Seek You - English 111 Common Read

Research, Social, and Cultural Referencs in Seek You

LISTEN (pages 15-111)

• Surgeon General Vivek Murphy - Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation: The U. S. Surgeon General's Advisory on the Healing Effects of Social Connection and Community, 2023
• Steven Cole - "Elevated Physical Health Risk Among Gay Men Who Conceal Their Homosexual Identity," 1996
• John Cacioppo - Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection, 2008
• MIT News - "Pinpointing Loneliness in the Brain: Scientists Identify Cells that Represent Feelings of Isolation," February 11, 2016

WATCH (pages 113-173)

• Philip Slater - The Pursuit of Loneliness: American Culture at the Breaking Point, 1970
• Harry Harlow - The Human Model: Primate Perspectives, 1979
• also Deborah Blum - Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection
• Jean Twenge and Roy Baumeister - "If You Can't Join Them, Beat Them: Effects of Social Exclusion on Aggressive Behavior," 2001
• Hannah Arendt - The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1958
• Francis Terrell, Ivanna Terrell, & Susan VonDrashek - "Loneliness and Fear of Intimacy Among Adolescents Who Were Taught Not to Trust Strangers During Childhood," 2000
• Don Dutton - "Paranoid Thinking in Mass Shooters," 2013 

CLICK (p. 175-233)

• Philip-Lorca diCorcia - Heads, 2001 
• Emily Dickinson - #777 "The loneliness one dare not sound"
• Robert D. Putnam - Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, 2000
• Carolyn Marvin - When Old Technologies Were New, 1988 (available through Prospector loan)
• Lars Svendson - A Philosophy of Loneliness, 2017 
• Yayoi Kusama - Yayoi Kusama-Brilliant Ideas, 2017 documentary

TOUCH (p. 235-327)

• Lillian Bell - "Talks to Spinsters: The Loneliness of the Unloved," 1902 Harper's Bazaar, v. 36
• John Watson - Behaviorism, 1925
• Harry Harlow - Human Model: Primate Perspectives, 1979
• John Cacioppo - Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection, 2008
• also "Alone in the Crowd: The Structure and Spread of Loneliness in a Large Social Network"
• Sherry Turkle - Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other, 2017
• Kurt Vonnegut - God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian, 2011

LISTEN (pages 331-342)

• Casey Kasum - American Top 40 broadcast archive