Pat Inverted Vibe Curve Blanchfield
@patblanchfield.bsky.social
US culture, violence, politics, psychoanalysis | associate faculty at the brooklyn institute of social research | co-host @unhappinesspod.bsky.social podcast
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UNLOCKED: 32: Thanksgiving Special, Part 2: Murder, Myth, and Memory - Ordinary Unhappiness
Last year we unlocked part 1 of our Thanksgiving Special so that everyone could hear the good/bad news about the "Holiday Syndrome." This year we're unlocking part 2, on settler colonialism, history, ...
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if you need to get some kind of psychic handle on your upcoming Thanksgiving experience, or at least want material to wield as either shield or weapon against your family, @unhappinesspod.bsky.social is here for you
yes "home alone is die hard with a kid" but have you considered the striking absence of what is both a key die hard element and what would be a near statistical certainty IRL, namely that the mcallisters home does not contain a firearm
November 26, 2025 at 2:50 PM
yes "home alone is die hard with a kid" but have you considered the striking absence of what is both a key die hard element and what would be a near statistical certainty IRL, namely that the mcallisters home does not contain a firearm
if you need to get some kind of psychic handle on your upcoming Thanksgiving experience, or at least want material to wield as either shield or weapon against your family, @unhappinesspod.bsky.social is here for you
🚨UNLOCKED🚨 Upcoming holidays filling you with dread? Need something to listen to while traveling, or while staying home? We've got you covered: BOTH parts of our classic Thanksgiving Special are now unlocked!
www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...
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UNLOCKED: 32: Thanksgiving Special, Part 2: Murder, Myth, and Memory - Ordinary Unhappiness
Last year we unlocked part 1 of our Thanksgiving Special so that everyone could hear the good/bad news about the "Holiday Syndrome." This year we're unlocking part 2, on settler colonialism, history, ...
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November 26, 2025 at 12:48 PM
if you need to get some kind of psychic handle on your upcoming Thanksgiving experience, or at least want material to wield as either shield or weapon against your family, @unhappinesspod.bsky.social is here for you
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In part two, we move from family rituals and traumas to social traumas and historical crimes; the history of the holiday and behind the holiday; and the fantasies, brutalities, and anxieties of settler colonialism itself. www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...
UNLOCKED: 32: Thanksgiving Special, Part 2: Murder, Myth, and Memory - Ordinary Unhappiness
Last year we unlocked part 1 of our Thanksgiving Special so that everyone could hear the good/bad news about the "Holiday Syndrome." This year we're unlocking part 2, on settler colonialism, history, ...
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November 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
In part two, we move from family rituals and traumas to social traumas and historical crimes; the history of the holiday and behind the holiday; and the fantasies, brutalities, and anxieties of settler colonialism itself. www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...
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In part one, we tackle the so-called "Holiday Syndrome," the Thanksgiving family scene in all its yearnings and pain, what it means to regress, why so many holiday dishes resemble baby food, and more.
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UNLOCKED: 31: Thanksgiving Special, Part 1: The Holiday Syndrome - Ordinary Unhappiness
Unlocked Patreon episode. Support Ordinary Unhappiness on Patreon to get access to all the exclusive episodes. patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessIn the first installment of our two-part Thanksgiving Spec...
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November 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
In part one, we tackle the so-called "Holiday Syndrome," the Thanksgiving family scene in all its yearnings and pain, what it means to regress, why so many holiday dishes resemble baby food, and more.
www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...
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🚨UNLOCKED🚨 Upcoming holidays filling you with dread? Need something to listen to while traveling, or while staying home? We've got you covered: BOTH parts of our classic Thanksgiving Special are now unlocked!
www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...
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www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...
UNLOCKED: 32: Thanksgiving Special, Part 2: Murder, Myth, and Memory - Ordinary Unhappiness
Last year we unlocked part 1 of our Thanksgiving Special so that everyone could hear the good/bad news about the "Holiday Syndrome." This year we're unlocking part 2, on settler colonialism, history, ...
www.buzzsprout.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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final scene of an action flick. the villain begins addressing the hero with a classic "you and I, we're the same." the hero interjects to explain thats not how dialectics work
November 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
final scene of an action flick. the villain begins addressing the hero with a classic "you and I, we're the same." the hero interjects to explain thats not how dialectics work
you want to preserve rentier late capitalism by blotting out out the sun with government subsidized satellites launched into space. I want to blot out the sun with the arrows launched by my calvary as we put cities to the sword and drink whole rivers dry. we are not the same
A 25-person startup is developing technology to block the sun and turn down the planet’s thermostat.
The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
Read more: politi.co/4iaojIc
The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
Read more: politi.co/4iaojIc
November 24, 2025 at 12:42 PM
you want to preserve rentier late capitalism by blotting out out the sun with government subsidized satellites launched into space. I want to blot out the sun with the arrows launched by my calvary as we put cities to the sword and drink whole rivers dry. we are not the same
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Browsing the back catalog of Ordinary Unhappiness, I found this goddamn delight, a conversation with @samadlerbell.bsky.social on Janet Malcolm: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o.... Thank you! @counterfactual.bsky.social & @patblanchfield.bsky.social
13: The Journalist and the Analyst: On Janet Malcolm feat. Sam Adler-Bell
Podcast Episode · Ordinary Unhappiness · 06/24/2023 · 1h 49m
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November 24, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Browsing the back catalog of Ordinary Unhappiness, I found this goddamn delight, a conversation with @samadlerbell.bsky.social on Janet Malcolm: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o.... Thank you! @counterfactual.bsky.social & @patblanchfield.bsky.social
look, the thing to understand about that Noah guy (and many like him) is that his function is of a piece with that of technology like ChatGPT or an outlet like The Free Press, namely to churn out verbiage that cheapens the value of words and reflection more generally. the mediocrity is the point
November 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
look, the thing to understand about that Noah guy (and many like him) is that his function is of a piece with that of technology like ChatGPT or an outlet like The Free Press, namely to churn out verbiage that cheapens the value of words and reflection more generally. the mediocrity is the point
we're continuing my favorite of Freud's Case Studies over at
@unhappinesspod.bsky.social. it's been a delightful time - check it out!
