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Podcast: Interventions | The Intellectual History Podcast (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Slavery, Empire, and John Locke (with Mark Goldie)
Pub date: 2025-02-04

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John Locke continues to excite controversy. For American liberals, he is an honorary Founding Father, one of the architects of modern democracy. In their view, as Allan Bloom put it, ‘the whole world is divided into two parts, one of which traces its intellectual lineage back to Locke and the other to Marx’. For his critics on the left, by contrast, he is an apologist for slavery and European imperialism, his thought a reminder that liberalism and empire were born twins. But is either of these views really true? Perhaps if we look at Locke’s practical engagement with English colonialism, a more complicated picture will emerge.

Join Mark Goldie, one of the preeminent historians of seventeenth century political thought, as he sheds light on Locke’s involvement in the transatlantic slave trade, his relationship with England’s American colonies, and his views on empire and enslavement, asking how it was that the so-called father of liberalism could have accepted the absolute subjugation of other human beings.

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Podcast: Yale University Press Podcast (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Visual History of Panafricanism
Pub date: 2025-01-30

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Curators and scholars Antawan I. Byrd and Matthew S. Witkovsky discuss the new exhibition and book Project a Black Planet

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Podcast: Queer Lit (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: “Autotheories” with Alex Brostoff
Pub date: 2025-01-21

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You’ve read Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts but have you heard of the scholar who puts the auto in theories? Meet Alex Brostoff, my new favourite autotheorist. Alex is here to clear up common misconceptions about autotheories and tell us more about biomythography, teoría de la noche, and reading beside. I was also intrigued to learn about intertextual kinship and hear Alex’s (beautifully phrased) thoughts on co-writing and co-translating.

References:

Alex Brostoff and Lauren Fournier (eds) Autotheory (special issue of ASAP/Journal, 2021)
Alex Brostoff and Vilashini Cooppan (eds) Autotheories (MIT Press, 2025)
Alex Brostoff’s Unruly Relations: A Critical Reframing of Autotheory (Columbia University Press, forthcoming)
Alex Brostoff and rl Goldberg (eds) Trans Literature (special issue of College Literature, 2025)
Alex Brostoff and rl Goldberg (eds) Reassignments: Trans and Sex from the Clinical to the Critical (Fordham University Press, forthcoming)
Stryker, Susan. "Transgender studies: Queer theory's evil twin." GLQ: A journal of lesbian and gay studies 10.2 (2004): 212-215.
Intertextual kinship in Brostoff’s “An Autotheory of Intertextual Kinship: Ambivalent Bodies in the Work of Maggie Nelson and Paul Preciado.” Special issue, “Dissident Self-Narratives: Radical and Queer Life Writing,” ed. Aude Haffen. Synthesis: An Anglophone Journal of Comparative Literary Studies 14 (2021): 91-115.
Kai Minosh Pyle trans*temporal kinship
Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts
Roland Barthes
Paul Preciado’s Testo Junkie
On the Eve of This Death
Freccero, Carla. "The ‘Auto’ of Theory." in Autotheories (MIT Press, 2025)
Foucault
Derrida
Gloria Anzaldúa
This Bridge Called My Back Borderlands/La Frontera
Theory in the flesh
Autohistoria-teoría
Audre Lorde’s Zami
Biomythography
María Moreno’s teoría de la noche (theory of the night)
Sedgwick’s reading beside
Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Steward’s The Hundreds
Heather Love
John Money
Richard Green
Judith Butler’s Who’s Afraid of Gender
Cameron Awkward-Rich
Stephanie Burt
Liz Rose
Nat Rivkin
Jordy Rosenberg
Trish Salah
torrin a. greathouse
Cole Rizki
TSQ
@alextakesfotos (on Instagram)
@AlexBrostoff (on X)
@alexbrostoff.bsky.social (on Bluesky)
TravestiAmara Moira, “Loose Tongues,” a selection from Neca (2021), translated by Jesse Rothbard and edited by Cole Rizki, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly (forthcoming, 2025).

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1. What is autotheory and why might Alex prefer the plural autotheories? 2. What are some related concepts or theories? 3. Which thinkers do we commonly associate with autotheories? 4. Name at least two texts that Alex posits as central to autotheories. 5. Alex speaks a lot about co-writing. Have you ever experienced “being deep in the trenches of someone else’s sentences”? How do you co-write?

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Podcast: This Is Hell! (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Spotify's Plot Against Musicians / Liz Pelly
Pub date: 2025-01-15

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Liz Pelly joins This Is Hell! to discuss her Harper's cover article titled "The Ghosts in the Machine: Spotify's Plot Against Musicians," excerpted from her new book, Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist (One Signal Publishers). Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell

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Podcast: Ideas (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Woke Racism and the Language Police | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie & John McWhorter
Pub date: 2025-01-08

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Writers Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and John McWhorter share common concerns about language, race and politics in our polarized society. They discuss the chilling of civic discourse for fear of political censure and how wokeness is condescending to Black people at the 2024 Aspen Ideas Festival.

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Podcast: A is for Architecture (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Fiona Smyth: Architecture and the history of acoustics.
Pub date: 2024-12-11

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In Episode 135 of A is for Architecture, Assistant Professor in Architectural History and Theory in the Department of Architecture at the University of Cambridge, Dr Fiona Smyth, discusses her book, Pistols in St Paul's: Science, music, and architecture in the twentieth century (Manchester University Press, 2024) ‘a ground-breaking account of the scientists and architects who pioneered acoustics in twentieth-century Britain’.

As the publisher’s blurb elegantly puts it, ‘On a winter's night in 1951, shortly after Evensong, the interior of St Paul's Cathedral echoed with gunfire. This was no act of violence but a scientific demonstration of new techniques in acoustic measurement. It aimed to address a surprising question: could a building be a musical instrument? […] the scientists, architects and musicians who set out to answer this question […] would come to define the field of 'architectural acoustics'.

Fiona can be found on the Cambridge University website, and on her research website too. The book is linked above

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Podcast: Queer Lit (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: “Trans Literature and Science Fiction” with Sabine Sharp
Pub date: 2024-11-26

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Have you thought to yourself recently: How come trans literature is having such a moment right now? Then this episode is for you. Sabine Sharp, editor of The Routledge Handbook of Trans Literature (2024), is joining me for a chat about the significance of trans literature today, as well as its roots and legacies, especially in the 20th century. Sabine speaks about the difficult implications of transness as a symbol of futurity in science fiction and contrasts a personal connection with 1970s feminist science fiction to contemporary frictions between some feminisms and transness.

As you listen to this episode, we recommend transing transily through your house and following @queerlitpodcast on Instagram.

References:
The Routledge Handbook of Trans Literature (2024)
Material Girls podcast
Maia Kobabe’s Gender Queer
Douglas Vakoch
The Climate Deniers Playbook
Rollie Williams
Nicole Conlan
Becky Chambers’ Monk and Robot duology
Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries
Judith Butler’s Undoing Gender
Eman Abdelhadi and M. E. O'Brien’s Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072
Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time
Ursula LeGuin
Philip K. Dick
Cecilia Gentili’s Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn't My Rapist
Little Puss

Questions you should be able to respond to after listening:
1. How does Sabine describe the current moment in trans literature? Why do we need a handbook of trans literature now? 2. What might the relationship between trans literature and ecocriticism be? 3. Why is science fiction an interesting but also potentially problematic genre when it comes to depiction of transness and gender nonconformity? 4. What is Sabine gesturing to when speaking about the relationship between feminist science fiction and transness in the late 20th century and feminism and transness today? 5. What can we learn from trans literature?

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Podcast: Conversations with Tyler (LS 64 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Stephen Kotkin on Stalin, Power, and the Art of Biography
Pub date: 2024-12-04

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In his landmark multi-volume biography of Stalin, Stephen Kotkin shows how totalitarian power worked not just through terror from above, but through millions of everyday decisions from below. Currently a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution after 33 years at Princeton, Kotkin brings both deep archival work and personal experience to his understanding of Soviet life, having lived in Magnitogorsk during the 1980s and seen firsthand how power operates in closed societies.

Tyler sat down with Stephen to discuss the state of Russian Buddhism today, how shamanism persists in modern Siberia, whether Siberia might ever break away from Russia, what happened to the science city Akademgorodok, why Soviet obsession with cybernetics wasn't just a mistake, what life was really like in 1980s Magnitogorsk, how modernist urban planning failed there, why Prokofiev returned to the USSR in 1936, what Stalin actually understood about artistic genius, how Stalin's Georgian background influenced him (or not), what Michel Foucault taught him about power, why he risked his tenure case to study Japanese, how his wife's work as a curator opened his eyes to Korean folk art, how he's progressing on the next Stalin volume, and much more.

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Podcast: Recall This Book (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: 138b Ronald Reagan Gave Us Punk Rock (with Vincent Brown)
Pub date: 2024-11-22

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Welcome to What Just Happened, a Recall This Book experiment. In it you will hear three friends of RTB reacting to the 2024 election and discussing the coming four years. In this episode, Vincent Brown (History professor at Harvard) last spoke with us about his own work on Caribbean slave revolts; his many other well-known projects include the recent PBS series The Bigger Picture.

What exactly happened and will happen? Well, Vince has sympathy for Bernie Sanders Boston Globe op-ed about the Democrat's neglect of working-class and Gabriel Wynant's "Exit Right" abut the need to remake left-wing politics. He also takes seriously Thomas Piketty's theory of the rise of "Brahmin Left". That's a topic explored in the Recall This Book series on the Brahmin left ( Jan-Werner Muller, Matthew Karp and Thomas Piketty).

Any hopeful note to end on? Well, bad government breeds righteous opposition. From Ronald Reagan we got...Minor Threat and the Bad Brains.

Tune in tomorrow to hear John speak with David Cunningham; the previous conversation, already up on New Books Network, was with Mark Blyth.

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Podcast: American History Hit (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: A CIA Man in China: 20 Years Imprisoned
Pub date: 2024-11-14

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This is the story of America's longest held prisoner of war. John 'Jack' Downey, an American CIA operative, was imprisoned by the Chinese for 21 years during the Cold War.

Don speaks to Barry Wirth, author of 'Prisoner of Lies: Jack Downey's Cold War.' They explore why the CIA were in Asia in the 1950s, Downey's capture and imprisonment, and why it took so long for him to be released.

Produced by Sophie Gee. Edited by Aidan Lonergan. Senior Producer was Charlotte Long.

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Podcast: Journalism History (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 146: The Newspaper Axis
Pub date: 2024-11-04

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Historian Kathryn Olmsted discusses her recent book, The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler, and explains how anti-interventionist attitudes by publishers such as Hearst, McCormick, and Lord Beaverbrook hindered the U.S. and British responses to Hitler's rise to power. Show transcripts are available at https://journalism-history.org/podcast.

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Podcast: Psychoanalysis On and Off the Couch (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Psychoanalysis and the Working Through of a Vineyard's Slave History with Mark Solms, PhD (Cape Town)
Pub date: 2024-10-20

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“The historian [of the vineyard] gave us regular feedback on what she was finding, and she also brought in oral historians to take our own life histories. There's also a psychoanalytical point to be made here - you can take refuge in this scholarly exercise, going into archives and finding out things that happened hundreds of years ago, you can all too easily remove yourself from that: ‘This is what happened long, long ago’. But all of us on this farm, we had all lived through Apartheid. The oral historians who wanted to participate, we met over many sessions in my living room and the oral historians asked each of us who volunteered to participate to tell our stories of our lives and it was a real revelation to me. Despite my abstract awareness, the actual concrete listening to people who I was getting to know as individuals, to hear one after another account of the grinding poverty of what it actually is like to be a poor black farm worker in South Africa under Apartheid."

Episode Description: Mark shares with us his original intent to make a "citizen-sized contribution to the reconstruction" of South Africa through redressing the inequalities that formed a basis of his family's vineyard. He describes going through a painful process of enlightenment where good intentions themselves were insufficient to honor the historical processes that lived inside the owner and the tenant farmers who have been on the land for generations. Psychoanalytically informed, he consulted a historian and archeologist to, along with the farmers, dig into both the land and the lives of all involved. This led to a rebalancing of the pride/shame dynamic that had existed in the owner/workers. When faced with the inevitable question, "Must I give the farm back?" Mark discusses what he felt was the difference between ‘self-interest’ and ‘selfish-interest’. He shares with us the efforts he took to enable the workers to become landowners, to become educated and also to become discoverers and messengers of their historically rich cuisine and music. He also details the ‘not so happy ending; of these efforts as his farm has struggled financially under the burden of these considerable costs and government corruption. Things have turned around of late and there is reason to be optimistic for the long-term flourishing of his vineyard and his “citizen sized” contribution to the well-being of those with whom he works.

Our Guest: Mark Solms, PhD is a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society and the American and South African Psychoanalytic Associations. He is Director of Neuropsychology at the Neuroscience Institute of the University of Cape Town. He is an Honorary Fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists. He has received numerous honors and awards, including the Sigourney Prize. He has published 350 scientific papers, and eight books, the latest being The Hidden Spring (Norton, 2021). He is the authorized editor and translator of the Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (24 volumes) and the forthcoming Complete Neuroscientific Works of Sigmund Freud (4 volumes).

Recommended Reading:

Solms, M. (2015) Psychoanalysis in Pursuit of Truth and Reconciliation on a South African Farm: Commentary on Gobodo-Madikizela. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 63:1147-1158

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Podcast: New Books in Communications (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Kevin Sanson, "Mobile Hollywood: Labor and the Geography of Production" (U California Press, 2024)
Pub date: 2024-10-20

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What is the future of the film industry? In Mobile Hollywood Labor and the Geography of Production(U California Press, 2024), Kevin Sanson, Professor of Media Studies and Head of the School of Communication at Queensland University of Technology, examines the way Hollywood film production has become a global industry. The book theorises Hollywood as a distinct spatial assemblage, and examines the consequences of the rise of global, mobile film production for places and for workers. Offering a unique perspective on the challenges of this new mode of production, alongside insights on how ‘good work’ can be defended and preserved in media industries, the book is essential reading across the humanities and social sciences, as well as for anyone interested in media today. The book is also available open access here.

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Podcast: New Books in Literary Studies (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Psychoanalytic Defense Mechanisms in James Baldwin’s "Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone"
Pub date: 2024-10-16

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This podcast describes a short history of a man who did something we’ve lost in America. That man was James Baldwin who insisted on telling the truth. He confronted the harsh realities of racism, believing that exposing its ugliness was necessary for progress. He rejected simplistic solutions, arguing that racism was deeply rooted in American consciousness and imagination, beyond just political and economic inequalities. Instead, Baldwin called for a fundamental transformation of American society and identity. He critiqued white America, urging white Americans to confront their own behavior and complicity in racist systems.

Controversially, Baldwin advocated for Black Americans to approach white countrymen with love, while still insisting on unconditional freedom, seeing this as necessary for true transformation. He ultimately wanted to build a nation that moved beyond racial categorization, focusing instead on individual humanity. Baldwin viewed racism as stemming from a deeper spiritual problem in America, where individuals and the nation lacked a true sense of identity. While he did not offer simple solutions to racism, Baldwin's penetrating analysis and powerful writing exposed the complexities of racism in our country, challenged both white and Black Americans to confront difficult truths, and provided a framework for understanding racism beyond just political reforms. His work continues to influence discussions on race in America today, aiming not to ameliorate racism in a superficial sense, but to push for a profound reckoning with and transformation of American society and identity in relation to race.

Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone is a powerful novel that explores the complexities of race, sexuality, and identity in America through the life of its protagonist, Leo Proud/hammer. As the story begins, Leo, a successful African-American actor, suffers from a heart attack. As he recovers he reflects on his life and relationships.

It is also of interest to note how James Baldwin’s novel relates to Dr. Matin Luther King Jr.’s non-fiction book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?

Both books are discussed in terms of the major contributions they made to racism in America as well as how they illustrate psychoanalytic mechanism of defense.

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Podcast: Red Medicine (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Writing in the Conjuncture w/ Dayna Tortorici and Lisa Borst
Pub date: 2024-10-07

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Dayna Tortorici and Lisa Borst discuss The Intellectual Situation, a new anthology of writing from the literary magazine n+1. The anthology brings together writing from the period of 20014-2024, including contributions from people such as Gabriel Winant, Alyssa Battistoni, Tabi Haslet, Nikil Saval, and many others. In this conversation Lisa and Dayna discuss putting the collection together, how it feels to read back essays written during different political struggles from the last decade, and how they think about the relationship between writing and organising.

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Podcast: Dan Snow's History Hit (LS 75 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: The British Agent Who Tried to Kill Lenin
Pub date: 2024-10-01

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Robert Bruce Lockhart was one of the most extraordinary and unconventional agents of the 20th century. A British diplomat, spy, and propagandist, his life was one of scandal and deception - from the jungles of Malaysia to the streets of Moscow, he bore witness to some of history's most pivotal moments. He even took part in a plot to kill Vladimir Lenin and bring down the Communist regime.

Today we're joined by James Crossland, Professor of International History at Liverpool John Moores University and author of 'Rogue Agent'. James tells us how this gifted yet flawed character went from a teenage upstart to a crucial Cold War intermediary and a master of psychological warfare.

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Podcast: University of Minnesota Press
Episode: On Trans Philosophy and troubling a Western-dominant sense of trans.
Pub date: 2024-09-26

Across language and politics, feminism and phenomenology, and decolonial theory, Trans Philosophy addresses trans worldmaking in all its beauty and mundanity. The volume’s four editors, Perry Zurn, Andrea J. Pitts, Talia Mae Bettcher, and PJ DiPietro focus on the contributions of trans and gender-nonconforming philosophers from around the globe. Showcasing writing from a range of emerging and established voices, Trans Philosophy addresses discrimination, embodiment, identity, language, and law, utilizing diverse philosophical methods to attend to significant intersections between trans experience and class, disability, race, nationality, and sexuality. Here, the book’s four editors engage each other in conversation.

Perry Zurn is visiting associate professor of feminist, gender, and sexuality studies at Cornell University and associate professor of philosophy at American University. He is author of Curiosity and Power: The Politics of Inquiry and How We Make Each Other: Trans Life at the Edge of the University and coeditor of Curiosity Studies: A New Ecology of Knowledge.

Andrea J. Pitts is associate professor of comparative literature at the University at Buffalo. They are author of Nos/Otras: Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Multiplicitous Agency, and Resistance and coeditor of Theories of the Flesh: Latinx and Latin American Feminisms, Transformation, and Resistance.

Talia Mae Bettcher is professor of philosophy at California State University, Los Angeles. She is author of Beyond Personhood: An Essay in Trans Philosophy (Minnesota, 2025); Berkeley's Philosophy of Spirit: Consciousness, Ontology, and the Elusive Subject; and Berkeley: A Guide for the Perplexed.

PJ DiPietro is associate professor of women’s and gender studies and director of the LGBTQ studies program at Syracuse University. They are author of Sideways Selves: Travesti and Jotería Struggles across the Américas and coeditor of Speaking Face to Face: The Visionary Philosophy of María Lugones.

Contributing writers to Trans Philosophy include: Megan Burke, Sonoma State U; Robin Dembroff, Yale U; Marie Draz, San Diego State U; Che Gossett, U of Pennsylvania; Ryan Gustafsson, U of Melbourne; Stephanie Kapusta, Dalhousie U; Tamsin Kimoto, Washington U, St. Louis; Hil Malatino, Pennsylvania State U and Rock Ethics Institute; Amy Marvin, Lafayette U; Marlene Wayar.

WORKS AND PERSONS REFERENCED:

C. Riley Snorton / Black on Both Sides

Perry Zurn / Curiosity Studies and Curiosity and PowerandHow We Make Each Other

Hil Malatino / Side Affects and Trans Care

Hortense Spiller

Jacob Hale

Gwen Araujo

Special issue of Hypatia: Transgender Studies and Feminism: Theory, Politics, and Gendered Realities, edited by Talia Mae Bettcher and Ann Garry

What Is Trans Philosophy? By Talia Mae Bettcher in Hypatia

Marlene Wayar

Talia Mae Bettcher / Beyond Personhood

Mary Jones

Marsha P. Johnson

María Lugones

Marco Chivalan-Carrillo

Amaranta Gómez Regalado
Marcia Ochoa
Josefina Fernández
Diana Maffia

Lohana Berkins

Tourmaline

Trans Philosophy is available from University of Minnesota Press.

