Ghosting

Overthink

Ellie Anderson, Ph.D. and David Peña-Guzmán, Ph.D.

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Education

4.7 • 550 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever been ghosted? In episode 8 of Overthink, Ellie and David deconstruct this dating dilemma. The duo discuss what ghosting does to our emotions; how the Greek notion of akrasia can help us understand why people ghost; how ghosting leaves us feeling, well, haunted; and more!

Interested in the works discussed? Here you go!
Jacques Derrida, Specters of Marx
Julia Kristeva, Strangers to Ourselves
“Derrida,” dir. Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Kofman
Carl du Prel, The Philosophy of Mysticism

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Ellie Anderson.
0:09.2	And I'm David Pena Guzman.
0:11.0	Welcome to Overthink.
0:12.6	The podcast, we're two friends who are also professors.
0:16.3	Put philosophy and dialogue with the everyday.
0:18.8	Because big ideas are within everyone's reach.
0:26.1	David, I have a question for you.
0:28.3	Shoot.
0:29.6	Have you ever ghosted anybody?
0:33.1	I don't want to answer that.
0:37.3	But since you put yourself on blast in a previous episode with your cottage 14 identity,
0:44.1	I have to put myself on blast here and say that yes, I'm guilty of having ghosted.
0:50.5	Wow.
0:52.9	I've never ghosted anybody. Ben ghosted.
0:55.0	Are you serious about that?
0:59.0	I've orbited and I've breadcrumbed, but I've never actually ghosted.
1:04.0	So I want to hear a little bit about this. Who did you ghost?
1:08.0	Well, that's the thing about ghosting.
1:17.3	Okay, so it is a serious subject, but I don't remember the person that I ghosted.
1:25.9	This was in my early 20s, and I was on a couple of dating apps, and I talked to people, and in a couple of cases, so I think I ghosted two or three times.
1:29.6	Wow.
1:30.3	Yeah, yeah.
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