We are taking a break. Here are the episodes we mention in this chat as well as the list of podcast recommendations we talked about.

Rosie Nixon - Burnout https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/45-burnout-rosie-nixon

Merve Emre - Public/Publics https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/39-publicpublics-merve-emre

Jonas Staal - Propaganda https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/47-propaganda-jonas-staal

Jeff Rosenthal - Industrial Evolution https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/51-industrial-evolution-jeff-rosenthal

Nicole Stott - Crewlife https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/41-crewlife-nicole-stott

Julie Reshe - Negative Psychoanalysis https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/43-negative-psychoanalysis-julie

Jason Mittell - The Operational Aesthetic https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/50-the-operational-aesthetic-jason

Bertha Chin - Fandom https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/40-fandom-bertha-chin

Victoria Smith - (Un)Kindness https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/48-unkindness-victoria-smith

Dame Arlene Phillips - Dance https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/38-dance-dame-arlene-phillips

Andrew Macdonald - Festivals https://theclusterftheory.substack.com/p/46-festivals-andrew-macdonald

Podcast Recommendations:

Peter Thiel Story

The Weekly Show With Jon Stewart

The New York Times' The Interview podcast

NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me

Merve Emre's The Critic and Her Public

Moving Histories

Eaves dropping at the movies

Off Menu

Gastropod

Parenting Hell

Valley Heat

Everything Is Alive

Blocked and Reported

Panic World

The Rest Is Politics US

Jeff Rosenthal is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and community builder. He is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of CIV, a back-and-build investment firm focused on critical industries. Prior to founding CIV, Jeff co-founded Summit, a leading business and thought leadership community. Jeff also co-owns Powder Mountain, the largest ski resort in North America.

He sits on the board of the Ocean Conservancy and is a member of Conservation International’s Leadership Council. Jeff is the co-author of Make No Small Plans, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and holds a BA in International Business from American University.

CIV: https://www.civ.co/

Summit: https://summit.co/

Powder Mountain: https://powdermountain.com/

Make No Small Plans: https://summit.co/make-no-small-plans

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Jason Mittell is Professor of Film & Media Culture at Middlebury College and is the author of some of the most read and cited books in TV studies.

Genre and Television: From Cop Shows to Cartoons in American Culture (Routledge, 2004)

Television and American Culture (Oxford University Press, 2010)

Complex Television: The Poetics of Contemporary Television Storytelling (NYU Press, 2015)

Narrative Theory and ADAPTATION (Bloomsbury, 2017) https://

Jason is also co-editor of How to Watch Television (NYU Press, 2013; second edition, 2020).

He maintains the blog Just TV.

Faculty page: https://www.middlebury.edu/college/people/jason-mittell

Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Mittell

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Trine Syvertsen is professor of media studies at the University of Oslo, working in the fields of media history, media policy, television and digital media. She co-edited The Digital Backlash and The Paradoxes of Disconnection and authored the influential Digital Detox, The Politics of Disconnecting.

Faculty page: https://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/people/aca/trinesy/

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.no/citations?user=42etQgUAAAAJ&hl=en

The Digital Backlash (Open Access) https://www.nordicom.gu.se/en/publications/digital-backlash-and-paradoxes-disconnection

Digital Detox: https://bookstore.emerald.com/digital-detox-pb-9781787693425.html

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Victoria Smith is a feminist writer with a particular interest in motherhood and intersections of misogyny and ageism. She has written for Unherd, the Critic, the New Statesman and the Independent. She is the author of two books- Hags, on the demonisation of middle-aged women- which was shortlisted for the Nero Prize in 2023 - and her new book Unkind, on how ‘kindness culture’ entrenches sexism.

(Un)kind publisher's page: https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/victoria-smith/unkind/9780349127132/

Hags publisher's page: https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/victoria-smith/hags/9780349726960/

Hags at the Nero Book Awards: https://nerobookawards.com/victoria-smith/

Victoria's author page at The Critic: https://thecritic.co.uk/author/victoria-smith/

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Jonas Staal is a visual artist whose work deals with the relation between art, democracy and propaganda.

Much of his work is collaborative, performative and critically utopian. He is the founder of the artistic and political organization New World Summit. Together with Florian Malzacher he co-directs the training camp Training for the Future and with human rights lawyer Jan Fermon he initiated the collective action lawsuit Collectivize Facebook. With writer and lawyer Radha D’Souza he founded the Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes and with Laure Prouvost he is co-administrator of the Obscure Union.

