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Kate Berlant joins the pod for another special episode in Los Angeles to discuss horrible auditions, hilarious typecasts, bad trips, chimney sweep grudges, chill parents, and more. Kate and Stav help callers including a woman who is getting Super Liked on every dating platform by her ex's best friend, and a salesman whose retail client is a child agent hounding him to get his baby in commercials. Download the DraftKings Sportsbook app and use code STAVVY to score $200 IN BONUS BETS INSTANTLY when you bet just $5. For more info, visit https://www.draftkings.com/ Visit https://mintmobile.com/stavvy to get a 3-month premium wireless plan for just $15/month. Get a refreshing Twisted Tea today. Keep It Twisted!! Visit https://www.twistedtea.com/locations to find Twisted Tea near you. See Kate Berlant live and follow her on social media: https://kateberlant.com/ https://www.instagram.com/kateberlant/ https://x.com/kateberlant Check out Kate Berlant's podcast Berlant & Novak with Jacqueline Novak: https://berlantnovak.supercast.com/ Watch Kate Berlant's standup special Cinnamon in the Wind on Hulu: https://www.hulu.com/series/kate-berlant-cinnamon-in-the-wind-c09647b5-fa7a-4116-b4b0-a2489e47cfc8 Watch Would It Kill You to Laugh, Kate Berlant's sketch comedy special with John Early: https://www.peacocktv.com/watch-online/movies/would-it-kill-you-to-laugh-starring-kate-berlant-and-john-early

Fitness, Health, Arts, Comedy - Kate Berlant, Jacqueline Novak

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Sean Muller can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/06/anthropology-of-a-dream-the-stakes-of-studying-addiction-in-america/. About the post: Addiction emerges as a problem alongside the fantasy of a “good life” characterized by “upward mobility, job security, political and social equality, and lively, durable intimacy” (Berlant 2011: 3). What habits and histories shape the endurance of this dream and why do we imagine anything different as a failure?

It's been nearly a year since John Early released his first stand-up special, Max's ‘Now More Than Ever.' But it's only now that he's gotten the chance to talk about the go-for-broke special in-depth, with any chance at promotion waylaid by last summer and fall's back-to-back strikes. And the comedian, best known for his work on ‘Search Party,' ‘30 Rock,' and with collaborator Kate Berlant, is relishing his overdue moment in the spotlight. In this episode of The Last Laugh podcast—Early's second appearance on the show, following his 2022 visit with Berlant—he opens up about the genesis of his Emmys category-breaking special, including how he sees himself as less in step with his fellow campaigning comics and more in the mold of performers like Bette Midler.Plus, Matt and Allegra take a look at John Early's Emmy competition in the Outstanding Variety Special (Pre-recorded) category and share their thoughts on who else deserves some love over the same old contenders.Follow John Early on Twitter @bejohnce and Instagram @bejohnceFollow Matt Wilstein on Threads @mattwilsteinFollow Allegra Frank on Twitter @LegsFrankFollow The Last Laugh on Instagram @lastlaughpod and Threads @lastlaughpodHighlights from this episode and others at The Daily Beast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 318 - Tony Berlant - Co-Founder, VP at Q4 Active “Stronger Brain. Healthier Body.” “Exercise alone does wonders for your brain health…. physical activity with brain activity is more beneficial to your brain.” “We can grow new neurons and change neuropathways…neurogenesis…neuroplasticity...there is an awesome energy about older people. ” Get excited! Christine and Brian are super pumped to share with you the greatly anticipated debut of the one and only Tony Berlant! Joining the show from Woodland Hills, California at the flagship location of Q4 Active, Tony is ready to reveal an entirely new fitness studio concept. Recognizing the need for older adults to not only work on their physical health, but also improve their brain performance, Tony and his business partner created an interval-based, circuit training program that translates into real world situations. Listen up as Tony explains what makes the circuit training at Q4 Active so effective when it comes to improving both physical and cognitive health. Since opening its doors in April 2024, Q4 Active has made a tremendous impact on its community and is already looking to the future with the goal of franchising this concept around the globe! Learn more about Q4 Active at www.Q4-Active.com! It's time to grow some new neurons and improve ALL aspects of our fitness! Christine and Brian, Two Fit Crazies Tony Berlant and Q4 Active Links and Sites: Instagram: @q4active Facebook: Q4Active LinkedIn: Tony Berlant Website: www.Q4-active.com #twofitcrazies #podcast #wellness #fitness #fourthquarter #neurogenesis #neuralpathways #neuroplasticity #brainhealth #brainexercise #circuittraining #olderadults #cardiovascular #sequencing #choreography #memory #retention #mobility #osteoarthritic #osteoporosis #sarcopenia #heartdisease #smartFit #reaction #yoga #balance #fallrisk #california #franchise #medicalfitness #fitness #fitpro #groupfitness #AFAA #IDEAworld #Symmetry #WoodlandHills #LAtimes #brain #think #chronicdisease #dementia #alzheimers #parkinsons #gameify #fun #rtw #contifit #mindset #mentalhealth #flexibility #socialization #accountability

