Nine Billion Names of Fear

About Nine Billion Names of Fear

Nine Billion Names of Fear is a podcast exploring fear and how it informs our daily lives and experiences. From the academic realm to the personal, from the individual and collective experience, from compartmentalization to candid conversation, each new episode will mine for a new understanding of this basic human emotion. Host Katie Muggli examined fear throughout graduate school, culminating in her M.A. thesis. Now almost a decade after graduation she’s reexamining it in the face of COVID-19.

Publisher

Katie Muggli

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

20 Apr 2020

Latest episode

5 Jun 2020

Latest episodes

3 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   5 Jun 2020

   Episode 2 — Gaslighting

   In this episode Katie lays the groundwork for exploring gaslighting, and why this form of manipulation is so important to understand. She walks through where the term originated from, her experience with gaslighting in an interpersonal relationship, and the implications of gaslighting on a larger level. At this pivotal moment, we have the opportunity to see the implications of gaslighting as a tool that aids in the marginalization of voices.

2. 

   13 May 2020

   Episode 1 - Recalibrating

   In this episode Katie shares how the podcast came into being, and shares some of the text that she is revisiting and seeking to build on. The title of the episode comes from precisely what she is trying to do in the midst of Covid-19—recalibrate and account for the new information coming in.

3. 

   20 Apr 2020

   Introducing Nine Billion Names of Fear

   Introducing Nine Billion Names of Fear, a podcast exploring fear and how it informs our daily lives and experiences.

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

6 ratings