Current and recent exhibition projects include Museum as Parliament (with the Democratic Self-Administration of Rojava and Van Abbemuseum), We Demand a Million More Years (at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, 2022), Extinction Wars (with Radha D'Souza, at the Gwangju Museum of Art, 2023) and Propaganda Station (in the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, 2024). His work has been exhibited at venues such as the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York, V&A in London, Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, MUHKA in Antwerp, Centre Pompidou-Metz and the Nam June Paik Art Center in Seoul, as well as the 7th Berlin Biennale, the 31st São Paulo Biennale, the 12th Taipei Biennale and the 14th Shanghai Biennale.

Staal is a writer, too, with a PhD from the PhD Arts program in Leiden.

Publications related to this include Propaganda Art in the 21st Century (The MIT Press, 2019) and Climate Propagandas: Stories of Extinction and Regeneration (The MIT Press, 2024).

https://www.jonasstaal.nl/

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Andrew MacDonald is a film producer who has made some of the most well-known British films including Trainspotting, 28 Days Later (and the sequels), The Last King of Scotland, Ex Machina, Civil War and 2025’s Warfare. He was also executive producer on the TV series Devs and Shogun…

DNA Films: http://www.dnafilms.com/

Andrew Macdonald on IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0531602/

DNA Films on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_Films

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Rosie Nixon is a bestselling author of three novels, and one non-fiction book, 'Be Kind'. Her new novel 'Bad Influence' will be published in summer 2025.

As the Editor in Chief and Editor of HELLO! magazine, she was awarded Editor of the Year by the British Society of Magazine Editors and was involved in exclusive stories about the Royal Family and A-List celebrities, attending parties and events nearly every day. Until one day she couldn't do it anymore...

Rosie is now a qualified life coach and has recently founded her business 'Rosie’s Reinvention Retreats' where she helps clients through career transitions and enables them to find the tools to realise a more fulfilling way of life.

Rosie hosts the HELLO! and M&S female leadership podcast 'Shake The Table' and is a proud ambassador for the women’s health charity 'Wellbeing of Women' and the anti-FGM charity, 'Educate Not Mutilate'.

Rosie’s Instagram: @rosiejnixon

Rosie’s TikTok: @rosiejnixon

Rosie’s website: https://www.rosienixon.co.uk/

Rosie’s book Be Kind: https://www.rosienixon.co.uk/be-kind

Rosie's Retreats: https://www.rosienixon.co.uk/reinvention-retreats

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David Markus is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Expository Writing Program at New York University. His interdisciplinary writing focuses on representations of dwelling and domesticity in late-capitalist contexts; social practices in contemporary art; the conflict between intimacy and artistic ambition in twentieth-century literature, art, and film; and the question of Jewish belonging in the wake of the Holocaust. He is a 2024-2025 Center for New Jewish Culture Fellow.

His articles and reviews have appeared in publications such as Art in America, Frieze, Art Journal, Art Papers, Hyperallergic, Fence Digital, The Brooklyn Rail, and Flash Art. His book Notes on Trumpspace: Politics, Aesthetics, and the Fantasy of Home was published in 2023 by Dead Letter Office/punctum books.

Website: https://davidmarkus.me/

Notes On Trumpspace publisher's page: https://punctumbooks.com/titles/notes-on-trumpspace-politics-aesthetics-and-the-fantasy-of-home/

David on X: https://x.com/david_s_markus

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Julie Reshe is a Ukrainian-born philosopher and the author of a negative psychoanalytic approach. With over 300 patients, she has extensive experience as a negative practitioner.

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She earned her PhD studying psychoanalysis at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts under the supervision of Alenka Zupančič. She studied existential therapy at the University of Oxford and holds certification as an APPA philosophical counselor.

She is a Visiting Professor at University College Cork and University College Dublin and a Director of the Institute of Psychoanalysis, Global Center for Advanced Studies.

Her recent publications appeared in AEON, Springer, Sublation Media, 3:am Magazine, Penumbr(a), The Philosophical Salon, knife.media, among others. Her latest book is Negative Psychoanalysis for the Living Dead: Philosophical Pessimism and the Death Drive (Palgrave, 2023).

Website: https://www.juliereshe.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/julie.reshe

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChZTaSsd90vDXT1UjccpQ8g

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/DrReshe/

Faculty page at the Institute of Psychoanalysis, Global Center for Advanced Studies: https://gcas.ie/about/faculty/julie-reshe

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