01:00 Dooovid joins 03:00 Dooovid's Jewish journey 06:00 People go west to form new identities free from traditional fetters 20:00 Haredi Jews have given up autonomy 25:00 The varieties of the conversion to Orthodox Judaism experience 35:00 Beggars, security, haredi vs modern orthodox shuls 52:00 Virtually You: The Dangerous Powers of the E-Personality, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=121464 56:00 How Livestreaming Made Me A Better Man, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=149835 57:00 The relief from ready-made narratives for failure 1:07:00 Livestreaming can blow up your narrative 1:10:30 "Knowing someone, and being known, for Berlant, involves a threatening inconvenience: the irruption of someone else into your (fantasy of a) coherent self." https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n10/erin-maglaque/i-feel-sorry-for-sex 1:30:00 Intellectual life does not pay for itself, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=140392 1:35:00 I've Started Following The Women's World Cup, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=149857 1:39:00 What was the Alt Right? https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/what-was-alt-right 1:40:00 Hunter Biden has become a real scandal: The Bidens' Corruption Disruption | Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLqvS4loPy4 1:41:00 Hunter Biden, Joe Biden and our support for Ukraine 1:42:10 The Obama Factor: A Q&A with historian David Garrow, https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/david-garrow-interview-obama 1:44:00 Obama's legacy 1:48:00 SIHS Article Prize for Medieval and Early Modern Italian History: Dr. Erin Maglaque (2022) 1:49:00 Why Do Some People End Their Sentences In ‘Yeah'?, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=149856 1:52:15 Arrest warrants issued after boaters attack Alabama dock employee 1:54:40 Gavin and Cumia give their take on the Alabama Riverfront Brawl 2:03:00 Public Feelings Salon with Lauren Berlant 2:12:00 Conservative Claims of Cultural Oppression: The Nature and Origins of Conservaphobia, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=144168 2:23:00 Affect Theory and the New Age of Anxiety: How Lauren Berlant's cultural criticism predicted the Trumping of politics. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/25/affect-theory-and-the-new-age-of-anxiety 3:03:00 Why Chasing The Good Life Is Holding Us Back With Lauren Berlant 3:08:00 A Fan's Life: The Agony of Victory and the Thrill of Defeat by Paul Campos, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=149853 3:12:00 Nathan Cofnas on the Rich men north of Richmond song, https://twitter.com/nathancofnas/status/1690730855642148864

Full video: https://rumble.com/v374skq-decoding-liberalism-and-the-riverfront-brawl-8-13-23.html "Knowing someone, and being known, for Berlant, involves a threatening inconvenience: the irruption of someone else into your (fantasy of a) coherent self." https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n10/erin-maglaque/i-feel-sorry-for-sex Intellectual life does not pay for itself, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=140392 SIHS Article Prize for Medieval and Early Modern Italian History: Dr. Erin Maglaque (2022) Why Do Some People End Their Sentences In ‘Yeah'?, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=149856 Public Feelings Salon with Lauren Berlant Conservative Claims of Cultural Oppression: The Nature and Origins of Conservaphobia, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=144168 Affect Theory and the New Age of Anxiety: How Lauren Berlant's cultural criticism predicted the Trumping of politics. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/25/affect-theory-and-the-new-age-of-anxiety Why Chasing The Good Life Is Holding Us Back With Lauren Berlant A Fan's Life: The Agony of Victory and the Thrill of Defeat by Paul Campos, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=149853 https://odysee.com/@LukeFordLive, https://lbry.tv/@LukeFord, https://rumble.com/lukeford https://dlive.tv/lukefordlivestreams Superchat: https://entropystream.live/app/lukefordlive Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/lukeford/ Soundcloud MP3s: https://soundcloud.com/luke-ford-666431593 Code of Conduct: https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=125692 https://www.patreon.com/lukeford http://lukeford.net Email me: lukeisback@gmail.com or DM me on Twitter.com/lukeford, Best videos: https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=143746 Support the show | https://www.streamlabs.com/lukeford, https://patreon.com/lukeford, https://PayPal.Me/lukeisback Facebook: http://facebook.com/lukecford Feel free to clip my videos. It's nice when you link back to the original.

