The LRB Podcast

Are you a hoarder?

Sep 6, 2022

38:42

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The Neuromaniacal Hypothesis of Human Behavior

02:43

The Mary Kondo Decluttering Phenomenon

01:51

Modernism and Hoarding

01:53

Introduction

3min

Is There More or Less Stuff on My Desk?

3min

Hoarding as a Pathology

3min

Is It an Anglo-Saxon Word or a Dragon's Hoard?

3min

Is the Newspaper a Valueless Thing?

3min

Is There a Hoarding Tendency?

3min

Is My Dad a Hoarder?

4min

Is There a Genetic Component to Hoarding?

2min

The Neuromaniacal Hypothesis of Human Behavior

3min

10.

The Mary Kondo Decluttering Phenomenon

2min

11.

Does This Bring You Joy or Have You Used It in the Last Year?

2min

12.

The Art of Hoarding

3min

13.

Is There a Hoarder's Way of Writing?

2min

14.

Modernism and Hoarding

2min

15.

The Anthropocene Is Not Overwhelming

2min

Jon Day talks to Tom about the history and psychology of the accumulation of objects, from Anglo-Saxon treasure to the Collyer twins of Harlem, by way of Freud, Marie Kondo and Day’s own father. When does clutter become a hoard? Are we all digital hoarders now? And should we worry about it?

Read Jon Day's diary, and see the Clutter Image Rating, here: lrb.me/hoardingpod

Title music by Kieran Brunt / Produced by Anthony Wilks

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The LRB Podcast

Are you a hoarder?

The Neuromaniacal Hypothesis of Human Behavior

The Mary Kondo Decluttering Phenomenon

Modernism and Hoarding

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