dopaminedispatch

What's On Your Dopamenu?

dopamine dispatch #7: on why we scroll

Dec 5, 2024 •

Why Is Everything A 'Dopamine Hit' Now?

dopamine dispatch #6: consumerist copes, 20th century addiction discourses, and (drug) metaphors we live by

Jul 24, 2024 •

Distracted By The Dopamine Slot Machine

dopamine dispatch #5: "digital fentanyl," technology panic, and what's really wrong with the internet

Feb 4, 2024 •

Songs for Dopamine

dopamine dispatch #4: metamodernism and the return to feeling

Oct 11, 2023 •

Who's Afraid of Fake Dopamine?

dopamine dispatch #3: you're already a cyborg! plus -> the very American mythology of the influencer-entrepreneur

Sep 19, 2023 •

Workplace Dopamine Training Is The New Pizza Party

dopamine dispatch #2: what's wrong with workplace wellness programs? plus, more on the history of "scientific" anti-porn advocacy

Aug 24, 2023 •

"We Dope Ourselves Hardcore On Those Four Chems"

dopamine dispatch #1: scam and grow rich??

Aug 5, 2023 •

The Ice Man Swimmeth

(in ableist dogma) PLUS: how health is a religion now, and the legacy of the Freemasons

Jun 12, 2023 •

Dopamine: The Self-Improvement Mythos Of Our Age

influencers have turned the neurotransmitter into a gospel of productivity and vice

Apr 27, 2023 •

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