01:00 Dooovid joins 03:00 Dooovid's Jewish journey 06:00 People go west to form new identities free from traditional fetters 20:00 Haredi Jews have given up autonomy 25:00 The varieties of the conversion to Orthodox Judaism experience 35:00 Beggars, security, haredi vs modern orthodox shuls 52:00 Virtually You: The Dangerous Powers of the E-Personality, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=121464 56:00 How Livestreaming Made Me A Better Man, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=149835 57:00 The relief from ready-made narratives for failure 1:07:00 Livestreaming can blow up your narrative 1:10:30 "Knowing someone, and being known, for Berlant, involves a threatening inconvenience: the irruption of someone else into your (fantasy of a) coherent self." https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n10/erin-maglaque/i-feel-sorry-for-sex 1:30:00 Intellectual life does not pay for itself, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=140392 Watch full video: https://rumble.com/v374skq-decoding-liberalism-and-the-riverfront-brawl-8-13-23.html https://odysee.com/@LukeFordLive, https://lbry.tv/@LukeFord, https://rumble.com/lukeford https://dlive.tv/lukefordlivestreams Superchat: https://entropystream.live/app/lukefordlive Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/lukeford/ Soundcloud MP3s: https://soundcloud.com/luke-ford-666431593 Code of Conduct: https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=125692 https://www.patreon.com/lukeford http://lukeford.net Email me: lukeisback@gmail.com or DM me on Twitter.com/lukeford, Best videos: https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=143746 Support the show | https://www.streamlabs.com/lukeford, https://patreon.com/lukeford, https://PayPal.Me/lukeisback Facebook: http://facebook.com/lukecford Feel free to clip my videos. It's nice when you link back to the original.

Welcome to our podcast episode featuring Chief Daniel Berlant, Acting State Fire Marshal and Deputy Director for Community Wildfire Preparedness and Mitigation with Cal Fire. Join us as we discuss his career, experiences, and insights on building resilience, promoting life safety, and disaster preparedness in California. Learn how he balances work and personal life, builds networks with stakeholders, and connects communities to promote fire and life safety. Tune in for valuable insights and strategies from one of California's leading experts in fire and life safety.

Actor and comedian Kate Berlant has had a busy 2022. Her comedy special, "Would It Kill You To Laugh," co-created with John Early, has gotten great reviews. She also appears in the new "A League of Their Own" spinoff series, as well as the Oliva Wilde directed film, "Don't You Worry Darling." Here in New York, she's starring in a one-woman Off-Broadway show, "Kate," which runs through October 8. Berlant joins to preview her show, and everything else she's got going on.

Today, we're joined by comedian John Early! We begin with his excellent new special, Would It Kill You to Laugh? (6:51) and its surprising tenderness (10:03), before revisiting a satirical book club sketch written with collaborator Kate Berlant (13:41). Then, John reflects on growing up in Nashville to minister parents (19:05), discovering Toni Collette at Blockbuster (22:37), and creating a fan-site dedicated to her work (25:31). After the break, we unpack John's distaste for ‘pompous rituals' (33:04), the night he met Berlant (34:02), a 2019 sketch called “How Have You Been?” (42:44), a pivotal scene from Would It Kill You to Laugh? (49:52), and the letter John wrote to Toni Collette at eleven-years-old (53:23). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