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Podcast: Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Hermes' Historia: a Brief History of Ancient Theatre
Pub date: 2024-09-12

Hermes Historia is a new series hosted by Liv and Michaela, brief lessons in ancient history. In the future the series will be exclusive to supporters of the show (more on that soon!) but we're releasing the first few episodes on the main feed... First up, the history of ancient theatre. Submit your questions to the quarterly Q&A episodes!

CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault. Given it's fiction, and typically involves gods and/or monsters, I'm not as deferential as I would be were I referencing the real thing.

Sources: Theatre in Ancient Greek Society by JR Green;The Context of Ancient Drama by Eric and William J. Slater. Herodotus' The Histories, translated by Robin Waterfield.

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Podcast: EcoJustice Radio (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Climate Fiction Origins: J.G. Ballard's Visionary Worlds
Pub date: 2024-09-03

In this episode, We explore the fascinating world of what would later be known as Climate Fiction through the lens of J.G. Ballard's provocative works, written mostly last century. From his early novel "The Drowned World" to the controversial "Crash," we delve into how Ballard's dystopian visions have shaped the genre. We feature insights from a PBS show Hot Mess, a short BBC film Ballard appeared in 1973 exploring his experimental novel of linked short stories called “The Atrocity Exhibition,” and a 2006 South Bank Show interview. We discuss the psychological and societal impacts of Climate Fiction, and how it might inspire change in an era of environmental urgency.First we begin with a 2019 clip from Hot Mess from PBS, featuring Lindsay Ellis, of It’s Lit, and Amy Brady, the editor-in-chief of The Chicago Review of Books.Hot Mess | The Rise of Climate Fiction feat. Lindsay Ellis & Amy Brady | Episode 35 | PBShttps://www.pbs.org/video/the-rise-of-climate-fiction-feat-lindsay-ellis-amy-brady-2s2sxh/ The Atrocity Exhibition is J.G. Ballard’s instruction manual on how to disrupt mass media and recontextualize technology in a dystopian landscape overrun with industrial waste and technological white noise. The excerpt is from a 1973 BBC film directed by Harely Cokliss and features Ballard talking about car crash fetishism and the response to the bleak modern landscapes dominated by industrial monotony and the irrational violence of the technology-infused world which would coalesce into his controversial novel Crash, published in 1973. https://youtu.be/QRxpZ142lkI?si=gh5FjzV9BrUvs-r0 The next clip is a 2006 interview of JG Ballard by Melvyn Bragg on the South Bank Show, which also features prominent British authors Will Self, Iain Sinclair, and Martin Amis. https://youtu.be/le0tW1y609w?si=2DeFYxI-wqGe-Cu8 For an extended interview and other benefits, become an EcoJustice Radio patron at https://www.patreon.com/ecojusticeradio Resources/Articles:https://wilderutopia.com/performance/literary/j-g-ballard-atrocity-exhibition-modernist-motorcar-dystopia/ James Graham Ballard who lived between 1930 and 2009 was an English novelist and short-story writer known for psychologically provocative works that explore relations between human psychology, technology, sex and mass media. Ballard’s original climate fiction work from 1962 was the post-apocalyptic New Wave science fiction novel The Drowned World. He followed with the controversial 1970 short-story collection The Atrocity Exhibition, which includes the 1968 story "Why I Want to F- Ronald Reagan", and later the 1973 novel Crash (1973), a story about car-crash fetishists.In 1984, Ballard won broad critical recognition for the war novel Empire of the Sun, a semi-autobiographical story of the experiences of a British boy during the Japanese occupation of Shanghai;[4] three years later, the American film director Steven Spielberg adapted the novel into a film of the same name. From the distinct nature of the literary fiction of J. G. Ballard arose the adjective Ballardian, defined as: "resembling or suggestive of dystopian modernity, bleak man-made landscapes, and the psychological effects of technological, social or environmental developments." Jack Eidt is an urban planner, environmental journalist, and climate organizer, as well as award-winning fiction writer. He is Co-Founder of SoCal 350 Climate Action and Executive Producer of EcoJustice Radio. He is also Founder and Publisher of WilderUtopia [https://wilderutopia.com], a website dedicated to the question of Earth sustainability, finding society-level solutions to environmental, community, economic, transportation and energy needs.

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Podcast: Guerrilla History (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Subjectivity and Decolonization in the Post-Independence Novel and Film w/ Sarah Jilani
Pub date: 2024-08-16

In this episode of Guerrilla History, we have the opportunity to discuss a fabulous new book, Subjectivity and Decolonisation in the Post-Independence Novel and Film with its brilliant author Sarah Jilani. Through examinations of novels and film from Africa and South Asia, Frantz Fanon's materialist approach to self and representations of subjectivity and decolonization are discussed. Really an outstanding conversation, we really hope Sarah will join us again for future conversations! Another project Sarah is involved with is Revolutionary Papers, and we look forward to discussing this project in weeks to come. Sarah Jilani is a Lecturer in English at City, University of London, and a 2021 AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker. She is the author of several articles on postcolonial literatures and film that have appeared in Textual Practice, Interventions, and Journal of Commonwealth Literature, amongst others, and a widely published culture journalist. Keep up to date with Sarah by checking out her website for more of her work, and follow her on twitter @sarahjilani. Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/guerrillahistory

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Podcast: The afikra Podcast (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Lessons in Decolonization From North Africa's Global Thinkers | Idriss Jebari
Pub date: 2024-08-05

This episode was recorded on June 7th 2024.

Idriss Jebari is a lecturer in Middle East Studies at Trinity College Dublin. He is a historian of Arab thought and his upcoming book will address North African cultural and social history after its independence's from France, on the radical sixties and seventies, on collective memory in the Arab world. After completing his doctorate the history of production of critical thought in Morocco and Tunisia at the University of Oxford, he held a postdoctoral research fellowship at the American University of Beirut (Lebanon), and at Bowdoin College in Maine (USA).

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Podcast: What's Left of Philosophy (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 94 | Norman Geras' Ethics of Revolution
Pub date: 2024-08-02

In this episode, we discuss the contributions of political theorist Norman Geras to socialist debates about revolutionary ethics, movement democracy, and justice. He argues for a right to revolution, but that there’s a difference between political and social revolution, and that this difference tells us something about which ends justify which means. Other topics include state theory, dual power, and the role that Marxism can play in social movements today.

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References:

Norman Geras, “Our Morals: The Ethics of Revolution,” Socialist Register 25(1989): 185-211.

Norman Geras, “Democracy and the Ends of Marxism,” New Left Review 1(203)(1994): 92-106.

Norman Geras, “Human Nature and Progress,” New Left Review 1(213): 151-160.

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Podcast: The Podcast for Social Research (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Podcast for Social Research, Episode 80: On Realism, World-Building, Violence, and Desire—Joseph Earl Thomas, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Vinson Cunningham, and Paige Sweet in Conversation
Pub date: 2024-07-24

What does literary realism look like in the 21st century—and what can it do? In episode 80 of the Podcast for Social Research, recorded live at Liz’s Book Bar in Brooklyn, BISR faculty Paige Sweet sat down with fellow faculty and debut novelist Joseph Earl Thomas plus special guests, writers Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah and Vinson Cunningham, to talk about what it means, what it takes, and what it feels like to represent social reality in contemporary fiction. In novels that test the boundaries of realism, traditionally conceived—borrowing techniques from autofiction, speculative fiction, dystopia, satire, and academic non-fiction—Thomas (God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer), Adjei-Brenyah (Chain-Gang All-Stars), and Cunningham (Great Expectations) get beneath the detailed depiction of everyday life to discuss, among other things, the world-building that happens in every act of writing; how fiction can serve as a testing ground for theoretical commitments; the carceral nature of our social institutions and their ripple effects through our intimate lives; the violence that goes on under the guise of pleasure; and how to feel and depict life as precious in even the most devastating and dehumanizing conditions. Persons and things touched upon include: the US Constitution, bell hooks, Gayatri Spivak, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Henry James, Solmaz Sharif, Saidiya Hartman, Goodreads, love, looking, “boundaries,” and beauty.

This episode was produced by Ryan Lentini.

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Podcast: This Day in Esoteric Political History (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 'A Harvest Of Death' And The Power Of Photography (1863) w/ Robert Sullivan
Pub date: 2024-07-16

It's July 15th. This day in 1863, photographer Timothy O'Sullivan has taken a photo of dead soldiers at Gettysburg called "A Harvest of Death." It would become one of the most famous photos in American history -- and O'Sullivan would soon be contracted to travel west and photograph the American frontier.Jody, Niki, and Kellie are joined by writer Robert Sullivan to talk about "A Harvest Of Death" and why Sullivan is so drawn to the work of Timoth O'Sullivan.Robert Sullivan's new book is available now -- it's called "Double Exposure: Resurveying the West with Timothy O'Sullivan, America's Most Mysterious War Photographer"This Day In Esoteric Political History is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX.Your support helps foster independent, artist-owned podcasts and award-winning stories.If you want to support the show directly, you can do so on our website: ThisDayPod.comGet in touch if you have any ideas for future topics, or just want to say hello. Follow us on social @thisdaypodOur team: Jacob Feldman, Researcher/Producer; Brittani Brown, Producer; Khawla Nakua, Transcripts; music by Teen Daze and Blue Dot Sessions; Audrey Mardavich is our Executive Producer at Radiotopia

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Podcast: Cursed Objects (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: The Museum of Neoliberalism ft. Darren Cullen
Pub date: 2024-07-10

How do you start collecting objects for a cursed museum? Kasia and Dan spend all of their money in the gift shop of the Museum of Neoliberalism (well, it wouldn’t be a Museum of Neoliberalism if you entered with more money than you left with). They find a world curated by Darren Cullen - artist, activist and collector of some of the most mundanely dystopian objects imaginable. They discover corporate sponsored scout badges, chainsaws for kids and an Amazon employee’s bottle of piss. How can you represent an ideology like neoliberalism that has such far-reaching but poorly understood implications?

PLUS they look at some of Darren’s own creations that mimic and subvert the horrors of the everyday: ‘baby’s first baby’, the infamous Hell bus, and a mini diorama of an Amazon ‘fulfillment centre’. But don’t worry, there are some blessed objects too - including ‘Don’t talk to them’ placards, that you can download from Darren’s website. The Museum of Neoliberalism is closing in mid-September, get down as soon as you can (and make sure you book!).

If you want to hear more about Kasia and Dan's thoughts on neoliberalism (particularly in the Labour Party) find them in Rainbow Rhythms and Neoliberal Blues. You can also hear more about playmobil border force and riot cops in our episode on Dystopian Soft Play.

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Podcast: Late Night Live - Separate stories podcast (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Isabel Allende and her feminist life
Pub date: 2024-07-02

In her memoir The Soul of A Woman, the best-selling Chilean author Isabel Allende explores how feminism has shaped her life over the past seven decades. At a very young age, as she raged against her patriarchal, Catholic, conservative family, her mother believed her rebelliousness was caused by a medical condition.

First broadcast in 2021.

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Podcast: University of Minnesota Press
Episode: Translating the post-exotic writer Antoine Volodine
Pub date: 2024-06-27

Antoine Volodine is the primary pseudonym of a French-Russian writer of many books. The meditative, postapocalyptic noir Mevlido’s Dreams, translated by Gina M. Stamm, is an urgent communiqué from a far-future reality of irreversible environmental damage and civilizational collapse that asks what it means to love and care for others at the end of the world. Here, Stamm is joined in conversation with Joshua Armstrong about translating this key work in Volodine’s post-exotic fictional universe.

Gina M. Stamm is assistant professor of French at the University of Alabama.

Joshua Armstrong is associate professor of French at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Mevlido’s Dreams: A Post-Exotic Novel is available from University of Minnesota Press.

“Translator Stamm does an admirable job of rendering Volodine’s serpentine prose in English, and the noirish, surrealist story turns into an unlikely romp as it riffs on the absurdity of 20th-century political institutions and pop culture.”
—Publishers Weekly

“Certainly the strangest and arguably one of the most accomplished contemporary writers of fiction in French, Antoine Volodine has created a vast and perplexing universe of bad dreams in several dozen works under a variety of pseudonyms over the past forty years. Mevlido’s Dreams provides a new pathway into Volodine’s labyrinth, which for all the horrors it recounts is always cast in stylishly crafted prose.”
—David Bellos, Princeton University

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Podcast: New Books in Environmental Studies (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Adam Berg, "The Olympics that Never Happened: Denver '76 and the Politics of Growth" (U Texas Press, 2023)
Pub date: 2024-06-12

If you don't recall the 1976 Denver Olympic Games, it's because they never happened. The Mile-High City won the right to host the winter games and then was forced by Colorado citizens to back away from its successful Olympic bid through a statewide ballot initiative. In The Olympics that Never Happened: Denver '76 and the Politics of Growth (University of Texas Press, 2022) Dr. Adam Berg details the powerful Colorado regime that gained the games for Denver and the grassroots activism that brought down its Olympic dreams, and he explores the legacy of this milestone moment for the games and politics in the United States.

The ink was hardly dry on Denver's host agreement when Mexican American and African American urbanites, white middle-class environmentalists, and fiscally concerned local politicians realised opposition to the Olympics provided them new political openings. The Olympics quickly became a platform for taking stands on a range of issues, from conservation to urban livability to the very idea of growth, which for decades had been unquestioned in Colorado. The Olympics That Never Happened argues that hostility to the Olympics galvanised and empowered diverse citizens in a major US city, with long-term ramifications for Colorado and political activism elsewhere. The Olympics themselves were changed forever, compelling organisers to take seriously competing interests from subgroups within their communities.

This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose new book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars.

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Podcast: Critical Theory in Context
Episode: „A Precarious Happiness“ – Peter E. Gordon on the Sources of Normativity in Adorno
Pub date: 2024-06-09

In this episode, Marvin Ester interviews Peter E. Gordon about his new book, 'Precarious Happiness: Adorno and the Sources of Normativity.' Gordon is the Amabel B. James Professor of History and a faculty affiliate in the Departments of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Government, and Philosophy at Harvard University. In 'Precarious Happiness,' Gordon argues that Theodor W. Adorno's social critique—contrary to what is often assumed—is, in all its ruthlessness, still grounded in the however fragile experience of happiness that hints at an unfulfilled potential for human flourishing.

Peter E. Gordon, A Precarious Happiness: Adorno and the Sources of Normativity, The University of Chicago Press, 320 pages, 2023.

Peter E. Gordon, Prekäres Glück: Adorno und die Quellen der Normativität, 470 pages, Suhrkamp, 2023.

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Podcast: Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Bradley Mclean - Deleuze, Guattari and the Machine in Early Christianity
Pub date: 2024-06-03

This week Cooper and Taylor spoke to Bradley McClean about his book, Deleuze, Guattari and the Machine in Early Christianity Schizoanalysis, Affect and Multiplicity.Dr. Bradley H. McLean is the Professor of New Testament Language and Literature at Knox College. He is the author of seven books including Biblical Interpretation and Philosophical Hermeneutics (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and Deleuze, Guattari and the Machine in Early Christianity: Schizoanalysis, Affect, and Multiplicity (Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2022).Bradley's Links:Book: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/deleuze-guattari-and-the-machine-in-early-christianity-9781350233843/About: https://knox.utoronto.ca/faculty-and-staff/dr-bradley-mclean/Twitter: https://x.com/bhmclean108Support us on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/muhhTwitter: @unconscioushh

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Podcast: LA Review of Books (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Erik Davis on the Art of LSD
Pub date: 2024-05-31

Erik Davis joins Kate Wolf to speak about his latest book, Blotter: The Untold Story of an Acid Medium. The book is a study and history of the emergence of acid blotter paper from the late 1970s to the present day. It charts not only how the distribution and legal definition of LSD has changed over the decades—along with shifting cultural attitudes towards the drug—but also how blotter makers reflected these changes in their designs. The book examines the many recurring themes and aesthetics of blotter from cartoon characters, underground comics and advertising, to religious and political imagery, as well as associations with modern art movements like pop and minimalism. As psychedelics move closer to legalization for therapeutic purposes, Blotter is a reminder of the freak culture, anti-establishment origins of LSD and the inventive and playful path one of its main mediums has cut across countless minds over the last half century.

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Podcast: Why Theory (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Modernist Novel
Pub date: 2024-05-27

Ryan and Todd theorize the modernist novel as a specific literary form, defined not by its time period but by its structural exigencies. They relate this form to the importance of the ending that function as a cut in the narrative movement rather than as a summation of all that has happened, which contrasts it with previous iterations of the novel.

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Podcast: A is for Architecture (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Sabina Andron: Graffiti, semiotics and the city
Pub date: 2024-05-22

In Episode 106 of ⁠A is for Architecture⁠ Sabina Andron talks about her book Urban Surfaces, Graffiti, and the Right to the City, which she published with Routledge this year.

The book discusses ‘the surfacescapes of our cities […] as material, visual, and legal territories [and] includes a critical history of graffiti and street art as contested surface discourses’ arguing for ‘surfaces as sites of resistance against private property, neoliberal creativity, and the imposition of urban order.’

Sabina is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Cities and Urbanism at the University of Melbourne and can be found on her personal website, as well as on social media, including X and Instagram.

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Podcast: Conversations with Tyler (LS 64 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Benjamin Moser on the Dutch Masters, Brazil, and Cultural Icons
Pub date: 2024-05-15

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Benjamin Moser is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer celebrated for his in-depth studies of literary and cultural figures such as Susan Sontag and Clarice Lispector. His latest book, which details a twenty-year love affair with the Dutch masters, is one of Tyler's favorite books on art criticism ever.

Benjamin joined Tyler to discuss why Vermeer was almost forgotten, how Rembrandt was so productive, what auctions of the old masters reveals about current approaches to painting, why Dutch art hangs best in houses, what makes the Kunstmuseum in the Hague so special, why Dutch students won't read older books, Benjamin's favorite Dutch movie, the tensions within Dutch social tolerance, the joys of living in Utrecht, why Latin Americans make for harder interview subjects, whether Brasilia works as a city, why modernism persisted in Brazil, how to appreciate Clarice Lispector, Susan Sontag's (waning) influence, V.S. Naipaul’s mentorship, Houston's intellectual culture, what he's learning next, and more.

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Podcast: A is for Architecture (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Aaron Betsky: Utopia, monster, city.
Pub date: 2024-05-01

In Episode 103 of A is for Architecture, Aaron Betsky discusses his recent book The Monster Leviathan: Anarchitecture, published by MIT Press in January this year. Until recently Professor in the School of Architecture and Design at Virginia Tech, and with previous roles as the President of the School of Architecture at Taliesin, director of the Cincinnati Art Museum and the Netherlands Architecture Institute, Curator at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the author of over 20 books. Aaron directed the Venice architecture biennale in 2008 and now operates as an independent scholar.

The Monster Leviathan describes an architecture ‘lurking under the surface of our modern world […] an unseen architecture—or anarchitecture […] which haunts in the form of monsters that are humans and machines and cities all at once’ which Betsky suggests ‘are concrete proposals in and of themselves’ and which indicate to us now ways we might ‘construct a better, more sustainable, and socially just future’.

Aaron is on Instagram and LinkedIn and all over the internet, because he’s proper famous.

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Podcast: The Climate Pod (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Why is climate change missing in our movies? (w/ Anna Jane Joyner and Matthew Schneider-Mayerson)
Pub date: 2024-05-01

Popular films have massive influence over our culture. It's where we go to see the biggest stories on the biggest screen. It's where we go to see Nicole Kidman do that weird commerical before the film starts. Movies are really, really important.

So, why isn't the climate crisis, one of the defining issues of our time, on the silver screen more often. That's a question Anna Jane Joyner and Matthew Schneider-Mayerson are investigating. Together, they put together a new report, Climate Reality On-Screen: The Climate Crisis in Popular Films, 2013–22, which outlines how often the climate crisis is showing up in famous flicks and how often we see characters aware of its existence on screen. This week, Anna Jane and Matthew explain their findings, what it means for the industry, our politics, and how filmmakers can do better going forward.

