Night School

The era of the ego creeps up to you in different ways: self-obsession, hypersensitivity and inadequacy, among other things. Sandy Clarke offers some insights on how to think through this circumstance.

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Two BFM-type Malays try their best to translate some words from their own language. It turned out to be more complicated than they thought. Tune in to find out what they learned along the way. This episode is brought to you by peduli, tak kuasa, buang tabiat, tersengih-sengih, and terima kasih.

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We have a light chat this week with German journalist Cora Knoblauch on the ironies of globalisation. With so much of the world levelled to become 'similar' how do we envision 'difference' and 'uniqueness' that do not fall into the trappings of reactionary politics? What other models of modernity are there other than the European one?

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We take a brief tour into the psychology of ageing with Karuna Sarah Thomas. What sets this apart from other psychological fields? And more curiously, why is it a growing field?

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Aka Post-Coital Tristesse, Aka Post-Nut Syndrome. However you call it, it refers to a distinct form of sadness that emerges after sex. Clinical psychologist Vizla Kumaresan explains its psychological and social dimensions for us.

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We get to the bottom of emotional gaslighting and blackmail with Eugene Tee. How does enmeshment become an emotional tug of war and worse, a form of manipulation?

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Three BFM-type Malays try their best to translate some words from their own language. It turned out to be more complicated than they thought. Tune in to find out what they learned along the way. This episode is brought to you by masyuk, merapu, membawang and many more.

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Filmmaker, scholar and skater Dag Yngvesson takes us through his observations on Indonesian pop culture and its grapplings with modernisation.

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We've heard of emotional intelligence but what about emotional literacy? We get into the intricacies of trying to read (while feeling) emotions and the bigger questions they raise.

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We speak to Japanese artist Kentaro Hiroki about "Malaysian Citizenship", his current exhibition at A+ Works of Art. He reflects on the meaning of citizenship at a crucial time of political transition while sharing his thoughts on the importance of beauty and slowness for his creative process.

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