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What We Lost When We Stopped Belonging - The Deeper Thinking Podcast
Episode 199
Wednesday, 16 April, 2025
What We Lost When We Stopped Belonging The Deeper Thinking Podcast What if loneliness isn’t just a feeling, but a structural breakdown? A collapse in the relational, ecological, and existential architectures that once held us? This episode reframes loneliness not as personal failure, but as the symptom of a deeper disconnection—from each other, from the more-than-human world, and from the systems of meaning that once bound us. Drawing from over forty thinkers in philosophy, ecology, posthumanism, and social theory, we trace how intimacy became transactional, how attention became extractive, and how the self was reframed as sovereign rather than entangled. Featuring insights from Judith Butler, David Abram, bell hooks, Donna Haraway, Tricia Hersey, and Frantz Fanon, we explore how grief, rest, slowness, and interdependence might offer not escape—but repair. This is not a prescription, but a return to presence. An invitation to listen, dwell, and reorient ourselves toward the sacred weave of relation we’ve forgotten how to feel. Why Listen? A structural and ecological reframe of modern loneliness Connect philosophy, posthumanism, and emotional theory Engage practical insights on rest, grief, and reconnection Explore how disconnection became systemic—not individual Further Reading As an affiliate, we may earn from qualifying purchases through these links. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer — On reciprocity, kinship, and ecological memory. Amazon link Rest Is Resistance by Tricia Hersey — Rest as spiritual and political repair. Amazon link Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit — On uncertainty, story, and the slow work of belief. Amazon link Listen On: YouTube Spotify Apple Podcasts Bibliography Abram, David. The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-Human World. New York: Vintage Books, 1997. Ahmed, Sara. Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others. 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