Anna Jane Joyner is a climate story consultant and the founder and director of Good Energy. Matthew Schneider-Mayerson is an associate professor of English and environmental studies at Colby College. Read their report, Climate Reality On-Screen: The Climate Crisis in Popular Films, 2013–22 here.

As always, follow us @climatepod on Twitter and email us at theclimatepod@gmail.com. Our music is "Gotta Get Up" by The Passion Hifi, check out his music at thepassionhifi.com. Rate, review and subscribe to this podcast on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, and more! Subscribe to our YouTube channel! Join our Facebook group.

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Podcast: Our American Stories (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 1776: The Antidote to Boring American History
Pub date: 2024-04-19

On this episode of Our American Stories, Historian David McCullough brings generational talent to those studying the wild realities of America's independence. After all, no one has ever lived in the past, but in the present. At the National Archive, McCullough names and thanks his own teachers, and hands down the important right way to teach and study our history.

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Podcast: KPFA - Letters and Politics (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Sullivanians: Psychoanalysis, Marxism, & A Commune To Break The Traditional Family
Pub date: 2024-04-04

Guest: Alexander Stille is the San Paolo Professor of International Journalism at Columbia University. He is the author of many books including Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families Under Fascism; Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic. His latest, The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune.

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Podcast: New Books Network (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Dinesh Wadiwel, "Animals and Capital" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
Pub date: 2024-03-19

In the 20th century, capitalist animal agriculture emerged with a twofold mission: to ruthlessly exploit animals for their labour time and enlarge human food supplies. The results of this process are clear. Animal-sourced foods have expanded exponentially. And simultaneously, hundreds of billions of animals confront humans and machines in brutal, antagonistic relations shaped by domination and resistance.

Building on Karl Marx’s value theory, Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel argues that factory farms and industrial fisheries are not merely an example of unchecked human supremacism. Nor a result of the victory of market forces. But a combination of both. In Animals and Capital (Edinburgh University Press, 2023) Wadiwel untangles this contemporary handshake between hierarchical anthropocentrism and capitalism.

Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel is Associate Professor in Socio-Legal Studies and Human Rights at the University of Sydney. His research interests include theories of violence, critical animal studies and disability rights. He is author of The War against Animals (Brill, 2015) and is co-editor, with Matthew Chrulew of Foucault and Animals (Brill, 2016). He has a background working within civil society organisations, including in anti-poverty and disability rights roles.

Kyle Johannsen is a Sessional Faculty Member in the Department of Philosophy at Trent University. His most recent book is Wild Animal Ethics: The Moral and Political Problem of Wild Animal Suffering (Routledge, 2021).

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Podcast: Tank Magazine Podcast (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Dream baby dream
Pub date: 2024-03-28

“It's possible to be a feminist and a Freudian...”

In this week's TANK Podcast, Holly Stevenson and Rosie Gibbens discuss Hans Richter's seminal surrealist masterpiece Dreams that Money Can Buy, a dreamy and deeply strange dadaist romp directed by some of the luminaries of the 1940s avant garde.

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Podcast: Ajam Media Collective Podcast (LS 34 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Ajam Podcast #39: Persianate Verse and the Poetics of Eastern Internationalism
Pub date: 2024-03-14

In this episode, Belle interviews Samuel Hodgkin, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale University, about his recent book, Persianate Verse and the Poetics of Eastern Internationalism (Cambridge University Press, 2023).

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Podcast: The Verso Podcast (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Unruly Bodies | Matthew Beaumont & Annie Olaloku-Teriba
Pub date: 2024-03-14

On this episode of The Verso Podcast we’re going on a deep dive into the work of the psychiatrist, political theorist, and philosopher Frantz Fanon. Our wonderful host, Eleanor Penny, sat down with Matthew Beaumont and Annie Olaloku-Teriba to discuss Fanon’s expansive legacy - touching on everything from night walkers and revolutionaries, to radical humanism and afropessimism, to decolonial psychiatry and the spatial politics of urban life.Grab a copy of Matthew's new book "How We Walk: Frantz Fanon and the Politics of the Body" here tinyurl.com/43yptmm5

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Podcast: New Books in Political Science (LS 40 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Ryan Wolfson-Ford, "Forsaken Causes: Liberal Democracy and Anticommunism in Cold War Laos" (U Wisconsin Press, 2024)
Pub date: 2024-03-01

Ryan Wolfson-Ford’s provocative new book, Forsaken Causes: Liberal Democracy and Anticommunism in Cold War Laos (U Wisconsin Press, 2024), is an intellectual history of Laos during the Cold War. The book challenges the established view that Cold War Laos was a plaything of foreign powers, particularly France, the United States, and North Vietnam. It does so by mining the writings of the Lao intellectual elite to produce a revisionist history of Laos that clearly shows the Lao as agents of their own history. The book also reveals a little-known fact of history that for much of the period from 1945 to the communist Pathet Lao’s seizure of power in 1975, Laos had one of the most flourishing multi-party democracies in Southeast Asia. Lao nationalism, anti-communism, and democracy thrived, and these political ideas were largely homegrown.

Patrick Jory teaches Southeast Asian History in the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry at the University of Queensland. He can be reached at: p.jory@uq.edu.au.

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Podcast: The Listening Service (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Songs of the Moon
Pub date: 2024-02-25

Many of the most instantly recognisable works in classical music are inspired by the Earth’s moon – Debussy’s ‘Clair de Lune’, Beethoven’s ‘Moonlight Sonata’, Dvořák’s ‘Song to the Moon’. Tom Service takes us on a musical voyage to the moon (and back), from the cosmic-scale classical to the lesser known music invoking and inspired by our mysterious celestial companion.

With Professor Monica Grady CBE, leading British space scientist.

Producer: Lola Grieve

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Podcast: Converging Dialogues (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: #306 - Heidegger's Culmination of German Idealism: A Dialogue with Robert Pippin
Pub date: 2024-02-14

In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Robert Pippin about Heidegger’s philosophy in connection with German idealism. They discuss Heidegger’s ideas on the culmination of Western philosophy with Hegel, Heidegger’s emphasis on Being, meaningfulness of being, and present-at-hand and ready-to hand. They talk about the impact of Husserl on Heidegger and their different ideas concerning worldhood. They discuss Heidegger’s ideas on standing presence, unveiling and concealment, imagination and intuition, and the juxtaposition of Heidegger’s Dasein with Hegel’s Geist. They talk about Schelling’s ideas on nature, Hegel’s conceptual ideas, Heidegger as the first post-Hegelian European philosopher, poetic thinking, and many more topics.

Robert B. Pippin is the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Philosophy, and the College at the University of Chicago. He has been awarded a Guggenheim fellowship and was twice an Alexander von Humboldt fellow. He is a winner of the Mellon Distinguished Achievement Award in the Humanities and was recently a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is a member of the American Philosophical Society. He is also a member of the German National Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of several books and articles on German idealism and later German philosophy, including his most recent book, The Culmination: Heidegger, German Idealism, and the Fate of Philosophy.

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Podcast: Novara Media (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Novara FM: How To Be Honest About Empire w/ Sathnam Sanghera
Pub date: 2024-02-08

Certain historians and politicians like to claim that the British Empire was “on balance” a good thing. Slavery was evil, they admit, but abolition was good. Racism was wrong, but free markets are desirable. In his new book Empireworld, journalist and historian Sathnam Sanghera rejects this “balance sheet” reading of history in order to wrestle […]

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Podcast: Philosophy vs. Improv (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: PvI#70: Paramilitary Existentialism w/ Jonny Thomson
Pub date: 2024-02-05

Jonny taught philosophy at Oxford, wrote the international bestseller Mini Philosophy, and now writes for Big Think.

We talk Kierkegaard and act out some scenes about scouting and military recruitment. Do we have to live within labels? Does one have to leap to a label, without justification?

For much more Kierkegaard, see our series on The Partially Examined Life.

Watch Jonny do mini philosophy on YouTube. Follow him @philosophyminis and @philosophyminis. His 2023 book is called Mini Big Ideas: A Little Book of Big Innovations.

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Podcast: Arts & Ideas (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Secrets, Lies & Irish History
Pub date: 2024-01-30

The stories told and secrets kept in Ireland north and south are the focus of a pair of deeply personal new non fiction books - Missing Persons Or My Grandmother's Secrets from University of Cambridge Professor of English Literature Clair Wills and Dirty Linen by Martin Doyle who is Books Editor of the Irish Times. They're joined by the criminologist Dr Louise Brangan who researches the sociology of punishment, including work on Ireland's Magdalene Laundries and the poet Scott McKendry whose work deals with generational trauma and social decay in Belfast. John Gallagher hosts a discussion of how the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves and others can shape society and history itself.

Professor Clair Will's books include Lovers and Strangers: An Immigrant History of Post-War Britain and The Family Plot: Three Pieces on Containment.Martin Doyle's book is called Dirty Linen The Troubles in My Home Place.Scott McKendry's debut poetry collection is Gub.Dr Louise Brangan is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Strathclyde and a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinker.

You can find other episodes exploring Irish history and writing on the Free Thinking programme website under past episodes and Arts & Ideas podcasts including programmes about Emigration and "bad Bridgets"; Ireland's Hidden Histories and Secret Stories; Edna O'Brien; Colm Tóibín; Anne Enright.

Radio 3 has a three part series tracing music and composers from the island over the past two hundred years - Irish Classical, hidden in plain sight. Find it on BBC Sounds.

Producer in Salford: Olive Clancy

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Podcast: Aria Code (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Love and Other Drugs: Gounod's Roméo et Juliette
Pub date: 2024-01-17

Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” is the most famous love story in the Western canon. It’s a tale so embedded in our culture — one that has seen so many iterations and retellings — it might feel hard to appreciate its original pathos, and the way it perfectly distills the intersections of young romance, idealism, and rebellion.

In this episode, host Rhiannon Giddens and guests take a fresh look at this classic by focusing on the character of Juliet and her pivotal decision to take the friar’s draught, a concoction that will help her feign death long enough to escape an arranged marriage and run away with Romeo. It’s both an act of tremendous courage and one that sets their tragedy in motion.

In Charles Gounod’s operatic retelling, the aria Juliet delivers as she wrestles away her fear is so difficult that it’s often cut from productions. But it’s a pivotal moment, and a testament to Juiet’s agency. Soprano Diana Damrau is up to the task, and delivers a rendition of “Amour, ranime mon courage” — otherwise known as the “poison aria” — from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.

THE GUESTS

Soprano Diana Damrau is among the most celebrated opera singers of her generation. She’s graced the stages of opera houses all over the world, and sung the role of Juliette at both The Metropolitan Opera and La Scala. After her debut as Juliette in 2016, it quickly became a favorite. For her, Gounod’s “Roméo et Juliette” is “one of the most beautiful operas ever written.”

Yannick Nézet-Séguin serves as music director for the Met Opera orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and Montreal’s Orchestre Metropolitain, among many other appointments and collaborations with esteemed orchestras. In his opinion, “Roméo et Juliette” beats out “Faust” as Gounod’s best opera.

Emma Smith is a Shakespeare scholar and critic at the University of Oxford. Among her publications is the book “This Is Shakespeare,” which was a Sunday Times bestseller and has been translated into several languages. Smith frequently works with theater companies on their productions of Shakespeare plays and consults for film and television.

Acclaimed British author and theater director Neil Bartlett, whose novels include “The Disappearance Boy” and “Address Book,” directed “Romeo and Juliet” for the Royal Shakespeare Company in London. He says the experience leaves him feeling “wrung dry with admiration.”

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Podcast: New Books in Sociology (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Aniefiok Ekpoudom, "Where We Come From: Rap, Home & Hope in Modern Britain" (Faber and Faber, 2024)
Pub date: 2024-01-19

Why is music important to place, and place important to music? In Where We Come From: Rap, Home and Hope in Modern Britain (Faber and Faber, 2024), Aniefiok Ekpoudom, a freelance writer and storyteller from South London, tells the story of UK Rap and Grime music. In doing so he tells the story of Modern British culture. The book uses three places- South London, South Wales, and the Midlands, and three case studies of some of UK Rap and Grime’s leading artists. In doing so, the book powerfully charts the struggles and triumphs of modern British music, and the struggles and triumphs of the places where that music comes from. A work of brilliant and compelling narrative non-fiction, the book is essential reading across the humanities and social sciences, as well as for anyone interested in music, culture, and place.

Dave O'Brien is Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries, at the University of Manchester.

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Podcast: The Sobremesa Podcast (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: The Op-Ed Novel - El País and Contemporary Spanish Literature
Pub date: 2024-01-11

This week Eoghan is joined by Bécquer Seguín to talk about his new book 'The Op-Ed Novel'. The book examines how many of Spain's most renowned writers over the last thirty years have combined novel writing with publishing regular op-ed columns in El País.

As Almudena Grandes, Javier Cercas, Antonio Muñoz Molina, Fernando Aramburu and Javier Marías engaged in public debates about Spain's past and its contemporary ills across the opinion pages of the country's paper of record, their own literary work increasingly took on political themes - with controversies first stirred in El País running over into the pages of their novels.

Bécquer Seguín is Assistant Professor of Iberian Studies at John Hopkins University and a regular contributor to The Nation magazine.The Podcast has grown so much in 2023 and we released 26 episodes on topics ranging from Spain's general election to the Civil War and on to Spanish cinema, Gaudi and anarchism and Al Ándalus. Please help us continue to grow and make the podcast sustainable in the coming year by supporting us here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thesobremey

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Podcast: New Books in Sociology (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Jason Read, "The Politics of Transindividuality" (Haymarket Books, 2017)
Pub date: 2023-12-31

Many major political questions today revolve around questions of human nature; what sort of people we are and what sort of people we're capable of being constitute both the goals and limits of the sort of society we can and ought to try and create. Jason Read's The Politics of Transindividuality (Haymarket Books, 2017) looks at a number of figures who've used trandindividuality to explore the ways in which our social context generates various forms of subjectivity, and how those forms of subjectivity can in turn generate the society they occupy. The book covers a variety of figures in topics, going as far back as Spinoza, Hegel and Marx before turning to contemporary thinkers such as Balibar, Simondon, Virno and Lazzarrato, and interrogates the sort of people we are being made into.

Jason Read is a professor of philosophy at the University of Southern Maine. In addition toThe Politics of Transindividuality, he is also the author of The Micro-Politics of Capital: Marx on the Prehistory of the Present (SUNY, 2003).

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The Politics of Transindividuality

Podcast: History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China (LS 48 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: HAP 136 - Civilization Reclaimed - African-Centered Thought
Pub date: 2023-12-11

How writers like George G.M. James, John Henrik Clarke, Cheikh Anta Diop, Yosef ben-Jochannan, and Chancellor Williams prepared the way for the Afrocentricity of Molefi Asante and captured the imaginations of hip hop artists and intellectuals like Ta-Nehisi Coates.

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Podcast: The Real News Podcast (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Remembering the rise and fall of Grenada's New Jewel Movement
Pub date: 2023-12-04

In 1979 a socialist revolution under the leadership of the New Jewel Movement took power in Grenada. For the next four years, the Caribbean island nation engaged in a daring experiment of popular sovereignty and democracy, tackling questions of education, inequality, and hunger head-on. But the revolution didn't last. Weakened by infighting and eventually deposed by a US military invasion, the Grenadian Revolution met its end in 1983. Some 40 years later, former Press Secretary Don Rojas speaks with The Real News Board Member Bill Fletcher on the course of the Grenadian Revolution—its triumphs, challenges, and eventual fall.

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Podcast: Arts & Ideas (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Lorca
Pub date: 2023-11-28

Women in the villages of Spain and the repression and passions of five daughters are at the heart of Lorca's last play the House of Bernarda Alba, completed two months before he was assassinated in 1936. Rana Mitter looks at the life and writing of Lorca, with guests including The Observer's theatre critic, Susannah Clapp and Professor Maria Delgado of the Central School of Speech and Drama and Professor Duncan Wheeler, Chair of Spanish Studies at the University of Leeds and Dr Federico Bonaddio who teaches Spanish literature at King’s College London.

Producer: Ruth Watts

The House of Bernarda Alba in a version by Alice Birch and starring Harriet Walter runs at the National Theatre until 6 January 2024. You can find more discussions about Prose, Poetry and Drama in a collection on the Free Thinking programme website including episodes looking at Ibsen, Moliere, Shakespeare, Lorraine Hansberry, John McGrath, George Bernard Shaw all available as Arts & Ideas podcasts

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Podcast: The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Bravo Cinematic Universe
Pub date: 2023-11-16

On this week’s episode of The Waves, we’re digging into the Bravo network. From Below Deck to Selling Sunset to Vanderpump Rules, the Bravo TV network is a reality television behemoth that has made millions on the backs of its female cast members. But is it actually good for women? ICYMI founding host Rachelle Hampton and culture writer Shamira Ibrahim discuss the current Bravo era, how much of Bravo belongs to famous producer Andy Cohen, why cast members can’t rely on a reunion to tell their stories, and whether the cast members of shows like the Real Housewives really have agency.

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Podcast: Converging Dialogues (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: #256 - The Rigor of Angels: A Dialogue with William Egginton
Pub date: 2023-08-28

In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with William Egginton about the nature of reality through the work by Borges, Heisenberg, and Kant. They discuss what connects these three men, role of interpretation, and different tools to ask big questions about space, time, and reality. They also talk about the origins of reality, change, Hume’s impact on Kant’s thinking, power of theory for understanding science, existence, and many more topics.

William Egginton is an author, literary critic, and Decker Professor in the Humanities and Director of the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins University. His main interests are in poetry, literature, philosophy, history of science. He is the author of numerous books including his latest book, The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality.

Website: https://www.williamegginton.com/

Twitter: @williamegginton

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Podcast: Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast (LS 61 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Romeo and Juliet in Classical Music
Pub date: 2023-08-03

The "love theme" from Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Fantasy-Overture is one of the most famous themes in the history of Western Classical Music. The story it accompanies might be the most famous Western play ever written. Just like Eine Kleine Nachtmusik seems to define the powdered wig era of classical music to the general public, the passionate theme from Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet seems to define romanticism in music because Tchaikovsky’s Overture-Fantasy captures Shakespeare’s masterpiece with a roiling and unstoppable intensity. But Tchaikovsky’s setting of Romeo and Juliet, while probably the most famous, is by no means the only reimagining of the play by classical composers. There have been nearly a dozen adaptations of Romeo and Juliet by classical composers, including overtures, ballets, suites, and operas. Romeo and Juliet, just like it has been for actors, directors, and the audience, is an inexhaustible source for composers in a way that few pieces of literature or dramatic theatre have been in history. So today we’ll compare just some of them for you - I’ll be looking at Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture, Prokofiev’s Ballet Romeo and Juliet, Berlioz’s choral symphony Romeo et Juliette, a brief look at Gounod’s opera Romeo and Juliet, and Leonard Bernstein’s Westside Story. We’ll take a look at how these 5 composers inserted their distinctive personalities onto the music, leaving no doubt that this was Shakespeare, and Romeo and Juliet, through their eyes. I’ll do this by giving a general overview of each piece, and then I'll zero in on two ideas - the portrayal of Juliet, and the portrayal of Tybalt’s Death(or fighting in general). This way we can see how these composers handled these pivotal characters and moments, all in markedly different ways. Join us!

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Podcast: The Documentary Podcast (LS 66 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Invading the past: Russia and science fiction
Pub date: 2023-08-01

Science fiction flourished from the earliest days of the Soviet Union. A rare space to explore other realms and utopian dreams of progress. But with the Soviet Union's collapse different narratives bubbled up. Many of them reactionary, imperial, violent with one sub genre flourishing above all - Popadantsy: accidental time travel where protagonists return to World War Two or the Imperial past to set the path of Russian history on the 'right' course, Historian Catherine Merridale explores how the once visionary world of Russian science fiction shifted in the time of Vladimir Putin to become a reactionary playground.

