On this week’s Lifepod, researchers Susana Caló and Godofredo Pereira join me to discuss their new book “CERFI Analysis Everywhere,” and the history of that organization’s experiments in collective psychotherapy in the France of the 1960s and ‘70s. Starting from CERFI’s advocacy for a dynamic understanding of "institutions" as processes rather than static structures, we cover everything from the transformative power of desire to the meaning of “transversality” to the radical potential of swimming in a river — pausing along the way to consider what the young Félix Guattari might have learned from his time in youth hostels.

Terms and topics mentioned in this episode:
- CERFI Analysis Everywhere book page
- Wikipedia’s not bad on Félix Guattari
- The Algerian struggle for independence
- The Events of May '68 (note that “Events,” les événements, is itself a politically loaded, widely-despised rubric)
- Deinstitutionalization movement (US)
- Frederick Wiseman's Titicut Follies
- Suicidal Tendencies, "Institutionalized"
- La Borde clinic and "the grid"
- “Transversality”
- Paulo Freire
- The Sanrizuka struggle and Ogawa Pro films
- Recherches
- Colin Ward and more on adventure playgrounds
- Nomadology: The War Machine
- Radio Alice, Bologna
- semiotext(e) and the Foreign Agents series
- Other Ways to Care
- The “international network of free clinics” Susana mentions
- Alma-Gare, Roubaix
- Minor Compositions
- More on Anne Querrien, Ginette Michaud, Jean Oury, François Pain, Gaëtane Lamarche-Vadel and Michel Rostain. Very little seems to be available on Florence Pétry and Lion Murard.

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Cassie Thornton of the Feminist Economics Department drops by to discuss the Hologram — a framework for viral, peer-to-peer care she developed following a visit to post-Crisis Greece, and which people all over the world are currently using to make themselves “harder to fuck with.” We talk about the Hologram works, how to start one for yourself, and how to access the resources that are available to help you do so – and a whole bunch of other stuff, including antifragility, the Flat White Dimension, Miranda Mellis’s book Crocosmia, the brain fog of war, and what it feels like to be a human rhizome.

Terms and topics mentioned:
- The Hologram: Feminist, Peer-to-Peer Health for a Post-Pandemic Future
- Pirate Care gathering, Berlin, September 2025
- Social Solidarity Clinic, Thessaloniki
- Berkeley Free Clinic
- Medicine for Nightmares, San Francisco
- The rhizome in botany and Deleuze
- The criminalization of support for Palestine Action in the UK
- “Antifragility”
- Tensegrity structures
- The Hologram site
- Johanna Hedva
- Cassie’s new work, The Waiting Room
- T.S. Eliot, "East Coker"
- Julio Linares, Decolonizing Money
- Miranda Mellis and Crocosmia
- Ill Will Editions

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Kentucky-based artist Dianna Settles joins us for a conversation about her work. We discuss what inspires the remarkable specificity in her paintings — as well as the people she doesn’t want collecting them, the mistakes first-time farmers make, the type of book one may wish not to read while nursing, and the making of a life worth living.

Terms and topics mentioned:
- Dianna’s own paintings, drawings and prints
- MARCH Gallery, New York City
- “Stacking functions” in permaculture (heads up: link is to a prepper site)
- Police violence at the 2023 South River Music Festival, Atlanta
- Pieter Bruegel the Elder
- A sampler of some Viet Cong paintings
- High Museum of Art, Atlanta
- Kristin Ross, Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune
- Napoléon Gaillard père (shoemaker/barricadist of the Paris Commune)
- Ill Will
- Ossabaw indigo
- Lexington Still Life Club
- Phil Neel, Hellworld: The Human Species and the Planetary Factory
- Antoine Volodine
- John Berger, Pig Earth
- Joshua Clover, The Totality for Kids and Madonna anno domini
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed and The Left Hand of Darkness
- Greer Kirshenbaum, The Nurture Revolution
- Diane di Prima, Revolutionary Letters
- Rosie Stockton, Fuel
- Jasper Bernes, Starsdown and The Future of Revolution

- James Still, River of Earth
- May 2026 “Lifehouses, Resilience Hubs and Dual Power” gathering at Woodbine, NYC

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