February 2012
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Exciting News
I know the posting pace on If I Were a Hoarder has been slow of late, but that may change soon. I’ll be driving across the country next week and will have little to entertain me (when I’m not driving) other than photographing roadside hoards (and trying to comfort my cats, who will likely be howling in terror)… Once I get to my destination—Watertown, MA—I’ll be...
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January 2012
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Is the Pumpkin Lady an Unsung Hero of Our Age of...
The great Discard Studies just published a series of graphics about food waste that convey some pretty astounding information, like the fact that 40% of all food produced in the United States is wasted. One graphic, which includes information about what we can do to avoid wasting food includes this note: “‘Use-by’ expiration dates contain no information about food safety - most...
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“My own example is the stash of older computers I have kept in my university...”
– Jean-Michel Rabaté, “The Death of Freud: What Is to Be Preferred, Death or Obsolescence?”
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“The ego is like the superimposition of various coats borrowed from what I would...”
– The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book II: The Ego in Freud’s Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis (New York: Norton, 1991), p. 155.
December 2011
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NY Times Room for Debate: "Why We Collect Stuff" →
With pieces by Randy Frost, co-author of Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things; Philipp Blom, author of To Have and to Hold; as well as collectors of cars, dolls, and coins…
No comments from me because I’m in Costa Rica and need to get my sunscreen on and head to the beach…
Happy New Year!
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WatchGiorgio Manganelli: Discourse on the difficulty of communicating with the dead, a film by Nicolas Tripet.
(One of my dissertation chapters is about Manganelli… I’ll have a lot more to say about this amazing film later, and I think I’ll include it on the syllabus for a course I’m teaching next semester, but for now… Back to the dissertation…)
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Some New Titles
With the exception of The Hoarding Handbook, I haven’t read them yet. I’ll get to them over winter break, and if appropriate I may add some or all of them to the syllabus of a course I’m teaching in Comparative Literature in the Spring…
Also, Robin Zasio of Hoarders/Tanya Harding lookalike fame, has a new book entitled The Hoarder in You: How to Live a Happier,...
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Children of Hoarders
To be featured on Anderson Cooper tomorrow!
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November 2011
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Call for Papers: Bless this Mess: Media and... →
NYU Cinema Studies Student Conference, Spring 2012 March 2-4, 2012 — New York University, New York, NY
The New York University Cinema Studies department is excited to announce the 2012 Student Conference. Each year, our goal is to bring together scholars from a variety of departments and disciplines in order to address the transformations currently shaping the field of cinema studies. We look...
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Survey for Adult Children of Hoarders →
If you’re an adult child of a hoarder and would like to participate in Hoarders psychologist Suzanne Chabaud’s survey, follow the link. The survey will be disabled on Friday, November 25 at midnight.
Note: It’s really long.
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“The hoarding drive is boundless in its nature. Qualitatively or formally...”
– Karl Marx, Capital, Vol. 1 (via ifiwereahoarder)
…Reblogging now because I’m working on developing the relationship between hoarding and time for a chapter I am finishing up… I need to have a draft of this dissertation by next Wednesday…
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Tomorrow in Amherst, MA: Screening of Grey Gardens...
If you happen to be in Amherst, MA tomorrow, Randy Frost, Professor of Psychology at Smith and co-author with Gail Steketee of Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things will introduce the documentary Grey Gardens at the Amherst Cinema at 7:30. More information and an interview with Frost here.
…Back to work…I’m supposed to finish this dissertation in about a...
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Anonymous asked: It appears many counselors are unfamiliar with treating individuals who are hoarders. What are some reliable online sources for general information about and treatment of hoarding?