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Podcast: Conversations in Atlantic Theory
Episode: Isaac Vincent Joslin on Afrofuturisms: Ecology, Humanity, and Francophone Cultural Expressions
Pub date: 2023-07-25

This discussion is with Dr. Isaac Joslin who holds a PhD from the University of Minnesota in Francophone Studies. Currently Assistant Professor of Francophone Studies and Global Futures Scholar at Arizona State University, he has travelled extensively for research in Francophone Africa in Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, Cameroon, Togo, Burkina Faso, Rwanda, and Burundi. His research interests include Postcolonial Francophone African literatures and cinemas, aesthetics and theories of representation, theories of cultural hybridity, ecocriticism, Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism, as well as pedagogical approaches for teaching African literatures and cultures. He has published scholarly articles on African literature and culture in the International Journal of Francophone Studies, Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, African Literature Today, The French Review, Critical African Studies, Nouvelles Études Francophones, Oeuvres et Critiques, and others. His first monograph from Ohio University Press (April 2023) is entitled, Afrofuturisms: Ecology, Humanity, and Francophone Cultural Expressions.

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Podcast: Converging Dialogues (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: #245 - Oppenheimer: A Dialogue with Kai Bird
Pub date: 2023-07-20

In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue about the life and impact of J. Robert Oppenheimer. They talk about the elusive nature of Oppenheimer, how he became involved with theoretical physics, and the creation of the atomic bomb. They discuss his involvement with communism, AEC hearings, his last years, the legacy of Oppenheimer, and many more topics.

Kai Bird is a historian, journalist, and writer. He is executive director and distinguished lecturer at CUNY Graduate Center's Leon Levy Center for Biography in New York City. He is the author of numerous books and is the recipient (along with co-author Michael J. Sherwin) of the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award, the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, and the 2008 Duff Cooper Prize for American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. He is also the author of The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter.

Website: https://www.kaibird.com/

Twitter: @kaibird123

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Podcast: New Books in Literary Studies (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Kelly Ross, "Slavery, Surveillance and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Pub date: 2023-07-16

Slavery, Surveillance and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature(Oxford UP, 2022) argues for the existence of deep, often unexamined, interconnections between genre and race by tracing how surveillance migrates from the literature of slavery to crime, gothic, and detective fiction. Attending to the long history of surveillance and policing of African Americans, the book challenges the traditional conception of surveillance as a top-down enterprise, equally addressing the tactics of sousveillance (watching from below) that enslaved people and their allies used to resist, escape, or merely survive racial subjugation.

Examining the dialectic of racialized surveillance and sousveillance from fugitive slave narratives to fictional genres focused on crime and detection, the book shows how these genres share a thematic concern with the surveillance of racialized bodies and formal experimentation with ways of telling a story in which certain information is either rendered visible or kept hidden. Through close readings of understudied fugitive slave narratives published in the 1820s and 1830s, as well as texts by Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Frederick Douglass, Hannah Crafts, and Harriet Jacobs, Ross analyzes the different ways white and black authors take up these issues in their writing--from calming white fears of enslaved rebellion to abolishing slavery--and demonstrates how literary representations ultimately destabilize any clear-cut opposition between watching from above and below. In so doing, the book demonstrates the importance of race to surveillance studies and claims a greater role for the impact of surveillance on literary expression in the US during the era of slavery.

Kendall Dinniene is a PhD candidate in English at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Their research examines how contemporary American authors respond to anti-fatness in their work, revealing the contours of citizenship and paths toward liberation.

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Podcast: Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Getting Romanced by Delacroix
Pub date: 2023-07-05

Eugène Delacroix--innovative, creative, with a flare for drama--was a transformative figure in the art world during the 19th century. Bucking the traditionalism of more rigid French academic painting, Delacroix forged his own style, celebrating passion, the exotic and moments imbued with the utmost intensity. Join our hosts as they discuss the context and creativity of this vibrant painter.

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Podcast: Interventions | The Intellectual History Podcast (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Hegel, Revolution and Historicism: Prof. Richard Bourke
Pub date: 2023-06-30

How does skepticism serve history? What lessons does Hegel hold for the modern historian? Why is an understanding of historical consciousness so important across the humanities? These are some of the questions we asked Richard Bourke, Professor of the History of Political Thought at the University of Cambridge.

Publications mentioned in this episode include:

István Hont and Michael Ignatieff, Wealth and Virtue: The Shaping of Political Economy in the Scottish Enlightenment (CUP: 1983)

Richard Bourke, Peace in Ireland: The War of Ideas (Pimlico: 2003)

Richard Bourke, Empire and Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund Burke (Princeton University Press: 2015)

Richard Bourke and Quentin Skinner, eds. History in the Humanities and Social Sciences (CUP: 2002)

Richard Bourke, Hegel’s World Revolutions (Princeton University Press: forthcoming, 2023)

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Podcast: New Books in Art (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Marie Arleth Skov, "Punk Art History: Artworks from the European No Future Generation" (Intellect, 2023)
Pub date: 2023-06-30

In her book, Punk Art History: Artworks from the European No Future Generation (Intellect Books, 2023), Marie Arleth Skov examines the punk movement of the 1970s to early 1980s. Through archival research, interviews, and an art historical analysis, Skov situates punk as an art movement. It is about pop, pain, poetry, presence, and about a ‘no future’ generation refusing to be the next artworld avant-garde, instead choosing to be the ‘rear-guard’.

Skov draws on personal interviews with punk art protagonists from London, New York, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, and Berlin, among others the members Die Tödliche Doris (The Deadly Doris), members of Værkstedet Værst (The Workshop Called Worst), Nina Sten-Knudsen, Marc Miller, Diana Ozon, Hugo Kaagman, as well as email correspondence with Jon Savage, Anna Banana, and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge. Skov covers events such as the Prostitution exhibition at the ICA in London in 1976 and Die Große Untergangsshow (The Grand Downfall Show) in West-Berlin in 1981 and explores paintings, drawings, bricolages, collages, booklets, posters, zines, installations, sculptures, Super 8 films, documentation of performances and happenings, body art, street art.

What emerges is how crucial the concept of history was in punk at that point in time. The punk movement's rejection of the tale of progress and prosperity, as it was being propagated on both sides of the iron curtain, evidently manifested itself in punk visual art too. Central to the book is the thesis that punks placed themselves as the rear-guards, not the avant-gardes, a statement which was in made by Danish punks in 1981, when they called themselves “bagtropperne". Behind the rear-guard watchword was the rejection of the inherent notion of progress that the avant-garde name brings with it; how could a "no future" movement want to lead the way?

Rebekah Buchanan is a Professor of English and Director of English Education at Western Illinois University. Her research focuses on feminism, activism, and literacy practices in youth culture, specifically through zines and music.

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Podcast: NYIH Conversations
Episode: The End of Books: A Lecture by Robert Coover
Pub date: 2023-06-18

Robert Coover spoke at the Institute in the spring of 2006. Coover is the author of over a dozen postmodern novels, including The Public Burning and Pinochio in Venice. He was one of the early supporters of electronic fiction, which he defended in “The End of Books,” a 1992 New York Times essay. Coover established Brown University’s MFA program in Digital Language Arts, and teaches courses on experimental narrative and literary hypermedia.

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Podcast: Millennials Are Killing Capitalism (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Paris 1968, French Theory and the Intellectual World War With Gabriel Rockhill
Pub date: 2023-06-10

In this episode we welcome Gabriel Rockhill to the podcast to discuss his latest piece “The Myth of 1968 Thought and the French Intelligentsia: Historical Commodity Fetishism and Ideological Rollback” which is out this month, in the June issue of Monthly Review.

Gabriel Rockhill is the Founding Director of the Critical Theory Workshop / Atelier de Théorie Critique, Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University, and the author or editor of nine books, as well as numerous articles and essays.

Many listeners have asked us to read and possibly have a discussion about Rockhill’s recent work in particular which has included critical articles on Foucault, Žižek, the Frankfurt School and what Rockhill describes as “The Global Theory Industry” within his work.

In this conversation we largely examine his most recent piece on the promotion of a certain sect of French intellectuals in the wake of the 1968 uprisings and strikes in Paris. Rockhill discusses the relationship or lack thereof that he sees between those thinkers who have been promoted as “68 Thinkers” and the actual activities of the period, the political decisions being made on the ground, and most urgently for Rockhill’s concerns the incredibly vibrant worker movement of the period and the possibility of taking power and building a socialist project in France.

We hope folks enjoy this discussion which also examines the relationship between those who organize for socialism, grassroots uprisings, and the process through which publishers, state actors, and the media recuperate and commodify upheaval and then freely associate it with thinkers that are compatible with the maintenance of the status quo which is being protested. Alongside this cultural project there is of course also the violent repression of the state both overtly and clandestinely. Along those lines Rockhill also discusses Operation Gladio.

We will include links to some of the projects that Rockhill mentions in the episode in the show notes, including the summer program at the Critical Theory Workshop.

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Links:

The Myth of 1968 Thought and the French Intelligentsia: Historical Commodity Fetishism and Ideological Rollback

Critical Theory Workshop / Atelier de Théorie Critique

Some of Rockhill's other work on the Global Theory Industry specifically on Foucault, Žižek, the Frankfurt School.

Thomas Sankara translations on Liberation School

Iskra Books (mentioned in the episode)

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Podcast: New Books in Literary Studies (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Douglas Kerr, "Orwell and Empire" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Pub date: 2023-06-09

George Orwell was born in India and served in the Imperial Police in Burma as a young man. Douglas Kerr's book Orwell and Empire (Oxford UP, 2022) is a study of his writing about the East and the East in his writing. It argues that empire was central to his cultural identity and that his experience of colonial life was a crucial factor, in ways that have not been recognized, in shaping the writer he became.

Orwell and Empire is about all his writings, fictional and non-fictional. It pays particular attention to work that derives directly from his Burmese years including the well-known narratives 'A Hanging' and 'Shooting an Elephant' and his first novel Burmese Days. It goes on to explore the theme of empire throughout his work, through to Nineteen Eighty-Four and beyond, and charts the way his evolving views on class, race, gender, and authority were shaped by his experience in the East and the Anglo-Indian attitudes he had inherited. Orwell's socialism and his hatred of authoritarianism grew out of his anti-imperialism as The Road to Wigan Pier makes explicit. But this was not a straightforward repudiation or a painless process. He understood that, 'it is very difficult to escape, culturally, from the class into which you have been born.' His whole career was a creative quarrel with himself and with his Anglo-Indian patrimony. In a way that anticipates current debates about the imperial

legacy, he struggled to come to terms with his own history.

Charles Coutinho, PH. D., Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, received his doctorate from New York University. His area of specialization is 19th and 20th-century European, American diplomatic and political history. He has written for Chatham House’s International Affairs, the Institute of Historical Research's Reviews in History and the University of Rouen's online periodical Cercles.

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Podcast: The Point Podcast (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Selected Essays | Adam Shatz on James Baldwin
Pub date: 2023-06-06

On this episode of The Point podcast series “Selected Essays,” Jess Swoboda and Zach Fine talk to the writer Adam Shatz about James Baldwin's essay “Alas, Poor Richard” (1961), a eulogy of sorts for Richard Wright, and Adam's new book, Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination(Verso 2023), which gathers a series of intellectual portraits of great thinkers and writers such as Wright, Claude-Levi Strauss, Chester Himes, Jacques Derrida, Fouad Ajami and Edward Said.

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Podcast: Ideas (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Mexico's Gothic Turn
Pub date: 2023-06-05

A PhD student argues that a new literary genre has emerged — the ‘Mexican Gothic’ style, featuring the creepy castles and haunting figures of traditional Gothic novels, mixed up with drug cartel kingpins and colonialism, set in contemporary Mexico. *This episode is part of our ongoing series, IDEAS from the Trenches, about outstanding PhD scholars across the country.

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Podcast: Booked Up with Jen Taub (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 28: NAZI BILLIONAIRES by David de Jong
Pub date: 2023-06-04

Jen’s guest is David de Jong, the author of a mindblowing new narrative nonfiction book called Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany’s Wealthiest Dynasties. Before he began researching for this book, David covered banking, finance, and hidden wealth for Bloomberg News.

This book puts the lie to the often-heard claims by descendants and apologists for the industrialists who collaborated for profit with Hilter. You’ve heard them too. That these business leaders did not know what was going on at the concentration and extermination camps, that they were helping Jews by buying businesses on the cheap, that they had not sought out to be members of the Nazi party but were forced to to stay in business. Piece by piece, David offers the proof that these are not just lies but that the truth is more horrific than any of us can imagine.

The glowing reviews have rolled in. Bradley Hope, author of the fabulous book Billionaire Dollary Whale (about the Malaysian wealth fund) had this to say:

“David de Jong’s explosive debut of narrative nonfiction is as riveting as it is disturbing. At times, it felt like reading the anti–Schindler’s List: instead of secretly helping the Jews, Germany’s most powerful tycoons brutally exploited their suffering for personal profit. The fact that some of Germany’s greatest fortunes are deeply intertwined with the ignominies of the Third Reich should be much better known.”

Yale Law Professor Samuel Moyn’s says, “David de Jong’s sleuthing has uncovered a remarkable and upsetting web of connections between the signature evil of the twentieth century and fabulous riches today. With its finely wrought stories of German individuals and families—including Jews who were expropriated—Nazi Billionaires suggests that even today amends have not yet been made for the profits that some reaped in an era of horror.”

Why so much kvelling? It’s well-deserved. How David did this and the toll it took on him is at the top of my mind. Can’t wait to speak with him. So, with no further delays. Let’s dive in.

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Podcast: Emancipations Podcast (LS 35 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: New Currents in Marxism: From Degrowth Communism to Neo-Kautskyism feat. Richard Seymour
Pub date: 2023-05-24

We welcome writer and Marxist thinker Richard Seymour back onto the show for a spirited discussion on new currents in Marxist thinking. In this wide-ranging conversation, we discuss the contradictions and tensions between the concept of "degrowth communism", coined by eco-socialist thinker Kohei Saito, to another trend in Marxist and socialist thinking which is encapsulated by the name of "neo-Kautskyism", or the general tendency for a more productivist and working-class organized direction of socialist politics. We also discuss the legacy of Althusserian Marxism, class politics, the PMC debate and quagmire as well as Richard's intellectual trajectory, idealism and materialism and faith and spirituality.

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Podcast: Revolutionary Left Radio (LS 64 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Everyday Utopia: Egalitarianism, Human Nature, & The Good Life
Pub date: 2023-05-17

Professor and author Kristen R. Ghodsee returns to Rev Left to discuss her newest book "Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life". Together, her and Breht discuss intentional communities, social experiments, what utopia even means in this context, scientific v. utopian socialism, criticisms of the nuclear family and the socialist alternative, the function of student debt in modern america, the relationship between religious and spiritual orientations and radial social experimentation, public education, evolutionary biology, and more!

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Podcast: The TLS Podcast (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: To The Barricades
Pub date: 2023-05-14

Abigail Green considers a panoramic account of the continent-wide outbreak of revolutions in 1848.

Podcast: Philosophy Exchange Podcast
Episode: PX - Utopian thinking and Political Philosophy
Pub date: 2023-05-10

In this episode of Philosophy Exchange, Paula Keller (Cambridge) and Harry Daniels (Oxford) speak with Karl about what role political philosophy should give utopian thinking. Discussion points first include an introduction to what utopias are, and second an overview of how utopias are theorized within recent political philosophy. From here, the discussion turns to the practical question of how utopias can help with identifying and understanding unjust social circumstances.

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Podcast: Thales' Well (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: On Bruno Latour with Joost van Loon
Pub date: 2023-04-27

On this episode I talk to Prof. Joost van Loon about French philosopher and sociologist Bruno Latour. We talked about a lot! Joost taught me about Latour’s actor network theory and while we were doing that we ended up chatting about the importance of concrete controversies, how objectivity works, the production of science, conspiracy theories, vaccine science, relativism, new materialism and Latour’s late turn to politics and ecology.

Joost van Loon is the Chair of General Sociology and Sociological Theory at Katholische Universität Eichstätt. He is the author of numerous books and articles. You can find out more about Joost via his university webpage here. Here is a link to Joost’s book Discussing New Materialism which we mentioned on the show. Latour’s book We Have Never Been Modern can be found here, and his late book on ecology can be found here.

If you would like to study with me you can find more information about our online education MAs in Philosophy here at Staffordshire University. You can find out more information on our MA in Continental Philosophy via this link. Or, join our MA in Philosophy of Nature, Information and Technology via this link. Find out more about me here. September intakes F/T or January intakes P/T.

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Podcast: The History Hour (LS 59 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: The history of dogs
Pub date: 2023-04-21

Max Pearson presents a collection of this week's Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service.We hear about the invention of the labradoodle, the first dog in space and how a Yorkshire terrier called Smoky became the world's first therapy dog.Author Mackenzi Lee talks about her book, The History of the World in Fifty Dogs. She discusses Napoleon Bonaparte's turbulent relationship with pugs and the first guide dogs in America. Plus, the guide dog who saved its owner's life during the 9/11 terror attacks and the man who dressed up as a dog to protest life in post-Soviet Russia.Contributors:Wally Conron - dog breeder.Mackenzi Lee - author.Michael Hingson - 9/11 terror attacks survivor.Professor Victor Yazdovsky - Russian immunologist.Oleg Kulik - Russian conceptual artist.Adrian Brigham - friend of American World War II veteran Bill Wynne.(Photo: Estie the labradoodle and Lola the cockapoo. Credit: Reena Stanton-Sharma)

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Podcast: Revolutionary Left Radio (LS 64 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Whole World in an Uproar: Music, Rebellion and Repression (1955-1972)
Pub date: 2023-04-17

Aaron J. Leonard returns to the show to discuss his newest book, "Whole World in an Uproar: Music, Rebellion and Repression". Throughout the interview, we play many of the artists and songs mentioned in the book and conversation (time stamps below). Together, Aaron and Breht discuss the history, social upheavals, cultural shifts, and the political context in which the music from this era emerged and the reaction it created from the mainstream culture. Topics include: the beatniks, the cultural context of the 50's in America, the civil rights movement, the 1960's, the Kent State Massacre, the introduction of psychedlic drugs, the Vietnam War, the Cuban Revolution, the shift from the old left to the new left, and much more! Music included: 10:30 - People Are Strange by The Doors 28:05 - Ohio by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young 48:40 - Mississippi Goddamn by Nina Simone 59:00 - Santo Domingo by Phil Ochs 74:50 - White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane 87:00 - Luang Prabang by Dave Von Ronk Outro music: "For What it's Worth" by Buffalo Springfield Support Rev Left Radio: https://www.patreon.com/RevLeftRadio

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Podcast: New Books in Critical Theory (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Stuart Elden, "The Archaeology of Foucault" (Polity, 2022)
Pub date: 2023-04-05

How did Foucault’s thought develop in the 1960s? In The Archaeology of Foucault (Polity, 2022) Stuart Elden, a professor of Political Theory and Geography at the University of Warwick, completes the series of intellectual biographies of Foucault he began with Foucault's Last Decade. Drawing on a wealth of previously unpublished and unavailable material, the book charts Foucault’s career from the end of his doctoral studies to his election to chair the Collège de France. In addition to considering key texts including Birth of the Clinic, The Order of Things, and The Archaeology of Knowledge, the book discusses his work as a literary and artistic critics, key shifts in his politics, and his teaching career. The final text in a remarkable and brilliant series, the book is essential reading for anyone interested in Foucault. You can hear previous episodes Foucault's Last Decade, Foucault: The Birth of Power and The Early Foucault on the New Books Network, and Prof Elden blogs at Progressive Geographies.

Dave O'Brien is Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries, at the University of Sheffield.

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Podcast: The Red Nation Podcast (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: We are the stars w/ Sarah Hernandez
Pub date: 2023-04-10

Sarah Hernandez (Sicangu Lakota) returns to the podcast to discuss her book, We Are the Stars: Colonizing and Decolonizing the Oceti Sakowin Literary Tradition (2023). Check out her previous episodes on the show, including the most recent #NativeReads on The Oceti Sakowin Literary Tradition Order the book from the University of Arizona Press or the University of Regina Press Audiobook edition of Charles Eastman's The Soul of the Indian (1911) Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr

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Podcast: Society for the History of Children and Youth Podcast
Episode: 16.14: Word Play: Experimental Poetry and Soviet Children’s Literature
Pub date: 2023-04-05

Episode NotesAinsley Morse and Ilya Kukulin discuss Morse's book, "Word Play: Experimental Poetry and Soviet Children’s Literature" (Northwestern University Press, 2021), in this week's featured SHCY conversation.

