Episode 140: Katherine Dee (@Default_Friend) Explains The Internet To Jesse
Blocked and Reported
Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Jesse’s been off in Israel resolving and/or exacerbating tensions between the Israelis and Palestinians, FAR too busy to talk to some distant goy like Katie, so here’s an interview he recently conducted with Katherine Dee, an extremely smart and perceptive writer and podcaster on internet culture. Topics include the very… *particular* nature of rationalist gatherings, the perils of parasocial relationships, and the question of what identity means when it’s severed from any sort of embodied, real-world existence.
Links:
Aella comes on BARPod:
Some of Dee’s favorite articles that she has written:
Tumblr Transformed American Politics
https://theamericanconservative.com/tumblr-transformed-american-politics/
Mass Shootings and the World Liberalism Made
Rise of the Female-to-Female Transsexual
The Ghost of Adam Lanza, Pt. 1
The brief and wondrous life of a scene.
The image is the ace pride flag: https://grpride.org/product/asexual-pride-flag/
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, podcast top Katie Herzog here. |
| 0:02.6 | Jesse is currently on a trip to Israel. |
| 0:04.9 | He is eating hummus and trying to create a two-state solution. |
| 0:08.8 | I'm pretty sure. |
| 0:09.7 | So today we're going to bring you an interview he did a couple |
| 0:12.2 | weeks ago with internet critic Catherine D. |
| 0:15.2 | Catherine is one of my favorite internet commentators and |
| 0:18.3 | she's just a wealth of knowledge on shit like the tumblr |
| 0:21.7 | vacation of American politics and culture. |
| 0:24.4 | As you'll hear in the interview, she argues that the origins |
| 0:26.8 | of wokeness for lack of a better term or less fukko and more |
| 0:30.8 | the internet. |
| 0:31.7 | It's an interesting conversation despite the lack of a certain |
| 0:35.4 | bossy lesbian co-host. |
| 0:37.4 | Just a note for anyone who isn't a Twitter addict or a long |
| 0:40.0 | time bar pod listener. |
| 0:41.6 | At one point in the interview, they talk about Aila, but Jesse |
| 0:45.0 | forgot to say who Aila is and I wasn't there to scream at |
| 0:47.7 | him. So if you don't know who Aila is, she's basically an |
| 0:50.4 | internet personality and human being. |
| 0:52.6 | She asks these bizarre questions and collects reams of |
| 0:55.8 | data on people's equally bizarre answers. |
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