Sarah Stein Lubrano
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Writer and broadcaster. Thinking at the intersection of critical theory and cognitive science. Book coming out April 2025.
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It was such a huge pleasure to talk to
@PlanetCritical_
about my research, cognitive dissonance, the climate crisis, and more:
The Cognitive Dissonance Crisis | Sarah Stein Lubrano
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Germans be like “no reason to end a word if it’s going well.”
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Nice point that we often translate the playfulness of childhood into our romantic lives, but do so less with adult friendships. No wonder people are lonely and often overemphasise romantic love.
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I wrote for
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on ADHD, the importance of changing the way we teach and learn, and the fragility of all human attention:
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I think I’ve finally hit the age where I understand why “calm” is an important philosophical aim of almost every philosophical/spiritual tradition.
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When the government confuses “being a huge nerd” with “wanting to surveil people for the state”
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I'm just finishing
@neilhimself
's American Gods and today he's posting his own little comments and annotations on
@goodreads
so that I can basically read along with him.
Continue to believe it is the most underused, underdeveloped, genuinely beneficial social media platform.
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Used to wonder why everyone did so much yoga (is it a cult or sex thing) but just about to hit 30 and it turns out it’s just because otherwise everything hurts
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Please appreciate these excellent bears round the side of my grandma’s house
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One of the therapists I work with told me* about a client who was having an affair with themselves - who would tell their partner they had a work trip and then go off and book a hotel room to be alone. I’ve pondered that story ever since.
*sans identifying details, of course.
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Yes facebook is bad but two women in my college creative writing class married each other and posted wedding photos of themselves fighting the dragons of the video game they met playing, so I'm keeping mine for now.
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“I think that’s a penis” I whispered to my friend at the Tracey Emin exhibit. Only it wasn’t my friend, but the stranger seemed at least amused by my incredibly sophisticated art commentary.
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Very misleading that we tell children that they'll "understand when they are older" because a significant amount of life gets more uncertain and confusing the older one gets.
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He's mostly known for The Scream somehow, but I can really never get over Munch's kisses, personally, (and his playful images, his tender portraits... there's so much more to him.)
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My brother, grad student at MIT: “yeah, there was a nudist dorm, and it had a lot of orgies apparently. But the university shut it down.”
Me: “because of the orgies?”
Brother: “no, someone found a gun.”
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I don’t even want to think about US politics but yes-
the reason we ladies are so mad that Liz Warren is being ignored is in part because it’s recognisably us, the smart girl/woman who actually did her homework but who will never be thought of first for positions of power.
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There’s a whole bit of psychology research on how small kids can’t really understand “no” or “don’t” very well but can be very well redirected by being told what *to* do and guess what guys
It’s not just toddlers.
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Someone once told me that perfectionism isn’t about wanting things perfect now
but imagining that real life is what happens in the future (real life will finally start when you lose ten pounds, get the promotion, start the dream business etc.)
Surprise! Freud saying the same:
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In case you are having a hard day, here’s my kitten ten months ago as a wee baby, glittering in the sunlight.
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Rarely surprised by how bad Twitter is but I have been astounded to see how actual “grown-up” lawyers have systemically gone after
@DrProudman
and tried to use the bar complaints system as a means of targeted harassment. Always pleased to see C, as ever, unbent and unbroken <3
As a female barrister advocating on behalf of victims of male violence, I've faced misogyny & threats from barristers.
From being called a c*** to attempts to disbar me, they've thrown dozens of complaints my way.
I won't be silenced.
I am speaking up to advocate for change 🪡
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My idea of the afterlife is a time period where I get to read the things I “bookmarked.”
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Can I get away with naming one of my PhD dissertation chapters this?
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Please welcome tiny, fierce Sappho, who has joined our island of women.
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I um... have a lot of feelings about this pandemic and they have to come out somehow...
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"If you don't have some sense of loneliness you probably will have no interest in either religion or philosophy." -Richard Rorty
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“Most people don’t grow up. It’s too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That’s the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don’t grow up. Not really. They get older.
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Me whenever something grants a little bit of dopamine these days.