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Podcast: Working Class History (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: E72: Swing Kids and Edelweiss Pirates
Pub date: 2023-04-03

Podcast episode about anti-fascist youth cultural movements in Nazi Germany before and during World War II. In particular we look at the German Edelweiss Pirates and Swing Kids, and in our patreon bonus episode we also speak about the French Zazous and the Austrian Schlurfs.
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Despite years of indoctrination, young people in fascist Europe in the 1930s and 40s resisted the authoritarianism and conformism of Nazi rule. We hear from former Edelweiss Pirate Walter Mayer, and speak with historian Nick Heath about these little-known movements.
* E72.1: Zazous and Schlurfs, bonus episode – available exclusively for our patreon supporters * Anti-fascist books and merchandise – Posters, clothing and merchandise using artwork by or inspired by the Edelweiss Pirates and other 1930s anti-fascists in Germany.

See sources, more information and a transcript on the webpage for this episode here: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/72-edelweiss-pirates-swing-kids/.
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Podcast: Harvard Divinity School (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Translation As Linguistical and Bodily Metamorphosis
Pub date: 2023-04-02

There are two distinct concepts of translation at work in the encounter between an Amazonian Indigenous people, the Wari’, and the New Tribes Mission evangelical missionaries. While the missionaries conceive translation as a process of converting meanings between languages, conceived as linguistic codes that exist independently of culture, for the Wari’, in consonance with their perspectivist ontology, it is not language that differentiates beings but their bodies, given that those with similar bodies can, as a matter of principle, communicate with each other verbally. Translation is realized through the bodily metamorphosis objectified by mimetism and making kin, shamans being the translators par excellence, capable of circulating between distinct universes and providing the Wari’ with a dictionary-like lexicon that allows them to act in the context of dangerous encounters between humans and animals. This conversation with Aparecida Vilaça, Professor of Social Anthropology at Brazil’s Museu Nacional, aims to engage these issues of translation. This event took place on March 30, 2023 Learn more: https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/

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Podcast: Know Your Enemy (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Bob Dylan's America (w/ Will Epstein)
Pub date: 2023-04-04

"That’s the problem with a lot of things these days," wrote Bob Dylan in 2022, "Everything is too full now; we are spoon-fed everything. All songs are about one thing and one thing specifically, there is no shading, no nuance, no mystery. Perhaps this is why music is not a place where people put their dreams at the moment; dreams suffocate in these airless environs."

This mournful attitude — for a lost age of artfulness, mystery, and hope — pervades Dylan's 2022 book, Philosophy of Modern Song. In this sense, it's a quintessentially conservative book. But decline and nostalgia are not its only themes. In short bursts of prose reflecting on sixty-six totemic songs (from Webb Pierce's 1953 hit "There Stands the Glass;" to The Fugs' 1967 proto-punk romp "CIA Man;" to Nina Simone's unimpeachable "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"), Dylan conjures a country — and canon — defined most of all by mutability, motion, and menace. Dylan's America never stops moving, reinventing itself, or rebelling against its own strictures. Things get better; things get worse; what they don't do is stay the same.

To help us make sense of Bob Dylan's idiosyncratic vision of America and American song, we're joined by Know Your Enemy musician-in-residence (and Bob super-fan) Will Epstein. Besides providing the music for our show, Will is a song-writer, composer, and improvisor; his latest album, WENDY, is out from Fat Possum records. (Download it or buy the vinyl here.) Music may not be the place where most people put their dreams these days, but it's still where we put ours. And there is no better way to understand America's dreams than by listening — closely — to its music.

Sources:

Bob Dylan, The Philosophy of Modern Song (2022)

Bob Dylan, Chronicles: Volume One (2005)

Sean Wilentz, Bob Dylan in America (2010)

Clinton Heylin, Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades Revisited (2003)

Martin Chilton, "Bob Dylan and the Great American Songbook," May 24, 2022

Raymond Foye, "Bob Dylan’s The Philosophy of Modern Song," The Brooklyn Rail, Nov. 2022.

Hua Hsu, "How Nam June Paik’s Past Shaped His Visions of the Future," The New Yorker, Mar 29, 2023.

John Szwed, Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith, coming Aug 2023.

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Podcast: RevDem Podcast
Episode: Listening for Silences: Michael Freeden on the Role of Silence in Political Thinking
Pub date: 2023-03-29

In this conversation with RevDem assistant editor Lorena Drakula, Michael Freeden – leading political theorist and author of the new book Concealed Silences and Inaudible Voices in Political Thinking – discusses the various forms of political silences; the problems of superimposing and inventing voices; the effects of the unnoticeable and the unknowable in political thinking, with the aim of understanding the complex and often hidden aspects of silence that shape our political beliefs and actions.

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Podcast: Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Stephen Houlgate - Hegel On Being
Pub date: 2023-03-27

Stephen Houlgate,professor of philosophy at the University of Warwick and the president of the Hegel Society of Great Britain. His books include Hegel, Nietzsche and the Criticism of Metaphysics; An Introduction to Hegel: Freedom, Truth and History; The Opening of Hegel’s Logic: From Being to Infinity; Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit: A Reader’s Guide; and most recently, Hegel on Being in 2 volumes.Stephen was so incredibly generous and engaging as we talked through some of the misconceptions regarding dialectics, Hegel's overall work, and so much more.Support us on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/muhhTwitter: @unconscioushh

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Podcast: Feminist Perspectives
Episode: A new feminist grammar in film - feminist practices and gaze theory
Pub date: 2023-03-18

In the following discussion, three perspectives from different métiers in the industry meet: Directing, cinematography and film theory. The speakers are: French writer/director Céline Sciamma, known for films such as "Portrait of a Lady on Fire", "Girlhood", "Petite Maman", the Austrian cinematographer Christine A. Maier, responsible for the Oscar-nominated film "Quo Vadis, Aida"? by Jasmila Žbanić - and the British author and feminist film activist So Mayer.Questions are posed and experiences shared. Are we brainwashed by dominant media forms and what can we do about it? And what is a feminist gaze?This talk was recorded as part of the two day Forum on Feminist Perspectives, held at Vienna’s Stadtkino in November 2022. Panel introduction by Marlies Pöschl and Laura Nasmyth.*Timecode:09:30 start of the discussion

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Podcast: The Affect and Colonialism Podcast
Episode: The Colonial Lives of Bourgeois Coldness
Pub date: 2023-03-21

The hegemony of the bourgeoisie, its culture and its values, is a central feature of our colonial and capitalist present. But what does it feel like to be a bourgeois subject and what structures of feeling enable the dominant class of the colonial world order to function? Today, we talk with philosopher and critical theorist Henrike Kohpeiß about the colonial lives of bourgeois coldness.

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Podcast: Below the Radar (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Film and the Political — with Nadia Shihab
Pub date: 2023-03-14

Artist, filmmaker, and Assistant Professor for the School of Contemporary Arts, Nadia Shihab, sits down with Am Johal to explore her path as a filmmaker. Nadia begins by sharing her university days as an Iraqi student at the University of Texas, feeling a personal sense of loss from the war, and burnout from her student activism within a conservative state. She speaks of this as the inspiration for her first film, I Come from Iraq. Nadia also explores the inspirations and meanings of her other films, such as Amal’s Garden and Jaddoland. She and Am also explore her urban planning background, and Nadia shares some advice for aspiring student filmmakers.Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/205-nadia-shihab.htmlRead the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/205-nadia-shihab.htmlResources:Nadia’s website: https://www.nadiashihab.com/I Come from Iraq: https://vimeo.com/59374843Amal’s Garden: https://www.nadiashihab.com/amalsgarden-archivedJaddoland: https://www.nadiashihab.com/jaddoland Echolocation: https://www.nadiashihab.com/echolocation 57 Manchester: https://www.nadiashihab.com/57manchesterBio:Nadia Shihab is an artist and filmmaker whose work explores the personal, the relational, and the diasporic. Her studio practice includes film, collage and sound. She is the director of several short films and the feature-length film JADDOLAND, which was awarded five festival jury awards, including the Independent Spirit "Truer than Fiction" Award, and went on to broadcast for two seasons on US public television. Her work has shown in exhibitions and festivals internationally, including at the Centre Pompidou, Walker Art Center, Berkeley Art Museum, Dubai International Film Festival, DOXA, CAAMFest, and New Orleans Film Festival. She is the recipient of fellowships and support from the Sundance Institute, Center for Asian American Media, Firelight Media, and Tribeca Film Institute, and has been an artist-in-residency at the MacDowell Colony and Djerassi Residency.Her creative practice is bolstered by over a decade of experience as a community practitioner. She holds an MFA in Art Practice (UC Berkeley, 2021), as well as a Master in City & Regional Planning (UC Berkeley, 2009) – a degree which grounds her art practice within critical understandings of urban space and practical training in ethnography. Her community-based work includes Fulbright research in southeastern Turkey, and facilitating projects spanning affordable housing preservation, refugee youth mentorship, and community-guided philanthropy. She was raised in west Texas by immigrant parents from Iraq & Yemen.Cite this episode:Chicago StyleJohal, Am. “Film and the Political — with Nadia Shihab.” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, March 14, 2023. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/205-nadia-shihab.html.

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Podcast: Know Your Enemy (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Whittaker Chambers and the Freight Train of History
Pub date: 2023-03-12

In this episode, Matt and Sam go deep into the life and times of Whittaker Chambers, most famous for his role in the "trial of the century"—the trial of Alger Hiss for perjury after Chambers accused of Hiss of being a Communist spy during his years working in the federal government, especially the State Department. The two figures, once friends, came to symbolize a clash that was bigger than themselves, and prefigured the turn American politics would take at the onset of the Cold War. Chambers would become a hero of the nascent postwar conservative movement, with his status as an ex-Communist—one of many who would congregate around National Review in the mid-to-late 1950s—bringing his moral credibility to the right as one who had seen the other side and lived to tell his tale. Before all that, though, Chambers's life was like something out of a novel: a difficult family life, early brilliance at Columbia University, literary achievement in leftwing publications, and years "underground" engaging in espionage for the Soviet Union against the United States. "Out of my weakness and folly (but also out of my strength), I committed the characteristic crimes of my century," writes Chambers in his 1952 memoir/jeremiad Witness. Your hosts break it all down, assess his crimes and contributions, and explore one of the most consequential American lives of the twentieth century.

Sources:

Sam Tanenhaus, Whittaker Chambers: A Biography(1997)

Whittaker Chambers, Witness(1952)

Whittaker Chambers, Cold Friday (1964)

Whittaker Chambers, "Big Sister is Watching You," National Review, December 28, 1957

The Whittaker Chambers Reader: His Complete National ReviewWritings, 1957-1959 (2014)

William F. Buckley, Jr., editor, Odyssey of a Friend: Whittaker Chambers Letters to William F. Buckley, Jr.(1969)

L. Brent Bozell, Jr. and William F. Buckley, Jr., McCarthy and His Enemies: The Record and Its Meaning(1954)

Murray Kempton, Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties(1956)

Landon R.Y. Storrs, The Second Red Scare and the Unmaking of the New Deal Left(2013)

Richard H. Crossman, editor, The God that Failed: A Confession (1949)

Lionel Trilling, The Middle of the Journey(1947)

Matthew Richer, "The Cry Against Ninevah: A Centennial Tribute to Whittaker Chambers," Modern Age, Summer 2001

Christopher Hitchens, "A Regular Bull," London Review of Books, July 1997

Christopher Hitchens and Martin Amis, "No Laughing Matter" (YouTube, 2007)

Jess Bravin, "Whittaker Chambers Award Draws Criticism—From His Family," Wall Street Journal, March 28, 2019

Isaac Deutscher, "The Ex-Communist's Conscience," The Reporter, 1950.

John Patrick Diggins, Up From Communism: Conservative odysseys in American intellectual history, (1975)

Daniel Aaron, Writers on the Left, (1961)

Larry Ceplair, Anti-Communism in Twentieth-Century America: A Critical History, (2011)

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Podcast: SAGE Sociology (LS 35 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Sociological Theory - The Problem of Infinite Regress: A Stopping Rules Approach
Pub date: 2023-03-10

Author Ajay Verghese discusses the article, "The Problem of Infinite Regress: A Stopping Rules Approach" published in the March 2023 issue of Sociological Theory.

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Podcast: University of Minnesota Press
Episode: Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy: On filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang
Pub date: 2023-03-03

A critical figure in queer Sinophone cinema, Tsai Ming-liang is a major force in Taiwan cinema and global moving image art. A new book by Nicholas de Villiers, CRUISY, SLEEPY, MELANCHOLY, offers a fascinating, systematic method for analyzing the queerness of Tsai’s films and reveals striking connections between sexuality, space, and cinema. Here, the author is joined in conversation with Beth Tsai.

Nicholas de Villiers is professor of English and film at the University of North Florida.

Beth Tsai is visiting assistant professor of East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

REFERENCES:

Books by Nicholas de Villiers (all with University of Minnesota Press):

-Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy: Sexual DIsorientation in the Films of Tsai Ming-liang

-Sexography: Sex Work in Documentary

-Opacity and the Closet: Queer Tactics in Foucault, Barthes, and Warhol

Book by Beth Tsai:

-Taiwan New Cinema at Film Festivals (Edinburgh University Press)

Tsai Ming-liang films:

-No No Sleep

-Stray Dogs

-Goodbye, Dragon Inn

-Vive L’Amour

-I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone

-Rebels of the Neon God

-The Wayward Cloud

-It’s a Dream

-The Hole

-Face (Visage)

-What TIme Is It There?

-Days

Other films:

-Saw Tiong Guan / Past Present (documentary)

-Fred Barney Taylor / The Polymath

-Elizabeth Purchell / Ask Any Buddy (podcast: https://www.ask-any-buddy.com/podcast)

-Hou Hsiao-hsien / Le Voyage du Ballon Rouge

-Hou Hsiao-hsien / Café Lumière

-Albert Lamorisse / Le Ballon Rouge

-Wong Kar-wai / Chungking Express

-Jon M. Chu / Crazy Rich Asians

-Peter Wang / A Great Wall

-Edward Yang / The Terrorizers

Research, persons, publications:

-Song Hwee Lim / Tsai Mingliang and the Cinema of Slowness

-François Truffaut

-Elena Pollacchi

-Samuel Delany / Times Square Red, Times Square Blue

-José Esteban Muñoz / Cruising Utopia

-John Paul Ricco / The Logic of the Lure

-Alex Espinoza / Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pasttime

-Roland Barthes

-Elena Gorfinkel’s public lecture: Cinema, the Soporific: Between Exhaustion and Eros

-Jean Ma / At the Edges of Sleep

-Marcel Proust / Swann’s Way

-Jean Ma / Melancholy Drift

-Jonathan Flatley’s work on melancholia and modernism

-Judith Butler

-Douglas Crimp

-Anne Cvetkovich / Depression: A Public Feeling

-David Eng

-Anne Anlin Cheng

-Shi-Yan Chao / Queer Representations in Chinese-language Film and the Cultural Landscape

-Sianne Ngai

-Christopher Lupke / The Sinophone Cinema of Hou Hsiao-hsien

-Zhu Tianwen

-Emilie Yueh-Yu Yeh and Darrell Williams Davis / Thirty-Two New Takes on Taiwan Cinema

-David Lynch

-Sara Ahmed / Queer Phenomenology

-Michel de Certeau

-Fran Martin

-The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Camp: Notes on Fashion

-Susan Sontag on camp

-Esther Newton / Mother Camp

-Jonathan Te-hsuan Yeh

-Emilie Yueh-Yu Yeh and Darrell William Davis, “Camping Out with Tsai Ming-liang”

-Stray Dogs at the Museum: Tsai Ming-liang Solo Exhibition

-Fran Martin, “Introduction: Tsai Ming-liang’s intimate public worlds,” Journal of Chinese Cinemas Vol. 1 No. 2.

-Eve Sedgwick’s idea of camp as a form of reparative reading

-Tom Roach / Friendship as a Way of Life

-Rey Chow / Writing Diaspora

-Michelle Bloom

-Fran Martin, “The European Undead: Tsai Ming-liang’s Temporal Dysphoria,” Senses of Cinema (https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2003/feature-articles/tsai_european_undead/)

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Podcast: New Books in Environmental Studies (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: William Carruthers, "Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Pub date: 2023-03-05

Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology(Cornell UP, 2022) examines a world famous yet critically underexamined event—UNESCO's International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia (1960–80)—to show how the project, its genealogy, and its aftermath not only propelled archaeology into the postwar world but also helped to "recolonize" it. In this book, William Carruthers asks how postwar decolonization took shape and what role a colonial discipline like archaeology—forged in the crucible of imperialism—played as the "new nations" asserted themselves in the face of the global Cold War.

As the Aswan High Dam became the centerpiece of Gamal Abdel Nasser's Egyptian revolution, the Nubian campaign sought to salvage and preserve ancient temples and archaeological sites from the new barrage's floodwaters. Conducted in the neighboring regions of Egyptian and Sudanese Nubia, the project built on years of Nubian archaeological work conducted under British occupation and influence. During that process, the campaign drew on the scientific racism that guided those earlier surveys, helping to consign Nubians themselves to state-led resettlement and modernization programs, even as UNESCO created a picturesque archaeological landscape fit for global media and tourist consumption.

Flooded Pasts describes how colonial archaeological and anthropological practices—and particularly their archival and documentary manifestations—created an ancient Nubia severed from the region's population. As a result, the Nubian campaign not only became fundamental to the creation of UNESCO's 1972 World Heritage Convention but also exposed questions about the goals of archaeology and heritage and whether the colonial origins of these fields will ever be overcome.

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Podcast: Hagley History Hangout
Episode: Links in the Chain: Department Stores in Socialist Yugoslavia, 1950s-1980s with Ivana Zimbrek
Pub date: 2023-03-06

Yugoslavian planners considered themselves to be architects of a third way “between the blocs,” aligned neither with the capitalist West nor the Communist East, but rather masters of their own socio-economic destiny. This ramified in the economy and on the streets of Yugoslav cities in the form of supermarkets and their larger kin department stores.Ivana Zimbrek, PhD candidate in history at Central European University, investigates the history of Yugoslav department stores as the product of professional imagination in a markedly international context. While the department store as a retail technology had its origins in the explicitly capitalist United States, Yugoislav planners admired its efficiency and “cultural level,” and believed that they could turn it toward state-socialist purposes. As a result, indigenized department stores populated the new neighborhoods of growing capital cities, and later gained a place in the historic centers of smaller towns throughout Yugoslavia. Zimbrek studied a diverse archive of retail and department store materials housed in the Hagley Library collections to better understand American precedents and to compare and contrast them with the Yugoslav experience.In support of her work Zimbrek received a research grant from the Center for the History of Business, Technology, & Society at the Hagley Museum & Library. For more Hagley History Hangouts and more information, please visit us online at hagley.org.

