Podcasts about cruel optimism

Andreas Folkers über die Konzepte „Nachhaltigkeit“ und „Resilienz“ und die mit ihnen verbundenen gesellschaftlichen Naturverhältnisse.   Shownotes Personal website: https://andreasfolkers.eu/ Distinguished fellow am Max-Weber-Kolleg der Universität Erfurt: https://www.uni-erfurt.de/max-weber-kolleg/personen/vollmitglieder/fellows/andreas-folkers Mitglied des Kollegiums des Frankfurter Instituts für Sozialforschung (IfS): https://www.ifs.uni-frankfurt.de/persona-detalles/andreas-folkers.html Aktuelles Buchprojekt über die Fossile Moderne: https://andreasfolkers.eu/index.php/elementor-35/#project1 Folkers, A. (2022). Nach der Nachhaltigkeit: Resilienz und Revolte in der dritten Moderne. Leviathan, 50(2), 239–262. https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/10.5771/0340-0425-2022-2-239.pdf   Folkers, A. (2018). Das Sicherheitsdispositiv der Resilienz: Katastrophische Risiken und die Biopolitik vitaler Systeme. Campus Verlag. https://www.campus.de/buecher-campus-verlag/wissenschaft/soziologie/das_sicherheitsdispositiv_der_resilienz-14888.html?srsltid=AfmBOooGjxw_GU-9I7R61EerQGI1qZijDVeCc_JfoUhlaLkbRDN3YCKz zu „stranded assets“: Folkers, A. (2024). Calculative futures between climate and finance: A tragedy of multiple horizons. The Sociological Review.  https://doi.org/10.1177/00380261241258832 zu Hans Carl von Carlowitz und dem Konzept der Nachhaltigkeit: https://www.bmel.de/DE/themen/wald/wald-in-deutschland/carlowitz-jahr.html Sächsische Hans-Carl-von-Carlowitz-Gesellschaft e. V. (Ed.). (2013). Die Erfindung der Nachhaltigkeit: Leben, Werk und Wirkung des Hans Carl von Carlowitz. oekom. https://www.oekom.de/buch/die-erfindung-der-nachhaltigkeit-9783865814159 zu „Gouvernementalität“: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gouvernementalit%C3%A4t Zu „Kameralismus“: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kameralismus zum Ausdruck „Zucht und Ordnung“: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zucht_und_Ordnung Doganova, L. (2024). Discounting the Future: The Ascendancy of a Political Technology. Princeton University Press. https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9781942130918/discounting-the-future?srsltid=AfmBOorTzdy_ERt2RO3FWcs_uZ5kIPf3oNdJGiBaAm0AXyqmxrdIcmaN Iannerhofer, I. (2016): Neomalthusianismus. In: Kolboske, B. et al. (Hrsg.): Wissen Macht Geschlecht. Ein ABC der transnationalen Zeitgeschichte. Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften. (open access) https://www.mprl-series.mpg.de/media/proceedings/9/15/N%20Neomalthusianismus.pdf zu “peak oil”: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96lf%C3%B6rdermaximum zur “Population Bomb“ (Buch und Debatte): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Population_Bomb zum „Limits to Growth“ Report des Club of Rome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth zum Konzept des „Maximum sustainable yield“: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_sustainable_yield Sieferle, R. P. (2021). Der unterirdische Wald: Energiekrise und Industrielle Revolution. Manuscriptum Verlag. https://www.manuscriptum.de/der-unterirdische-wald.html zur “Tragedy of the Commons”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons zu “Sustainable Development”: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/what+is+sustainable+development%3F/623493.html zum “Our Common Future“ Bericht (auch “Brundtland-Bericht“ genannt): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brundtland-Bericht zur „ökologischen Ökonomie“: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96kologische_%C3%96konomie zu Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Georgescu-Roegen Mahrdt, H. (2022). Arbeiten/Herstellen/Handeln. In: Heuer, W., Rosenmüller, S. (Hrsg.) Arendt-Handbuch. J.B. Metzler. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-476-05837-9_71#citeas zu „Kreislaufwirtschaft“: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kreislaufwirtschaft zum „Neuen Materialismus“: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuer_Materialismus zum „Metabolischen Riss“: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolic_rift zu „Erdsystemwissenschaft“: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_system_science zu „CCS Technologien (Carbon Capture and Storage)”: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/CO2-Abscheidung_und_-Speicherung zu “Climate Tipping Points”: https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/output/infodesk/tipping-elements/tipping-elements Saito, Kohei. 2023. Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/marx-in-the-anthropocene/D58765916F0CB624FCCBB61F50879376 zu „CO2 Budgets”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_budget zur Verfassungsbeschwerde gegen das Klimaschutzgesetz 2019: https://www.germanwatch.org/de/verfassungsbeschwerde Luhmann, N. (1994). Die Wirtschaft der Gesellschaft. Suhrkamp. https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/niklas-luhmann-die-wirtschaft-der-gesellschaft-t-9783518287521 Keynes, J.M. (2010). Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren. In: Essays in Persuasion. Palgrave Macmillan. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-349-59072-8_25#citeas zu “Keynesianismus”: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesianismus zu Crawford Stanley Holling und „Resilienz“: https://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/research-news/2019-08-23-pioneering-the-science-of-surprise-.html zur „Gaia-Hypothese“ von Lynn Margulis und James Lovelock: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia-Hypothese Ghosh, A. (2021). The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis. University of Chicago Press. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo125517349.html Buller, A. (2022). The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism. Manchester University Press. https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526162632/ Chakrabarty, D. (2022). Das Klima der Geschichte im planetarischen Zeitalter. Suhrkamp Verlag. https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/dipesh-chakrabarty-das-klima-der-geschichte-im-planetarischen-zeitalter-t-9783518587799 Berlant, L. (2011). Cruel Optimism. Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/cruel-optimism Malm, A., & Collective, T. Z. (2021). White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism. Verso Books. https://www.versobooks.com/products/2520-white-skin-black-fuel Thematisch angrenzende Folgen S03E32 | Jacob Blumenfeld on Climate Barbarism and Managing Decline https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e32-jacob-blumenfeld-on-climate-barbarism-and-managing-decline/ S03E30 | Matt Huber & Kohei Saito on Growth, Progress, and Left Imaginaries https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e30-matt-huber-kohei-saito-on-growth-progress-and-left-imaginaries/ S03E27 | Andreas Gehrlach zur ursprünglichen Wohlstandsgesellschaft https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e27-andreas-gehrlach-zur-urspruenglichen-wohlstandsgesellschaft/ S03E23 | Andreas Malm on Overshooting into Climate Breakdown https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e23-andreas-malm-on-overshooting-into-climate-breakdown/ S03E17 | Klaus Dörre zu Utopie, Nachhaltigkeit und einer Linken für das 21. Jh. https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e17-klaus-doerre-zu-utopie-nachhaltigkeit-und-einer-linken-fuer-das-21-jh/ S03E16 | Daniela Russ zu Energie(wirtschaft) und produktivistischer Ökologie https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e16-daniela-russ-zu-energie-wirtschaft-und-produktivistischer-oekologie/ S03E15 | Walther Zeug zu Material- und Energieflussanalyse und sozio-metabolischer Planung (Teil 2) https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e15-walther-zeug-zu-material-und-energieflussanalyse-und-sozio-metabolischer-planung-teil-2/ S03E14 | Walther Zeug zu Material- und Energieflussanalyse und sozio-metabolischer Planung https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e14-walther-zeug-zu-material-und-energieflussanalyse-und-sozio-metabolischer-planung/ S03E08 | Simon Schaupp zu Stoffwechselpolitik https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e08-simon-schaupp-zu-stoffwechselpolitik/ S03E05 | Marina Fischer-Kowalski zu gesellschaftlichem Stoffwechsel https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e05-marina-fischer-kowalski-zu-gesellschaftlichem-stoffwechsel/ S03E03 | Planning for Entropy on sociometabolic Planning https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e03-planning-for-entropy-on-sociometabolic-planning/ S02E10 | Aaron Benanav on Associational Socialism and Democratic Planning https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e10-aaron-benanav-on-associational-socialism-and-democratic-planning/ S02E03 | Ute Tellmann zu Ökonomie als Kultur https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e03-ute-tellmann-zu-oekonomie-als-kultur/     Future Histories Kontakt & Unterstützung Wenn euch Future Histories gefällt, dann erwägt doch bitte eine Unterstützung auf Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistories   Schreibt mir unter: office@futurehistories.today Diskutiert mit mir auf Twitter (#FutureHistories): https://twitter.com/FutureHpodcast auf Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/futurehistories.bsky.social auf Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/futurehpodcast/ auf Mastodon: https://mstdn.social/@FutureHistories   Webseite mit allen Folgen: www.futurehistories.today English webpage: https://futurehistories-international.com   Episode Keywords #AndreasFolkers, #Podcast, #JanGroos, #FutureHistories, #Klimakrise, #Ressourcen, #Klimakollaps, #Kapitalismus, #GesellschaftlicheNaturverhältnisse, #Zukunft, #Degrowth, #Knappheit, #Wirtschaft, #Wirtschaftswissenschaft, #Neoklassik, #Ökonomik, #AlternativeWirtschaft, #Nachhaltigkeit, #Resilienz, #PluraleÖkonomik, #HeterodoxeÖkonomik, #Commons, #Freiheit, #Emanzipation, #Planungsdebatte, #PostkapitalistischeProduktionsweise, #DemokratischePlanung, #NeuerMaterialismus, #Material-UndEnergieflussanalyse, #KommodifizierungDerNatur, #Material-Fluss-Analyse, #Stoffwechsel, #SozialerMetabolismus, #SoziometabolischePlanung, #Beziehungsweisen, #EnvironmentalesRegieren, #EnvironmentalGovernance, #Ökologisch-demokratischePlanung, #ÖkologischePlanung, #SozialÖkologischeRegime      

