Most scholarly conversation I’ve ever had in my online life 📚🎓 had a great and nerdy time

Ordinary Unhappiness@unhappinesspod.bsky.social · 2d ago

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 We celebrate spooky season with the great Mariana Colín (@themorbidzoo.bsky.social)! From Hellraiser to the Metaverse, from Freud's lifelong fascination with telepathy to Cronenberg's Scanners and so much more, it's a Halloween treat! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 We celebrate spooky season with the great Mariana Colín (@themorbidzoo.bsky.social)! From Hellraiser to the Metaverse, from Freud's lifelong fascination with telepathy to Cronenberg's Scanners and so much more, it's a Halloween treat! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

Episode 164: Technology, Telepathy, and Scanners feat. Mariana Colín from The Morbid Zoo | Ordinary Unhappiness

Just in time for Halloween, Abby and Patrick welcome video essayist and scholar Mariana Colín (aka The Morbid Zoo) for a wide-ranging conver

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🚨NEW STANDARD EDITION🚨 We say farewell to Josef Breuer and his Theoretical Section of the Studies on Hysteria (1895). Come for the metaphors to cutting-edge tech (lightbulbs and electrical circuits!), stay for his thoughts on marriage and sexual trauma. www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

Episode 163: Standard Edition Volume 2 Part 14: Studies on Hysteria, Part XIV: Adieu to Breuer | Ordinary Unhappiness

Abby and Patrick take up Josef Breuer’s final contribution to the Studies on Hysteria. The second-last-chapter of the Studies, this lengthy

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so grateful for this wonderful conversation with two people doing righteous work and taking zero bullshit - check it out!

Ordinary Unhappiness@unhappinesspod.bsky.social · 2w ago

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 We're joined by Elizabeth Cotton, author of "UberTherapy," and Linda Michaels of the Psychotherapy Action Network for a conversation about platform capitalism, psychotherapy, datafication, safety, solidarity, and so much more! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 We're joined by Elizabeth Cotton, author of "UberTherapy," and Linda Michaels of the Psychotherapy Action Network for a conversation about platform capitalism, psychotherapy, datafication, safety, solidarity, and so much more! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

Episode 162: UberTherapy and Its Discontents feat. Elizabeth Cotton and Linda Michaels | Ordinary Unhappiness

Abby and Patrick are joined by Elizabeth Cotton, author of UberTherapy: The New Business of Mental Health, and Linda Michaels of the Psychot

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between conferences this weekend, so we're unlocking Narcissism #2: we go back to ancient Greece and Rome, explore versions of the story of Narcissus and his doomed encounter with Echo, and talk desire, frustration, family transgression, and more! ordinaryunhappiness.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

UNLOCKED: 149: Myth, Fate, and Desire: Narcissism, Part 2 - Ordinary Unhappiness

Unlocked Patreon episode. Support Ordinary Unhappiness on Patreon to get access to all the exclusive episodes. patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessAbby, Patrick, and Dan dig into the realms of myth and fab...

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🚨NEW PATREON EPISODE🚨 Narcissism, Tinseltown, Lacan, and more! Abby and Dan give Billy Wilder's 1950 classic Sunset Boulevard the Wild Analysis treatment! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

Episode 161: Wild Analysis: Sunset Boulevard | Ordinary Unhappiness

“No one leaves a star – that’s what makes one a star!” In the latest installment of Wild Analysis, Abby and Dan discuss Billy Wilder’s class

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This is a wonderful conversation and the Very Special Boys framing explains SO MUCH about the techbros and their ilk.

Ordinary Unhappiness@unhappinesspod.bsky.social · last mo.

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 What is wrong with our tech overlords? How did Silicon Valley's promises of progress and uplift flip into the sneering celebration of dominance? The great @adriandaub.bsky.social returns to unpack the current political and libidinal economy of Big Tech www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

I just finished listening, and, now, I also feel lucky that @counterfactual.bsky.social asked Adrian to tell listeners where to find him, and I’m about to check out podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

In Bed With The Right

Society & Culture Podcast · Updated Weekly · On In Bed With the Right hosts Moira Donegan and Adrian Daub welcome a range of scholars and critics to analyze right wing ideas about gender, sex and sexu...