If we lived in a just world, Kate Berlant and John Early would be the most famous and successful comedy team on the planet. So that's the reality they manifested for themselves in their new Peacock special ‘Would It Kill You to Laugh?' In this episode, the pair reveal how they got Meredith Vieira to host their emotional reunion after an imagined falling out and look back on their years as “chief collaborators” from the early videos that took off on YouTube to their breakthrough performances in Netflix's ‘The Characters.' Later, Early shares how “surprising” it was to dive deep into Elliott over five seasons of ‘Search Party,' Berlant explains why she had to reel in her comedic instincts on the set of Quentin Tarantino's ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' and so much more. Follow Kate Berlant on Twitter @kateberlant and Instagram @kateberlantFollow John Early on Twitter @bejohnce and Instagram @bejohnceFollow Matt Wilstein on Twitter @mattwilsteinFollow The Last Laugh on Instagram @lastlaughpodHighlights from this episode and others a The Daily Beast See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

བསོད་མཚོ་འབུམ་ནི་མཚོ་སྔོན་ཞིང་ཆེན་མཚོ་ལྷོ་ཁུལ་མང་རྫོང་མགོ་མང་གྲོང་བརྡལ་ཤ་རྒྱ་སྡེ་བ་ནས་སྐྱེས། རིམ་བཞིན་སྡེ་བའི་སློབ་ཆུང་གི་སྒོ་ཐེམ་བརྒལ་བ་ནས་ཚུགས་ཏེ་སློབ་གྲྭ་ཆུང་འབྲིང་ཆེ་གསུམ་ལ་བརྒྱུད། ༢༠༡༧ ལོར་མཚོ་སྔོན་མི་རིགས་སློབ་ཆེན་ནས་སློབ་མཐར་ཕྱིན་པ་དང་ལོ་དེའི་སྤྱི་ཟླ་བརྒྱད་པའི་ནང་ཨ་རིའི་ཁ་ལོ་ར་རྡོ་གཙུག་ལག་སློབ་ཆེན་(University of Colorado Boulder) དུ་ཆས་ཏེ་ལོ་གཉིས་རིང་ཞིབ་འཇུག་གི་སློབ་གཉེར་ལ་འབད། ༢༠༢༠ ནས་ཨ་རིའི་ནུབ་བྱང་གཙུག་ལག་སློབ་ཆེན་(Northwestern University)ལ་འགྲིམས་ཏེ་ཆོས་ལུགས་རིག་པའི་སྡེ་ཁག་ཏུ་འབུམ་རམས་པའི་བསླབ་གནས་ལ་སློབ་གཉེར་བྱེད་བཞིན་ཡོད། Books on Religious Studies Mahmood, Saba. "Politics of piety." In Politics of Piety. Princeton University Press, 2011. Asad, Talal. Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and reasons of power in Christianity and Islam. JHU Press, 1993. Smith, Jonathan Z. Imagining religion: from Babylon to Jonestown. University of Chicago Press, 1982. Masuzawa, Tomoko. The invention of world religions: Or, how European universalism was preserved in the language of pluralism. University of Chicago Press, 2005. Orsi, Robert A. "Between heaven and earth." In Between Heaven and Earth. Princeton University Press, 2013. Berlant, Lauren. "Cruel Optimism." The affect theory reader (2010): 93-117.

For Valentine's Day, there was only one question “What Is X” could ask, one that thinkers through the ages, from Plato to Howard Jones, have not managed to answer: What is love? In this episode, Justin E. H. Smith is joined by New School media studies professor Dominic Pettman, the author of books such as Peak Libido and Creaturely Love, for a wide-ranging discussion of desire, romance and what it means to be completed by someone (or something) else. Starting with Plato's Symposium, they move on to Agamben and Badiou, Leibniz and Lacan, Proust and Fourier, Spinoza and Berlant. (One lesson from this episode: philosophers might be our best aphorists of love.) With these thinkers, they're prepared to tackle the big issues: the tension between love of hyper-singularity and love for the generic nature of humanity; whether love is work or grace; how Aristophanes predicted Sex and the City; whether you can marry the Berlin Wall, or a white-naped crane; and just how it is love is a concept we can use to describe both our romantic partners and the crucial cup of coffee we have each morning.

