Brendan Mackie's guest appearances

Brendan Mackie

In Theory: The JHI Blog Podcast

Real Life: Audio Edition

Gerald Horne

Robin James

Gary Wilder

Michael Robinson

Alexander Zevin

Liz Pelly

Josh Tucker

Colin Dickey

Matt Hartman

Jackie Brown

Adom Getachew

Frank Pasquale

Eli Cook

Paul Roquet

Samuel Moyn

OwlTail

Friendship is not an unchanging concept; changing economic conditions and technological possibilities facilitate different demands for connection and structures of belonging. "Parasociality" — feeling an unreciprocated intimacy with media personalities — is one such structure of belonging, but its asymmetry always tilts into economic exploitation or explosive fan rage. The same media forms that nurture that rage are also capable of amalgamating it into a potent force of social disruption.  Read more essays on living with technology at https://reallifemag.com and follow us on Twitter @_reallifemag.

<p>Friendship is not an unchanging concept; changing economic conditions and technological possibilities facilitate different demands for connection and structures of belonging. "Parasociality" — feeling an unreciprocated intimacy with media personalities — is one such structure of belonging, but its asymmetry always tilts into economic exploitation or explosive fan rage. The same media forms that nurture that rage are also capable of amalgamating it into a potent force of social disruption. <br/> Read more essays on living with technology at <a href="https://reallifemag.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://reallifemag.com</a> and follow us on Twitter @_reallifemag.</p>

89 - Why Can't We Be Friends by Brendan Mackie

Joshua Fogel

Brendan Mackie, the host of "The Making of a Historian" podcast (https://www.historian.live/), speaks with Professor Joshua Fogel of York University about his book 'A Friend in Deed: Lu Xun, Uchiyama Kanzō, and the Intellectual World of Shanghai on the Eve of War' (Association for Asian Studies, 2019).

A Friend in Deed: Brendan Mackie interviews Joshua Fogel