information overload
addiction, drug policy & prison studies
- High Price by Dr. Carl Hart
- The Pastoral Clinic by Angela Garcia
- Bruce Alexander and the Rat Park Experiments
- Capitalism is turning us into addicts (Vox)
- The naked empress: Modern neuroscience and the concept of addiction by Dr. Peter Cohen (UvA)
- Is the addiction doctor the voodoo priest of Western man? by Dr. Peter Cohen (UvA)
- Hooked for Life: Inside the NFL's relentless, existential, Big Tobacco-style pursuit of your children
- Why it's OK to give to homeless drug addicts
- Can't Catch a Break: Gender, Jail, Drugs, and the Limits of Personal Responsibility by Maureen Norton-Hawk and Susan Starr Sered
- Interrupted Life: Experiences of Incarcerated Women in the United States
climate change & ecopsychology
- What If We Stopped Pretending the Climate Apocalypse Can Be Stopped? (The New Yorker)
- George Monbiot (The Guardian)
- The big polluters’ masterstroke was to blame the climate crisis on you and me
- Only rebellion will prevent an ecological apocalypse
- Dare to declare capitalism dead – before it takes us all down with it
- For the sake of life on Earth, we must put a limit on wealth
- Mass starvation is humanity’s fate if we keep flogging the land to death
- The Nature Fix
- Watch the climate change in real time with these trackers
consumerism & advertising
- Affluenza by John de Graaf and Thomas Naylor
- Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior by Geoffrey Miller
- Advertising and academia are controlling our thoughts. Didn’t you know? (The Guardian) by George Monbiot
- Review: 'Generation Wealth' Examines Toxic Materialism (New York Times)
- The New Spiritual Consumerism (New York Times)
- I Shop, Therefore I Am
- A society beyond consumerism
- The Myth of the Ethical Shopper
community psychology, urban studies & transportation
- Every community deserves a third place
- Japanese concept of Ikigai
- Utopia Inc
- Eric Klinenberg's Palaces for the People (The New York Times)
- Searching for Parking Costs Americans $73 Billion a Year
- The car has a chokehold on Britain. It’s time to free ourselves
- City Lab
- Palaces for the People
critical & dystopian psychology
- Depression: a public feeling by Ann Cvetkovich
- We've Had 100 Years of Psychotherapy – and the World's Getting Worse by James Hillman and Michael Ventura
- Encountering America by Jessica Grogan
- The Happiness Industry by William Davies
- Against Happiness (Jacobin)
- @decolonizingtherapy
- Dean Burnett (The Guardian)
- Mad in America (take with a grain of salt)
- The Empty Promise of Suicide Prevention (New York Times)
- A mad world: capitalism and the rise of mental illness (Red Pepper)
- Medicalizing Society (Jacobin)
- The War Inside Your Head (Jacobin)
- The Privilege of Being 'Against' Mental Health Medication (see “hippie-crite”)
- We need ecstasy and opioids in place of Prozac and Xanax (Aeon)
- The age of loneliness is killing us (The Guardian) by George Monbiot
- The “real” Limitless pill and the nootropics boom (Vox)
- Don't Fall for the 'Memory' Pills Targeting Baby Boomers (WIRED)
- Millennials Will Get Sick and Die Faster Than the Previous Generation (VICE)
- Your Therapist Is Making Memes About You. And How Does That Make You Feel? (VICE)
- Anxious People Also Get Anxious From Relaxing (VICE)
- The demoralized mind
- we need to stop making mental illness look cool on social media (i-D VICE)
- Mental health can't just be another hot magazine trend
- When Will We Solve Mental Illness? (New York Times) (see the abolition of prisons, capitalism, white supremacy, and the patriarchy; queer liberation vs. rainbow capitalism; communal living; people over profits; public over private; sustainability; the demystification of secular societies, technology, etc.)
- Self-care isn't enough. We need community care to thrive
- NOUS magazine
- Anxy magazine
- The Beginning of the End of Capitalist Realism
- Psyche
- We Are All Very Anxious
- We Are All Very Bad Materialists
- In Over Our Heads
- Notes on a Nervous Planet
- Cruel Optimism
- The Cultural Politics of Emotion
- A Future with No Future: Depression, the Left, and the Politics of Mental Health
- Why Is America So Depressed?
