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SUMMARY:Andrew Irving (University of Manchester) "Between Thought and Exp
 ression\, Lies a Lifetime: The Inner Lifeworlds of Motor Neurone Disease
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DESCRIPTION:Abstract: “Between thought and expression” sang Lou Reed “lie
 s a lifetime”: a lyric that evokes the strange distance between people’s
  internalised realms of being and their public expression in the wider s
 ocial world. Perhaps\, nowhere is this disjuncture more apparent than in
  terms of Motor Neurone Disease (MND)\, a neurodegenerative condition th
 at progressively removes movement\, motor control and speech until someo
 ne reaches the state of being “locked-in” and only retains limited commu
 nicative means\, for example eye-gaze and blinking\, micro-facial moveme
 nt or breath. The experience of MND is often mediated by an intensely ac
 tive inner lifeworld that encompasses everything from inner dialogue\, f
 antasy\, storytelling and image-making to thoughts of worthlessness\, su
 icide and the negotiation of ongoing religious\, moral and existential c
 oncerns. The question of how to research and represent the complexity an
 d diversity of people’s inner lives is a methodological and practical pr
 oblem rather than a conceptual one. Drawing on experimental and co-creat
 ive research\, this week’s presentation attempts an ethnography of the i
 nner lifeworld in order to consider the many different kinds of lives th
 at are lived between thought and expression. \n\n\nAndrew Irving is Prof
 essor of Anthropology at the University of Manchester.\n
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:Boardroom\, 2nd floor\, Arthur Lewis Building\, Manchester
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