This Place is Weird
Here you'll find my meandering musings over all sorts of topics, filtered through the lens of my specialization in marketing and consumer culture. Come and join me.
Episodes
Here we're discussing the algorithm and its effect on our perceived sense of desire. To clarify things, we use some Lacan, Žižek, and a touch of Greenfield to organize the topic.
As always, this is not monetized, and I have placed no ads here. If you're hearing them, they don't benefit me at all. Thanks for listening.
Consumer responsibilization, or why it's not your fault we're catastrophically wrecking our habitat.
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Here I have a little auto-ethnography about the ways in which platform architecture forecloses choice and forces us to prioritize different things in the content creation process. Thanks for listening!
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A discussion of the weird parallel between gym pricing structures and the logic of public lands. Thanks for listening.
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A discussion (without dismissing the reasons) of what deglobalization would look like.
The audio is fixed, my apologies.
I don't get paid, nothing is sponsored, this podcast is not monetized. If you're hearing ads, it's not from me and it doesn't benefit me. All views are my own. Thanks for listening!
What if we're wrong about consumer freedom? What if we don't actually make choices but are instead guided into structures that foreclose them?
Audio is fixed, sorry about the troubles.
I don't get paid, nothing is sponsored, this video is not monetized. If you're hearing ads, it's not from me and it doesn't benefit me. All views are my own. Thanks for listening!
With the World Cup afoot, I work through the implications of making nationalism a consumer choice and bringing civic responsibility into the realm of consumer culture. Baudrillard and Bourdieu are our guides.
While avoiding liberal and conservative cliches, I discuss the masculinity crisis and try to unpack why the manosphere is so appealing.
Inspired by some weird news out of the New York Fed and ongoing conversations about AI, I ponder why the future looks grim when we're apparently on the doorstep of automation.
What happens when relationships are commodities? What happens when dating feels the same as looking through pictures or changing your music? What happens when you're supposed to be yolo pilled enjoymaxxers and ONE PERSON has to meet all your needs?
With the scammer established and college as a commodity analyzed, we look to the future of college and the question of enjoyment.
Alfie Bown's "Enjoying It" https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/enjoying-it
Following up on last week's discussion of the scammer, we spend some time with the theoretical implications of college as a commodity as well as a brief discussion of why this thing got so expensive with regard to both policy and resource allocation within and among universities.
Characteristically chaotic and meandering discussion of whether college is a scam, and if so, who is the scammer?
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