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Aug 10, 2020

"Dirt is matter out of place" - the loveliest definition of dirt you could hope for from anthropologist Mary Douglas in her classic 1966 book Purity and Danger Hair on my head? Clean. Hair on the table? Dirty! Illustrating & expanding on her main ideas: maggieappleton.com/dirt

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benjamin aldes wurgaft

@benwurgaft

Aug 10, 2020

She is the absolute best! I'm so excited you've illustrated her. Mind if I share these with my Douglas-reading students this Fall?

Of course! That would make me very happy to know it’s being used in a real course. I’m working on a few more images to add on here as well. Will be on the same URL. Still have to get into the good stuff about dangerous boundaries and power 😁

benjamin aldes wurgaft

@benwurgaft

Aug 11, 2020

Thank you! Going on the syllabus for the "Technology and Culture" course I'm teaching at MIT, this Fall. I really like these first ones you've done.

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Course sounds fantastic - making me miss undergrad liberal arts too much. Any chance the syllabus is going on MIT open courseware? Love compiling reading lists from there

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benjamin aldes wurgaft

@benwurgaft

Aug 11, 2020

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Oh, will email you!