Abby, Patrick, and Dan welcome writer, critic, and scholar Moira Weigel, co-founder of Logic magazine and co-editor with Ben Tarnoff of Voices of the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What They Do And How They Do It. Moira introduces listeners to the history and key insights of the Frankfurt School in advance of a (free!) symposium this weekend in New York exa ... Show More
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151: All is Vanity: Narcissism, Part 3
Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessAbby, Patrick, and Dan continue tracking the reflections – and refractions – of the myth of Narcissus across Western history. From the songs of Fren ... Show More
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Jul 4
150: Cops in Our Heads feat. Stuart Schrader
Abby and Patrick welcome historian Stuart Schrader for a conversation about the history, ideology, and politics of contemporary American policing. Schrader’s new book, Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves, gives the three a chance to unpack the specifi ... Show More
1h 33m
Jun 27
149: Myth, Fate, and Desire: Narcissism, Part 2
Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessAbby, Patrick, and Dan dig into the realms of myth and fable to investigate the ancient origins of the Narcissus myth. As they discover, behind the ... Show More
9m 40s
Nov 2025
Truth in an age of doublethink
We use “Orwellian” to describe everything from campus dust-ups to authoritarian crackdowns. But what did George Orwell actually stand for, what did he get wrong, and what can we learn from him about our age of surveillance capitalism and distraction? Sean’s guest is Laura Beers, ... Show More
52m 16s
Mar 2024
Catherine Malabou on the Clitoris, AI, Anarchism, Hegel, Marx… and much more!
Frank Ruda and Agon Hamza sit down with the French philosopher Catherine Malabou to discuss her latest books on anarchism and clitoris, Artificial Intelligence, domination, films and culture, the role of philosophy, and a lot of other topics. You can listen to our podcast here: h ... Show More
1h 12m
Feb 2024
The Rise of Techno-Authoritarianism
In this week’s episode of Radio Atlantic, Adrienne LaFrance, the executive editor of The Atlantic, names and explains the political ideology of the unelected leaders of Silicon Valley. They are “leading an antidemocratic, illiberal movement” she calls: techno-authoritarianism. Wa ... Show More
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<p>Literary icon Margaret Atwood discusses the future and the effects that stories can have upon it. </p><p>--</p><p><br></p><p>© 2022 Future of StoryTelling, Corp.</p><p><br></p><p>Produced by Future of StoryTelling, Corp.</p><p>124 West 13th Street</p><p>New York, NY 10011</p>< ... Show More
<p>Corey Mohler, aka Existential Comics, joins Breht to discuss the amazing and fascinating life of Simone Weil.<br /> <br /> Check out Existential Comics here: <a href= "http://existentialcomics.com/">http://existentialcomics.com/</a></p> <p>Follow Corey on Twitter <a href= "htt ... Show More
