I’ve been listening to this; it’s brilliant. I expect to listen to it all over again and maybe a third time.
Merry podmas! The first four episodes of The New Gurus are now available online.
Episode 1 tells the story of Steve Jobs’s personal quest for enlightenment, and how it created the smartphone age in which our new gurus thrive. https://t.co/f4AiZa8kiZpic.twitter.com/7KMBA2T5AM
She was recently a guest (for the second time) on the Decoding the Gurus podcast. I can’t remember if it’s come up here before, but DtG is interesting — an anthropologist and a psychologist dissect various online gurus and try to understand the appeal, etc. (It is, however, ridiculously long, as episodes routinely run over 2 hours, in part because they play a lot of excerpts from the podcasts they’re discussing. It’s very much a “have on in the background while I’m doing other things” kind of podcast for me.)
Predictably, someone in the DtG subreddit is quite cross at the hosts and thinking about unsubscribing because they failed to challenge Lewis on her alleged TERFdom.
Looking forward to checking out Lewis’s program.
She was recently a guest (for the second time) on the Decoding the Gurus podcast. I can’t remember if it’s come up here before, but DtG is interesting — an anthropologist and a psychologist dissect various online gurus and try to understand the appeal, etc. (It is, however, ridiculously long, as episodes routinely run over 2 hours, in part because they play a lot of excerpts from the podcasts they’re discussing. It’s very much a “have on in the background while I’m doing other things” kind of podcast for me.)
Predictably, someone in the DtG subreddit is quite cross at the hosts and thinking about unsubscribing because they failed to challenge Lewis on her alleged TERFdom.
Wow. Those are great. Thanks for sharing.
*Makes note to listen to Decoding the Gurus*