Here's an essay I wrote on 'voodoo death' that was shortlisted for the 2025 Berggruen Prize Essay Competition.
giulioongaro.substack.com/p/conscious-...
Congrats to winners @anilseth.bsky.social, Xin Huang, and Xiaoben Liu!
So true
use that definition and pretty much every country (Laos, for instance) becomes imperialist
Thanks Dave! It was actually that MSc in Edinburgh that first got me thinking about all this
Reading it now, it's brilliant
In this guest post I write about shamanism as a form of externalist psychiatry. Follows up on a recent trio of papers +commentaries I published in Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology. Feedback welcome!
The Social World Is Something We Collectively Create
Giulio Ongaro ( @giulio-ongaro.bsky.social ) uses the Akha shamanic ritual to explore what social psychiatric interventions can look like in a guest post and accompanying Q&A
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-social...
It is said that, just before the Sino-Soviet split, Nikita Khrushchev had a tense meeting with Zhou Enlai at which he told the latter that he now understood the problem. “I am the son of coal miners,” he said. “You are the descendant of feudal mandarins. We have nothing in common.” “Perhaps we do,” murmured his Chinese antagonist. “What?” blustered Khrushchev. “We are,” responded Zhou, “both traitors to our class.”
Makes me think of Zhou Enlai.
