Video Podcast: Catherine Liu

Welcome to Doomscroll. You can now watch episode #02 with guest Catherine Liu. I’ve been working away at this project for months and I’m glad to finally share it with all of you!

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This week, my guest is Catherine Liu. Catherine is a professor of film and media studies at UC Irvine. Her most recent book is called “Virtue Hoarders: the Case Against the Professional Managerial Class”, published by the University of Minnesota Press. In this episode we discuss:

• Trauma studies and self branding on social media

• The ideology of virtue & moralism amongst the professional class

• The Freudian super-ego and why new elites are so annoying

Catherine is one of my favorite repeat guests. We’ve done a number of episodes together over the years. She has remarkable insights that weave between culture, art, politics and theory. Catherine has an unwavering commitment to historical materialism and a fierce critique of elitist academies. Keep an eye out at the end of this episode for her soft announcement of a new conspiracy theory research project.

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Doomscroll #02: Catherine Liu: Trauma, Virtue and Liberal Elites