Platforms are now an almost ubiquitous feature of schools. We talk with Lucas Cone (University of Copenhagen) about his work around teachers' everyday engagements with platforms – in particular the benefits of using affect theory to make sense of teachers' affiliations and relationships with these clearly problematic technologies.  Accompanying reference >>>  Lucas Cone (2024) Subscribing school: digital platforms, affective attachments, and cruel optimism in a Danish public primary school, Critical Studies in Education, 65(3):294-311, DOI: 10.1080/17508487.2023.2269425

A new episode of "A Tale of Today" begins with an explanation of the forest charter and the enclosure of the commons through a revisionist version of a familiar story. The enclosure of the commons is then traced into The Gilded Age [8:00], before two scholars of the novel discuss its affective registers, as well as Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner's fraught attempts to periodize and historicize its contemporary political moment [21:00]. Cast (in order of appearance): Astra Taylor, Matt Seybold, Nathan Wolff Soundtrack: DownRiver Collective Narration: Nathan Osgood & SNR Audio For more about this episode, including a complete bibliography, please visit MarkTwainStudies.com/RobinHood, or subscribe to Matt Seybold's newsletter at TheAmericanVandal.substack.com

Part two of this three-part series on dancefloors and belonging examines how we experience intimacy and a sense of vague belonging. We look at the complex conflicted feelings of our lives that introduce paradox in a queer approach to analysis that draws upon magical realism. We examine the notion of an intimate public and how our constructions and projects of a “we” inform our feelings of belonging. Finally, the episode looks at senses of vague belonging and vague intimacy that are most profoundly experienced on dancefloors. Interwoven are reflections on peacebuilding and how peacebuilders may use the arts to lubricate spaces for vague belonging and multilayered affective experience.The Music & Peacebuilding Podcast is hosted by Kevin Shorner-Johnson at Elizabethtown College. Join our professional development network at www.musicpeacebuilding.com - thinking deeply we reclaim space for connection and care.

Have you ever been to a Tupperware party? Or perhaps a Pure Romance party? Avon? Then you may be familiar with pyramid schemes! In this episode, Marcelle guides Hannah through the history of Tupperware parties and their rising popularity post WWII. She then offers some Lauren Berlant theory (which always makes for a good episode!!); specifically, their concept of "cruel optimism." If that sounds familiar, it's because we first visited this theory in our Queer Eye episode. Enjoy the episode and become a Patreon supporter today to attend our LIVE episode recording on July 12th at 5 pm EST!You can learn more about Material Girls at ohwitchplease.ca and on our instagram at instagram.com/ohwitchplease! Want more from us? Check out our website ohwitchplease.ca. We'll be back next week with a bonus episode, but until then, we mean it — go check out all the other content we have on our Patreon at Patreon.com/ohwitchplease! Patreon is HOW WE PAY OUR TEAM! We need your support to make the show. Thanks again to all of you who have already made the leap to join us on Patreon.***Material Girls is a show that aims to make sense of the zeitgeist through materialist critique* and critical theory! Each episode looks at a unique object of study (something popular now or from back in the day) and over the course of three distinct segments, Hannah and Marcelle apply their academic expertise to the topic at hand.*Materialist Critique is, at its simplest possible level, a form of cultural critique – that is, scholarly engagement with a cultural text of some kind – that is interested in modes of production, moments of reception, and the historical and ideological contexts for both. Materialist critique is really interested in the question of why a particular cultural work or practice emerged at a particular moment. Music Credits:“Shopping Mall”: by Jay Arner and Jessica Delisle ©2020Used by permission. All rights reserved. As recorded by Auto Syndicate on the album “Bongo Dance”. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Have you ever been to a Tupperware party? Or perhaps a Pure Romance party? Avon? Then you may be familiar with pyramid schemes! In this episode, Marcelle guides Hannah through the history of Tupperware parties and their rising popularity post WWII. She then offers some Lauren Berlant theory (which always makes for a good episode!!); specifically, their concept of "cruel optimism." If that sounds familiar, it's because we first visited this theory in our Queer Eye episode. Enjoy the episode and become a Patreon supporter today to attend our LIVE episode recording on July 12th at 5 pm EST!You can learn more about Material Girls at ohwitchplease.ca and on our instagram at instagram.com/ohwitchplease! Want more from us? Check out our website ohwitchplease.ca. We'll be back next week with a bonus episode, but until then, we mean it — go check out all the other content we have on our Patreon at Patreon.com/ohwitchplease! Patreon is HOW WE PAY OUR TEAM! We need your support to make the show. Thanks again to all of you who have already made the leap to join us on Patreon.***Material Girls is a show that aims to make sense of the zeitgeist through materialist critique* and critical theory! Each episode looks at a unique object of study (something popular now or from back in the day) and over the course of three distinct segments, Hannah and Marcelle apply their academic expertise to the topic at hand.*Materialist Critique is, at its simplest possible level, a form of cultural critique – that is, scholarly engagement with a cultural text of some kind – that is interested in modes of production, moments of reception, and the historical and ideological contexts for both. Materialist critique is really interested in the question of why a particular cultural work or practice emerged at a particular moment. Music Credits:“Shopping Mall”: by Jay Arner and Jessica Delisle ©2020Used by permission. All rights reserved. As recorded by Auto Syndicate on the album “Bongo Dance”. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hans Janssen ging met de mobiele podcast studio naar Tilburg University. En vroeg Margriet het hemd van het lijf over het brein:Waarom is neuroplasticiteit de basis onder talentontwikkeling en persoonlijk leiderschapWaarom heb je bij -bijna- alles wat je doet als leider en ondernemer kennis nodig over de werking van de hersenenHoe ga je om met een overbelast brein in een VUCA wereldHoe train je je brein in wilskracht en hoe maak je het jezelf makkelijker om doelen te stellen en die te behalen.In de slipstream leren we nog over “Cruel Optimism” én geeft Margriet een ontluisterend simpele tip waarmee ze zichzelf behoedt voor het aannemen van teveel werk. 

