Everybody Wants to be a Fascist

JOAN and Apogee Graphics present an evening with historian Hannah Zeavin on March 13th at 7pm. The presentation will extend from Zeavin’s essay, “Liberated Frequencies: On the Media Histories of Institutional Psychotherapy,” in the recently released Semiotext(e) publication Everybody Wants to be a Fascist: Institutional Psychotherapy as a Resistance Movement by François Pain (2025), on the occasion of the exhibition François Pain, Psychiatry is what Psychiatrists do at JOAN from February 21 – April 26. Zeavin will offer a media history of institutional psychotherapy, focusing on the radical radio projects of Frantz Fanon, Félix Guattari, and François Pain.

Please email info@apogeegraphics.la to reserve a spot. This event is free and will take place at Suite 518, Yellow Tower of the Westin Bonaventure. 

Westin Bonaventure Hotel
404 S Figueroa Street, Suite 518
Los Angeles, CA 90071

Hannah Zeavin is a scholar, writer, and editor. Zeavin is an Assistant Professor of History at UC Berkeley. Zeavin is the author of the award winning books, The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy (2021, MIT Press) and Mother Media: Hot and Cool Parenting in the 20th Century (MIT Press, April 2025). She is at work on her third book, All Freud’s Children: A Story of Inheritance (US: Penguin Press; UK: Fern Press), for which she received a 2024 Whiting Foundation Non-Fiction Grant. In 2021, Zeavin co-founded The Psychosocial Foundation and is the Founding Editor of Parapraxis. She also serves as an Associate Editor for Psychoanalysis & History.