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co-host of the Ordinary Unhappiness podcast, co-founder of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research

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🚨NEW EPISODE! 🚨 We talked with the brilliant Jade E Davis (@jadedid.bsky.social) about her new book, the history of "empathy" from human zoos to social media, her incisive and revelatory critique of "empathy culture" and so much more. check it out! ordinaryunhappiness.buzzsprout.com/2131830/1401...

33: The Problem with Empathy feat. Jade E. Davis - Ordinary Unhappinessordinaryunhappiness.buzzsprout.com Abby and Patrick welcome Jade E. Davis, author of the new book The Other Side of Empathy. They discuss Jade’s critique of naïve notions of “empathy” and what she calls “empathy culture.” Th...

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for the latest Ordinary Unhappiness we talked with the great Steven Thrasher about how ideology naturalizes mass death, how we don't just have or own bodies but are them, and what living together as parts of one big social body must mean for true solidarity and care

27: From HIV to COVID: Virality, Vulnerability, and Interdependence feat. Steven Thrasher - Ordinary...ordinaryunhappiness.buzzsprout.com Abby and Patrick welcome Steven Thrasher, author of The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide. We discuss Steven’s singular career trajectory (from Saturday Night Live...

over the moon about Ordinary Unhappiness in The New Yorker!

after eight years of marriage and ten of mutual editing, @patblanchfield.bsky.social and I finally wrote something together! unsurprisingly it's about Lacan - and the question of who's in charge

Knowing, Not Knowing, Knowing Betterdilettantearmy.com Abby Kluchin and Patrick Blanchfield take on our anxieties and fantasies about whether there’s a doctor in the house through an explanation of the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan’s sujet supposé savo...

we recorded this one on my birthday and I celebrated by not holding back about every way in which I hated this film

in the latest @unhappinesspod.bsky.social episode we three watched the Barbie movie and talked about how There is No Sexual Relationship, nostalgia for old gender binaries, double-binds and who gets to have things both ways. here’s a teaser: ordinaryunhappiness.buzzsprout.com/2131830/1362...

25: Wild Analysis: Barbie TEASER - Ordinary Unhappinessordinaryunhappiness.buzzsprout.com Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessWe talk about one of the biggest cinematic releases of the year: Bar...

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in the latest @unhappinesspod.bsky.social pod we go off on the expanded Joss Whedon universe, the MCU, and everywhere else invoking trauma substitutes for storytelling and praising heroic resilience becomes just another expectation for survival under capitalism www.patreon.com/posts/episod...

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our newest Ordinary Unhappiness mailbag ep is out! we take your voicemail questions on whether or not it helps to know your own diagnosis or nosology in general; mental health and housing crises under neoliberalism; and t̶a̶s̶t̶y̶, ̶g̶l̶o̶r̶i̶o̶u̶s̶ disgusting, evil cigarettes

15: Diagnosis and Identity: Mailbag Episode! - Ordinary Unhappinessordinaryunhappiness.buzzsprout.com Abby, Patrick, and Dan take your calls! They spend the bulk of the episode on a fascinating question about whether or not it is important to know your own psychic structure. They consider the relation...

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He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips [posting]; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore [and with every skeet]. - Sigmund Freud

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I can’t begin to express how much of a blast it was to prep and record this episode of our podcast featuring Sam-Adler Bell of Know Your Enemy!

13: The Journalist and the Analyst: On Janet Malcolm feat. Sam Adler-Bell - Ordinary Unhappinessordinaryunhappiness.buzzsprout.com Abby and Patrick welcome journalist and critic Sam Adler-Bell, co-host of Dissent magazine’s Know Your Enemy podcast. They talk about how Sam came to study conservative thought from a leftist perspe...

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