Sarah Stein Lubrano
@sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social
Writer and broadcaster. Thinking at the intersection of critical theory and cognitive science. Book coming out May 2025. she/her
Folks have already started signing up for my first fall course, Reaching the Public for Academics. It was popular last time too - over four shortish sessions, we we look at how to draft a book proposal for a book aimed at the public... luma.com/ml1hx6hx
Reaching The Public for Academics · Zoom · Luma
Reaching the Public For Academics Are you an academic who is being constantly asked to “show impact” or “reach the public”? Would you like some ideas and help…
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Interview with Jacob Bessen, anthropologist and student of David Graeber! The topic is incredibly close to my heart—both because I’m deeply attached to questions of neighbouring and political sociality, and because it relates to my own Sicilian roots. sarahsteinlubrano.substack.com/p/jacob-bess...
Jacob Bessen on How Sicilians are Neighbouring with Migrants
(and the practices we can all learn!)
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My new book THE PLAYER AND THE PLAYED is out this September with @mitpress.bsky.social and it will be open access! Meanwhile, if you would like an advanced reader copy for the purposes of writing a review etc please get in touch. Also please share it with your favorite podcasts and publications.
"Either way, the concentration of wealth at the very top is much higher now than it ever was during the Gilded Age. And these are numbers from last year, before the SpaceX IPO. The robber barons were pikers compared with today’s oligarchs." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/meet-the-n...
Meet the New Bosses, Worse Than the Old Bosses
The second Gilded Age is much uglier than the first
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Really looking forward to this newly launched online event, where I will interview Sam Pressler and Soren Duggan about their unique research on isolated men. I hope to see many of you there! luma.com/uh0zn2t8
Speaking to Isolated Men · Zoom · Luma
While we would prefer people to attend live, a recording is available for a short period following the event. Popular media loves to speak of a “male…
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Big fan of @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social using parentheses in "Don't Talk About Politics" "Adapting with enthusiasm may make us feel more like we have some control over our lives ('I'm not being forced to work super long hours! I'm a girl-boss!')" There are so many delightful asides in this book
Do you make art and hope it will change the world? If so, what’s your exact strategy for this? And if you don’t have one, want to come make one with me next week? luma.com/lkx8rcwx
5 Ways Art Could Change the World (and many reasons it might not) · Zoom · Luma
While synchronous attendance is encouraged, a ticket also entitles you to a recording of the session. In a world overflowing with both grave political problems…
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‘The troubling speed with which the protest was organised caught the city’s small but diligent antifa and its broad coalition of anti-racists by surprise. The march came within a couple of hundred metres of my house.’ Tom Williams on the Southampton riots. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...
Tom Williams | In Southampton
Out-of-towners, including Tommy Robinson and Laurence Fox, merged with locals outside Southampton police station to form...
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“One’s online audience is often more charmed by coolness and edgy hot takes. Those may constitute a fun game for a while, but it will realistically feel hollow when the nearby city in Kent has run out of water and there are marches to deport all immigrants happening nearby.“
Social Theory From the Mic
What, and therefore who, is social theory for?
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Really looking forward to this newly launched online event, where I will interview Sam Pressler and Soren Duggan about their unique research on isolated men. I hope to see many of you there! luma.com/uh0zn2t8
Speaking to Isolated Men · Zoom · Luma
While we would prefer people to attend live, a recording is available for a short period following the event. Popular media loves to speak of a “male…
luma.com
highly recommend @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social's book on this, which really aligns with this belief
New episode (1259), with Dr. Sarah Stein Lubrano (@sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social). We talk about her great book, Don't Talk About Politics: How to Change 21st-Century Minds. #Politics #Psychology #Science YouTube: youtu.be/J19yhNrCvio Podcast: bit.ly/4uxPuC5
#1259 Sarah Stein Lubrano: Why Political Debate Does Not Work
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I didn’t know about some of the funky background of William Miller, the guy who invented motivational interviewing, which later became the political technique of deep canvassing. Readers may find it interesting.
New event :) “In a world overflowing with both grave political problems and algorithmically-generated images, can art change the world? Or is that a romantic myth?” luma.com/lkx8rcwx
5 Ways Art Could Change the World (and many reasons it might not) · Zoom · Luma
While synchronous attendance is encouraged, a ticket also entitles you to a recording of the session. In a world overflowing with both grave political problems…
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Join @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social and me in June and July for 6 online sessions on how fascism organizes itself around foul feelings, misunderstood crises, and revenge. senseandsolidarity.org/summer2026/
Back by popular demand, and because the Fascist Feelings are ongoing on planet earth! Join us this summer.... senseandsolidarity.org/summer2026/
Fighting Fascist Feelings online workshop (Summer 2026) - Sense & Solidarity
Mondays and Thursdays, June 29th – July 16th A Three-Week Workshop on the Confronting the Political Psychology of the Far Right Fascism is on the rise thanks to scheming billionaires, capitalist crisi...
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Something interesting that came out of this today is how many of the interviewees said that, because women tend not to pursue or tell me they’re hot, sleeping with a lot of women felt like the only way to be sure they were desirable…
Sarah Stein Lubrano@sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social · 3mo agoI’m looking forward to running this, and thinking through what it means when we ghost people, sexually or otherwise. Plus, my interviews brought up some interesting themes about self-worth, fungibility, regret and shame… luma.com/xo3x5d5l
I gave an interview recently about the importance of making nightlife more affordable for young people, and some of the feedback was, what a woke interview. And I think: so much of the current moment is just indulging people who don't want anyone else to have nice things.
Sommerlæsning: Hvis du, som mig, har tænkt tanken "hvis bare jeg har de helt rigtige argumenter og formuleringer kan jeg overbevise den eller den person om X... " er Don' talk about politics, om hvad der i virkeligheden former holdninger, af @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social en øjenåbner. Anbefales!
"Caroline Bingley does not fail to remind me of those in the tech world especially, who make a (rare) upward trajectory due to changes in the economy, often by doing something relatively technical, but then seek to prove they are also valid...as “intellectuals” and “thought leaders” and so on."
Time for me and Raul to discuss whether people are going to therapy too much, or for the wrong reasons. Let’s discuss the immense cultural influence of psychotherapy!
What Does Therapy Actually Do? · Zoom · Luma
A Critical Lecture and Discussion with (Yes) a Therapist A recording will be available for ticketholders who cannot attend synchronously. Today, it seems like…
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I wrote about some paradoxes of domestic life, including why humans with technology are so bad at creating leisure time, especially for women.
Some Paradoxes of Domestic Life
You might think you "couldn't" live another way. But you could, and would likely be happier.
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I’m looking forward to running this, and thinking through what it means when we ghost people, sexually or otherwise. Plus, my interviews brought up some interesting themes about self-worth, fungibility, regret and shame… luma.com/xo3x5d5l
Why Do Fuckboys Do What They Do? A Theoretical Intervention · Zoom · Luma
In the course of ongoing research, Dr. Stein Lubrano heard from dozens of former “fuckboys” who have led on sexual partners and/or ghosted them. Many were…
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Loved this book
London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · 3mo ago‘The worlds he writes about that have the texture of fiction – built of lies, secrets, silences, denials, dissolving identities – and his factual precision makes him a social realist in the era of fabulation.’ Andrew O’Hagan on Patrick Radden Keefe’s 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘯 𝘍𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...