In this episode we talk about how consumption plays a key role in the holiday season and why this can be problematic. We discuss Black Friday, consumer representations, and the plight of non-celebrants as well as those who might not be feeling their best around the holiday season, situating "holiday depression" within larger patterns of "cruel optimism" and toxic positivity. We end with some speculative thoughts on how consumers and brands can re-consider hegemonic representations and practices during the holidays.References and reading tips:Weinberger, M.F., 2015. Dominant consumption rituals and intragroup boundary work: How non-celebrants manage conflicting relational and identity goals. Journal of Consumer Research, 42(3), pp.378-400.Ahmed, S. (2010). The promise of happiness. Duke University Press.Berlant, L. (2011). Cruel optimism. Duke University Press.Cabanas, E., & Illouz, E. (2019). Manufacturing happy citizens: How the science and industry of happiness control our lives. John Wiley & Sons.Cvetkovich, A. (2012). Depression: A Public Feeling. Duke University Press.

Look upon these films, ye mighty, and despair!In this episode, we're thrilled to welcome back Dr. Kendall R. Phillips, Professor of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Syracuse University - this time, to discuss his hot-off-the-presses book, A Cinema of Hopelessness: The Rhetoric of Rage in 21st Century Popular Culture. In it, Kendall examines how some of the most emotionally-charged moments of 21st century U.S. public memory - from 9/11 to Occupy Wall Street to the presidential election of Donald Trump - have resonated in the biggest box office hits of popular cinema.Within each of these conjunctures of hit movies and widely-felt cultural sentiments, Kendall incisively traces a common theme: “the rhetoric of refusal,” in which characters shout “no!” in the face of the powerful and seek societal destruction rather than reform. We discuss some of the topics and films covered in the book, from the influence of the Occupy movement on films like Snowpiercer, Cabin in the Woods, and The Purge, to Kendall's unique reading of 2017's Joker as a musical, to the themes of betrayal, loss, and nostalgic longing that have permeated both the Marvel Cinematic Universe and post-2016 U.S. national politics. We conclude with some thoughts on the collective, affective power of “movie magic,” as well as how nostalgia might be productively re:imagined to move our political culture forward.Works and Concepts Referenced in this EpisodeAhmed, S. (2013). The cultural politics of emotion. Routledge.Berlant, L. (2011). Cruel optimism. Duke University Press.Biesecker, B. A. (2002). Remembering World War II: The rhetoric and politics of national commemoration at the turn of the 21st century. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 88(4), 393-409.Biesecker, B.A. (2004). Renovating the national imaginary: A prolegomenon on contemporary paregoricrhetoric. In K. R. Phillips (ed.), Framing Public Memory (Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press): pp. 212–247.Deleuze, G. (1997). Bartleby; or, the Formula. Essays critical and clinical, 86.Gunn, J. (2008). Father trouble: Staging sovereignty in Spielberg's War of the Worlds. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 25(1), 1-27.Keeling, K. (2019). Queer times, Black futures. New York University Press.LeMesurier, J. L. (2020). Winking at Excess: Racist Kinesiologies in Childish Gambino's “This Is America”. Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 50(2), 139-151.Massumi, B. (1995). The autonomy of affect. Cultural critique, (31), 83-109.Massumi, B. (2015). Politics of affect. John Wiley & Sons.Mitchell, W. T. (2013). Iconology: image, text, ideology. University of Chicago Press.Muensterberg, W. (1985). De gustibus: Notes on the genetics of taste. In Visible religion: Annals of religious iconography (Leiden, NL: E. J. Brill).Sedgwick, E. K. (2003). Touching feeling. Duke University Press.Spinoza, B. (2009). The Ethics (R.H.M. Elwes, Trans.). Project Gutenberg. Retrieved from: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3800/3800-h/3800-h.htm (Original work published 1677).Villadsen, L. (2017). “Bartleby the Scrivener”: Affect, agency, and the rhetorical trickster.” Presented at Rhetoric Society of Europe conference, Norwich, UK.Williams, C. (2007). Thinking the political in the wake of Spinoza: Power, affect and imagination in the ethics. Contemporary Political Theory, 6(3), 349-369.