- The Age of American Despair
politics, socialism, utopian and dystopian thought, the american condition & cultural commentary
- Jacobin
- ROAR Magazine
- The Rise of Bullshit Jobs
- Laboring Under an Illusion
- Living, Not Just Surviving
- Join the party of love (cough Marianne Williamson cough)
- We Are Not The Resistance
- What is Acid Communism?
- What is Acid Corbynism?
- Paradise Papers leak reveals secrets of the world elite's hidden wealth
- One Nation, Under the Weight of Crushing Debt
- Richest 1% own half the world's wealth, study finds
- Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
- Pleasure Activism by adrienne marie brown
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- The Matrix Trilogy
- The Leftovers
- How tech's richest plan to save themselves after the apocalypse
- Philip K. Dick and the Fake Humans
- Black Mirror
- Maniac
- r/lostgeneration
- r/collapse
- r/ABoringDystopia
- r/LateStageCapitalism
- r/DarkFuturology
- The Dystopic Leftist Youth of Reddit and Facebook
- Mark Fisher's “K-Punk” and the Futures That Have Never Arrived
- Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach
- Island by Aldous Huxley
- Wild, Wild Country
- Utopia: Daring to dream
- To build a utopian world, idealism should be what drives politics
- The Free Time Paradox in America (The Atlantic)
- Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellman
- The middle-class malaise that dare not speak its name (The Guardian)
- Observations on America's Middle-Class Malaise (New York Times)
- The Curious Malaise of the Middle Class
- Millennials Are Screwed
- Why Is the Rent So Damn High
- “Rent is too damn high”
- Inside Job feat. Matt Damon
- Janelle Monáe – Dirty Computer [Emotion Picture]
- Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher
- k-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher
sex & romance
- The Ethical Slut
- Does Buddhist detachment allow for a healthier togetherness? (Aeon)
- A Happy-ish Marriage (Psychology Today) by Jessica Grogan
- Dating While Being Broke Sucks (Vice)
- Tinder and Grindr don't want to talk about their role in rising STDs (Vox)
- How a hackneyed romantic ideal is used to stigmatize polyamory (Aeon)
spirituality & psychedelics
- Radical Dharma by rev. angel Kyodo Williams, Lama Rod Owens, and Dr. Jasmine Syedullah
- These are the times that grow our souls by Grace Lee Boggs
- “I'm a citizen of the universe”: Gloria Anzaldúa's Spiritual Activism as a Catalyst for Social Change
- The Privilege of Being 'Against' Mental Health Medication (see “hippie-crite”)
- Beyond McMindfulness
- Can religion be based on spiritual practice without belief?
- Silicon Valley's Hypocritical Spirituality
- The Neoliberal Yogi and the Politics of Yoga
- The Gospel According to Marianne Williamson (New York Times)
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Magic
- Chacruna
- Psymposia
- How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
- How to Change Michael Pollan's Mind: a critical analysis of 'addiction,' spirituality, and psychedelics by Max Henderson (me!)
- Psychedelics and Social Justice (Psymposia) by Ismail Ali
- In the Declaration of Yarinacocha, Shipibo Healers Organize To Resist Spiritual Extractivism
- Psychedelics Are Queer, Just Saying (Chacruna) by Bett Williams
- It’s time to debunk prohibitionist narratives and calls for monopolies within psychedelic science (Psymposia)
- An open letter to the newly founded Center for Psychedelic Research at Johns Hopkins (Psymposia)
- r/Psychoanut
- DoubleBlind Magazine
technology & sts (science, technology, and society)
- A Cyborg Manifesto
- Staying human in a machine age
- Why upgrading your brain could make you less human
- What happened when I made my students turn off their phones
- Humanist among machines
- Dear Future (Trailer)
- Social Media Has Hijacked Our Brains and Threatens Global Democracy
- Does each click of attention cost a bit of ourselves?