Do you have challenges you have been facing for a long time but can't seem to find a long lasting solution? This might be an effect of cruel optimism. Rebecca discusses her issues with food and social media that she found out had their roots in the system of economic growth. This episode is dynamic, she talks about children, horses, Uganda's roads etc and everything is tied to an individualistic outlook to our issues instead of collectivistic outlook. This episode will leave you thinking long after listening to it. Tune In. 

We're back on the plot today with Slauson Malone 1, formerly Slauson Malone, also known as Jasper Marsalis. Jasper is a painter, sculptor and musician who currently lives in Los Angeles. His work in music feels like a form of collage; of narratives, sounds and references.In this episode Flo and Jasper are appealing to Jasper's perfectionist qualities and planting out garlic. They discuss the music that Jasper is currently fake listening to; his respect and fear of cooking and appreciation of dumb but useful items, like the dibber - which is well used in this episode. Jasper is currently reading Cruel Optimism by Lauren Berlant, listening to Abdul Wadud, By Myself; and watching Winter adé as well as Fast X. Presenter & editor - Flo Dill, Producer - Lizzy King, Sound Recording - Fabrice Robinson, Audio production - Felix Stock. Special thanks to Dimitris Mylonas.Music - Cleaners from Venus - The Artichoke That Loved Me, courtesy of Martin Newell & Captured Tracks.Listen back to Jasper's shows and guest spots on NTS Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

 Marie Brennan and Lew Zipin talk about their research and action-research projects with schools and universities.They present a direction for education that is intertwined with commmunities - with students researching issues that matter to them, while drawing from a range of sources and 'knowledges', and forming relevant relationships in the process.This is contrasted with the current top-down, command-and-control approach of our schools and universities, within a Neoliberal, corporatised model. Certainly, Marie and Lew's approach is much better suited to meet the many challenges facing us, such as economic disadvantage, global warming, and the effects of colonisation. ReferencesBerlant, L. 2011, Cruel Optimism, Durham, NC: Duke University Press.Boomer, G. 1999, ‘Pragmatic radical teaching and the disadvantaged schools program'. In B. Green (Ed.), Designs on Learning: Essays on Curriculum and Teaching (pp 49–58). Australian Curriculum Studies Association.Bourdieu, P. 1984, ‘The forms of capital'. In J. Richardson (Ed), Handbook of Theory and Research for the Sociology of Education, New York: Greenwood, pp 241–58.Bourdieu, P. 1993, The Field of Cultural Production: Essays on Art and Literature, New York: Columbia University Press.Brennan, M. 2019, 'Scholarly activism in and for renewed Australian universities', Social Alternatives 38(3), pp 56-62.Bunda, T., Zipin, L. & Brennan, M. 2012, ‘Negotiating university “equity” from Indigenous standpoints: A shaky bridge', International Journal of Inclusive Education, 16(9), pp 941–957.Freire, P. 1993/1970. Pedagogy of the Oppressed, trans. M. Bergman Ramos, New York & London: Continuum.Marx, K. 1967, Capital Volume 1, trans. S. Moore & E. Aveling, New York: International Publishers.Moll, L. 2014, L. S. Vygotsky and Education, New York & London: Taylor and Francis.Moll, L., Amanti, C., Neffe, D., & Gonzalez, N. 1992, ‘Funds of knowledge for teaching: Using a qualitative approach to connect homes and classrooms', Theory into Practice 32(2), pp. 132-141.Pignarre, P. & Stengers, I. 2011, Capitalist Sorcery: Breaking the Spell, trans. A. Goffey, London: Palgrave Macmillan.Santos, B. de Sousa 2018, The End of the Cognitive Empire: The Coming of Age of Epistemologies of the South, Durham & London: Duke University Press.Thomson, P. 2002, Schooling the Rustbelt Kids: Making the Difference in Changing Times, Crows Nest, Australia: Allen & Unwin.Zipin, L. 2019, ‘How Council-Management Governance Troubles Australian University Labours and Futures: Simplistic assumptions and complex consequences', Social Alternatives 38(3), pp 28-35.Zipin, L. 2020, ‘Building curriculum knowledge work around community-based “Problems That Matter”: Let's dare to imagine', Curriculum Perspectives 40(1), pp 111–115.Zipin, L. & Zipin, L. & Brennan, M. 2023, ‘Affective labour pains of academic capitalism in crisis'. In D. Nehring & K. Brunila K. (Eds), Affective Capitalism in Academia (pp 21-46), Bristol: Policy Press, imprint of Bristol University Press.Zipin, L. & Brennan, M. 2023, 'Opening school walls to funds of knowledge: Students researching problems that matter in Australian communities'. In M. Esteban-Guitart. (Ed), Funds of Knowledge and Identity Pedagogies for Social Justice: International Perspectives and Praxis from Communities, Classrooms and Curriculum (pp 41-56), London & New York: Routledge. 

Friedemann und Samira, radikal mittelmäßig auf der Suche nach der entrückten Mitte und dem mittigen Rechtsextremismus und der Antwort auf die Frage, wie grausam Optimismus sein kann. Am Ende springt aus der Mitte Verdruss. Erwähntes! “Die distanzierte Mitte”, Studie der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, https://www.fes.de/referat-demokratie-gesellschaft-und-innovation/gegen-rechtsextremismus/mitte-studie-2023 Die Studie: https://www.fes.de/index.php?eID=dumpFile&t=f&f=91776&token=3821fe2a05aff649791e9e7ebdb18eabdae3e0fd “Why Chasing The Good Life Is Holding Us Back, With Lauren Berlant”, “Cruel Optimism” erklärt von Laurent Berlant im Big Brain Podcast, hier auf Youtube, aber auch bei allen Podcastanbietern zu finden: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ppdd2R46Eh4 Hier das englische Transkript: https://news.uchicago.edu/podcasts/big-brains/why-chasing-good-life-holding-us-back-lauren-berlant Policy Paper des Else-Frenkel-Brunswik-Institut (EFBI): “Autoritäre Dynamiken und die Unzufriedenheit mit der Demokratie - die rechtextreme Einstellung in den Ostdeutschen Bundesländern", https://efbi.de/files/efbi/pdfs/2023_2_Policy_Paper.pdf “Autoritärer Nationalradikalismus - Der Soziologe Wilhelm Heitmeyer über Hintergründe des Umfragehochs der AfD im Juni 2023”, Wilhelm Heitmeyer, im Interview mit Christoph David Piorkowski https://www.bpb.de/themen/deutschlandarchiv/522277/autoritaerer-nationalradikalismus/ (Zuerst veröffentlicht im Philosophie Magazin: https://www.philomag.de/artikel/wilhelm-heitmeyer-krisen-und-kontrollverluste-sind-die-wirkungsvollsten-treiber) PP-Folge 134 zu dem Wahlerfolg der AfD in Sonneberg, "Politische Rache", https://piratensenderpowerplay.podigee.io/159-new-episode Im Wettkampf der Asylverschärfungen, Dinah Riese, taz, https://taz.de/Fluechtlingspolitik-von-SPD-bis-CDU/!5958250/ Empfehlungen! Roman Marvel Moreno, Im Dezember der Wind, Verlag Klaus Wagenbach, https://www.wagenbach.de/buecher/titel/1358-im-dezember-der-wind.html Dokumentation "All the Beauty and the Bloodshed", Regie: Laura Poitras https://www.ndr.de/kultur/film/tipps/All-the-Beauty-and-the-Bloodshed-Doku-ueber-die-Fotografin-Nan-Goldin,allthebeauty100.html Serie Painkiller, Netflix, Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24-YonhNS0Y “Die reichsten Drogenbarone der Welt”, FAZ+, https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/medien/serien/painkiller-auf-netflix-die-reichsten-drogenbarone-der-welt-19091402.html Unterwegs! Lesung “Die Lügnerin”: Am 26.9. Backfabrik Berlin mit der @buchbox Und: 22.10. auf der lit.ruhr Tickets für die PP-Live-Tour 2023: https://www.contra-word.com/Kuenstler-innen/Piratensender-Powerplay/01.11.23 Köln, Comedia 02.11.23 Dortmund, Junkyard 16.11.23 Bremen, Lagerhaus 17.11.23 Hamburg, KENT 18.11.23 Berlin, Columbia Theater 27.11.23 München, Lustspielhaus 29.11.23 Stuttgart, Im Wizemann Studio 30.11.23 Frankfurt, Brotfabrik

