Chronic Fatigue and the Politics of Diagnosis w/ Emily Lim Rogers and Rouzbeh Shadpey
Emily Lim Rogers and Rouzbeh Shadpey join the podcast to talk about the history of chronic fatigue under capitalism. We explore the way in which medical knowledge reflects and enacts the need for capi...
2 Juli 20251h 16min
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[ANNOUNCEMENT!] THE ANTI-SELF-HELPLINE
The ANTI-SELF-HELPLINE is a place to share and make sense of our experiences of political struggle. Political struggle is hard; yet there are very few resources for thinking through the emotional and ...
10 Juni 202541min
Tell Me About Your Mother... w/ Hannah Zeavin and Helen Charman
Hannah Zeavin and Helen Charman return to the podcast to discuss the history of technology, media and mothering throughout the 20th century. We discuss the role media and technology play in the labor ...
14 Maj 20251h 15min
An Introduction to Workers' Self-Management w/ Jess Thorne
Jess Thorne returns to the podcast to discuss workers' self-management – from the Lucas Plan of the 1970s to Yugoslavian workers' councils. She explains how workers have challenged the idea that innov...
22 Apr 20251h 14min
D. W. Winnicott w/ Abby Kluchin and Patrick Blanchfield
The hosts of Ordinary Unhappiness join the podcast to discuss D. W. Winnicott; one of the most influential figures in the history of psychoanalysis in Britain. They explain how Winnicott's work was sh...
8 Apr 20251h 45min
Pop Psychology for Entrepreneurs w/ Erik Baker
Erik Baker returns to the podcast to demystify the entrepreneurial work ethic – from depression era spiritualism to contemporary pop-psychology via struggles over the meaning of work throughout the tw...
26 Mars 20251h 14min
A History of Wages for Housework w/ Emily Callaci
Emily Callaci unpacks the history and legacy of Wages for Housework, the feminist movement that demanded payment for the unpaid work of women required to sustain capitalism. She discusses five women a...
11 Mars 202557min
The Assisted Suicide Bill w/ Ellen Clifford
Ellen Clifford contextualizes the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill – often referred to as the assisted dying or assisted suicide bill – within the long history of eugenic politics and welfare ...
25 Feb 20251h 2min
