Dr Lisa Mitchell and A/Prof Diego Silva join us to discuss Netflix’s “Don’t Die” and use Bryan Johnson’s longevity regimen to talk about fear, meaning, and the politics of health. We ask what gets lost when anti-aging turns into an identity, a moral badge, or a business model.
• Brian Johnson’s “don’t die” project as a story about wealth, control, and death anxiety
• the tedium of optimization and the way routines become moral signaling
• longevity culture’s overlap with masculinity aesthetics and looksmaxing
• confusion between health, longevity, beauty standards, and virtue
• mind versus body authority and what it means to distrust the mind
• where philosophy and existential dread sit alongside “longevity science”
• ageism debates and the gap between chronological age and health
• level-one basics of preventive medicine versus extreme protocols
• paranoia, environmental toxins, and auditing everyday life
• ethical criticism of calling death the “greatest humanitarian challenge”
• what community, love, and friendship look like across a very long life
Undisciplinary - a podcast that talks across the boundaries of history, ethics, and the politics of health.
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