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On weaponized abjection and the dystopian vision of tech’s aging failsons.

160: Very Special Boys feat. Adrian Daub

Podcast Episode · Ordinary Unhappiness · September 26 · 1h 52m

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fuck the latest about whatever peter thiel "thinks." and fuck whatever we're now being to told buy/buy into about what AI "thinks." instead check out our @UnhappinessPod conversation with @adriandaub.bsky.social, author of What Tech Calls Thinking, and its sequel, What Tech Calls Governing

Ordinary Unhappiness@unhappinesspod.bsky.social · last mo.

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 What is wrong with our tech overlords? How did Silicon Valley's promises of progress and uplift flip into the sneering celebration of dominance? The great @adriandaub.bsky.social returns to unpack the current political and libidinal economy of Big Tech www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

Highly recommend

Ordinary Unhappiness@unhappinesspod.bsky.social · last mo.

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 What is wrong with our tech overlords? How did Silicon Valley's promises of progress and uplift flip into the sneering celebration of dominance? The great @adriandaub.bsky.social returns to unpack the current political and libidinal economy of Big Tech www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 What is wrong with our tech overlords? How did Silicon Valley's promises of progress and uplift flip into the sneering celebration of dominance? The great @adriandaub.bsky.social returns to unpack the current political and libidinal economy of Big Tech www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

Episode 160: Very Special Boys feat. Adrian Daub | Ordinary Unhappiness

Abby and Patrick welcome back returning guest Adrian Daub. The occasion is Adrian’s latest book, What Tech Calls Governing. A follow-up to h

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Patriarchy is not only a system in which men dominate women; it is a grammar that teaches people how to see the world. As our podcast of the week details, the concept makes hierarchy and injustice appear as natural. With Robin Dembroff on @unhappinesspod.bsky.social buff.ly/d0tahRS

reading karen horney is alternately delightful and a gut punch; so glad we could explore some of her work on the latest @unhappinesspod.bsky.social

Ordinary Unhappiness@unhappinesspod.bsky.social · last mo.

🚨NEW PATREON EPISODE🚨 Summer may be over, but our Narcissism series continues! We take up the work of the brilliant Karen Horney, who rejected Freud's sexism and libido theory in favor of thinking about the self, the family, US cultural norms, and more. www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

🚨NEW PATREON EPISODE🚨 Summer may be over, but our Narcissism series continues! We take up the work of the brilliant Karen Horney, who rejected Freud's sexism and libido theory in favor of thinking about the self, the family, US cultural norms, and more. www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

Episode 159: Karen Horney: Narcissism, Part 7 | Ordinary Unhappiness

The Ordinary Unhappiness journey through the landscape of modern narcissism continues – and arrives in the United States! In this episode, A

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Maybe it's just because I'm catching up on @unhappinesspod.bsky.social but I really need to talk to someone about why these AI bosses -- many of whom felt they were feminized as "nerds" earlier in life but now rule the world -- now want to be Daddy to God. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/o...

Opinion | Why Tech Oligarchs Are Willing to Risk Apocalypse

Silicon Valley’s strange new theology.

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still buzzing from our @unhappinesspod.bsky.social conversation with Robin Dembroff, whose book "Real Men On Top" is just fantastic too CC @academic.oup.com global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Ordinary Unhappiness@unhappinesspod.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Can anyone ever be a "real man"? Why are conversations about "the crisis of masculinity" so repetitive and shallow? Robin Dembroff explains how fantasies of manhood function and how patriarchy harms everybody - including men themselves. www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Can anyone ever be a "real man"? Why are conversations about "the crisis of masculinity" so repetitive and shallow? Robin Dembroff explains how fantasies of manhood function and how patriarchy harms everybody - including men themselves. www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

Episode 158: On the Impossibility of Being a Real Man feat. Robin Dembroff | Ordinary Unhappiness

What does it mean to talk about “patriarchy” in the present? What are the origins of the term, its uses, and its limits? How has it impacted