"It's time for the Left to consider the pessimist a helpful guide out of the somnolence of capitalist realism." We dissect ideas and misunderstandings around optimism & pessimism, and how pessimism is a fundamentally critical position, whilst optimism breeds hubris and complacency. We discuss the cruelty of optimism, how self destruction can often be an act of autonomy against an unhealthy environment - aka the optimistic delusion of capitalists - and the utopian concept of "Not This". References: Disconsolate Dreamers - On Pessimism and Utopia: https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/disconsolate-dreamers-pessimism-utopia Pronoia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronoia_(psychology) Cruel Optimism: https://www.dukeupress.edu/Cruel-Optimism/ Productivity vs wages: How wages in America have stagnated: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/11/productivity-workforce-america-united-states-wages-stagnate/ -- Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead Email us with feedback, questions, suggestions at itsnotjustinyourhead@gmail.com. -- Harriet's other shows: WBAI Interpersonal Update (Wednesdays): https://wbai.org/program.php?program=431 Capitalism Hits Home: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPJpiw1WYdTNYvke-gNRdml1Z2lwz0iEH -- ATTENTION! This is a Boring Dystopia/Obligatory 'don't sue us' message: This podcast provides numerous different perspectives and criticisms of the mental health space, however, it should not be considered medical advice. Please consult your medical professional with regards to any health decisions or management. ⸱1 Like --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/itsnotjustinyourhead/message

What makes the Fab Five so fab? In this episode, Hannah leads Marcelle through a discussion of contemporary masculinities and their commodification via pop culture! They talk neo-liberalism, self-care discourse and the interplay of Trump's rise to power and "reaching across the aisle" through entertainment. Hannah pulls on theory from the late Lauren Berlant for a lesson on intimate publics and 'cruel optimism.'This episode is for you if you:watched the original Queer Eye for the Straight Guyenjoy the reboot of Queer Eyehate the rebootthink Antoni is a hunkdon't think Antoni is a hunkcare about the commodification of progressive idealsIf you like this episode, please share it with family and friends! Word-of-mouth is the primary way we reach new listeners who are interested in feminist materialist critique, pop culture and laughing at and from within *the discourse.* Share the show today!***Material Girls is a new show that aims to make sense of the zeitgeist through materialist critique* and critical theory! Each episode looks at a unique object of study (something popular now or from back in the day) and over the course of three distinct segments, Hannah and Marcelle apply their academic expertise to the topic at hand.We'll be back in two weeks for another episode, but until then, be sure to check out all the bonus content we have on our Patreon at Patreon.com/ohwitchplease. You can learn more about the show at ohwitchplease.ca and on our instagram at instagram.com/ohwitchplease! Want more from us? Check out our website ohwitchplease.ca.*Materialist Critique is, at its simplest possible level, a form of cultural critique – that is, scholarly engagement with a cultural text of some kind – that is interested in modes of production, moments of reception, and the historical and ideological contexts for both. Materialist critique is really interested in the question of why a particular cultural work or practice emerged at a particular moment. Music Credits:“Shopping Mall”: by Jay Arner and Jessica Delisle ©2020Used by permission. All rights reserved. As recorded by Auto Syndicate on the album “Bongo Dance”. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What makes the Fab Five so fab? In this episode, Hannah leads Marcelle through a discussion of contemporary masculinities and their commodification via pop culture! They talk neo-liberalism, self-care discourse and the interplay of Trump's rise to power and "reaching across the aisle" through entertainment. Hannah pulls on theory from the late Lauren Berlant for a lesson on intimate publics and 'cruel optimism.'This episode is for you if you:watched the original Queer Eye for the Straight Guyenjoy the reboot of Queer Eyehate the rebootthink Antoni is a hunkdon't think Antoni is a hunkcare about the commodification of progressive idealsIf you like this episode, please share it with family and friends! Word-of-mouth is the primary way we reach new listeners who are interested in feminist materialist critique, pop culture and laughing at and from within *the discourse.* Share the show today!***Material Girls is a new show that aims to make sense of the zeitgeist through materialist critique* and critical theory! Each episode looks at a unique object of study (something popular now or from back in the day) and over the course of three distinct segments, Hannah and Marcelle apply their academic expertise to the topic at hand.We'll be back in two weeks for another episode, but until then, be sure to check out all the bonus content we have on our Patreon at Patreon.com/ohwitchplease. You can learn more about the show at ohwitchplease.ca and on our instagram at instagram.com/ohwitchplease! Want more from us? Check out our website ohwitchplease.ca.*Materialist Critique is, at its simplest possible level, a form of cultural critique – that is, scholarly engagement with a cultural text of some kind – that is interested in modes of production, moments of reception, and the historical and ideological contexts for both. Materialist critique is really interested in the question of why a particular cultural work or practice emerged at a particular moment. Music Credits:“Shopping Mall”: by Jay Arner and Jessica Delisle ©2020Used by permission. All rights reserved. As recorded by Auto Syndicate on the album “Bongo Dance”. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Being aware of the water in which we swim is not always easy. Dr Peter Kline joins the conversation to help us to see more clearly the culture in which we are immersed that we may understand the way it has constrained our desire, providing the delusion of freedom. More than that, the promises of a neo-capitalist society ultimately can never be fulfilled as we attach our deepest longings to narratives that actually prevent us from attaining what we most deeply desire. Has hyper-individualism and pressure to perform and enjoy our lives robbed us of one another and trained us to buy into the wrong dreams?  Dr Peter Kline is the Academic Dean and Associate Professor of Theology at St Francis College, Milton. He has a Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary and a PhD in Theological Studies from Vanderbilt University, with a special interest in negative theology.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, Dr. Kelly Underman, Associate Professor in Sociology at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and author of Feeling Medicine: How the Pelvic Exam Shapes Medical Training (2020), joins us to read from the first chapter of Lauren Berlant’s Cruel Optimism (2011). Follow along HERE. -Kyle-

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It's Olivia's penultimate episode. That's right, we're just one story away from catching up to the present dick—day! Present day. But where you might be expecting to see hope or at least clarity from only-slightly-younger Olivia, what you'll hear in this story is a lot of the same ol' bullshit. Which is to say, club hookups and skinny f***boys abound. There's also a literal clown. She can't seem to let go of her MO. But! It's always darkest before the dawn. He's out there. He's actually at the same bars and clubs as she is. They just haven't had a chance to meet.  In the meantime, enjoy the cringefest.  *** More about the podcast:  whatsyournumberpod.com Find travel pictures and other cool stuff on INSTAGRAM:  @whatsyournumberpod *** Music is "Paint" and "Good Boy" by No Fancy. Artwork by Anastasia Papapavlou. Sound engineering by Lightning the Cavern Works.