@unhappinesspod.bsky.social. it's been a delightful time - check it out!
🚨NEW STANDARD EDITION🚨 We continue the case of Elisabeth von R, talking family dynamics, short-circuits of care, parentification, tragic losses, gendered social roles, and more. Plus: what does it mean for a psychic "blow to fall"?
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122: Standard Edition Volume 2 Part 8: Studies on Hysteria, Part VIII: The Blow That Falls: Fräulein Elisabeth von R Continued Teaser - Ordinary Unhappiness
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November 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
we're continuing my favorite of Freud's Case Studies over at
@unhappinesspod.bsky.social. it's been a delightful time - check it out!
@unhappinesspod.bsky.social. it's been a delightful time - check it out!
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U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
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November 20, 2025 at 6:33 PM
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
how can the president demand the extrajudicial killing of elected representatives? does he not know about our norms?
November 20, 2025 at 7:17 PM
how can the president demand the extrajudicial killing of elected representatives? does he not know about our norms?
you don’t actually want Half Life 3. you’re yearning for an impossible taste of the hope and excitement of youth now that your own life is quite likely more than half over by now
November 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
you don’t actually want Half Life 3. you’re yearning for an impossible taste of the hope and excitement of youth now that your own life is quite likely more than half over by now
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Modern redundancy is having multiple single points of failure.
November 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Modern redundancy is having multiple single points of failure.
at least the fundamentals of our information infrastructure are strong
November 18, 2025 at 12:31 PM
at least the fundamentals of our information infrastructure are strong
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It's hard to express what it meant to watch Maurice, Natalia, Celeste, and Rhea tell their stories—in their own voices—this morning.
The segment revealed a brutal reality: homelessness at this scale isn't about personal failure. It's the result of policy choices and systems built to exploit people.
The segment revealed a brutal reality: homelessness at this scale isn't about personal failure. It's the result of policy choices and systems built to exploit people.
November 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
It's hard to express what it meant to watch Maurice, Natalia, Celeste, and Rhea tell their stories—in their own voices—this morning.
The segment revealed a brutal reality: homelessness at this scale isn't about personal failure. It's the result of policy choices and systems built to exploit people.
The segment revealed a brutal reality: homelessness at this scale isn't about personal failure. It's the result of policy choices and systems built to exploit people.
sure why not
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei thinks AI could help find cures for most cancers, prevent Alzheimer’s, and even double the human lifespan. cbsn.ws/4oRZ8Nm
November 17, 2025 at 1:30 AM
sure why not
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🚨UNLOCKED🚨 We spoke with the great
@sarahlovescali.bsky.social about climate grief, her experience of ayahuasca therapy in the Peruvian Amazon, our expectations for psychedelics, our fantasies of transformative experiences, and what we can learn from plants!
@sarahlovescali.bsky.social about climate grief, her experience of ayahuasca therapy in the Peruvian Amazon, our expectations for psychedelics, our fantasies of transformative experiences, and what we can learn from plants!
UNLOCKED: 103: Ayahuasca and Climate Grief feat. Sarah Miller - Ordinary Unhappiness
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November 16, 2025 at 3:20 PM
🚨UNLOCKED🚨 We spoke with the great
@sarahlovescali.bsky.social about climate grief, her experience of ayahuasca therapy in the Peruvian Amazon, our expectations for psychedelics, our fantasies of transformative experiences, and what we can learn from plants!
@sarahlovescali.bsky.social about climate grief, her experience of ayahuasca therapy in the Peruvian Amazon, our expectations for psychedelics, our fantasies of transformative experiences, and what we can learn from plants!
où sont les sex monsters et leurs smokey backrooms d'antan
November 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM
où sont les sex monsters et leurs smokey backrooms d'antan
backlash predictions seem premature TBH
November 15, 2025 at 8:13 PM
backlash predictions seem premature TBH
the fantasy of an apocalypse wherein what was hidden will be revealed and justice finally rendered feels so quaint in a world where nothing was hidden to begin with and demons just thrive and thrive
November 15, 2025 at 6:10 PM
the fantasy of an apocalypse wherein what was hidden will be revealed and justice finally rendered feels so quaint in a world where nothing was hidden to begin with and demons just thrive and thrive
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Alice Wong, Presente. Thank you for everything.
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Alice Wong, Presente. Thank you for everything.
can the party of dennis hastert recover from this latest blow
November 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM
can the party of dennis hastert recover from this latest blow
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Something everyone needs to know about @sfdirewolf.bsky.social Alice Wong was her commitment to Palestine. Just a year ago, she & I wrote a letter in @literaryhub.bsky.social defending six Palestinian journalists. Sadly, Alice now joins two of them on the other side: Anas al-Sharif & Hossam Shabat
November 15, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Something everyone needs to know about @sfdirewolf.bsky.social Alice Wong was her commitment to Palestine. Just a year ago, she & I wrote a letter in @literaryhub.bsky.social defending six Palestinian journalists. Sadly, Alice now joins two of them on the other side: Anas al-Sharif & Hossam Shabat