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Podcast: UCL Minds (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: EDWARD SAID AND ORIENTALISM - A CONVERSATION WITH NASSER JASSEM
Pub date: 2023-02-28

An interview with Professor Nasser Jassem of the University of Mosul. Professor Nasser Jassem, previous head of Mosul University Library (2003-2011) and former director of the Unit for the Study of Orientalism, completed a scholarship at University College London in 2019. Professor Nasser Jassem speaks about Edward Said and Orientalism, the future of scholarship in Iraq and life under the Islamic State in Mosul.Date of episode recording: 2020-07-31Duration: 01:05:59Language of episode: EnglishPresenter: Mehiyar KathemGuests: Nasser JassemProducer: Mehiyar Kathem

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Podcast: Painting Energies - Artscience podcast by Aalto University
Episode: #9 Planting empathy - with Janet Laurence
Pub date: 2023-02-25

In this episode, we talked to the Australian installation artist Janet Laurence. Janne met her when he was a visiting fellow at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. Janet's practice focuses on creating immersive experiences that bring people into an intimate relationship with nature. She is known for her work with plants, which highlights not only their beauty but also their fragility and the need for care and empathy to protect the environment. Her work is diverse, spanning from large-scale installations in forests and ecosystems, to sculptures, and even video and sound pieces. Entangled Garden for Plant Memory, Yu-Hsiu Museum, Taiwan (2020), After Nature, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia (2019), and Deep Breathing: Resuscitation for the Reef, Musée National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France (2015) are recent examples of her work and exhibitions that relate to our conversation.Janet tells about her way of working with scientists and researchers, and about her art installations consisting of samples from the vast animal and plant collections of natural history museums. We discuss the controversial feelings they evoke at the border between life and death, preserved but lost. Janne wonders if living nature itself is, to sapiens, like a natural history museum: a collection of increasingly rare species preserved at the brink of extinction. Janet and Bart share their views on the role of art: could it be conceived as a powerful tool for behavioural change? This leads us to compare the different approaches by scientists and artists in presenting work and questioning: one obsessed in finding answers and solutions, the other avoiding them at all cost; the art of enquiry.We end the conversation with Janet telling about her upcoming work with researchers of the Antarctic, spells for weather, and the plants in her new garden. More about Janet: https://www.janetlaurence.com/

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Podcast: The Scholars' Circle Interviews (LS 23 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Scholars’ Circle – De-Colonizing the Mind, Language, Culture in the American Imperium – Feb. 26, 2023
Pub date: 2023-02-26

David Lloyd speaks with the world-renowned Kenyan novelist, playwright and poet, critic and widely influential postcolonial theorist, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. They explore the problem of colonization of languages, his commitment to writing in his native language, and his incarceration and exile for political dissidence. And with the panel they discuss a new book of essays on his work, Ngũgĩ in the American Imperium. [ dur: 58mins. ]

Timothy J. Reiss is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at New York University and recently a visiting scholar at the University of Hawaii-Manoa. His many books include Against Autonomy: Global Dialectics of Cultural Exchange. He is the editor of Ngũgĩ in the American Imperium.
Noenoe K. Silva is Kanaka Hawai’i from Kailua, O’ahu, and professor of Hawai’ian and Indogenous Politics in the Department of Politics and Cooperating faculty Kawaihuelani Center for Hawai’ian Language at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. She is the author of Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawai’ian Resistance to American Colonialism and The Power of the Steel-Tipped Pen: Reconstructing Native Hawai’ian Intellectual History. She is a contributor to Ngũgĩ in the American Imperium.
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and English at the University of California, Irvine. Among his many writings are Decolonising the Mind, Globalectics and his memoir Detained recently recast as Wrestling with the Devil. His most recent novel is Murogi wa Kagogo, published in English as Wizard of the Crow. His rendering of the Gikuyu epic, The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi, appeared in 2019. He has been awarded numerous prestigious prizes.

This program is produced by Ankine Aghassian, David Lloyd, and Sudd Dongre.

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The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi

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Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature

Wizard of the Crow

Podcast: EXALT Podcast (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Mariam Khawar - What voices have been overlooked in Islamic economic philosophy?
Pub date: 2023-02-24

This month we are thrilled to be joined by University of Helsinki doctoral researcher Mariam Khawar. Mariam is in the Doctoral Programme in Political, Societal and Regional Change, which is part of the Faculty of Social Sciences and is affiliated with Helsinki Centre for Global Political Economy.

Mariam’s work focuses on Islamic economic philosophy, specifically through a Marxist lens. Her work is highly interdisciplinary drawing on feminist political economy, economics, and feminism in Islamic theology and philosophy. She is working toward filling in gaps in the theoretical materials in that discipline. This work started during her master’s studies at King’s College London, where she made an analysis of Islamic banks during the 2007 financial crisis. We discuss the role of research within global capitalist banking and how her research is not about banking and finance. Rather Mariam focuses on the philosophical aspects of Islamic economics. She interrogates questions like what constitutes economic agents within Islamic economic philosophy. Within the conversation Mariam reminds us to think outside the box and to always be boldly interdisciplinary in academic work.

If you would like to follow Mariam’s work, check out her profile at University of Helsinki.

Resources

Ayubi, Z. (2019) Gendered morality: Classical Islamic ethics of the self, family, and society. New York: Columbia University Press.
Cooper, C. & Jack, V. (2023) ‘Mind-boggling’ profits for big oil puts tax hikes back on the agenda. POLITICO [online]. Available from: https://www.politico.eu/article/record-profits-big-oil-tax-hikes-war-ukraine-russia/
Graeber, D. & Wengrow, D. (2021) The Dawn of Everything: A new history of humanity. First American edition. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Hefner, R. W. (2006). Islamic economics and global capitalism. Society, 44(1), 16-22.
Milanović, B. (2016) Global Inequality: A new approach for the age of globalization. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Wadud, A. (2015) ‘The Ethics of Tawhid over the Ethics of Qiwamah’, in Men in charge? rethinking authority in Muslim legal tradition. p. 28.

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Podcast: Below the Radar (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Art and the Spatial Logics of Colonialism - with Marianne Nicolson
Pub date: 2023-02-07

On this episode of Below the Radar, our host Am Johal speaks with Marianne Nicolson, an artist and activist of the Musgamakw Dzawada’enuxw First Nations. They discuss ways that Marianne uses art practice to uphold Kwakwaka’wakw philosophies and resist settler-colonial fictions about Indigenous peoples. Marianne describes how her work challenges the colonial practice of treating Indigenous artmaking traditions as resources to be extracted.Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/200-marianne-nicolson.htmlRead the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/200-marianne-nicolson.htmlResources: Marianne Nicolson: https://www.mariannenicolson.com/The Sea Captain at Surrey Central skytrain station: https://www.surrey.ca/arts-culture/surrey-public-art/public-art-collection/the-sea-captain Cliff Painting at Kingcome Inlet: https://themedicineproject.com/marianne-nicolson.html#null Bakwina`tsi: the Container for Souls at Artspeak Gallery: https://artspeak.ca/artspeak-wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Postscript-18-Daina-Warren-on-Marianne-Nicolson.pdf The House of the Ghosts at Vancouver Art Gallery: https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/38869/marianne-nicolson-the-house-of-the-ghosts/ The Rivers Monument at Vancouver International Airport: https://www.yvr.ca/en/about-yvr/art/sea-to-sky Marianne’s PhD Dissertation: https://dspace.library.uvic.ca/handle/1828/5135?show=full To Refuse/To Wait/To Sleep at Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery: https://belkin.ubc.ca/exhibitions/to-refuse-to-wait-to-sleep-ma/ Bio:Marianne Nicolson is an artist activist of the Musgamakw Dzawada’enuxw First Nations. The Musgamakw Dzawada’enuxw Nations are part of the Kwakwaka’wakw (Kwak’wala speaking peoples) of the Pacific Northwest Coast. She is trained in both traditional Kwakwaka’wakw forms and culture and contemporary gallery and museum-based practice. Nicolson works as a Kwakwaka’wakw cultural researcher and historian, as well as an advocate for Indigenous land rights. Her practice is multi-disciplinary encompassing photography, painting, carving, video, installation, monumental public art, writing and speaking. All her work is political in nature and seeks to uphold Kwakwaka’wakw traditional philosophy and worldview through contemporary mediums and technology. Exhibitions include the 17th Biennale of Sydney, Australia; The Vancouver Art Gallery, The National Museum of the American Indian in New York, Nuit Blanche in Toronto, Ontario, Museum Arnhem, Netherlands and many others. Major monumental public artworks are situated in Vancouver International Airport, the Canadian Embassy in Amman, Jordan and the Canadian Embassy in Paris, France. Cite this episode:Johal, Am. “Art and the Spatial Logics of Colonialism with Marianne Nicolson.” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, February 7, 2023. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/200-marianne-nicolson.html.

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Podcast: The Art Angle (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: What Is Afrofuturism, and Why Is It So Relevant Today?
Pub date: 2023-02-09

One art movement has become a household name in a way that few recent art movements can match. This is Afrofuturism. From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, installing an Afrofuturist period room to the blockbuster movie Black Panther and its sequel to an upcoming survey of the movement at the National Museum of African American history and culture, Afrofuturism is being canonized in art and beyond.

It's an extraordinarily rich tradition, bringing together influences from experimental jazz and Detroit techno sci-fi and fantasy, art and technology. With Black History Month here, we decided to dig into Afrofuturist art history with Ytasha Womack. Womack is the author of Afrofuturism, The World of Black Sci-fi and Fantasy Culture. She's also an artist herself, actively working in the tradition now.

So how can you define the afro futurist aesthetic? What are some of its touchstones? And why has there been such a surge of excitement around Afrofuturism in the recent past? Artnet News National Art Critic, Ben Davis, sits down with Womack to find out.

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Podcast: Trillbilly Worker's Party (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 277: NEOM Moon (w/ special guest Kate Wagner)
Pub date: 2023-02-09

Our good friend Kate Wagner (@mcmansionhell) is back to tell us about the NEOM city-state in the Saudi Arabian desert, as well as all the soulless architects and designers working on it. You can read Kate's article here: https://thebaffler.com/latest/line-in-the-sand-wagnerAnd support us on Patreon here: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

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Podcast: On Humans
Episode: 15 | A Deep History of Equality ~ Elizabeth Anderson
Pub date: 2023-02-04

Why do we care about equality? Is it an invention of the European Enlightenment? Or is it something rooted in human nature? If so, why does equality require constant fighting for?

Elizabeth Anderson is a philosopher at the University of Michigan. She is one of the essential egalitarian theorists of our times. Her essay What's the Point of Equalityis one of the must-reads of the contemporary philosophy of political equality. And her recent essay on the history of equality and social justiceis a tour-de-force on using the long view of history to shed light on our contemporary condition.

In this episode, Prof Anderson talks with Ilari about topics such as:

Are humans a naturally egalitarian species?
Can human nature explain the logic of social justice movements?
The ancient roots of democracy (beyond Athens)
How Native American critique of European society shaped the French Enlightenment

The conversation then turns to the question of modernity. The 2nd half touches upon topics from 19th Century utopian communes to 20th Century Marxism, including:

Challenges with anarchism, communalism, and Marxism.
Is social democracy the answer?
Are social benefits about pitying the poor?
Are taxes on the rich about envying the rich?
Economic equality versus other forms of equality

Names and work mentioned

Christopher Boehm (author of Hierarchy in the Forest)
David Graeber & David Wengrow (authors of Dawn of Everything)
David Stasavage (author of The Decline and Rise of Democracy)
Adam Smith (18th Century Scottish philosopher)
Nathaniel Hawthorne & Louisa May Alcott (19th Century American authors)
Thomas Piketty (author of Capital & Ideology, A Brief History of Equality, and Capital in the 21st Century)
Väinö Linna (author of Under The North Star)
Isabel Ferrares (author of Firms as Political Entities)
John Rawls (20th Century American philosopher)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (18th Century Swiss philosopher)

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Podcast: Society for the History of Children and Youth Podcast
Episode: 16.5: Mozart and the Mediation of Childhood
Pub date: 2023-02-01

Episode NotesAdeline Mueller discusses her book, Mozart and the Mediation of Childhood (University of Chicago Press, 2021) with Roe-Min Kok. This conversation originally appeared as a podcast of the American Musicological Association Study Group on Music, Childhood, and Youth in 2021. Read more here: https://www.amsmusicology.org/page/cysg

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Podcast: Serpentine Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: REWORLDING: Replaying
Pub date: 2023-02-01

How can the way we play change the way we live? How are creativity, collaboration, and change adaptation related, and why do these activities help people to thrive?In the third episode of the REWORLDING series, host Gaylene Gould speaks to artists and architects who are creating new possibilities through play spaces, games, and playable digital realities, and asking what these can teach us about how we will navigate the world to come.

This episode features Gabriel Massan, Alvaro Barrington, Assemble, Penny Wilson & Assemble Play attendees, Tamar Clarke-Brown (Curator (Commissions), Arts Technologies, Serpentine), music and reflections from members of Material Institute, and sound created by LYZZA for Gabriel Massan’s upcoming game, Third World: The Bottom Dimension.

You can read more about REWORLDING and access a full transcript of this episode here.

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Credits

Serpentine Podcast: REWORLDING is presented by Gaylene Gould. The series was produced by Katie Callin, with production support from Nada Smiljanic at Reduced Listening, and curated by Serpentine’s Editorial team, Hanna Girma and Fiona Glen. Thanks to all members of Serpentine’s Programmes, Communications and Audiences teams for their direction and contribution. Special thanks to Serpentine’s leadership team Bettina Korek, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Yesomi Umolu. The theme music for REWORLDING was conceived and produced by KMRU, and the visual identity is by the unloved. Jesse Lawson is Executive Producer at Reduced Listening, and Arlie Adlington is the sound mixer. Our thanks go to all guests, contributors and advisors on REWORLDING.

Thanks to Rainy Miller (mastering engineer) for his support on LYZZA’s sound from Gabriel Massan’s Third World: The Bottom Dimension, which was commissioned by Serpentine Arts Technologies and features Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro, Novíssimo Edgar and LYZZA.

Musicians from Material Institute heard jamming in the studio are:

Jaida Stallworth (Adiaj) Nathan Watts (Sly Watts) Matthew Lee (HU$H) Andy Gross (sound engineer)

Reflections from members of Material Institute are by: François Boudreaux (Fashion Instructor) Riley Teahan (Fashion & Textiles) Eric Guerrero (Fashion) JDot Smith

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Podcast: The Panpsycast Philosophy Podcast (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 115, ‘Intellectual Seemings’ with Laura Gow (Part I - Everything is Clear)
Pub date: 2023-01-29

Our sensory experiences make up the fabric of our worlds. It’s a fabric that keeps us warm; a fabric that makes the world worth living in. If you couldn’t hear the cry of your new-born child, if you couldn’t taste your grandfather’s famous brussels sprouts at Christmas, or feel the embrace of your lifelong partner, then your life wouldn’t just include less experiences, but less meaning. Given the value we place on our sensory experiences, it seems important that we understand the nature of them. What is happening, exactly, when we hear, taste, and feel? What are sensory experiences made of?

In this episode, we’ll be exploring the nature of sensory phenomenology with Dr Laura Gow, Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool. Formerly of Warwick University, Cambridge University, and the University of Antwerp, Dr Gow – whose work focuses on the philosophy of perception and the metaphysics of consciousness – is one of the UK’s leading phenomenologists. From hallucinations and colour to empty space and silence, Laura’s research covers a broad range of topics, but in this episode we’ll be focusing on transparency.

According to the transparency view, when we undergo a perceptual experience, the only properties we’re aware of are located externally. There are no perceptual properties, says Gow, inside of us – despite what it may seem.

This episode is produced in partnership with the Philosophy and the Future project at the University of Liverpool. For more information about philosophy at Liverpool, head over to www.liverpool.ac.uk/philosophy.

Contents

Part I. Everything is Clear

Part II. Further Analysis and Discussion

Links

Laura Gow (website)

Laura Gow, Colour (paper)

Laura Gow, Everything is Clear (paper)

Laura Gow, Empty Space, Silence, and Absence (paper)

Laura Gow, A New Theory of Absence Experience (paper)

Laura Gow, Perceptual Experience and Physicalism (paper)

Laura Gow, The Limitations of Perceptual Transparency (paper)

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Podcast: New Books in Science, Technology, and Society (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Collaborations between Cold War Scientists and Artists
Pub date: 2023-01-29

Patrick McCray, Professor of History at University of California, Santa Barbara, talks about his book, Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture, with Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel. The book shows how artists eagerly collaborated with engineers and scientists to explore new technologies and create visually and sonically compelling multimedia works after World War II. McCray and Vinsel also discuss how this history connects to more recent developments such as the creation of the MIT Media Lab and so-called “STEAM education.”

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Podcast: Gastropod (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Museums and the Mafia: The Secret History of Citrus (encore)
Pub date: 2023-01-31

A slice of lime in your cocktail, a lunchbox clementine, or a glass of OJ at breakfast: citrus is so common today that most of us have at least one lurking on the kitchen counter or in the back of the fridge. But don't be fooled: not only were these fruits so precious that they inspired both museums and the Mafia, they are also under attack by an incurable immune disease that is decimating citrus harvests around the world. Join us on a historical and scientific adventure, starting with a visit to the ark of citrus—a magical grove in California that contains hundreds of varieties you've never heard of, from the rose-scented yellow goo of a bael fruit to the Pop Rocks-sensation of a caviar lime. You'll see that lemon you're about to squeeze in a whole new light. (This is an encore presentation.)

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Podcast: Women's Media Center Live with Robin Morgan (LS 37 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: WMC Live #397: Beyond Objectification. (Original Airdate 1/22/2023)
Pub date: 2023-01-22

Robin delves into deeper ironies about America's Indigenous peoples. Special Guest: Robin Wall Kimmerer, author, botanist, Potawatomi activist, on the emerging "language" spoken by the natural world.

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Podcast: Keen On (LS 40 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Danielle Clode on Koalas: A Natural History and an Uncertain Future
Pub date: 2023-01-22

In this KEEN ON episode, Andrew talks to the distinguished Australian naturalist Danielle Clode, author of the new KOALA: A NATURAL HISTORY AND AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE. They discuss the crisis of the endangered Koala in Australia and what needs to be done to conserve the land in order to save this species.

ABOUT DANIELLE CLODE: Danielle is an award winning author of Australian non-fiction books. Her writing includes natural history, essays, science-writing, historical fiction and best-selling children’s books as well as documentaries. Her books have won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for non-fiction, the Federation of Australian Writers award for excellence in nonfiction, a Whitley Award for popular zoology and been shortlisted for the Children’s Book Council of Australia and National Biography awards and longlisted for The Nib Literary Award. Danielle's latest book is Koala: A life in trees published in Australia by Black Inc and released in in the US and UK as Koala: A natural history and Uncertain Future by W. W. Norton. She has also written two biographies for adults, In Search of the Woman who Sailed the World and The Wasp and the Orchid, about pioneering women naturalists. Danielle's documentary based on her earlier book Voyages to the South Seas was recently screened on SBS-TV and is available for screening in French and English.

ABOUT ANDREW KEEN: Name as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.

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Podcast: Switched on Pop (LS 65 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Taylor Swift and the music industry's next $20
Pub date: 2023-01-20

Streaming feels like it's both at its height and on a precipice. Musicians are fed up at getting paid fractions of a penny, and the whole business model seems precarious. Switched On Pop co-host Charlie Harding was talking about the challenges for streaming future with my friend Nilay Pattel, editor in chief of The Verge and host the podcast Decoder - a show about big ideas. And they taped a conversation about what’s next for streaming through the case study of Taylor Swift who has deftly navigated the transition from CDs to streaming, and whose era tour may mark the end of an era in music.

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Podcast: Screenshot Inspiračního fóra
Episode: Between the Human Animal and the Animate Earth
Pub date: 2022-06-29

Breathe in, breathe out. In this speech David Abram talks about what usually stays unnoticed - the omnipresent invisible mass of air we are immersed in. He talks about the air as an organ of the Earth, its sacredness; about climate as the commonwealth of breath as well as about the affinity between air and awareness. Is consciousness really the special possession of our species, or is it rather a property of the breathing biosphere in which we all participate?

David Abram is a cultural ecologist and philosopher, founder and creative director of the Alliance for Wild Ethics. He is best known for his work bridging the philosophical tradition of phenomenology with environmental and ecological issues. David is the author of Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology, and The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-human World. His essays on the cultural causes and consequences of ecological disarray have appeared in a number of publications and anthologies. Abram coined the phrase “the more-than-human world” as a way of referring to earthly nature, a term that has become a key phrase within the lingua franca of the broad ecological movement.

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Nádech, výdech. V tomto díle hovoří David Abram o tom, co běžně zůstává nepovšimnuto - o všudypřítomné neviditelné mase vzduchu, ve které jsme ponořeni. Abram mluví o vzduchu jako o orgánu Země, o jeho posvátnosti; o klimatu jako společném bohatství dechu (commonwealth of breath), o spřízněnosti dechu a vědomí. Skutečně vědomí náleží výlučně našemu druhu? Nebo spíš patří dýchající biosféře, na níž jsme všichni účastni?

