Heart Reacts

By: Craig Gent and Sarah Jaffe
  • Summary

  • “Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the feels.”


    We are HEART REACTS, an advice podcast for everyone trying to remain emotionally functional through the collapse of late capitalism. We’re here to answer all of the questions about love, friendship, family, and even work that you might want to ask two people who have spent adulthood trying to apply their radical political analysis, more or less successfully, to their personal lives.


    We are Craig Gent, a writer and researcher living in Leeds, and ⁠Sarah Jaffe⁠, a journalist and author based in New Orleans.


    You can send us your questions at www.askmeanything.cc/heartreacts.

    Get bonus content on Patreon

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    Craig Gent and Sarah Jaffe
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Episodes
  • Episode 11: The Ways We Ought To Live
    Nov 14 2024
    Welcome to HEART REACTS, an advice podcast for all of us trying to remain emotionally functional through the collapse of late capitalism. We talk up front about Trump winning again, and then advise a listener who is worried that all the good politics in the world don’t change society's perception of them. And of course, we have another installment in the Polyamory Chronicles.Stuff We Talk About:Hamilton Nolan, The HammerWoman behind 'incel' says angry men hijacked her word 'as a weapon of war'Dropkick Murphys, "Boys on the Docks"Moo DengCraig, "I remember MSN"Rosa Luxemburg's LettersBig Mood, Little Mood, "Compassion Fatigue"We are Craig Gent, a writer and researcher living in Leeds, and ⁠Sarah Jaffe⁠, a journalist and author based in New Orleans.Buy Craig's Book: CyberbossBuy Sarah's Book: From the AshesYou can send us your questions at ⁠www.askmeanything.cc/heartreacts⁠. This episode was produced by, well, us! We apologize for any inconsistencies in audio quality. If you liked it and want to help keep us going, and help us improve our recording process, you can support us at ⁠patreon.com/HeartReacts⁠. You can subscribe to the show wherever you get podcasts, and please do rate us on those podcast apps!Our music comes from “Casual Outrage” by New Orleans-based Basher, featured on their new album May Day, coming May 31, 2024 to Sinking City Records. For more about the band, visit⁠ byronasher.com/basher⁠. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • Episode 10: Hope Is Not a Strategy
    Oct 30 2024

    Welcome to HEART REACTS, an advice podcast for all of us trying to remain emotionally functional through the collapse of late capitalism.


    This week, we answer a question about despair, and solidarity with the people of Palestine, and consider the limitations of hope. Then we switch gears and muse on the issue of parenting while polyamorous, and whether people on the left should have more kids.


    Stuff We Talk About:

    Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment

    Gaza: Poetry after Auschwitz, Hamid Dabashi

    Rodrigo Nunes, Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal

    Stuart Hall Doing Childcare

    Sarah, Family Planning


    We are Craig Gent, a writer and researcher living in Leeds, and ⁠Sarah Jaffe⁠, a journalist and author based in New Orleans.


    Buy Craig's Book: Cyberboss

    Buy Sarah's Book: From the Ashes


    You can send us your questions at ⁠www.askmeanything.cc/heartreacts⁠.


    This episode was produced by, well, us! We apologize for any inconsistencies in audio quality. If you liked it and want to help keep us going, and help us improve our recording process, you can support us at ⁠patreon.com/HeartReacts⁠. You can subscribe to the show wherever you get podcasts, and please do rate us on those podcast apps!


    Our music comes from “Casual Outrage” by New Orleans-based Basher, featured on their new album May Day, coming May 31, 2024 to Sinking City Records. For more about the band, visit⁠ byronasher.com/basher⁠.


    Get bonus content on Patreon

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • Episode 9: Is Non-Monogamy Bourgeois?
    Oct 17 2024

    Welcome to HEART REACTS, an advice podcast for all of us trying to remain emotionally functional through the collapse of late capitalism.


    This week, we take on a question on "polyamory? in this economy?" We muse about hierarchies within and around relationship styles, love when the rent is too damn high, and what it means to think politically around sex and gender and the economy. And then we look at a question that Sarah's been getting asked a lot on book tour: how do you grieve when the thing you're grieving isn't over, or never ends?


    Stuff We Mention:


    Ordinary Unhappiness Podcast, featuring Sabrina Strings on The End of Love

    Natasha Lennard, The Uses and Abuses of Politics for Sex

    Chal Ravens, Monogamy is Cool, Actually

    Sarah, Beyond the Nuclear Family

    Cara Daggett, Petro-Masculinity and the Politics of Climate Refusal


    We are Craig Gent, a writer and researcher living in Leeds, and ⁠Sarah Jaffe⁠, a journalist and author based in New Orleans.


    You can send us your questions at ⁠www.askmeanything.cc/heartreacts⁠.


    This episode was produced by, well, us! We apologize for any inconsistencies in audio quality. If you liked it and want to help keep us going, and help us improve our recording process, you can support us at ⁠patreon.com/HeartReacts⁠. You can subscribe to the show wherever you get podcasts, and please do rate us on those podcast apps!


    Our music comes from “Casual Outrage” by New Orleans-based Basher, featured on their new album May Day, coming May 31, 2024 to Sinking City Records. For more about the band, visit⁠ byronasher.com/basher⁠.

    Get bonus content on Patreon

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    1 hr and 1 min

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