{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/65fdbb4fb5218f00171445c9/67424d68ec59709ba5601dbd?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Hear me out: Joker 2...","description":"<p>Leaning into our film bro personas, in this episode we use the latest Joker movie to explore how dissociation - the cultivation of numbness, or splitting of subjectivity - might be considered a subtle form of resistance whilst inhabiting hostile environments. Is our refusal to be affected by oppressive structures a revolutionary act of self-preservation? Or does cultivated numbness prevent us from mobilising towards radical change? Ultimately…why is everyone hating on the new Joker film? </p><p><br></p><p>References: </p><p><br></p><p>Aitken, S. in Anderson et al. (2022) Encountering Berlant part one: Concepts otherwise. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12494\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12494</a></p><p>Awkward-Rich, C. (2022). The Terrible We: Thinking with trans maladjustment. Durham: Duke University Press. </p><p>Berlant, L. (2022). The Inconvenience of Other People. Durham: Duke University Press.&nbsp;</p><p>Bissell, D. (2021). The Anaesthetic Politics of Being Unaffected: Embodying Insecure Digital Platform Labour. <a href=\"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/anti.12786\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Anaesthetic Politics of Being Unaffected: Embodying Insecure Digital Platform Labour - Bissell - 2022 - Antipode - Wiley Online Library</a></p><p>Malatino, H. (2022). Side Affects: On being trans and feeling bad. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press. </p><p>Turner, C. (2024). The transgender space invader: Out of time and out of affect. European Journal of Cultural Studies.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>","author_name":"Finola Stowe"}