• Awkwardness with Alexandra Plakias

  • Sep 24 2024
  • Length: 56 mins
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Awkwardness with Alexandra Plakias

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  • Clogged toilets, odious jokes, difficult condolences… awkward moments are everywhere you look. In episode 113 of Overthink, Ellie and David invite philosopher Alexandra Plakias to talk through her research on awkwardness. They discuss everything from hasty clean-ups to snap decisions, from oversharing online to uncomfortable silences, as they explore the ways that awkwardness is bound up with power, morality, and the core scripts of our social expectations. Where does cringe end and awkwardness begin? Are we living through especially awkward times? Who gets to decide what is awkward? And, what if awkward people… don’t exist at all? Plus, in the bonus, they discuss The Office, weddings, weird eye contact, and more.

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    Works Discussed
    Sara Ahmed, The Promise of Happiness
    Adam Kotsko, Awkwardness
    Alexandra Plakias, Awkwardness: A Theory & “Awkward? We’d Better Own it”
    Thomas J. Spiegel, “Cringe”
    YouGov poll, "Awkwardness"

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