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Charlotte works as a lawyer on cases about VAWG, a field where a lot of the big names are unfortunately TERFs. She faces a shocking amount of daily abuse, none more so than when standing up for trans rights. I have always loved that she says what she believes, no matter what <3
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I love that one day there are going to be historians that will be expert in what emojis once implied-
kind of they way there are current historians who are experts on the Victorian language of flowers. 🌺🌻🌹🥀🌷🌼🌸💐
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Don't write what you know,
write the article that you cannot f*&^%ing find on the internet
[but need for your own research.]
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Vaccinated *and* found the Wittgenstein plaque, what a day
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Today I'm admiring the pedagogy of a supervisor who took a paragraph of the student's work and had both himself and the student both rewrite it for a few minutes, then show each other the new paragraph and explain why they rewrote it the way they did.
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Lea is an amazing public intellectual gracefully navigating a theory and desire for a better left future with the reality of the Soviet past. It's absurd that it's 2024 and someone is writing about her in this way.
Advice for scholars: next time you lecture on Kant and revolutions at “Downing” (
@DarwinCollege
) Cambridge, make sure your hair is neatly tied and that you’re not blonde. Or else your research impact will be on the
@spectator
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The fact that sex (which is extremely messy, awkward, and alienating a lot of the time) can be romantic is just proof that literally anything can be romantic when we’re in the right state of mind.
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Many good intellectuals have a footnote fetish, but it's important not to kinkshame them.
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Because I read quite a bit about the white supremacy /incel movements in the US it took me a little while to hit the parts of
@chick_in_kiev
’s book that reshaped my sense of reality but they are there and oh man
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Thinking about how Roald Dahl’s book Matilda is, in part, the story of a child whose life is transformed by the love of one caring, consistent adult.
(And books).
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At risk of public reflection, it is uncanny to slowly emerge back into social life and discover I am just not the same: less outgoing, more fragile, more careful, more selective. I miss old Sarah & a certain brashness; but I am not her, not yet, never again in quite the same way.
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Okay, philosophers, cool that you're debating where identity lies and what happens if all my atoms get replaced one by one--
but now I have a serious question: if I clean out my entire email inbox, am I still the same person?
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When I say romance isn’t chocolate or flowers,
I mean we all really want CHEESE.
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Someone at my college has taken to interspersing her long but necessary administrative emails with pictures of adorable baby elephants to get everyone to read all the way through and I am
HERE for it.
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I have a new theory that most academic books are really just about one chapter, and everything else is extra/for support/there because the editor wanted them etc.
Now whenever I'm reading a new theory book I'm always looking for this "real" chapter.
Anyone else?
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Thought about it and realised:
Shakespeare is quite good for teenagers because nearly all the characters are, like them, either angry, anxious or horny.
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(Makes for a fun analysis of every cast of characters, by the way: angry, anxious, or horny?)
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That feeling when you finish a book so good that you’re sad there’s no more of it.
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Thinking about how Nabokov wrote on index cards, sorting and resorting them as he edited. Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a writing workshop where we try writing in different formats - with cards, with a typewriter, without internet... and notice how it changes what we write?
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Last night I woke up with insomnia, re-organised the end of one of my PhD chapters, and introduced a pun about Kant.
don’t try academia kids
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bell hooks does not fuck around at dinner parties.
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Easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of this PhD 😆
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Look at the newborn surprise we found at the top of this hike in Wales!
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...To grow up costs the earth...It means you take responsibility for the time you take up, for the space you occupy. It’s serious business. And you find out what it costs us to love and to lose, to dare and to fail. And maybe even more, to succeed.”
Maya Angelou
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This is true and I discovered it exactly the same way-by telling a man I quite fancied him and him being momentarily hurt because he was hoping I was really very into him.
One of the many, many ongoing linguistic confusions I still experience 5 years in.
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Thinking about how “computers” were originally female humans, largely...
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Me in my early 20s: There are such brilliant, successful people around-I'll never be so clever!
Me in mid 20s: There are such intelligent people etc.-but if I work really hard I can *become* that clever!
Me in late 20s: Everyone's actually mostly an idiot-and I'm an idiot too!