Where is the threshold for when positive thinking and optimism become toxic? Or perhaps worse than toxic - downright cruel ?Key topics:✔️ Lauren Berlant's book Cruel Optimism. ✔️ What if a dream of "the good life" is actually holding you back from living a good life? Or what if the promise of that good life is totally bogus?✔️ "An attachment to a significantly problematic object." That's how I felt about my real estate quest and why I decided to strategically quit. ✔️An interesting argument is made for méconnaissance  causing us to project certain traits onto other people or things only to discover they may or may not have those qualities after all. We can see this in relationship hopping, job hopping, love bombing, political hoopla and rah-rahing, etc. There are a couple of places where I had cellular interference with the microphone. Sorry!Links I mention in this episode:https://www.amazon.com/Cruel-Optimism-Lauren-Berlant-ebook/dp/B005Z53MG4/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=cruel+optimism&qid=1663290855&sr=8-1https://www.yahoo.com/now/feel-used-rise-friend-bombing-053000357.htmlhttps://news.uchicago.edu/podcasts/big-brains/why-chasing-good-life-holding-us-back-lauren-berlanthttps://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/04/20/how-the-american-middle-class-has-changed-in-the-past-five-decades/Need more? Email me: https://causeyconsultingllc.com/contact-causey/

Why are societies still not offering racial equality? In The Cruel Optimism of Racial Justice (Policy Press, 2022), Nasar Meer, a professor of Race, Identity and Citizenship in the School of Social and Political Sciences and director of RACE.ED at the University of Edinburgh, explores the past, present, and future of the struggle for racial justice. In a wide-ranging text, informed by social, cultural, and political theory, the recent history of racial equality policy is juxtaposed with the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, to analyse the successes and the failures of struggles to make society racially just. Offering a major theoretical and practical contribution, the book is essential reading across humanities and social sciences, as well as for activists and anyone interested in changing society for the better. Dave O'Brien is Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries, at the University of Sheffield. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Why are societies still not offering racial equality? In The Cruel Optimism of Racial Justice (Policy Press, 2022), Nasar Meer, a professor of Race, Identity and Citizenship in the School of Social and Political Sciences and director of RACE.ED at the University of Edinburgh, explores the past, present, and future of the struggle for racial justice. In a wide-ranging text, informed by social, cultural, and political theory, the recent history of racial equality policy is juxtaposed with the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, to analyse the successes and the failures of struggles to make society racially just. Offering a major theoretical and practical contribution, the book is essential reading across humanities and social sciences, as well as for activists and anyone interested in changing society for the better. Dave O'Brien is Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries, at the University of Sheffield. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theory

Why are societies still not offering racial equality? In The Cruel Optimism of Racial Justice (Policy Press, 2022), Nasar Meer, a professor of Race, Identity and Citizenship in the School of Social and Political Sciences and director of RACE.ED at the University of Edinburgh, explores the past, present, and future of the struggle for racial justice. In a wide-ranging text, informed by social, cultural, and political theory, the recent history of racial equality policy is juxtaposed with the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, to analyse the successes and the failures of struggles to make society racially just. Offering a major theoretical and practical contribution, the book is essential reading across humanities and social sciences, as well as for activists and anyone interested in changing society for the better. Dave O'Brien is Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries, at the University of Sheffield. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/sociology

Why are societies still not offering racial equality? In The Cruel Optimism of Racial Justice (Policy Press, 2022), Nasar Meer, a professor of Race, Identity and Citizenship in the School of Social and Political Sciences and director of RACE.ED at the University of Edinburgh, explores the past, present, and future of the struggle for racial justice. In a wide-ranging text, informed by social, cultural, and political theory, the recent history of racial equality policy is juxtaposed with the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, to analyse the successes and the failures of struggles to make society racially just. Offering a major theoretical and practical contribution, the book is essential reading across humanities and social sciences, as well as for activists and anyone interested in changing society for the better. Dave O'Brien is Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries, at the University of Sheffield. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

Why are societies still not offering racial equality? In The Cruel Optimism of Racial Justice (Policy Press, 2022), Nasar Meer, a professor of Race, Identity and Citizenship in the School of Social and Political Sciences and director of RACE.ED at the University of Edinburgh, explores the past, present, and future of the struggle for racial justice. In a wide-ranging text, informed by social, cultural, and political theory, the recent history of racial equality policy is juxtaposed with the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, to analyse the successes and the failures of struggles to make society racially just. Offering a major theoretical and practical contribution, the book is essential reading across humanities and social sciences, as well as for activists and anyone interested in changing society for the better. Dave O'Brien is Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries, at the University of Sheffield. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/public-policy

Why are societies still not offering racial equality? In The Cruel Optimism of Racial Justice (Policy Press, 2022), Nasar Meer, a professor of Race, Identity and Citizenship in the School of Social and Political Sciences and director of RACE.ED at the University of Edinburgh, explores the past, present, and future of the struggle for racial justice. In a wide-ranging text, informed by social, cultural, and political theory, the recent history of racial equality policy is juxtaposed with the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, to analyse the successes and the failures of struggles to make society racially just. Offering a major theoretical and practical contribution, the book is essential reading across humanities and social sciences, as well as for activists and anyone interested in changing society for the better. Dave O'Brien is Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries, at the University of Sheffield. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/politics-and-polemics

Why are societies still not offering racial equality? In The Cruel Optimism of Racial Justice (Policy Press, 2022), Nasar Meer, a professor of Race, Identity and Citizenship in the School of Social and Political Sciences and director of RACE.ED at the University of Edinburgh, explores the past, present, and future of the struggle for racial justice. In a wide-ranging text, informed by social, cultural, and political theory, the recent history of racial equality policy is juxtaposed with the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, to analyse the successes and the failures of struggles to make society racially just. Offering a major theoretical and practical contribution, the book is essential reading across humanities and social sciences, as well as for activists and anyone interested in changing society for the better. Dave O'Brien is Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries, at the University of Sheffield. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/british-studies

Er is iets goed mis op de Nederlandse universiteiten. Vooral de vele medewerkers met tijdelijke contracten hebben last van uitbuiting en sociale onveiligheid, maar klagen levert slechts meer gedoe op. In deze aflevering spreken Dennis en Annelot met docent genderstudies Ilse Lazaroms over haar ervaringen met de neoliberale universiteit, hoe het anders moet en op welke manieren er al weerstand geboden wordt. SHOWNOTES, vanaf nu met aparte volle hyperlinks: Het essay van Ilse in dNBg: https://www.nederlandseboekengids.com/20220601-ilse-josepha-lazaroms/ Suze Zijlstra's afscheidsessay: https://www.mareonline.nl/opinie/waarom-ik-mijn-verloving-met-de-universiteit-verbreek/ Onze aflevering met Suze: https://www.hetredelijkemidden.nl/3-4-voormoeders Lauren Berlant, Cruel Optimism: https://www.dukeupress.edu/cruel-optimism Alle genoemde actiegroepen op Twitter: https://twitter.com/0pointseven, https://twitter.com/actiewangedrag, https://twitter.com/AccessibleAc, https://twitter.com/CasAcStories, https://twitter.com/WOinactie

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.

Sophie Hope has just written a contribution to a book called The Failures of Public Art and Participation. In this episode she expands upon some of the arguments in her chapter, We Thought We Were Going To Change The World: socially engaged art and cruel optimism. She bases her analysis on a reading of Laurent Berlant's book Cruel Optimism and uses a long running work of her own, the 1984 Dinners, as the starting point for a practical look at how we might thrive through solidarity in the face of the frustrations of our cruel optimism.

We live in a system that is pouring itching powder on us, whilst also telling us that if we were better people, we'd be able to stop scratching. this week's episode explores this idea of cruel optimism.Stolen Focus Book

How to rage against the theft of your financial future. Saving for retirement.

