Dopamine x Health Capitalism with Jesse Meadows

Material Girls

Rehak Hannah

Vanessa Zoltan, Arts, Harry Potter, Books, Aubrey Gordon, Hannah Mcgregor, Pop Culture, Cultural Cricism, Society & Culture, Feminism, Witch Please, Marcelle Kosman, Tv & Film, Fantasy, Not Sorry

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

For this episode, we're joined by Jesse Meadows (they/them) to discuss the most zeitgeist-y neurotransmitter around: dopamine! Have you been targeted Instagram Reels and Tik Toks about increasing your dopamine levels or managing ADHD through pleasure abstinence? Well that may have more to do with tech bros, billionaires and health capitalism than you think! Tune in for a conversation about pseudo-science, "hedonic Calvinism," eugenics, Big Pharma, manipulative algorithms and more!

Check out Jesse's Dopamine Dispatch: https://www.sluggish.xyz/t/dopaminedispatch!

To read more of Jesse's work, we HIGHLY recommend subscribing to Sluggish: https://www.sluggish.xyz

You can also find Jesse's video essays on Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@slug.town

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Material Girls is a show that aims to make sense of the zeitgeist through materialist critique* and critical theory! Each episode looks at a unique object of study (something popular now or from back in the day) and over the course of three distinct segments, Hannah and Marcelle apply their academic expertise to the topic at hand.

*Materialist Critique is, at its simplest possible level, a form of cultural critique – that is, scholarly engagement with a cultural text of some kind – that is interested in modes of production, moments of reception, and the historical and ideological contexts for both. Materialist critique is really interested in the question of why a particular cultural work or practice emerged at a particular moment.

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0:00.0	Yes, I just can't believe it.
0:02.6	This time tomorrow, you could be a millionaire.
0:05.2	Get your Lotto ticket for tonight's draw.
0:07.0	The National Lottery.
0:07.8	Rules and procedures apply.
0:08.8	Players must be 18 or over. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, I made a new mind I need a new brain I want to take a ride on a mini train you can have it all
0:37.0	at the showbe.
0:42.0	Hello and
0:43.0	welcome to Material Girls, a pop culture podcast that uses critical theory to understand the zeitgeist.
0:49.0	I'm Marcel Kossman.
0:51.0	And I'm Hannah McGregor and you know if I'm hosting an episode it's either
0:57.1	because I'm plugging a book I've written or I've insisted that we have a
1:01.2	guest who I'm fascinated by, and luckily for everyone today, it's the latter.
1:06.0	So Jesse Meadows, pronouns they-them, is a writer, artist, and creator of a weekly newsletter
1:11.9	called Slugish, which focuses on disability
1:14.7	capitalism and culture. Welcome Jesse. Thank you I'm excited. So we're going to be
1:21.3	talking today about the way contemporary self-improvement
1:24.6	influencer culture has gotten really obsessed with the neurotransmitter Dopamine and
1:30.1	we have so much to say about it.
1:32.6	So we're gonna have to keep this opening real tight.
1:35.6	But folks, I really want to know, since we're talking about self-help
1:40.8	and wellness scams, if you've ever gotten sucked into a wellness scam, I know I have.
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