A shorter work week sounds great. Rules and psychological change. Try a social media diet. DMs are like Walmart anchor sales. Gamer girl bath water. Eggs and other gooey stuff. Exchanging signs of sexuality. Marianne Williamson and Mark Fisher have a lot in common. Mental health & pathologies. Saussure vs. Peirce. Semiology vs. Semiotics. Signifier vs. Signified. Arbitrary vs. motivated. Parole vs. Langue. Synchrony vs. Diachrony. Icons, indexes, symbols. Firstness, secondness, thirdness. Parasites and breakdowns. 

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Back with a rebrand. Too much praxis, not enough theory. An Academy outside the Academy. Tour talk. Strippers? Theory. Who cares? Segments. Go off! Critique of the scooter. Critique of astrology. And then we really get into it. Are the humanities a playhouse for the intellectual elite? What can theory do for me? Science, we’re calling you out. Philosophy, or the art of concept creation. Ideology and its trashcan. Tips & tricks. 

One man's trash is another man's treasure? We’ll be the judge of that. This week Lana and Hoodrow take a look at a planet covered in trash and ask what it all means (hint: it’s our planet; it’s Earth). What is trash really? Let’s find out.

Articles:

https://reallifemag.com/trash-life/

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/true-north/2017/jul/17/neoliberalism-has-conned-us-into-fighting-climate-change-as-individuals

Reality TV! What is it? Where does it come from? This week, Lana and Hoodrow overthink the genre America loves to hate. Now please accept this rose or we’ll vote your ass off the island. No, I’m not forgetting how that show works, it’s pastiche.

Articles:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/05/09/the-reality-principle

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alison_Hearn2/publication/254111729_Confessions_of_a_Radical_Eclectic_Reality_Television_Self-Branding_Social_Media_and_Autonomist_Marxism