Christopher Turner (writer) explained

Christopher Turner
Nationality:	British
Education:	MA, anthropology, archaeology and art history, University of Cambridge PhD (2000), humanities and cultural studies, London Consortium
Occupation:	Writer

Christopher Turner is a British writer. He has been a regular contributor to Cabinet magazine since 2004, and to the London Review of Books since 2001.^{[1] [2]} He has also written for The Guardian and The Sunday Telegraph, and is the editor of Icon magazine.^{[3] [4]}

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.^{[5] [6]}

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.^{[7] [8]}

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.

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. "Adventures in the Orgasmatron", The New York Times, 23 September 2011.

Notes and References

1. http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/contributors/turner_christopher.php "Christopher Turner"
2. http://www.lrb.co.uk/search?q=%22Christopher+Turner%22 "Christopher Turner"
3. https://www.theguardian.com/profile/christopher-turner?INTCMP=SRCH "Christopher Turner"
4. Web site: Icon magazine . January 6, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141020223221/http://www.iconeye.com/magazine . October 20, 2014 . bot: unknown .
5. http://theorwellprize.co.uk/news/orwell-prize-2012-longlists-announced/ "Orwell Prize 2012 Longlists Announced"
6. Bishop, Jordan. "Christopher Hitchens longlisted for the Orwell prize", The Guardian, 29 March 2012.
7. http://www.apwatt.co.uk/index.asp?left=authors1.asp&right=authors.asp?letter=T "Turner, Christopher"
8. http://www.londonconsortium.com/about/phd-titles/ "PhD Titles"