bbc.co.uk
Obesity over time
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Brave New World re-imagined
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80 years since the publication of Aldous Huxley’s dystopian novel Brave New World, Geoff Andrews wonders how it might be re-imagined today in the context... Read more : Brave New World re-imagined
Introducing the social sciences
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