anxiety: a public memoir

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

art

• What a way to make a living | Artistic ‘freedom’ | rs21
• The End of Capitalism[?]: Kata Geibl Feature – giphantie journal
• Welcome To The Radical World Of Contemporary Collage | HuffPost
• What is… collage? Art Radar explains | Art Radar
• Collage Culture: Nostalgia and Critique. An interview with David Banash: Design Observer
• Cut-and-Paste Culture: The New Collage – ARTnews.com
• A Situationist classic: Asger Jorn and Guy Debord's Fin de Copenhague: Design Observer
• The Art of Punk and the Punk Aesthetic: Design Observer
• Collage Now: Sergei Sviatchenko: Design Observer
• Collage Now: Cut and Paste Culture: Design Observer
• Artforum International
• e-flux

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
• Manufacturing Authenticity: How We Yearn for the Real and Fall for the Fake
• Change the World or Change Your Shopping List? | Commune
• A history of why we hoard, when we store, and who collects | Aeon Essays

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
• The Subway Belongs to Us | Commune
• Communes in the Age of Trump | Commune
• Crossbenching – Interview with Markus Miessen | Common
• The Party Goes On in Massive Online Worlds | WIRED
• Party Royale, Travis Scott, and Fortnite's 'Third Place' | WIRED

critical psychology, psychoanalysis, mental health

• 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)
  • Is everything Johann Hari knows about depression wrong?
  • Mental health: awareness is great, but action is essential
• 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 | on the human condition
• 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
• sick woman theory
• Resistance not resilience: ruling class and radical approaches to mental health | rs21
• The politics of mental health | rs21
• The politics of depression: Mark Fisher on mental health and class confidence | rs21
• Living with depression under capitalism | rs21
• Mental Health, Madness, and Psychiatry: a study guide and annotated bibliography – THE UNDERBELLI
• Psychiatry’s Necessary Shadow
• These 10 Books Will Transform The Way You Think About Mental Health
• A Skeptic’s Guide to Psychiatry – Invisible Illness – Medium
• Psychiatry And Its Discontents: Pt.2 – Invisible Illness – Medium
• Mark Fisher and his leftist melancholia | WIRED
• A Future with No Future: Depression, the Left, and the Politics of Mental Health
• Happiness? No, Thanks! – The Philosophical Salon
• Forget “Don’t Worry Be Happy.” Suffering Can Be Good for You | Merion West
• Why Are We Tired All the Time? – The Philosophical Salon
• Good For Nothing | The Occupied Times
• Anxy, and the Future of Mental Health Media | Supermaker
• Madhappy Is Spreading Mental Health Awareness Through… | Supermaker (see the co-optation of mental health as a fashionable trend, critiques of positive psychology)
• Happiness: A History | Issue 2 | n+1
• The Concept of Experience | Issue 2 | n+1
• Who Owns Tomorrow? | Commune
• The Ethics of Suicide Digital Archive
• A Report on Neoliberal Psychology, Part One – Damage
• A Report on Neoliberal Psychology, Part Two – Damage
• Handbook of Critical Psychology
• Resource list: leftist psychotherapists, modalities, frameworks, ideas, theories, whatever : PsychotherapyLeftists
• How Capitalism Erodes Mental Health – CounterPunch.org
• Psychosocial Studies (MA) — Birkbeck, University of London
• Neoliberal identity politics and mental health : PsychotherapyLeftists
• Joker: “It's about mental illness” vs “It's about neoliberalism” : PsychotherapyLeftists
• Is Psychology Broken? | Psychology Today
• Tips for the Depressed | Online Only | n+1
• Our Happy Life – Sternberg Press
• For Schopenhauer, happiness is a state of semi-satisfaction | Aeon Essays
• Forgiveness therapy can free you from the hurts of the past | Aeon Essays

political & cultural critique, critical theory

• 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?
• Turn On, Tune In, Rise Up | Commune
• 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
• Thinking Dangerously in Dark Times – The Philosophical Salon
• University as an Intellectual Asylum – The Philosophical Salon
• Slavoj Žižek: 'Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots' | Books | The Guardian
• Slavoj Zizek: The Reality of the Virtual – Review – Movies – The New York Times
• Dystopias Now | Commune
• Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition
• Antiracism: vague politics about an nearly indescribable thing
• Afro-pessimism Reader: Introduction

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
• It’s time to hear what adolescents think of mindfulness in schools | Psyche Ideas
• Covid-19: Converging materialism with spiritualism – The Financial Express

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?