Christopher Turner is a British writer. He has been a regular contributor to
''Cabinet'' magazine since 2004, and to the ''
London Review of Books
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History
The ''London Review of ...
'' since 2001. He has also written for ''
The Guardian
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The Sunday Telegraph
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'', and is the editor of ''Icon'' magazine.
Turner is the author of ''Adventures in the Orgasmatron: Wilhelm Reich and the Invention of Sex'' (2011), which was long-listed for the
Orwell Prize
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Background
Turner obtained an MA in anthropology, archaeology and art history from the University of Cambridge, and his PhD in 2000 in humanities and cultural studies from the London Consortium, with a thesis entitled "The Disgusting: The Unrepresentable from Kant to Kristeva." He was a visiting scholar at Columbia University from 2003–2004.
"PhD Titles"
, Masters & Doctoral Programme in Humanities and Cultural Studies, London Consortium.
Works
*''Adventures in the Orgasmatron: Wilhelm Reich and the Invention of Sex''. Fourth Estate (UK), 2011. Published in the US as ''Adventures in the Orgasmatron: How the Sexual Revolution Came to America'', Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.
References
Further reading
* Hitchens, Christopher
"Inside the Orgone Box"
''The New York Times'', 23 September 2011.
* Philips, Adam
"Am I a spaceman?"
''London Review of Books'', 20 October 2011.
*Turner, Christopher
"Diary"
''London Review of Books'', 3 June 2004.
*Turner, Christopher
"Wilhelm Reich: the man who invented free love"
''The Guardian'', 8 July 2011.
*Turner, Christopher
''The New York Times'', 23 September 2011.
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British writers
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Wilhelm Reich