A record number of employees have quit their jobs in recent months, in what's been dubbed the Great Resignation. Newspapers report that it's part of post-Covid demand for flexible working and better work life balance. After last year, where up to a quarter of the UK workforce was paid not to work through the furlough scheme, are we reassessing our relationship to our jobs? How does work impact our health and sense of self? And should we improve our working conditions - or try to abolish work altogether? Ayeisha is joined by Amelia Horgan, assistant lecturer at the school of philosophy and art history, University of Essex, and author of Lost in Work. - Grab a copy of Amelia's book: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745340913/lost-in-work/ - Listen back to past episodes on outsourcing and the impacts of the economy on mental health: https://neweconomics.org/section/podcasts - Read Ayeisha's piece for the second issue of the New Economics Zine: https://neweconomics.org/2020/10/this-is-your-brain-on-neoliberalism - Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex is available here: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/103/1038399/the-second-sex/9780099595731.html - Find out more about Lauren Berlant's Cruel Optimism: https://www.dukeupress.edu/cruel-optimism - Take a look at the Antiwork subreddit here: https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/ - Read Capital Realism by Mark Fisher: https://bookshop.org/books/capitalist-realism-is-there-no-alternative/9781846943171 ----- Researched by Margaret Welsh. Produced by Becky Malone. Music by Poddington Bear under Creative Commons license. Enjoying the show? Tweet us your comments and questions @NEF! The Weekly Economics Podcast is brought to you by the New Economics Foundation. Find out more at www.neweconomics.org

Maggie Doherty teaches writing at Harvard, where she earned her PhD in English. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, and the Nation, among other publications. She is also the author of The Equivalents: The Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960's. She joins Breht to discuss the work of Lauren Berlant, Affect Theory, our emotional landscapes in late capitalism, and much more! Follow her on Twitter @magsrdoherty Check out her interview on Open Source: https://radioopensource.org/into-the-feel-tank/   Outro Music: "Some Rotten Man" by The Taxpayers ----- Support Rev Left Radio: https://www.patreon.com/RevLeftRadio or make a one time donation: PayPal.me/revleft LEARN MORE ABOUT REV LEFT RADIO: www.revolutionaryleftradio.com

This is Part 2 of the episode, "Lofi Beats to Study and Relax To." Take a look into "Cruel Optimism," American history, and how Vaporwave can be seen as a healthy trauma response to the failures of the modern internet. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/howithinkaboutx?fan_landing=true Read the essay online: https://www.tjneathery.com/howithinkaboutx

In this episode of CHH, Dr. Fraad explores the concept of cruel optimism from Lauren Berlant's book. American culture teaches us to look on the bright side. Nonetheless, the blight side of US life is emerging. The media, corporate advertisement-driven as it is, hides the reasons why pandemic and recession blight spreads. People, and particularly men, are driven mad. They reach for their guns to reassert their supremacy. Reflexive optimism turns cruel.

Harriet explains what is cruel about a form of optimism that people internalize which says everything will be fine if they just work hard and follow the rules within this economic system and society. The US capitalist economy is pitted against the vast majority of people and waking up to this and understanding the collective situation we're all in is the first step. Become a patron at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to join monthly discussion groups by zoom, early access to episodes, and a private chatroom for fans of the show, email us at itsnotjustinyourhead@gmail.com, and give us anonymous feedback at https://forms.gle/3yS6uAc8BGczs8DB6. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/support

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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

Are you concerned about the rising costs of college?  What college or university would best fit your kids? Or curious about how critical a mentor for your kids in college could be? This week I kick off a special three-part series focused on the college planning process.  It’s not just about saving, financial aid, or loans.  The college process that I am building at TAMMA is a comprehensive look at how to plan, have conversations with your kids, and the right questions to ask students and college administrators, and professors. In part one, I look at the cruel optimism we face as parents when it comes to balancing all the financial and lifestyle challenges facing us.  Part two is focused on how to find a college or university that best fits your kids.  And part three, I cover how to take the financial guesswork out of the college planning process. I hope that you enjoy part one of our college planning process series. For show notes and resources discussed in this episode, visit tammacapital.com/29. For more episodes, go to tammacapital.com/podcast. Follow Paul on Facebook and LinkedIn. And feel free to email Paul at pfenner@tammacapital.com with any feedback, questions, or ideas for future guests and topics.  

When you think of protest music, you might think of the rock anthems of the 1960's, or rap that turns frustration into elegantly poignant lyrics. For pianist Vijay Iyer, music without lyrics—has always been political music. This week, we talk with Vijay about the release of his new album 'Uneasy,' which in many ways is a protest album. We delve into the political history of jazz, the role of music in protest movements today. For the playlist of songs curated for this episode visit http://bit.ly/oos-vijay/ Show Notes /Vijay Iyer's new album is Uneasy, with collaborators Tyshawn Sorey and Linda May Han Oh. Vijay shared Billie Holiday's Strange Fruit and John Coltrane's 1968 performance at The Newport Jazz festival as examples of performances of protest.Vijay cites Miles Davis' performance of “Ah-Leu Cha” at the Newport Jazz Festival and Jimi Hendrix's “Machine Gun” as examples of powerful political music. Vijay references Cruel Optimism by Lauren Berlant. In his final thought, Hanif discusses Nina Simone's songs “Pirate Jenny” and “Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair.” / Music In This Week's Playlist /Children of Flint, Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh, Tyshawn SoreySong of the United Front, Charlie HadenVolunteered Slavery, Rahsaan Roland KirkPirate Jenny, Nina SimoneTranscendence, Alice Coltrane and Pharoh SandersAh-Leu-Cha, Miles at Newport/ Credits / Object of Sound is a Sonos show produced by work x work: Scott Newman, Jemma Rose Brown, and Babette Thomas. The show is additionally produced by Hanif Abdurraqib. Our engineers are Sam Bair and Josh Hahn of The Relic Room.

In this Roundtable we are joined by Mexican photographer, Tania Franco Klein, and art curator and writer, William J. Simmons. Tania’s work has been exhibited widely both in solo and group shows across Europe, the USA, and Mexico and has been commissioned by clients like The New York Times, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Vogue and Dior. Will received his BA in Art History and LGBTQ Studies at Harvard University and his book, Queer Formalism: The Return, was published by Floating Opera Press this March. In 2020, Will curated the special projects section at the Felix Art Fair in Los Angeles, entitled Cruel Optimism, which highlighted themes of gender, queerness, and feminism. He is presently curating a special limited edition zine for King Kong Magazine, and brought Tania on to photograph Yalitza Aparicio for the first issue. Ximena Prieto leads this thoughtful conversation and the three debate many aspects of the art world, from the view of the artist to that of the audience. They start with discussing how Will and Tania’s recent collaboration came about, the inspiration, and the logistics to bring it together during a pandemic. Tania delves into society’s influence on her practice and how self reflection has helped her achieve the intimacy that’s portrayed in her work, and the group considers how the audience's perception can sometimes differ from the intention, and how this can be a fruitful challenge to further hone artistic focus. Ximena wraps up the conversation with a reflective and hilarious round of quick fire questions including ideal 1 am snacks and controversial art & film world opinions...

In this episode, I try to explain what Lauren Berlant means by "cruel optimism." If you want to support me, you can do that with these links. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy IG: @theory_and_philosophy

