PLEASURE and other cancellable holiday offences from Sense & Solidarity
Plus London and online events this December
Our latest episode on pleasure, recorded in front of a live audience at London’s Kairos Club, brings to a conclusion Sense & Solidarity’s 2024 podcast series What Do We Want?, which focused on the “weird, wild and wonderful things that bring social movements together… and drive them apart.”
We (Max Haiven and Sarah Stein Lubrano) produced the podcast for your entertainment and to supplement the online and in-person workshops we host for activists, artists, change-makers and other malcontents, such as the recent 4-day intensive we held in London).
Before telling you more about the PLEASURE and other episodes of the podcast, a few upcoming events from Sense & Solidarity.
Upcoming events, online and in London
Sense & Solidarity Holiday Special
On 📆 December 27, join us for a holiday special, online and IRLondon!
At 5pm London time we’ll start a webinar Keeping it together while the world’s falling apart: A holiday from the holidays with Sense &Solidarity.
A live parasocial event appropriate for the end of the year, the end of the world, and the birth of a new one.
Max will talk about The year of the warlord: From revenge politics to avanging imaginaries.
Sarah will explain How not to go completely insane in 2025: What cognitive science can and can’t teach us.
WEBINAR: To join online, please sign up for the Zoom webinar.
IRL: If you are in London, why not drop in at Max’s quasi-commune in Stoke Newington for cake and coffee at 3:30pm, for a live recording of the webinar at 5pm, and/or for soup and mescal sours at 6:30pm? (RSVP here).
Other upcoming events
On Tuesday, December 10, at 6pm, Max will be in dialogue with Phanuel Antwi about the latter’s 2024 book On Cuddling: Loved to Death in the Racial Embrace at UCL’s Institute of Advanced Studies, Seminar room 20 of the South Wing. Register here.
On Wednesday, December 11, (3:30pm Eastern, 8:30pm UK), Sarah and Max are also offering a free online webinar “Don’t argue with them: What really works to change hearts and minds” for Canada’s Equity Watch. You can register here.
On the afternoon of December 15, Max’s and Matteo Menapace are hosting a game-making workshop at London’s Kairos Club, followed by a game social. Register here.
Also on December 15, at 3pm, Sarah is presenting her work on social Atrophy at an art show in Lewisham Arthouse.
Why not invite us to ruin your fun in 2025?
We at Sense & Solidarity are eager to visit you on the internet or in person to offer talks and workshops. We can work with any time frame (a few hours to multiple days) and most budgets (we can’t do math LOL!) Please get in touch.
Back to pleasure!
Live, in front of a seductive studio audience, Sarah and Max bring to a climax the first intoxicating season of What Do We Want? (a podcast about what brings social movements together and drives them apart) with an episode on pleasure.
They are joined by dazzling special guests Sita Balani and Zrinka Balo, to explore salacious questions including:
Should we prioritize activism being pleasurable?
In a world of work and worry, is taking pleasure itself an important form of activism?
And in our quest for collective liberation, what kinds of sacrifices can and should we expect of ourselves and others?
It’s podcasting that goes beyond the pleasure principle and puts its finger right on the most sensitive questions.
Listen to our past episodes
SHAME with special guest Sophie Lewis (ep.5)
Is pride enough? Should we wield shame? And should we cancel ourselves?
FANTASY wish special guest Sharmeen Khan (ep.4)
How do we break through destructive ideologies? How can we win arguments (and when should we)? And should we just abandon activism?
DESPAIR with special guest Rachel Donald (ep.3)
Should we just give up hope? Should we embrace nostalgia? And should we stop being sad and… just do something?
CONSPIRACY with special guest Brent Lee (ep.2)
What actually separates us radical malcontents from conspiracy theorists? Should movements have better enemies? And should we bother trying to drag people out of the rabbit-hole?
HEARTBREAK with special guest Lola Olufemi (ep.1)
Should we try and hit on (recruit) everyone? How can we keep our movement romance alive (or should we fight about the kitchen)? And should we utter goblins have more schisms (and can we even help it)?
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