In this episode we read from the first chapter after the prologue up to "Swan and Alex." First, Hilary and Matt start by discussing the work of Lauren Berlant, an eminent literary critic and feminist theorist from the University of Chicago who passed away recently. Berlant's work focuses on affect, agency, attachment, the sentimental, literature, politics, human-being, normativity, and innumerable other topics, in ways that help illuminate the questions we discuss so much: how does change happen (or not), and what does literature (or art) have to do with it? Matt and Hilary explore some of the ways Berlant's work might shed light KSR's novels. There are elements in 2312, especially around attachment and habit and gender, that Berlant's ideas may help illuminate. We discuss pieces including Cruel Optimism, "Poor Eliza," and The Queen of America Goes to Washington City. We get started talking about the novel about 37 minutes in (in case you're anxious) and talk about Swan and her relationship to herself, her art, Alex, and Wahram. The role of art in 2312 seems especially important, particularly because the people of Mercury appear to be able to live their lives incredibly artfully, so that science, art, technology, and life-making all seem continuous in ways they may not appear to us in our lived experience. We explore ways this novel plays with narrative and detective fiction, and the ways that agency seems here to extend out beyond figures that we tend to think of as agential. Thanks for listening! We'll be back soon with more! Email us at maroonedonmarspodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter @podcastonmars Leave us a voicemail on the Anchor.fm app Rate and review us on iTunes or wherever you listen to your podcasts! Music by Spirit of Space --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/marooned-on-mars/message

The easy assumption about POOG, the hilarious, wellness-obsessed podcast by comedians and longtime friends Kate Berlant and Jacqueline Novak, is that it’s a parody or critique of goop. “We’re true believers,” says Berlant. “People—fools—were like, ‘Oh, are you making fun of goop, making fun of wellness?’ And we’re like, ‘No, sweetie.’ And just so everyone is clear, skin care is also wellness. We love it all.” So along with cracking up uncontrollably, goop beauty editors Jean Godfrey-June and Megan O’Neill get to talk about spa treatments, clean beauty, and homemade crystal-healing mats with the women of POOG, the podcast The New Yorker called “a laugh from inside the house that the wellness industry built” on this week’s episode of The Beauty Closet. (For more, see The Beauty Closet hub.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Berlant and Novak discuss the pressure to have kids, religious upbringing, and the comic nature of twins. The hags role play an adoption fantasy. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

From self-hatred, to empathy, to “benevolent narcissism,” we’ve got you covered in this fame-fueled episode of Search Party: The Podcast -- and who better to take this journey with than Chantal Witherbottom herself, Clare McNulty, and actress/comedian Kate Berlant, who plays Elliott’s publisher, Nia. Host Bowen Yang guides us through a conversation about the dichotomy between Chantal’s competing feelings of insecurity and self-confidence, how Berlant’s character enables Elliott’s worst tendencies, and what it’s like for her to work with her real-life best friend John Early. We also discuss which childhood traumas our guests would mine for their respective memoirs. Believe it or not, McNulty’s eerily familiar real-life story involves being searched for by cops, dogs and helicopters… Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Thank you to Fresno. Co. Sheriff Mims, Daniel Berlant, Assistant Deputy Director of Cal-Fire, Nicole Maul of the Red Cross Central CA Wild Fire Assistance & Marie Edinger of KMPH for joining the special broadcast today to cover the Creek Fire.  We will continue to provide coverage in the coming days. Please be aware that due to the location of our FM tower, you may not get our signal on 105.9. Try 580 AM, Facebook live, TuneIn radio and our podcast.

Actor Justin Long and director Daniel Schechter team up for After Class, the story of a professor who defends his reputation over controversial behavior at his college. Do your homework and listen to a fun conversation about some serious issues. 

For most Americans, the driving force in their personal and public life is a desire to attain the “good life”. But what if our attachment to that desire is the very thing holding us back? Lauren Berlant is a theorist and English professor at the University of Chicago and the author of “Cruel Optimism” a book about when you're attached to forms of life that fundamentally get in the way of the attachment you brought to them. Berlant has been writing about finding attachment and belonging in America her entire career. But she says the Presidency of Donald Trump has completely shattered our understanding of what it means to have a public and a shared connection as citizens. But she wants to try and reshape things. Subscribe to Big Brains on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.