David Abram je kulturní ekolog a filozof, zakladatel a kreativní ředitel Aliance pro etiku divočiny. Je známý především díky své práci propojující filozofickou tradici fenomenologie s environmentálními a ekologickými tématy. Je autorem knih Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology a The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-human World. Jeho eseje o kulturních příčinách a důsledcích ekologického chaosu vyšly v řadě publikací a antologií. Je autorem slovního spojení „více než lidský svět“, kterým označuje pozemskou přírodu a který se stal klíčovým výrazem jazyka environmentalistů*ek po celém světě.

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Podcast: Delgado Podcast (LS 23 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Practice of Forgiveness in an Unforgiving World – Dr. Matthew Ichihashi Potts
Pub date: 2023-01-21

We’re honored to learn from Dr. Matthew Ichichashi Potts about his book, Forgiveness: An Alternative Account, which is focused on understanding the practice of forgiveness in an unforgiving world.

In this episode, Dr. Potts shares:

• When forgiveness causes emotional distress
• Common misunderstandings about forgiveness
• When forgiveness causes shame for victims of abuse or trauma
• How does forgiveness help us love our enemy
• Forgiveness is an alternative to systems of justice that demand retaliation
• How can marginalized populations forgive systems of oppression?
• Charleston church attack and stories of forgiveness
• How to think about forgiveness (when you don’t want to forgive)
• Anti-Nazi theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler

Matthew Ichihashi Potts, MDiv ’08, PhD ’13, was appointed the Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church and the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals in 2021. Matt has served on the faculty at Harvard Divinity School since 2013, and has focused his teaching on sacramental and moral theology, ministry and pastoral theology, religion and literature, and preaching.

He is the author of two books, Cormac McCarthy and the Signs of Sacrament: Literature, Theology, and the Moral of Stories (Bloomsbury, 2015) and Forgiveness: An Alternative Account (Yale University Press, 2022). He has also published scholarly essays in several leading journals and invited essay collections, and he sits on the editorial board of the journal Literature and Theology. He is also co-host of the podcast Harry Potter and the Sacred Text.

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Podcast: New Books Network (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Dana Mills, "Dance and Activism: A Century of Radical Dance Across the World" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Pub date: 2023-01-14

Dance and Activism: A Century of Radical Dance Across the World(Bloomsbury, 2022)by Dana Mills looks at the intersection of dance and radical politics from the 1920s to today, taking in case studies including Martha Graham's anti-fascist choreography, the Iraqi hip-hop dance scene, and the progressive potential of the often conservative art of ballet. Throughout, Mills is motivated both by her own passionate love of dance and by her own lifelong commitment to supporting struggles for freedom and justice. This book is essential for anyone who wants dance to be part of their revolution.

Andy Boyd is a playwright based in Brooklyn, New York. He is a graduate of the playwriting MFA at Columbia University, Harvard University, and the Arizona School for the Arts.

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Podcast: In Our Time (LS 73 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: The Irish Rebellion of 1798
Pub date: 2023-01-05

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the momentum behind rebellion in Ireland in 1798, the people behind the rebellion and the impact over the next few years and after. Amid wider unrest, the United Irishmen set the rebellion on its way, inspired by the French and American revolutionaries and their pursuit of liberty. When it broke out in May the United Irishmen had an estimated two hundred thousand members, Catholic and Protestant, and the prospect of a French invasion fleet to back them. Crucially for the prospects of success, some of those members were British spies who exposed the plans and the military were largely ready - though not in Wexford where the scale of rebellion was much greater. The fighting was initially fierce and brutal and marked with sectarianism but had largely been suppressed by the time the French arrived in August to declare a short-lived republic. The consequences of the rebellion were to be far reaching, not least in the passing of Acts of Union in 1800.The image above is of Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763 - 1798), prominent member of the United IrishmenWith Ian McBrideFoster Professor of Irish History at Hertford College, University of OxfordCatriona KennedySenior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of YorkAnd Liam ChambersHead of Department and Senior Lecturer in History at Mary Immaculate College, LimerickProducer: Simon Tillotson

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Podcast: New Books in Science, Technology, and Society (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Albert Glinsky, "Switched On: Bob Moog and the Synthesizer Revolution" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Pub date: 2023-01-07

The Moog synthesizer ‘bent the course of music forever’ Rolling Stone declared.

Bob Moog, the man who did that bending, was a lovable geek with Einstein hair and pocket protectors. He walked into history in 1964 when his homemade contraption unexpectedly became a sensation---suddenly everyone wanted a Moog. The Beatles, The Doors, The Byrds, and Stevie Wonder discovered his synthesizer, and it came to be featured in seminal film scores including Apocalypse Now and A Clockwork Orange. The Moog's game-changing sounds saturated 60's counterculture and burst into the disco party in the 70's to set off the electronic dance music movement. Bob had singlehandedly founded the synth industry and become a star in the process.

But he was also going broke. Imitators copied his technology, the musicians' union accused him of replacing live players, and Japanese competitors started overtaking his work. He struggled to hang on to his inventions, his business, and his very name. Bob's story upends our notions of success and wealth, showing that the two don't always go together.

In Switched On: Bob Moog and the Synthesizer Revolution(Oxford UP, 2022), author Albert Glinsky draws on exclusive access to Bob Moog's personal archives and his probing interviews with Bob's family and a multitude of associates, for this first complete biography of the man and his work. Switched On takes the reader on a roller coaster ride at turns triumphant, heart-breaking, and frequently laugh out loud absurd---a nuanced trip through the public and private worlds of this legendary inventor who altered the course of music.”

Nathan Smith is a PhD Student in Music Theory at Yale University. He can be reached at nathan.smith@yale.edu.

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Podcast: New Books in Critical Theory (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Lesley Higgins and Marie-Christine Leps, "Heterotopic World Fiction: Thinking Beyond Biopolitics with Woolf, Foucault, Ondaatje" (Academic Studies Press, 2023)
Pub date: 2023-01-06

After more than a century of genocides and in the midst of a global pandemic, Lesley Higgins and Marie-Christine Leps' book Heterotopic World Fiction: Thinking Beyond Biopolitics with Woolf, Foucault, Ondaatje (Academic Studies Press, 2023) focuses on the critique of biopolitics (the government of life through individuals and the general population) and the counterdevelopment of biopoetics (an aesthetics of life elaborating a self as a practice of freedom) realized in texts by Virginia Woolf, Michel Foucault, and Michael Ondaatje. Their world fiction produces transhistorical, transnational experiences offered to the reader for collective responsibility in these critical times. Their books function as heterotopias: spaces and processes that recall and confront regimes of recognized truths to dismantle fixed identities and actualize possibilities for becoming other. Higgins and Leps define and explore a slant, biopoetic perspective that is feminist, materialist, anti-racist, and anti-war.

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Podcast: Not Just the Tudors (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Filth, Noise & Stench in England
Pub date: 2022-12-15

In English cities of the 17th century, there was plenty to offend the eyes, ears, nose, taste buds, and skin of inhabitants. Residents were scarred by smallpox, refuse rotted in the streets, pigs and dogs roamed free.

In this episode of Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb talks to Emily Cockayne — author of Hubbub: Filth, Noise and Stench in England — about all the unpleasant aspects of city life and how they were navigated, or endured, by citizens.

This episode was edited by Thomas Ntinas and produced by Elena Guthrie.

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Podcast: The Un-Diplomatic Podcast (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Part II: Unsettling Liberal Hegemony with Jeannie Morefield | Ep. 134
Pub date: 2022-12-19

In this interview episode, Van sits down with Professor Jeanne Morefield to discuss critiques of liberalism and empire. Why does liberalism seem to always be obsessed with crisis and triumphalism, often at once? What is the shared DNA of Edwardian imperialism, neoconservatism, and liberal internationalism? Why has G. John Ikenberry's theoretical project of liberal hegemony recently pivoted from Woodrow Wilson to Franklin Roosevelt as the standard bearer? And isn't liberal hegemony just a ruling class ideology? Lots of controversy on the table.

Jeanne's latest book: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442260283/Unsettling-the-World-Edward-Said-and-Political-Theory

Empires without Imperialism book: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Empires_Without_Imperialism/869LjwEACAAJ?hl=en

Ikenberry Readings:

Survival piece: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00396338.2021.1956187 Foreign Affairs piece: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/why-american-power-endures-us-led-order-isnt-in-decline-g-john-ikenberry

A World Safe for Democracy book: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300271010/a-world-safe-for-democracy/

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Podcast: Total Liberation (LS 48 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 92. Solarpunk, Indigenous & Afrofuturism, & Climate Fiction: Decolonizing Our Imaginations w. Tory Stephens (Imagine 2200)
Pub date: 2022-12-22

Rundown

In this episode, Mexie speaks with Tory Stephens, founder of Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors. Imagine 2200 is a climate fiction initiative at Grist magazine which showcases stories from authors from around the globe that are all in the visionary fiction genre (Afrofuturism, Indigenous futurism, solarpunk, etc.), providing inspiration on how we might get to a sustainable, reciprocal, and just world. We dig into all things visionary fiction, including its political significance and how crucial it is to decolonize our imaginations and reclaim our radical creativity to craft solutions for this current historical moment. Check out the short climate fiction stories using the link below! They are also available as audiobooks via Curio.

Sources and Links

Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors: https://grist.org/fix/series/imagine-2200-climate-fiction/
Tory Stephens, How Imagine 2200 Came to Life: https://grist.org/fix/climate-fiction/how-imagine-2200-climate-fiction-contest-came-to-life/
First Clip, Featured Story – A Seance in the Anthropocene: https://grist.org/fix/arts-culture/imagine-2200-climate-fiction-seance-in-the-anthropocene/
Second Clip, Featured Story – Canvas – Wax – Moon: https://grist.org/fix/advocacy/imagine-2200-climate-fiction-canvas-wax-moon/
Third Clip, Featured Story – Broken From the Colony: https://grist.org/fix/arts-culture/imagine-2200-climate-fiction-broken-from-the-colony/
Fourth Clip, Featured Story – El, The Plastotrophs, and Me: https://grist.org/fix/arts-culture/imagine-2200-climate-fiction-el-the-plastotrophs-and-me/
Meet the Imagine 2200 Climate Fiction Competition Winner: https://climate-fiction.org/2021/09/28/meet-the-imagine-2200-climate-fiction-competition-winner/
Video – Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors (Interviews with Authors): https://youtu.be/3EozXWSZDCs
Too Dystopian For Whom? A Continental Nigerian Writer’s Perspective: https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/too-dystopian-for-whom-a-continental-nigerian-writers-perspective/
Solarpunk Magazine: https://solarpunkmagazine.com/
World Weaver Press, Multispecies Cities: https://www.worldweaverpress.com/store/p176/Multispecies_Cities.html
Octavia’s Brood: https://www.akpress.org/octavia-s-brood.html
Tory Stephens on Twitter: https://twitter.com/torystephens

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Podcast: Reimagining Soviet Georgia (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 22: Georgian and Soviet with Claire Kaiser
Pub date: 2022-12-08

In this engaging and insightful conversation with Claire Kaiser, we discuss her new book Georgian and Soviet: Entitled Nationhood & the Specter of Stalin in the Caucasus.Here's a description of the book:

Georgian and Soviet investigates the constitutive capacity of Soviet nationhood and empire. The Soviet republic of Georgia, located in the mountainous Caucasus region, received the same nation-building template as other national republics of the USSR. Yet Stalin's Georgian heritage, intimate knowledge of Caucasian affairs, and personal involvement in local matters as he ascended to prominence left his homeland to confront a distinct set of challenges after his death in 1953.

Utilizing Georgian archives and Georgian-language sources, Claire P. Kaiser argues that the postwar and post-Stalin era was decisive in the creation of a "Georgian" Georgia. This was due not only to the peculiar role played by the Stalin cult in the construction of modern Georgian nationhood but also to the subsequent changes that de-Stalinization wrought among Georgia's populace and in the unusual imperial relationship between Moscow and Tbilisi. Kaiser describes how the Soviet empire could be repressive yet also encourage opportunities for advancement—for individual careers as well as for certain nationalities. The creation of national hierarchies of entitlement could be as much about local and republic-level imperial imaginations as those of a Moscow center.

Georgian and Soviet reveals that the entitled, republic-level national hierarchies that the Soviet Union created laid a foundation for the claims of nationalizing states that would emerge from the empire's wake in 1991. Today, Georgia still grapples with the legacies of its Soviet century, and the Stalin factor likewise lingers as new generations of Georgians reevaluate the symbiotic relationship between Soso Jughashvili and his native land.

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Podcast: New Books in Philosophy (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Nancy J. Nersessian, "Interdisciplinarity in the Making: Models and Methods in Frontier Science" (MIT Press, 2022)
Pub date: 2022-12-10

Based on examining physics and the practices of physicists, philosophers of science often see models in science as representational intermediaries between scientific theories and the world. But what do scientists do when they don’t yet have the models or the theories?

In Interdisciplinarity in the Making: Models and Methods in Frontier Science (MIT Press, 2022), Nancy Nersessian reveals the bootstrapping creation of models in two biomedical engineering and two integrated system biology labs. Based on her cognitive ethnographic investigations, she argues that models are cognitive artifacts that are central components in distributed cognitive-cultural systems that include the scientists that create and use them. Nersessian, who is Regents’ Professor of Cognitive Science (emerita) at Georgia Institute of Technology, shows how the scientists build the epistemic infrastructure they need, along with the novel modeling practices that their cognitive artifacts enable, in order to do the science they want to do. Her teams’ investigations also led to developing award-winning curricula for science students.

Carrie Figdor is professor of philosophy at the University of Iowa.

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Podcast: Millennials Are Killing Capitalism (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: "Creating an Entirely Different Kind of Human Material" - China Miéville’s A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto
Pub date: 2022-12-14

In this episode we interview China Miéville.

China Miéville is the multi-award-winning author of many works of fiction and non-fiction. His fiction includes The City and the City, Embassytown and This Census-Taker. He has won the Hugo, World Fantasy, and Arthur C. Clarke awards. His non-fiction includes the photo-illustrated essay London’s Overthrow. He is also the author of October: The Story of the Russian Revolution. He has written for various publications, and is a founding editor of the journal Salvage. He is also a former member of multiple socialist party formations and organizations.

In this conversation China joins the podcast to talk about his latest book, A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto. The book provides an introduction to The Communist Manifesto which provides readers with a guide to understanding the Manifesto and the many specters it has conjured. Through his unique and unorthodox reading, Miéville offers a spirited defense of the enduring relevance of Marx and Engels’ ideas.

The book also contains the full text of the Manifesto and multiple prefaces penned by Marx & Engels.

You can pick the book up directly from Haymarket Books at 40% off currently. We really want to thank Haymarket and China Miéville for donating 40 copies of the book (!!) and also for making a donation to help cover the cost of postage to our incarcerated book club through our partnership with Massive Bookshop and Prisons Kill. We do still need to raise about $150 more dollars to cover the cost of postage to get this book inside, and we’ll include a link to contribute to that effort in the show notes. Last month we were able, along with some donations from Massive Bookshop and our patrons to provide 40 copies of Saidiya Hartman’s Scenes of Subjection to those incarcerated readers.

As for the show itself, It is December, currently for the month we’ve had more nonrenewals than we have new patrons, which is not unexpected this time of year as people try to balance holiday expenses. However if you have the capacity to become a patron of the show, you can do so for as little as $1 a month or $10.80 per year, at patreon.com/millennialsarekilingcapitalism. We really want to thank all of the folks who support the show, or have supported it when they’ve been able to, as it is only through your support that conversations like this are possible.

Links:

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To check out the Salvage journal that Miéville talked about in the episode: https://salvage.zone

To support the show: patreon.com/millennialsarekilingcapitalism

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Podcast: Not Just the Tudors (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Huygens: Europe’s Greatest Scientist
Pub date: 2022-12-01

Christiaan Huygens was the greatest scientist working in the vital period between Galileo and Newton, as the scientific revolution gathered pace. He discovered Saturn’s ring, invented the accurate pendulum clock, and devised a wave theory of light far ahead of its time.

In this edition of Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb talks to author Hugh Alderney-Williams to find out more about Huygens and why — more even than Newton — he can be called the father of modern science.

This episode was edited and produced by Rob Weinberg.

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Podcast: Forum on Religion and Ecology: Spotlights
Episode: 3.8 Radical Animism, with Rowan Deer
Pub date: 2022-12-05

This episode of Spotlights features Rowan Deer, PhD, author of Radical Animism: Reading for the End of the World (Bloomsbury, 2020), which brings together literary, philosophical, and scientific perspectives to rethink animism for the Anthropocene. She discusses the way her book juxtaposes authors like Virginia Woolf, Lewis Carroll, and William Shakespeare with the Copernican Revolution, Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, and Sigmund Freud's theory of the unconscious. She also discusses the the role of deconstruction in her writing, correcting some common misunderstandings of deconstruction and Jacques Derrida.

More information about her book is available on the publisher's website here.

Some other pieces of interest include her article on fungi and language, "Mycorrhizal Metaphors," available open access at Ecozona.

Another relevant essay is "Reading in the Dark," published by Orion Magazine.

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Podcast: Conversations in Atlantic Theory
Episode: Margret Grebowicz and Kiff Bamford on Lyotard and Critical Practice
Pub date: 2022-11-29

This conversation is with Margret Grebowicz and Kiff Bamford, editors of a new collection of essays entitled Lyotard and Critical Practice, published in late-2022 by Bloomsbury. Margret teaches political theory at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. She is the author of a number of scholarly and popular media pieces, ranging from French critical theory to reflections on mountain climbing and the social-cultural meaning of dogs in contemporary life. Margret is the author of six books: Why Internet Porn Matters(2013), Beyond the Cyborg (co-authored with Helen Merrick in 2015), The National Park to Come(2015), Whale Song (2017), Mountains and Desire(2020), and Rescue Me: Dogs and Their Humans(2021). Kiff is a Reader in Contemporary Art at Leeds Beckett University in England. He is the author of Lyotard and the ‘figural’ in Performance, Art and Writing (2012) and Jean-François Lyotard: Critical Lives (2017), as well as the editor of Jean-François Lyotard: The Interviews and Debates (2020). In this conversation, we discuss the meaning of Lyotard’s legacy, the place of the postmodern in contemporary theory, and the tasks and labor of editing a collection on a critical yet all-but-forgotten late-twentieth century thinker.

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Podcast: The French History Podcast (LS 48 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Remembering the Algerian War through Hip-Hop
Pub date: 2022-11-26

Today’s special episode is by Celine Mitchell. Celine is currently a PhD candidate at The London School of Economics (LSE). She is writing a contemporary history of the French Algerian youth, through the lens of hip-hop. In particular, her work focuses on the analysis of the second and third generation’s engagement with historical, political and […]

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Podcast: A is for Architecture
Episode: Beatriz Colomina & Evangelos Kotsioris: Radical pedagogies
Pub date: 2022-11-27

In episode ten of season two of A is for Architecture, I speak with Beatriz Colomina and Evangelos Kotsioris, about their book Radical Pedagogies, co-edited with Ignacio G. Galán and Anna-Maria Meister andpublished byMIT Press in 2022. Beatriz is Howard Crosby Butler Professor of the History of Architecture at Princeton University and Evangelos Kotsioris, Curatorial Assistant in the Department of Architectureat the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Radical Pedagogies documents and analyses the long history of experimental architecture education programs that ‘sought to upend disciplinary foundations and conventional assumptions about the nature of architecture […] challenged modernist and colonial norms, decentered building, imagined new roles for the architect, and envisioned participatory forms of practice’ in favour of greater diversity, insight, democratic voice and justice, and away from top-down educational - and practice -models.

You can get the book via MIT Press’ website here; it’s certainly worth a look. You can also find out more about Beatriz Colomina here, and listen to her lecture on similar themes to the book for the Strelka Institute here, in a lecture she gave in 2019, entitled Radical Pedagogies. Evangelos can be found at MoMA here, on Instagram here, on LinkedIn here and watched speaking about the façade of the UN Secretariat Building as part of MoMA’s ArtSpeaks program here.

