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/398/ Emotion Sickness: The Politics of Feelings (II) ft. Ashley Frawley (sample)
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Length:
15 minutes
Released:
Mar 19, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Part II of the series: on therapy and vulnerability.
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Sociologist Ashley Frawley (and COO of Sublation Press) is back on the podcast to talk about her new book, Significant Emotions. What is behind the seeming rise of public emotionalism and the focus on mental health?
How was “happiness” a policy concern – and when did it disappear and why?
What’s going on with universities and their focus on the mental health of students?
Is there much emotion about, in a romantic sense of deep feeling?
Or is it emotion ersatz, instrumentalised, superficial, sentimentalised?
How does affect polarise politically Left and Right?
Can we solve the crisis of subjectivity by focusing on the self?
And who is the Big-Ass Subject?
Links:
Significant Emotions: Rhetoric and Social Problems in a Vulnerable Age, Ashley Frawley, Bloomsbury
Sublation Media
Ashley's YouTube channel
[Patreon Exclusive: subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast]
Sociologist Ashley Frawley (and COO of Sublation Press) is back on the podcast to talk about her new book, Significant Emotions. What is behind the seeming rise of public emotionalism and the focus on mental health?
How was “happiness” a policy concern – and when did it disappear and why?
What’s going on with universities and their focus on the mental health of students?
Is there much emotion about, in a romantic sense of deep feeling?
Or is it emotion ersatz, instrumentalised, superficial, sentimentalised?
How does affect polarise politically Left and Right?
Can we solve the crisis of subjectivity by focusing on the self?
And who is the Big-Ass Subject?
Links:
Significant Emotions: Rhetoric and Social Problems in a Vulnerable Age, Ashley Frawley, Bloomsbury
Sublation Media
Ashley's YouTube channel
Released:
Mar 19, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
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