The hilarious, Kate Berlant graces us with her enchanting presence to discuss starting a new colony outside of Earth! Follow Kate on twitter @kateberlant http://kateberlant.com/ Check out her show on Vimeo! https://vimeo.com/ondemand/fivefivefive/197957733 Tweet us @thebigonespod Email us @ Thebigonespodcast@gmail.com Subsrcibe to our Patreon page for exclusive extra episodes and a 10% discount on Big Ones merch: https://www.patreon.com/TheBigOnes Music: www.bensound.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The second episode of this podcast is inspired by the project “Contemporary American Risk Fiction” at the University of Bayreuth. The two professors behind it, Prof. Dr. Jeanne Cortiel and Prof. Dr. Sylvia Mayer, are talking about the underlying theories, the standing of risk as a category in literary studies, and their inspirations for the project.Listen in, and let me know what you think! FeaturingProf. Dr. Sylvia Mayer http://www.americanstudies.uni-bayreuth.de/de/team/Mayer_Sylvia/index.phpProf. Dr. Jeanne Cortiel http://www.amerikanistik.uni-bayreuth.de/de/team/Cortiel_Dr_Jeanne/index.phpVerena Adamik https://vadamik.wordpress.com/Projects and Papers mentioned http://www.amerikanistik.uni-bayreuth.de/de/DFG_project/index.htmlArnoldi, Jacob. Risk: An Introduction. Key Concepts. Polity, 2009.Beck, Ulrich. Weltrisikogesellschaft. Suhrkamp, 2007. (amongst others)Berlant, Lauren. Cruel Optimism. Duke UP, 2011.Douglas, Mary, and Aaron Wildavsky. Risk and Culture: An Essay on the Selection of Technological and Environmental Dangers. U of California P, 1983.Ghosh, Amitav. The Great Derangement. Climate Change and the Unthinkable. U of Chicago P, 2016.Giddens, Anthony. Consequences of Modernity. Polity Press, 1990.Heise, Ursula. Sense of Place, Sense of Planet. The Environmental Imagination of the Global. Oxford UP, 2008. Höpker, Karin. “Frederick Douglass’s ’The Heroic Slave’ – Risk, Fiction, and Insurance in Antebellum America.” Amerikastudien 60.4 (2016): 441-462.Lupton, Deborah. Risk. Psychology Press, 1999.Mohun, Arwen P. Risk: Negotiating Safety in American Society. Johns Hopkins UP, 2013.Nixon, Rob. Slow Violence. Harvard UP, 2011.Rosen, Elizabeth. Apocalyptic Transformation: Apocalypse and the Postmodern Imagination. Lexington, 2008.Slovic, Paul. The Perception of Risk. Earthscan, 2000. (among others)Slovic, Scott. Going Away to Think: Engagement, Retreat, and Ecocritical Responsibility. U of Nevada P, 2008. (among others)Sontag, Susan. “The Imagination of Disaster.” Commentary, Oct. 1965. https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/the-imagination-of-disaster/Wallace, Molly. Risk Criticism: Precautionary Reading in an Age of Environmental Uncertainty. U of Michigan P, 2016. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=ku01.r2_6;view=1up;seq=1Music Intro/OutroTitle: pine voc - coconut macaroon; Author: Stevia Sphere; Source: https://soundcloud.com/hissoperator/pine-voc-coconut-macaroon License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Royalty Free Open Music from https://starfrosch.comAll links were last checked on Feb. 26, 2019. They are provided as an information service. The creator of this podcast and the parties involved in creating the podcast have no control over third party sites and are not responsible or liable for any content or material on such sites, do not endorse the linked sites or resources or the respective contents thereof.

Lauren Berlant asks participants of “The Soup Is On” about their engagement with theory and optimism for what writing can do. The June 2018 conference launched Berlant and Katie Stewart’s The Hundreds (2018), their forthcoming experiment in form, attention, and generative worlding. … Continue reading →

In this episode, Eric and Jacob discuss the introduction to Lauren Berlant's Cruel Optimism. Jake also recites a Haiku he composed for the occasion. If you like what we're doing, check out our Patreon book club at Patreon.com/PTRPodcast ! In case you're looking for reading material for the next few days, next week's text will be Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle. A big thanks to Matt Baker from The Catacombic Machine for our logo and artwork. Also, thanks to the Luxury Cloud Service label for use of their music! Check them out here: luxurycloudservice.bandcamp.com/album/you…he-mirror Be sure to subscribe, rate us on iTunes, and share us around!