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🚨NEW EPISODE 🚨Did 9/11 really "change everything"? Why do some events become history, and how do we know when that's happening? How do "chosen traumas" work as political touchstones, weaponize logics of identity, and even warp time itself? www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

Episode 156: 9/11: Chosen Traumas and Time Collapse | Ordinary Unhappiness

Abby and Patrick bring a psychoanalytic lens to bear on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks. As they

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tomorrow's anniversary will for many of us be even more overwhelming than usual; for some, it may simply be bewildering. wherever you might be, we at @unhappinesspod.bsky.social put together this episode to give you some tools for processing and talking about it www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

Episode 156: 9/11: Chosen Traumas and Time Collapse | Ordinary Unhappiness

Abby and Patrick bring a psychoanalytic lens to bear on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks. As they

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🚨PATREON-ONLY EP🚨 from liminality to the uncanny to creepypastas to COVID to AI and the sheer terror of interiority itself, we give "Backrooms" the Wild Analysis treatment! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

Episode 157: Wild Analysis: Backrooms | Ordinary Unhappiness

Episode 157: Wild Analysis: Backrooms by Ordinary Unhappiness on Patreon. Join Ordinary Unhappiness's community for exclusive content and updates.

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a new chapter for us: new tiers, new content, and more!!! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

new tiers, a window to lock in current prices, and more OU news | Ordinary Unhappiness

Hello, friends! We hope you’re doing well as Summer of Narcissism turns into…Pumpkin Spice Narcissism Season? (That title is a work in progr

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I also want to plug the remarkable photography and prose of my dear friend and frequent collaborator @simko-bednarski.bsky.social, whose porfolio of photos - about New York and so many other things - you can find here www.simkobednarskiphoto.com/memento-mori

9/11 memento mori - Evan Simko-Bednarski's portfolio - Evan Simko-Bednarski's Portfolio

Website of photographer Evan Simko-Bednarski

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I wanted to express particular appreciation for the indispensable writing of @attackerman.bsky.social, whom we cite throughout and focus on in particular in the last third, and to the perspective of Andrew Bacevich of @quincyinst.bsky.social. links to read and buy their works are in the description

we don't normally release in-depth political episodes outside the paywall, but given the significance of the event itself, the work we three put in, and the many, many people whose works we cite we wanted to make this one available as widely as possible. do please consider checking it out

for the latest @unhappinesspod.bsky.social, we scoured the archives and dredged up memories personal and collective, famous and forgotten, to reckon with what happened on 9/11/2001, what that event came to mean, and how that's still shaping the world we live in today www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

Episode 156: 9/11: Chosen Traumas and Time Collapse | Ordinary Unhappiness

Abby and Patrick bring a psychoanalytic lens to bear on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks. As they

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🚨NEW EPISODE 🚨Did 9/11 really "change everything"? Why do some events become history, and how do we know when that's happening? How do "chosen traumas" work as political touchstones, weaponize logics of identity, and even warp time itself? www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

Episode 156: 9/11: Chosen Traumas and Time Collapse | Ordinary Unhappiness

Abby and Patrick bring a psychoanalytic lens to bear on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks. As they

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new @unhappinesspod.bsky.social Summer of Narcissism content! we read and break down one of Freud's single most difficult papers so you don't have to

Ordinary Unhappiness@unhappinesspod.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨NEW PATREON-ONLY EP 🚨 When is narcissism normal - and maybe even necessary? We read Freud's paper, On Narcissism (1914). Dated and reprehensible in some respects, prescient and humane in others, it's classic Freud, and still provocative today. www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

🚨NEW PATREON-ONLY EP 🚨 When is narcissism normal - and maybe even necessary? We read Freud's paper, On Narcissism (1914). Dated and reprehensible in some respects, prescient and humane in others, it's classic Freud, and still provocative today. www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnha...

Episode 155: Freud’s “On Narcissism”: Narcissism, Part 6 | Ordinary Unhappiness

The Summer of Narcissism brings Abby, Patrick, and Dan to Freud’s landmark 1914 essay, “On Narcissism: An Introduction.” While the sexologis

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