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Cruel Optimism: Affect Theory and the Structure of Feeling

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Maggie Dordion is a writer, teacher and organizer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I heard Maggie actually on open source with Christopher Leiden, one of the longest running podcasts in existence. Just by listening to that interview she would be a perfect fit for our show here. We talk about cruel optimism, affect theory, COVID and climate change, Buddhism, late capitalism, and her book The Equivalence.

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