The Order of Things
A look at the ideas and histories that structure the world around us.
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Tuesday Aug 13, 2019
Tuesday Aug 13, 2019
How mindfulness became the new capitalist spirituality.
More info on "McMindfulness": http://bit.ly/2MUj96G
Alec on Twitter: bit.ly/2Dta2Er
Host: Alec Opperman
Logo Design: Shane Lessa
Theme Song: Fender Bender by Bad Snacks
Monday Jun 24, 2019
Monday Jun 24, 2019
Is capitalism ruining our sex lives? Kristen Ghodsee unpacks the mountains of data about people's sex lives in and outside of socialist governments.
More info on "Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism": http://bit.ly/2xaJUuD
Alec on Twitter: bit.ly/2Dta2Er
Host: Alec Opperman
Logo Design: Shane Lessa
Theme Song: Fender Bender by Bad Snacks
Wednesday Jun 12, 2019
Wednesday Jun 12, 2019
Are antidepressants and other drugs being used to control prisoners? In nursing homes? We talk to Anthony Ryan Hatch about his book "Silent Cells," where he documents the use of psychotropic drugs in and outside of the American prison system.
More info on "Silent Cells": http://bit.ly/2Ibf5fs
Alec on Twitter: bit.ly/2Dta2Er
Host: Alec Opperman
Logo Design: Shane Lessa
Theme Song: Fender Bender by Bad Snacks
Monday May 06, 2019
Monday May 06, 2019
Is life a good thing? Joseph Packer discusses the pessimist tradition and its recently intrusions into pop culture.
More info on "A Feeling of Wrongness": http://bit.ly/2H8jnnz
Alec on Twitter: bit.ly/2Dta2Er
Host: Alec Opperman
Logo Design: Shane Lessa
Theme Song: Fender Bender by Bad Snacks
Monday Apr 22, 2019
Monday Apr 22, 2019
We talk with Professor Alfie Bown about video games, technology and politics.
Follow Alec on Twitter: http://bit.ly/2Dta2Er
Alfie on the Guardian: https://bit.ly/2XBecl5
The PlayStation Dreamworld:
http://bit.ly/2XDfxYV
In the Event of Laughter:
http://bit.ly/2vmtHBj
Logo Design: Shane Lessa
Theme Song: Fender Bender by Bad Snacks
Host: Alec Opperman
Thursday Mar 21, 2019
Thursday Mar 21, 2019
Lynne Segal discusses the societal obsession with happiness, the merits of collective joy, and aging.
"Radical Happiness: Moments of Collective Joy": http://bit.ly/2TY8uMi
"Out of Time: The Pleasures and Perils of Aging": http://bit.ly/2OmeEAA
Host: Alec Opperman
Logo Design: Shane Lessa
Theme Song: Fender Bender by Bad Snacks
Monday Mar 11, 2019
Monday Mar 11, 2019
We talk with Professor Will Davies about the invention of the expert and their recent decline.
More info about "Nervous States: Democracy and the Decline of Reason" here: https://bit.ly/2ESCmzU
Logo Design: Shane Lessa
Theme Song: Fender Bender by Bad Snacks
Host: Alec Opperman
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