This is Episode 3 of the State of the Theory Podcast. Politics. Power. Popular Culture. And other stuff, probably. In this series, we’re like super nerdy philosophical DJs: mashing up Serious Academic Questions with the most topical news and trends in pop culture. Each week, we’ll tackle a new topic and collide it with ‘critical theory’ (we’re pretty loose with our definitions, though, so expect the unexpected). Our aim is to destroy the stuff we know, explore the stuff we don’t and unsettle everything we think we know about the world. We take the obvious, the commonsensical, the certain, and then we rip it all to shreds. We are your theory doctors and we are always on call. In this episode, we focus on the industry surrounding Valentine's Day. Using the work of Laruen Berlant, Michael Warner, Karl Marx, Wendy Brown, Matthew Coleman and Matt Sparke, we explore the ways in which heteronormativity and neoliberalism are jointly put to work in the preservation and propagation of capitalism and the nation-state. The Tesco Valentine's Day advert can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TV5e_9Pfe4 The theoretical texts we refer to are: "Sex in Public" by Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner (http://sites.middlebury.edu/sexandsociety/files/2015/01/Berlant-and-Warner-Sex-in-Public.pdf) "Capital Vol. 1" by Karl Marx (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Capital-Critique-Political-Economy-Classics/dp/0140445684) "Neo-liberalism and the End of Liberal Democracy" by Wendy Brown (http://lchc.ucsd.edu/cogn_150/Readings/brown.pdf) "Reclaiming Democracy: An Interview with Wendy Brown" (http://criticallegalthinking.com/2013/01/30/reclaiming-democracy-an-interview-with-wendy-brown-on-occupy-sovereignty-and-secularism/) "U.S. statecraft and the U.S.–Mexico border as security/economy nexus" by Matthew Coleman (http://www.elsevierscitech.com/pdfs/JPGQ/2005_US_statecraft_and_the_US_Mexico_border_as_securityeconomy_nexus.pdf) A Neoliberal Nexus: Economy, Security and the Biopolitics of Citizenship on the Border by Matt Sparke (https://faculty.washington.edu/sparke/NN.pdf) Our theme music is "The Face of God" by The Agrarians (freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Agra…he_Face_of_God) State of the Theory is brought to you by Hannah Fitzpatrick and Anindya Raychaudhuri Find us on Facebook (www.facebook.com/stateofthetheorypodcast/?fref=ts) or Tweet us @drhfitz and @DrAnindyaR

Kate Berlant and I have the most hilarious discussion delving into all things Christmas.

The acclaimed experimental comedian has been alternative from the beginning. Born in saltwater, Kate Berlant went on to study critical theory as a homeschooler, then she reclaimed the clown as a power object. But it’s not all serious for Berlant; she also loves to be tickled.

Live from Cabo!! This particularly loopy episode of BG was recorded on the last day of our vacation in Mexico! The hysterical & relaxed Kate Berlant talks about her days as an assistant to an eccentric healer! Then, New York expert Ron Konkoma tells us why New York is way better than anywhere else. Plus: vacation highlights! White guilt! Sociopaths! Tune in and chill out!!! Lisa Hanawalt Emily Heller Kate Berlant Adam Conover

Guest: Jeff Berlant, MD Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Dr. Berlant tells about his experience in helping to develop a treatment for PTSD.

Guest: Jeff Berlant, MD Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD In this segment, Dr. Berlant discusses the combined treatment of psychotherapy and SSRI's to overcome PSTD. The downsides of SSRI's are discussed along with a comparison of SSRI treatment vs. Topamax.

Guest: Jeff Berlant, MD Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD PTSD often in the news as an issue with soldiers returning from Iraq, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is really more common among civilians. Dr. Berlant discusses the often difficult diagnosis of this disorder and provides key information/behaviors an internist may look for to help diagnose a patient with PTSD.