Benjamin Breen @ResObscura
Historian @UCSC, author of "The Age of Intoxication" and "Tripping on Utopia" (Jan, 2024). benjaminbreen on 🧵. Substack: https://t.co/gKOn1SZypG benjaminpbreen.com Santa Cruz Joined January 2011-
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So...turns out John von Neumann dreamed up 'The Matrix' in 1952. "We could be being run by the computer right now," he told Margaret Mead's husband, "it would be possible to conceive a computer that was running, the whole of this." 🤯 Mead also confirms what I'd suspected--von…
This week on Chatter, I spoke with historian and “Tripping on Utopia” author Ben Breen (@ResObscura) about Margaret Mead, psychedelics, and the CIA. open.spotify.com/episode/7tDn3n… @ThatWasChatter
Fascinating chapter of psychedelic history from Benjamin Breen: “Hey, whatever happened to the tapes you made when I was high?” themicrodose.substack.com/p/hey-whatever…
Unearthed from Stanford's archives: Allen Ginsberg's reel-to-reel tapes reveal a pivotal moment in psychedelic science. Dive into the past with Benjamin Breen @ResObscura and explore the intersection of art, science, and counterculture in the '60s themicrodose.substack.com/p/hey-whatever…
"Lilly resolved to extensively test the drug on the animals before he would try it again himself. But he was reassured about the risks, he wrote, when “the six dolphins tested apparently had very good trips.”" chronicle.com/article/trippi…
Mindscape 267 | Benjamin Breen on Margaret Mead, Psychedelics, and Utopia. #MindscapePodcast preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2024/0…
"One might say that the existential threats of the Cold War put psychedelic science in a double bind that produced the schizophrenia of the 1960s, but that would be a generous reading," Kim Adams writes. "A less generous reading would blame Timothy Leary." lareviewofbooks.org/article/timoth…
Margaret Mead’s “LSD Memo” documents a road not taken slate.trib.al/30Nt6hP
TRIPPING ON UTOPIA by @ResObscura is one of 2024's best books so far, according to @NewYorker. Have you read this bold revisionist history of psychedelic science yet?
Traveling (tripping?) with my friend @ResObscura ‘s tremendous book this week. Incredibly interesting for history of anthropology.
“Timothy Leary and the Baby Boomers did not usher in the first psychedelic era,” Benjamin Breen writes in a new book. “They ended it.” nyer.cm/ZcVCrKv
🎙️ How did the histories of AI and psychedelics research overlap? How are we to think about narrative construction about AI’s place in history? @spaniel_bashir speaks with Benjamin Breen @ResObscura.
My review of Tripping on Utopia, @ResObscura’s beautifully written history of the CIA’s involvement with early psychedelics, is out in Science mag! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science—a new book by @ResObscura—explores U.S. research from the mid-20th century on the possible uses of LSD. Read the #ScienceBooks Review: scim.ag/5Ct
Happy #PubDay to @ResObscura! TRIPPING ON UTOPIA is a bold and brilliant revisionist take on the history of psychedelics in the twentieth century. You'll be hooked from the first page. Don't believe me? Check out this glowing review in the NYTimes - nytimes.com/2024/01/16/boo…
The story of one of the 20th C's most fascinating women gets even even weirder: Could LSD Have Achieved World Peace? Ask Margaret Mead. nytimes.com/2024/01/16/boo…
THE LAST FIRE SEASON (@PantheonBooks) by @manjulamartin, OUR MOON (@penguinrandom) by @rboyle31, and TRIPPING ON UTOPIA (@GrandCentralPub) by @ResObscura are the best reviewed nonfiction titles of the week bookmarks.reviews/the-best-revie…
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14K Followers 1K Following investigations. 2022 george polk award. words in @nytimes @theatlantic @nymag @stanforddaily and more. dm for signal. likes and rts are not endorsement. he/theyI was putting my son to bed last night, thinking what a world he is, so funny and kind and complicated, and I lost my breath, thinking: they’ve slaughtered more than 10,000 children, each one as precious and beloved, in my name.
How are news outlets dedicating wall-to-wall coverage to campus protests, but not the discovery of mass graves in Gaza of people with their hands tied & clothing stripped? Why do we not know more? Where are the journalists and resources being dedicated to that story?
