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Living, Thinking, Looking
Living, Thinking, Looking Siri Hustvedt
A Picador Paperback Original
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June, 5th 2012
400 pages
Living, Thinking, Looking brings together thirty-two essays written between 2006 and 2011, in which the author culls insights from philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, psychoanalysis, and literature. Hustvedt’s unique synthesis of knowledge from many fields reinvigorates the much-needed dialogue between the humanities and the sciences as it deepens our understanding of an age-old riddle: What does it mean to be human?
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Siri on Why There Will Never Be a Stephanie Jobs
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What If Steve Jobs Had Been a Woman – A Biased Culture for Heroes, by Siri Hustvedt
Steve Jobs is an icon of late capitalism. A parallel, equal feminine icon is impossible. No matter how sleek her products, the hypothetical Stephanie Jobs could not and would not occupy the same place in our culture as her brother. It is not that there are no female entrepreneurs or CEO’s, no brilliant women who can package a product as well as any man, but rather, that Jobs is the projection of an idea that remains hyper-masculine, a rags to riches American myth for our era. Along with beautifully designed computers and phones, Jobs sold himself as tech hero, master of a new revolutionary culture of connectivity that is still coded as male not female.
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http://openthoughts.blogs.uoc.edu/2012/07/biased-culture-for-heroes.html
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