Many consider Hope to be essential for sustaining social movements where change is slow, setbacks are frequent, and the odds aren't good. As Rebecca Solnit once wrote, "To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.” But when it comes to the existential threats of climate change and mass extinction, what if hope is part of the problem? What if it obscures the enormity of our crisis, or makes us complacent, allowing the public to defer responsibility onto other people or the future? When you look at the scale of our climate emergency and the inadequacy of society's response, hope can feel like a throwaway term, a cheap neon sign we dutifully switch on at the end of climate rallies. But those reservations about hope are not the whole story. Research shows that environmental discourse has long fueled public hopelessness by perpetuating apocalyptic narratives and the sense that it's already "too late" to act. That hopelessness becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy as those who believe we're already doomed -- or that solutions don't exist -- chose *not* to act, thus ensuring the very outcome they imagined. Episode 5 explores the complicated role of hope in the fight for a livable planet, and the different forms it takes in environmental debates: hope as complacency or "cruel optimism" (a secular religion that keeps the public in line), as well as more subversive versions like "active hope," "intrinsic hope," and "critical hope." “Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. Hope is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency." ― Rebecca SolnitWritten and narrated by Jennifer AtkinsonMusic by Roberto David RusconiProduced by Intrasonus UKSupported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council EnglandDr. Jennifer Atkinson is a professor of environmental humanities at the University of Washington, where she leads seminars that help students cope with the despair, anger, and anxiety that arise from environmental loss and mass extinction. Her teaching and research have helped activists, scientists, and students build resilience to stay engaged in climate solutions and avoid burnout. She has also spoken to audiences across the U.S. about the global mental health crisis arising from climate disruption, and advocated for addressing emotional impacts in the fight for environmental justice. This episode introduces some of the experiences and insights behind that work, and explores how we can move the public to action by addressing the psychological roots of our unprecedented ecological loss.References and Further Reading:Jason Box tweet: If We Release a Small Fraction of Arctic Carbon, 'We're Fucked': Climatologist. Vice, August 1, 2014.What caused Earth's biggest mass extinction? Stanford Earth, Dec 06, 2018. Martin Luther King Jr. A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches. Emily Dickinson. “Hope” is the thing with feathers - (314) Mary Heglar. Home is always worth it. Sept 2019. Greta Thunberg. "Our house is on fire." Jan 25, 2019. Lauren Berlant. Cruel Optimism. 2011. Hua Hsu. Affect Theory and the New Age of Anxiety: How Lauren Berlant’s cultural criticism predicted the Trumping of politics. Mar 25, 2019. Tommy Lynch. Why Hope Is Dangerous When It Comes to Climate Change. July 25, 2017. Derrick Jensen. "Beyond Hope." 2006. Michael Nelson. "To a Future Without Hope." 2010. Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone. Active Hope. 2012. Lin Yutang. In Visions from Earth, 2004. Lisa Kretz. "Hope in Environmental Philosophy." 2012. Elin Kelsey. "Propagating Collective Hope in the Midst of Environmental Doom and Gloom." 2016. Rainer Maria Rilke. “Go to the Limits of Your Longing.” Elin Kelsey. Climate Change: A Crisis of Hope. June 2020 Emily Johnson. Loving a vanishing world. May 9, 2019 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Many consider Hope to be essential for sustaining social movements where change is slow, setbacks are frequent, and the odds aren't good. As Rebecca Solnit once wrote, "To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.” But when it comes to the existential threats of climate change and mass extinction, what if hope is part of the problem? What if it obscures the enormity of our crisis, or makes us complacent, allowing the public to defer responsibility onto other people or the future? When you look at the scale of our climate emergency and the inadequacy of society's response, hope can feel like a throwaway term, a cheap neon sign we dutifully switch on at the end of climate rallies. But those reservations about hope are not the whole story. Research shows that environmental discourse has long fueled public hopelessness by perpetuating apocalyptic narratives and the sense that it's already "too late" to act. That hopelessness becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy as those who believe we're already doomed -- or that solutions don't exist -- chose *not* to act, thus ensuring the very outcome they imagined. Episode 5 explores the complicated role of hope in the fight for a livable planet, and the different forms it takes in environmental debates: hope as complacency or "cruel optimism" (a secular religion that keeps the public in line), as well as more subversive versions like "active hope," "intrinsic hope," and "critical hope." “Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. Hope is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency." ― Rebecca SolnitWritten and narrated by Jennifer AtkinsonMusic by Roberto David RusconiProduced by Intrasonus UKSupported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council EnglandDr. Jennifer Atkinson is a professor of environmental humanities at the University of Washington, where she leads seminars that help students cope with the despair, anger, and anxiety that arise from environmental loss and mass extinction. Her teaching and research have helped activists, scientists, and students build resilience to stay engaged in climate solutions and avoid burnout. She has also spoken to audiences across the U.S. about the global mental health crisis arising from climate disruption, and advocated for addressing emotional impacts in the fight for environmental justice. This episode introduces some of the experiences and insights behind that work, and explores how we can move the public to action by addressing the psychological roots of our unprecedented ecological loss.References and Further Reading:Jason Box tweet: If We Release a Small Fraction of Arctic Carbon, 'We're Fucked': Climatologist. Vice, August 1, 2014.What caused Earth's biggest mass extinction? Stanford Earth, Dec 06, 2018. Martin Luther King Jr. A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches. Emily Dickinson. “Hope” is the thing with feathers - (314) Mary Heglar. Home is always worth it. Sept 2019. Greta Thunberg. "Our house is on fire." Jan 25, 2019. Lauren Berlant. Cruel Optimism. 2011. Hua Hsu. Affect Theory and the New Age of Anxiety: How Lauren Berlant’s cultural criticism predicted the Trumping of politics. Mar 25, 2019. Tommy Lynch. Why Hope Is Dangerous When It Comes to Climate Change. July 25, 2017. Derrick Jensen. "Beyond Hope." 2006. Michael Nelson. "To a Future Without Hope." 2010. Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone. Active Hope. 2012. Lin Yutang. In Visions from Earth, 2004. Lisa Kretz. "Hope in Environmental Philosophy." 2012. Elin Kelsey. "Propagating Collective Hope in the Midst of Environmental Doom and Gloom." 2016. Rainer Maria Rilke. “Go to the Limits of Your Longing.” Elin Kelsey. Climate Change: A Crisis of Hope. June 2020 Emily Johnson. Loving a vanishing world. May 9, 2019 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We've all heard the term "Living the American Dream." For me, this dream of a possible future beyond the poverty embedded inside my Black inner-city youth, was all I had as a child and teenager. But as I've grown older, I've come to realize that dreams have power and manifest in strange ways throughout our daily decisions to either fulfill our dream-self or not. But what happens when you learn that what you thought was your dream was really only social conditioning? In this conversation with author, scholar, and performance maker Season Butler, we discuss her debut novel "Cygnet" and the cruel optimistic circumstances that inspired the story and frames the psychic state of its protagonist. *Cruel Optimism is a term coined by American theorist Lauren Berlant and refers to the way the modern human clings to such fantasies of the "good life" even when the conditions for surviving the modern world have become increasingly more compromised due to climate change, economic failure, social injustice, political unrest, and more. Learn more here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ppdd2R46Eh4

In this bonus episode of our 1989 podcast miniseries, host Mark Leonard is joined by ECFR's young generation, all born between 1988-1990. Coming from the former GDR and Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Venezuela and the UK, they grew up in a borderless world, in a united Europe, with their parent's optimism about the future but with their teenage years shaped by the financial crisis and 9/11. So what did 1989 mean for their lives? And how will this generation influence the world and politics once it's their turn? This podcast was recorded on 18 December 2019. Bookshelf: - "Cruel Optimism" by Lauren Berlant - "The Wall" by John Lanchester - "My Parents: An Introduction" by Aleksandar Hemon - "Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow" by Yuval Noah Harari Films: - "Sonnenallee" - "Good-Bye, Lenin!" - "The Lives of Others"

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 Reverend Dr. Johanna Wagner discusses the different reasons that people struggle with opiate addiction; medical, legal, and cultural. Throughout the many stories of Jesus healing people, there are usually people who help or advocate for those trying to be healed. In this story, however, the man trying to get up and walk is not being helped by anyone. In fact, this man does not even have a straight answer for Jesus asking "do you want to be healed?" Despite the man's hopelessness, Jesus heals him. The Reverend cites the arguments put forth in the book "Cruel Optimism," such as putting more focus on maintaining things rather than things. The author believes that optimism gets in the way of experiencing happiness, because of our perfectionism. When it comes to opiate addiction, people do not have the same level of optimism. The song "Amazing Grace" is brought up, to make the point that grace is "amazing" because it finds and helps the wretched, not those who are already healing and/or healed. The Reverend lays out ways to combat our own misgivings and stigma surrounding addiction. We must not act like addiction is un-treatable, we must not ignore the satisfaction that comes from life after addiction, and we must not rely on harm reduction over treatment. Then, the reverend lays out the advent of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, used to actually treat people with Borderline Personality Disorder, previously thought to be un-treatable. What people need is hope, not doubt, for healing.

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.

What do we expect from black politicians vs. What should we expect from black politicians? How do we adjust to the new wave of black candidates and politicians representing black people across the country?

What do we expect from black politicians vs. What should we expect from black politicians? How do we adjust to the new wave of black candidates and politicians representing black people across the country?