"Disturbing reports continue to emerge about mass graves in Gaza in which Palestinian victims were reportedly stripped naked with their hands tied, prompting renewed concerns about possible war crimes." --A new UN statement news.un.org/en/story/2024/…
My marvelous colleague Prof Christopher Brown (@CUHistoryDept) brought the 🔥 at today's Columbia faculty action opposing the arrests of students, suppression of free speech and the congressional threat to independence in higher education. Here's the whole thing. #NoCopsOnCampus…
I’m not exaggerating when I say it’s a really big deal that Prof Brown chose to speak out in this way. We are in an historic crisis. Please watch this
My marvelous colleague Prof Christopher Brown (@CUHistoryDept) brought the 🔥 at today's Columbia faculty action opposing the arrests of students, suppression of free speech and the congressional threat to independence in higher education. Here's the whole thing. #NoCopsOnCampus…
I went on one of my favorite podcasts, odd lots, to talk about the recent rise of adderall and what this means for emerging forms of labor
NEW ODD LOTS: How American Workers Got Hooked on Adderall @tracyalloway and I had a blast getting to talk to @_danielle_carr about what this popular drug actually does. And the historical and market forces that turned it into a workforce staple. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
"This is a true example of transatlantic and comparative history. Cooley expertly guides her story through the use of rich anecdotes and retellings of the lives and scientific investigations of a range of Renaissance thinkers, from Jesuits to magi to royal physicians." Humbled by…
🙏 Psychonauts receives James A Duke Award for excellence in botanical literature from American Botanical Council 🙏 abc.herbalgram.org/site/MessageVi…
So...turns out John von Neumann dreamed up 'The Matrix' in 1952. "We could be being run by the computer right now," he told Margaret Mead's husband, "it would be possible to conceive a computer that was running, the whole of this." 🤯 Mead also confirms what I'd suspected--von…
Not going to say which one, but fyi I have received confirmation from a former girlfriend of one of the novelists listed here that I am RIGHT!!!!
Today I bring you a little amuse-bouche, a short essay about adderall in which I hypothesize that not only is the drug not fixing the “attention crisis“— it is actively making it worse. Bonus features include my theory of millenial literature. Enjoy! pioneerworks.org/broadcast/club…
So here it is: I think there’s a bit of writing which belongs to Shakespeare’s sister. academic.oup.com/sq/advance-art…
ok what's your order at Max's Kansas City? (for those who don't understand inflation, $6.50 then would be around $55 now)
Beyond excited to share this article, ten years in the making. I think it’s the best work I’ve done. “Mr. Aecroid’s Tables: Economic Calculations and Social Customs in the Early Modern Countryside,” Jnl of Modern History @ChicagoJournals Open Access! journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72…
Today we are spotlighting a recently published book. It happens to have some ties to NYAM! Author Benjamin Breen was the recipient of our 2012-2013 Klemperer fellowship. Breen's book, "Tripping on Utopia" shows us that the psychedelic revolution came earlier than we thought!
Loved this discussion about the history of psychedelics and national security.
New on Chatter: @shaneharris spoke to @ResObscura about his new book, Tripping on Utopia, on Margaret Mead's involvement with the CIA’s experiments with drugs, particularly LSD. lawfaremedia.org/article/chatte…
You can think of Breen's book like Six Degrees of Margaret Mead (on acid). She seemed to know everyone. As an intelligence reporter, I think I knew more than most about MKUltra and associated dark chapters of CIA history. This book goes waaay deeper. hachettebookgroup.com/titles/benjami…
This week on Chatter, I spoke with historian and “Tripping on Utopia” author Ben Breen (@ResObscura) about Margaret Mead, psychedelics, and the CIA. open.spotify.com/episode/7tDn3n… @ThatWasChatter
New on Chatter: @shaneharris spoke to @ResObscura about his new book, Tripping on Utopia, on Margaret Mead's involvement with the CIA’s experiments with drugs, particularly LSD. lawfaremedia.org/article/chatte…
I sent them this. I would encourage anyone so inclined to submit their own comments through the application portal: drive.google.com/file/d/1-itrkY…
Fascinating chapter of psychedelic history from Benjamin Breen: “Hey, whatever happened to the tapes you made when I was high?” themicrodose.substack.com/p/hey-whatever…
Now would be the time for archivists and librarians to begin separating out post-2022 written and visual work from what was produced before. As I saw once on Twitter, "this is the K-T boundary of information." Anything afterwards is increasingly unlikely to be made by humans.
Apparently I have an unauthorized biography that is 100% made up AI stuff, 118 pages of looping & repeating vagueness without any true facts. Just my official school biography used as a prompt. It manages to be both insane and boring. Amazon is getting completely overwhelmed.
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