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How much can evidence alter your views?
As it turns out, the answer depends a lot on which of your views are being questioned. Political views are much, much harder to change through evidence, as this study found.
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Feeling very much like a new parent-can’t believe she’s real, also always a bit worried about her.
Never had sort of higher-order-mammal pets before, never mind a tiny kitten who loves to play and cuddle. Straight to the heart.
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Sappho, a kitten born in the winter, discovers that it can get hot.
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A lot of "dad jokes" (e.g. puns, absurdism) are precisely the type of humour that works without too much intimacy or vulnerability: jokes that can be brought into conversations as a bid for connection without violating masculinity norms.
No wonder they're used by older men!
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I meet a new person each time I walk the graveyard.
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I am this octopus being subjected to a psychology test by researchers
who present it with a barrel full of obstacles.
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Friend of mine went to zoom-church this morning and the Priest asked the children of the congregation to imagine what it would be like to have God sit down with them. In possibly British moment, the children responded that they thought it would just be kind of awkward, actually.
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So, I have some news: after years of thinking about whether or not to study further - this fall, I will begin a doctoral programme in political theory at Oxford.
I'm very excited and pleased about it. I will be working on the issue of the education of emotion in democracies.
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In one of the most striking images in his entire oeuvre, Freud suggests that the melancholic subject, the subject who has failed to mourn properly, is effectively keeping the lost object alive inside himself:
“so by taking flight into the ego love escapes extinction.”
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It’s a nice piece throughout, but wow, the ending to this piece by
@MoiraDonegan
h/t
@DrProudman
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My college psychology professor
@DanTGilbert
is so good at pedagogy that 8 years after taking one course with him, I'm writing my PhD on something I first learned about in his lectures, and can remember enough detail to think "I should cite that study he mentioned [just once]."
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Turns out “proving someone wrong” and “convincing someone” are very different enterprises.
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Wonder how much of human history is smart people saying brilliant things quietly, while most people ignore them.
(A reflection on one of my partner’s more brilliant students)
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It’s been a contentious time in “the” Jewish community lately and I don’t want to add fuel to fire but...
we had this pumpkin challah for Shabbat last night and it was delightful.
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Who else is having a godawful time sleeping through the night right now? What helps?
No I am not reading the news or generally on my phone in the hours before bed.
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The sheer cuteness of small British (esp. English) towns and villages is quite weird in juxtaposition with the country's history of colonialism;
it's like a story having a super-villain who is *adorable*.
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Thinking about how, in the story of Exodus, when Pharoh commands the Egyptian midwives to kill all the male Jewish firstborns at birth, the Egyptian midwives slyly and subversively resist, claiming that the Jewish women give birth too fast for them to get there in time, “whoops!”
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Hegel’s idea that freedom is simply choosing which of the possible influences on us we are going to let change us is so lovely and powerful.
“Willing our determination.”
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I recently learned that my colleague's pet tortoise spends 3 months of the year hibernating in her fridge.
Still thinking about it.
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My cat sleeping is my solace during these weeks of locked in working. Perhaps she will brighten your day too.
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Fascinated by this research that suggests that lying down, by taking us out of the mindset of immediate action, allows us to experience more contradiction and ambiguity:
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One of the joys of growing older is becoming the premier expert on yourself.
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"The closer we feel toward someone, the less likely we are to listen carefully to them. It’s called the closeness-communication bias and, over time, it can strain, and even end, relationships."
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My cat, having an extremely normal sulk because I won’t let her nibble my feet
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Yet another morning where I am recording my face speaking to a camera for pay and thinking about just how absolutely useless some of my formal education was and how exceptionally helpful every moment of my theatre training has been for my career.
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Nostalgia is often an aversion/avoidance to having to make sense of the world all over again
Rather than a real love of what’s past.
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Apparently we just...age? And then our faces change? In public? Where everyone can see?
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You can save lives just by delivering food and medication or calling the elderly and vulnerable on the phone. Join us here:
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Picking up a friend from her wisdom tooth surgery today and the instructions say to keep her off social media-
which honestly as medical advice goes is pretty solid and should be more widely adhered to, even without anaesthetics.
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