Lawrence English is composer, artist and curator based in Australia. Working across an array of aesthetic investigations, English’s work explores the politics of perception and prompts questions of field, perception and memory. English utilises a variety of approaches including visceral live performance and installation to create works that ask participants to consider their relationship to place and embodiment. Over the past decade, English’s sonic investigations have traversed a divergent path within which musical languages and environmental sources are granted equal value. His work calls into question the established relationships of sound, harmony, distortion and structure and is sculpted, colliding overwhelmingly intricacy with roaring waves of low vibration. The music is evocative and invites the listener to explore their own narratives and impressions shaped by their subjective histories and experiences. His recent albums Cruel Optimism and Wilderness Of Mirrors revel in ‘extreme dynamics and densities’ and resolve into an ‘overriding aesthetic of harmonic distortion’.

Lawrence English is an influential sound composer, media artist and curator based in Australia. In this episode of Phantom Power: Sounds about Sound we speak with Lawrence about listening. In particular we think about his reworking of an important work in the fields of musique concrète and field recording, Presque Rien by Luc Ferrari, and the recent premiere of Wave Fields, his own 12-hour durational sound installation for sleepers at Burleigh Heads in Queensland as part of the Bleach* Festival.Lawrence is interested in the nature of listening and the capability of sound to occupy a body. Working across an eclectic array of aesthetic investigations, English’s work prompts questions of field, perception and memory. He investigates the politics of relation listening and perception, through live performance, field recordings and installation.The show includes extracts from the following tracks:Album: Cruel Optimism: "Hammering a Screw."Album: Wilderness of Mirrors: "Wilderness of Mirrors," "Wrapped in Skin."Album: Songs of the Living: "Trigona Carbonaria Hive Invasion, Brisbane Australia," "Cormorants Flocking At Dusk Amazon Brazil," "Various Chiroptera Samford Australia."Album: Ghost Towns: "Ghost Towns."Album: Kiri No Oto: "Soft Fuse."Luc Ferrari: Presque Rien.  Transcript [♪ ethereal music playing ♪]  [CRIS CHEEK]This… is… Phantom Power.  [COMPUTERIZED VOICE]Episode 4.  [CRIS]On Listening In.  [buzzing sounds fade in, and fade out as Cris begins to speak] [CRIS] The hive of the sugarbag bee, endemic to northeastern Australia. [loud music starts abruptly] The first notes of a piece called… [more loud notes] Hammering the Screw. [scratching noises and metallic noises begin] Found objects – a 44 gallon drum, a ghost town in far northern Australia. [scratching sounds] Just some small extracts from recordings made by today’s guest. [MACK HAGOOD]It’s Phantom Power, sounds about sound. That’s Cris Cheek, and I’m Mack Hagood. [LAWRENCE ENGLISH, pre-recorded]I’m Lawrence English, and I have been described as a professional listener. [bullfrog sounds fade in] Which does make me sound like a very second-rate therapist. [laughing] But, it is the kind of thing that I spend a lot of time doing in my everydays. There is a lot of listening that goes on, and I suppose in some respects you know, I’m increasingly interested in problematizing what that actually means, what our relationship is with that way of knowing the world around us. [music fades in, intense and somewhat sad] [MACK]So, Cris, I’m really excited that you got this interview with Lawrence English. [CRIS]Yeah!  [MACK]I’m familiar with his work. I always thought of him as the Drone Guy, you know he does these really amazing and complex droning soundscapes, but it turns out, as you’ve just shown us by playing that material, that’s not even the half of what he does. [CRIS]Yeah, that’s right. He’s a highly contemporary model of the artist scholar, I think. A prolific composer – there’s at least 18 solo records and rising in the current millennium. He’s a sound art researcher, an artist, a fine photographer, and he supports a ton of other artists through his highly influential imprint, Room 40, based in eastern Australia, but genuinely servicing a global audience. Really interesting. [MACK]So, Cris, I know today you’re gonna walk us through some of Lawrence English’s recent work, including this recreation of a piece by a godfather of sound art, Luc Ferrari, and also some of his recent albums such as Cruel Optimism and Wilderness of Mirrors. But, what was it like talking with him? Did you find that there were any sorts of through lines to his work? [CRIS]One of the through lines that I found is that we were always coming back to talk about listening in relation to audience, listening in relation to where you are, to context, listening as a kind of politics, collective listening – all of his projects are situated in relation to the act of listening.

The Australian sound artist discusses the body as an ear, manipulated time and the voice of David Toop.

There are a few artists I've wanted to meet for a long while, and Lawrence English is one of them. His music exudes a dark elegance, and the titles of his work make suggestions to his interests and sensitivities. Whether it is Cruel Optimism, The Peregrine or even Suikinkutsu, you can get a sense of where Lawrence is coming from! And the chat didn't disappoint! Lawrence is clearly introspective about both his work and the politics of our current time, and seems to have synthesized some interesting theories about community, togetherness and shared interest. He is also keenly aware of how information gets passed through non-obvious means; setting up a channel between artist and audience isn't simple, but it can benefit both parties... This is a deep conversation; I hope that you enjoy it - and that it gets you thinking about how you do your work, and how you listen to others'. And you can check out the breadth of Lawrence's work at his website: http://www.lawrenceenglish.com/ Enjoy!

Ce soir, Manon, Grégoire et Adrien se sont occupés de la sélection, résolument éclectique, où l'on navigue aussi bien entre la techno et le shoegaze qu'entre la house et la folk garage, ou encore entre le rock français et l'ambient. Tracklist : Carsten Jost - Ambush (Perishable Tactics, 2017) Mori-Ra - Water (The Brasserie Heroique Edits Part 3, 2017) Paskine - The Shapes of Collapses (The Shapes of Collapses, 2017) SNTS - Improving Senses (Losing Sight, 2016) Mere - VII (Mere III, 2016) Ilyas Ahmed - Alasted (Naqi, 2006) The December Sound - Get Here (Can't Be Taught, 2016) Les Marquises - Des Nuits (A Night Full of Collapses , 2017) Grouper - Headache (IParadise Valley, 2016) Lawrence English - Hard Rain (Cruel Optimism, 2017) Letherette - Sway (Where Have All the People Gone?, 2016) Photo : Pochette de Cruel Optimism, par Lawrence English

Ce soir, Manon, Grégoire et Adrien se sont occupés de la sélection, résolument éclectique, où l'on navigue aussi bien entre la techno et le shoegaze qu'entre la house et la folk garage, ou encore entre le rock français et l'ambient. Tracklist : Carsten Jost - Ambush (Perishable Tactics, 2017) Mori-Ra - Water (The Brasserie Heroique Edits Part 3, 2017) Paskine - The Shapes of Collapses (The Shapes of Collapses, 2017) SNTS - Improving Senses (Losing Sight, 2016) Mere - VII (Mere III, 2016) Ilyas Ahmed - Alasted (Naqi, 2006) The December Sound - Get Here (Can't Be Taught, 2016) Les Marquises - Des Nuits (A Night Full of Collapses , 2017) Grouper - Headache (Paradise Valley, 2016) Lawrence English - Hard Rain (Cruel Optimism, 2017) Letherette - Sway (Where Have All the People Gone?, 2016) Photo : Pochette de Cruel Optimism, par Lawrence English

I saw the latest two episodes of Naruto and really wanted to talk about Hagoromo, the Sage of the Six Paths and what I thought about his story and the story of Ninja-kind. In season 1, the first adventure that Naruto goes on is protecting a bridge builder, who wants to build a bridge to […]

Special guest co-host Lindsey Whitmore (Rutgers) joins Rachel and John to talk about Lauren Berlant’s 2011 book Cruel Optimism. Join us as we traverse this notably title-colon-less text in queer theory and cultural studies (among other fields). We start by asking what is cruel about cruel optimism and how it is related to attachment and […]

We inhabit a precarious world of crisis and calamity which mocks the post war promise of upward mobility, social equality and job security. We remain attached to the unachievable fantasies of the good life, even though they are thwarted at every turn. That's the cheering claim of the cultural theorist Lauren Berlant. She and Laurie are joined by the sociologist, Professor Bev Skeggs, to analyse what she calls the 'cruel optimism' of contemporary life. Also on the programme, Karen Throsby talks of her ethnographic study of an obesity clinic and the hidden moral element to every aspect of the procedure. Producer: Charlie Taylor.