As any of us in it, or who’ve gone through it might attest, architectural education seems to trend to the centre, and its base form remains remarkably resilient to change, even in the face of the great technical, social and cultural shifts that have transformed the contemporary world. Radical Pedagogies documents the visions – hopes, I suppose – of folk who tried, and in many cases succeeded, in testing new forms of learning practice in the face of this shifting landscape.

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Podcast: Guerrilla History (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The World Cup: Sport, Politics, History, and Propaganda w/ Alexander Aviña
Pub date: 2022-11-18

This episode of Guerrilla History comes out just in time for the start of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar! In this episode, we bring back fan favorite Alexander Aviña to discuss the politics behind the World Cup, both historically and in this current edition. We hit on topics of human rights, sports washing, and propaganda in both cases. We also talk about the sport itself and the prospects on the field for this edition of the biggest prize within The Beautiful Game!

Alexander Aviña is historian at Arizona State University, and is author of the book Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerrilla in the Cold War Mexican Countryside (Oxford University Press, 2014, https://alexanderavina.com/specters-of-revolution/ ). Find him on Twitter @Alexander_Avina, and listen to the episode we did with him on The Beautiful Game.

You can support Guerrilla History by joining us at patreon.com/guerrillahistory, where you will also get bonus content!

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Podcast: Tides of History (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: What is "Collapse?" Interview with Professor Guy Middleton
Pub date: 2022-11-17

"Collapse" is an evocative and powerful term, but what does it really mean? And how can we use it to help us understand the actual processes and events through which ancient people lived? Professor Guy Middleton is both one of the world's leading experts on collapse as a concept and an accomplished archaeologist of the late Bronze Age Aegean, and we discuss the usefulness of ""collapse"" and how Bronze Age people experienced their famous time of troubles.

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Podcast: Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Isabel Millar - Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Bombshell
Pub date: 2022-11-20

Isabel Millar - Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Bombshell by Cooper Cherry Jr.

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Podcast: Bowdoin Presents
Episode: Robert Morrison on How Knowledge Travels
Pub date: 2022-11-15

As a historian of science and scholar of Islam, Professor Robert Morrison wants to know how information spread around the Mediterranean in medieval times. In this conversation, we talk about horoscopes, medieval party tricks, and how Copernicus figured out that the planets circle the sun. Morrison is the George Lincoln Skolfield Jr. Professor of Religion and Middle Eastern and North African Studies at Bowdoin, and the author of several books, most recently Astronomy in al-Andalus: Joseph Ibn Naḥmias’ The Light of the World (University of California Press, 2016).

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Podcast: Historically Thinking (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 293: Brilliant Commodity
Pub date: 2022-11-14

At the end of the 19th century, Amsterdam was home to nearly seventy diamond factories, in which were 7,500 steam-powered polishing mills. The workers who cut and polished the diamonds, brought there from the mines of South Africa, were not all Jewish–but many of them were. Indeed, in the late 1890s Jews were about 10% of the population of Amsterdam, and half of them were economically reliant on what the Dutch called simply “the profession”.

The Jewish community in Amsterdam were not the only Jews who worked with diamonds. In her new book A Brilliant Commodity: Diamonds and Jews in a Modern Setting, Saskia Snyder traces the involvement of Jews not only in Amsterdam factories, but in the fields of South Africa, in London, and in the growing consumer market of the United States during the late 19th century. She also examines how the involvement of Jews with diamonds became a feature of anti-semitism.

Saskia Coenen Snyder is Associate Professor of History at the University of South Carolina, where she is also a core faculty member of the Jewish Studies Program.

For Further Investigation

Numerous conversations on this podcast tie in with something mentioned in the course of this conversation. Way, way back in the beginning, when this podcast was newly hatched, is Episode 5: Diamonds are a Problem, which focused on the mining of diamonds in South Africa, and elsewhere in Southern Africa. In Episode 19, I talked with historian Vicki Howard about small local department stores in the United States, which were often founded and managed by immigrants like Jews and Italians. Some of the themes of the "democratization of luxury" were touched on along with many other things in Episode 91: Wanamaker's Temple, which was about the very, very large department store created by John Wanamaker. And most recently we talked about postcards and the importance of mail delivery with Lydia Pyne in Episode 249: Postcards from the Past.

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Podcast: Foam Talks
Episode: On the Politics of Images with Federica Chiocchetti
Pub date: 2022-11-10

Foam and Paris Photo present a brand-new serie of Foam Talks, this time featured around the latest issue of Foam Magazine M/otherlands. The topic or guiding question will be the political power of images. How do they shape not only our understanding, but also our opinion of the world? Each of the episodes welcomes a guest speaker that will be in conversation with Elisa Medde, Editor in Chief of Foam Magazine.

Paris Photo will be running from the 10th until the 13th of November. The latest Foam Magazine called M/otherlands, the transnational issue can be found in the book section.

Federica Chiocchetti is a writer, curator, editor, and recently appointed director of the Musée du Locle in Switzerland. Through her platform Photocaptionist she collaborates with international museums (Jeu de Paume, V&A, Kunsthalle Budapest), private collections (David Solo, Archive of Modern Conflict) festivals and fairs (Jaipur Photo, T3 Tokyo Photo Festival, Paris Photo), publishers (Spector Books, Aperture, Foam), bookstores (La Fabrica, Shakespeare and Company) and universities (University of Oxford, ECAL), among others. She holds a PhD in ‘Photo-Texts’, from London’s University of Westminster, which she is transforming into a touring exhibition, book and educational project, the Word and Image Workshop. She has won a number of residencies (Fondation Michalski, Cité internationale des arts), awards (Kraszna-Krausz Best Photography Book, Vienna Photo Book Dummy) and in 2016 she was included among the ‘16 female curators shaking things up’ by Artnet. Her research on women in photography was presented in multiple forms by L’Uomo Vogue, Fotomuseum Winterthur, 10x10 Photobooks, London Art Fair and The Photographers’ Gallery.

Elisa Medde edits, curates and writes about photography and visual culture. With a background in Art History, Iconology and Photographic Studies, her research reflects on the relationship between image, communication and power structures. She has been nominator for a number of prizes and chaired various juries. She loves collaborating with educational programs as lecturer and jury member, such as KABK, ECAL, Brera Academy, Fotofilmic and many more. Next to curating paper and physical spaces, she regularly writes for Foam Magazine and various publications such as C4 Journal, Something We Africans Got, Vogue Italia / L'Uomo Vogue, YET Magazine and many artists’ books. Elisa is Editor-in-Chief of Foam Magazine, Amsterdam, where she has based large part of her activities since 2012.

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Podcast: Arts & Ideas (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Imperial War Museum Remembrance Discussion 2022
Pub date: 2022-11-08

Do video games help explore war? An exhibition at the Imperial War Museum includes Sniper Elite 5, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and a military training simulator. For the 2022 discussion about how we look at warfare past and present Anne McElvoy is joined by writer & broadcaster Louise Blain, retired Colonel Lincoln Jopp, game designer Florent Maurin and IWM curator Chris Cooper.

War Games runs at IWM London until May 2023 and is a free exhibition. Louise Blain presents Radio 3's Sound of Gaming - a monthly show looking at the music written for games.

You can find previous discussions available on BBC Sounds and downloadable as the Arts & Ideas podcast: Former soldier Lincoln Jopp, war reporter Christina Lamb, novelist Elif Shafak and curator Hilary Roberts explore the impact of the words we use to describe conflict in 2021 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0011cxv What does it mean to make art to commemorate histories of conflict? Anne McElvoy's talked to the artists Es Devlin and Machiko Weston, Art Fund director Jenny Waldman, chair of the Fourth Plinth Commissioning Group Ekow Eshun and Paris Agar from the IWM as Radio 3 joined with the Imperial War Museum for the 2020 Remembrance Debate https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000p85j On the Free Thinking programme website is a collection of programmes called Free Thinking on War and Conflict which includes episodes on Odesa Stories; Abdulrazak Gurnah and Margaret McMillan on War in Fact and Fiction; architect Marwa al-Sabouni on Syria: Hope and Poetry

Producer: Torquil MacLeod

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Podcast: KPFA - Against the Grain (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Wines of Empire
Pub date: 2022-11-07

The wines of Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand are widely consumed around the world, especially in the UK, the heart of the former British empire. And that’s no coincidence. The British imperial project was central to the cultivation and distribution of wine from its colonies, for reasons both ideological and economic. Historian Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre discusses three centuries of imperial wine production and consumption, once primarily reserved for the elite, then later consumed by the lower classes.

Resources:

Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre, Imperial Wine: How the British Empire Made Wine’s New World UC Press, 2022

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Podcast: Philosopher's Zone (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The prophetic vision of Günther Anders
Pub date: 2022-11-02

Günther Anders is the most interesting and important philosopher you've probably never heard of. An exile from Nazi Germany who landed in America in the late 1930s, Anders was a prescient theorist of media and technology whose insights are remarkably pertinent to today's digital landscape. His major work is a best-seller in Europe and he's one of Germany's most well-regarded intellectuals, yet he's almost unknown in the Anglosphere. Why haven't we heard more about him?

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Podcast: Philosophy For Our Times (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Postmodernism in the dock | Julian Baggini, Mina Salami, Hilary Lawson and Julie Bindel
Pub date: 2022-11-01

Are we right to abandon objective truth?

Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimes

It has been forty years since postmodernism swept through the academy changing the character of the arts and social sciences, impacting everything from literary criticism to anthropology, art history to sociology. Soon after it invaded culture generally and technical terms such as 'deconstruction' became widespread. Yet now its critics, including members of the British Cabinet, argue it ushered in an era of tribal conflict, woke culture, and populist deception and is at the source of a pernicious decline in reason and objective truth.

Should we seek to reverse the changes that postmodernism brought about and overturn its attack on the intellectual tradition of the West? Or was postmodernism a progressive force whose insights were largely correct? Or, do we need a new radical approach altogether?

Co-founder and editor of The Philosophers’ Magazine Julian Baggini, award-winning journalist Minna Salami, radical philosopher Hilary Lawson and boundary pushing feminist Julie Bindel line up as prosecution and defence with postmodernism in the dock. Hosted by journalist and author David Aaronovitch.

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Podcast: Below the Radar (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Climate Imaginary: Beneath the Poetry, the Barricade — with Stephen Collis
Pub date: 2022-11-01

This episode of Below the Radar is a special live recording from SFU School for the Contemporary Art’s Re-orientation day 2022: Contemporary Arts + Climate Change on September 8th, 2022. It’s also the first episode of our new series: The Climate Imaginary.

Stephen Collis is an award winning writer and a professor in the English department at SFU. Stephen joins our host Am Johal for a discussion on the relationship between art and environmental activism; They look at what art and writing can offer, but also the moments when you need to put down the pen and engage and take action in other ways. They also cover some of the collaborative artistic projects that Stephen is involved in such as the Refugee Tales Project, and additionally Stephen reads a few of his poems throughout the episode!

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/series/the-climate-imaginary/192-stephen-collis.html.

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/192-Stephen-Collis.html

Resources: Stephen Collis: https://www.sfu.ca/people/scollis/

Once in Blockadia: https://talonbooks.com/books/once-in-blockadia

A History of the Theories of Rain: https://talonbooks.com/books/a-history-of-the-theories-of-rain

The Commons: https://talonbooks.com/books/the-commons

The Uprising: On Poetry and Finance by Bifo Berardi: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781584351122/the-uprising/

How to Do Things With Words by JL Austin: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674411524

The Mining Justice Alliance: https://miningjusticealliance.wordpress.com/

Refugee Tales: https://www.refugeetales.org/

Bio: Stephen Collis is the author of a dozen books of poetry and prose, including The Commons (2008), the BC Book Prize winning On the Material (2010), Once in Blockadia (2016), Almost Islands: Phyllis Webb and the Pursuit of the Unwritten (2018), and A History of the Theories of Rain (2021)—all published by Talonbooks. In 2015 he was awarded the Nora and Ted Sterling Prize in Support of Controversy, after he was sued by oil company Kinder Morgan, whose lawyers entered Collis’s poetry as evidence in court. In 2019 he was the recipient of the Latner Writers’ Trust of Canada Poetry Prize in recognition of his body of work.

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Podcast: Millennials Are Killing Capitalism (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: "If We Must Die, Let It Not Be Like Hogs" - Winston James on Claude McKay: The Making of a Black Bolshevik (part 1)
Pub date: 2022-10-23

For this conversation we welcome Winston James to the podcast. Winston James is the author of A Fierce Hatred of Injustice: Claude McKay’s Jamaica and His Poetry of Rebellion, The Struggles of John Brown Russwurm: The Life and Writings of a Pan-Africanist Pioneer 1799-1851, and Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia: Caribbean Radicalism in Early Twenty Century America. James has held a number of teaching positions, most recently as a professor of history at UC Irvine.

James joins us to talk about his latest work, Claude McKay: The Making of a Black Bolshevik. The book examines McKay’s life from his early years in Jamaica to his years at Tuskegee and Kansas State University and his time in Harlem, to his life in London. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, James offers a rich and detailed chronicle of McKay’s life, political evolution, and the historical, political, and intellectual contexts that shaped him. The work also locates McKay’s closest interlocutors, and those he debated with, as well as McKay’s experiences as a worker and within communist and anarcho-syndicalist organizations like the Worker’s Socialist Federation and the IWW.

In part 1 of the conversation, we focus on McKay’s early years in Jamaica up through the Red Summer of 1919. James begins with a discussion of McKay’s family, his life in Jamaica, his brief stint as a constable in Kingston, his early poetry and his influence on the Negritude movement. James also discusses the appeal of the Russian Revolution and of the Third International to Black people in this era, and contextualizes the terror of white vigilante violence in the post war period in the US and how Black people fought back against it. As a content notice some of this discussion is a brief but explicit examination of the abhorrent character of anti-black violence of the period. We close part 1 of the conversation with a discussion of McKay’s “If We Must Die,” the context of armed self-defense, the context of fighting back, from which it emerged and its global resonance with the emerging Black radicalism of the period and with radical movements decades after its release.

In part two - which will come out in the next couple of days - we will focus on McKay’s debates, positions, and activism within the spaces of revolutionary Black Nationalism and the Communist left of the period.

We will include a link to the book in the show notes. We both highly recommend it.

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Podcast: Great Podversations (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Maggie Nelson and Eula Biss
Pub date: 2022-10-21

Author Maggie Nelson discusses her book, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint, with writer Eula Biss.

Maggie Nelson is a writer working in autobiography, art criticism, theory, feminism, history, aesthetic theory, philosophy, scholarship, and poetry. Nelson received a 2016 MacArthur Fellowship, a 2012 Creative Capital Literature Fellowship, a 2011 NEA Fellowship in Poetry, and a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship in Nonfiction. Other honors include a 2007 Andy Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital Arts Writers Grant. Nelson has written several acclaimed books of poetry and prose, including the National Book Critics Circle Award winner The Argonauts. She currently teaches at the University of Southern California.

Eula Biss is the author of four books and has been recognized with a National Book Critics Circle Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a 21st Century Award from the Chicago Public Library. Biss’ books have been translated into a dozen languages. As a 2023 National Fellow at New America, she is at work on a collection of essays about how private property has shaped our world. She currently teaches nonfiction for the Bennington Writing Seminars.

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Podcast: UCL Minds (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Building Better - Season 3 - Black Voices in the Built Environment
Pub date: 2022-10-24

In this episode, we explore the role of racism and colonialism in the construction of the built environment and how we can improve. In October 2022 we have been marking Black History Month at The Bartlett through talks, workshops and our series Black Perspectives in the Built Environment which explores architects, researchers and activists who have shaped – and are shaping – our field.

In this episode of Building Better, we are joined by two guests to discuss the ways that racism and colonialism have influenced people who study, design, create and live in built environments: Omoleye Ojuri, Honorary lecturer at The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction, Senior Lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University and World Bank Scholar Kudzai Matsvai, architectural activist and founder of the BLAC Collective at the University of Liverpool and the Wedzera Network Through this discussion, we explore the legacy of racism and colonialism in the built environment, conversations about anti-racism, and how we can improve.

Content warning: in this episode we are going to discuss racism and colonialism within the built environment and the systemic violence that this has caused toward Black communities around the world.

For more information and to access the transcript, visit www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/transcript-black-voices-built-environment Catch up on previous episodes here: soundcloud.com/uclsound/sets/building-better-the-bartlett

Date of episode recording: 2022-10-19T00:00:00Z Duration: 30:18 Language of episode: English Presenter:Christoph Lindner Guests: Omoleye Ojuri;Kudzai Matsvai Producer: Cerys Bradley

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Podcast: History Extra podcast (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Berlin’s turbulent 20th century
Pub date: 2022-10-17

Sinclair McKay traces the history of the German city through the lives of its inhabitants, and how they weathered the tumult of the 20th century – from the wild hedonism of the Weimar years cut short by Nazism, to the fall of the famed wall that divided East and West.

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Podcast: Discovery & Inspiration
Episode: Howard Chiang, “Psychoanalysis in China”
Pub date: 2022-10-18

In the early twentieth century, psychoanalytic ideas based on the work of Sigmund Freud were taken up, translated, and even challenged by practitioners from a variety of geographic regions and backgrounds. However, the importance of psychoanalytic thought in China has not always been given adequate attention.

In this podcast, Howard Chiang (NHC Fellow, 2021–22), associate professor of history at the University of California, Davis, discusses how tracking the emergence and adaptation of psychoanalysis in China allows us to understand the effects of cultural and disciplinary exchange on emerging intellectual discourses. By examining China’s influence on psychoanalysis, we can tell a better and more global story about the origins of this field of study.

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Podcast: History Extra podcast (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The Congo-Océan railroad’s deadly history
Pub date: 2022-10-10

One of the deadliest construction projects in history, the Congo-Océan railroad likely caused as many as 23,000 African deaths. Unofficial estimates are much higher, and the exact number will never be known. Historian JP Daughton speaks to Elinor Evans about his new book on the arduous 13-year project led by French colonisers in equatorial Africa, in the wake of the First World War.

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Podcast: Below the Radar (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Nietzsche and Friendship — with Willow Verkerk
Pub date: 2022-10-11

Philosophy scholar and author Willow Verkerk sits down with Am Johal to discuss Nietzsche and his ideas of friendship, as well as her current work on the Gendered Mimesis project at KU Leuven.

Willow compares Nietzsche’s more agonistic notion of friendship with other philosophers like Aristotle, Kant, Derrida – and draws from Luce Irigaray to consider friendship from a more gendered lens. Willow also speaks about her creative writing in the past as a form of expression, and discusses her current work on Gendered Mimesis Project, from which she is looking to trace the genealogies of gendered-being by drawing from Adriana Cavarero, Judith Butler, and Catherine Malabou.

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/189-willow-verkerk.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/189-willow-verkerk.html

Resources: Willow Verkerk: https://philosophy.ubc.ca/profile/willow-verkerk/ Nietzsche and Friendship: https://www.bloomsbury.com/ca/nietzsche-and-friendship-9781350047341/ Gendered Mimesis project: http://www.homomimeticus.eu/gendered-mimesis-c1/ Willow Verkerk at KU Leuven: https://hiw.kuleuven.be/hua/about/staff-hua/00060614 Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/555192/thus-spoke-zarathustra-by-friedrich-nietzsche-translated-with-a-preface-by-walter-kaufmann/9780140047486

Bio: Willow Verkerk is a Vancouver based scholar and author who has taught philosophy both within and outside of the academy in Europe, the UK, and Canada. She has published numerous academic essays on friendship, feminist activism, and gender identity and is the author of Nietzsche and Friendship. Willow is also an author of short fiction published in literary magazines in Canada and Europe. Her current research is concerned with providing a new account of the human subject through the philosophical concept of mimesis. Dr. Verkerk is frequently invited to speak about her research at universities and art institutions. She is passionate about communicating to diverse audiences the thinking of the three masters of suspicion- Nietzsche, Marx, and Freud- alongside a feminist politics that illuminates the importance of philosophical honesty. Willow brings philosophical frames of meaning from the foundations and legacies of critical theory to contemporary issues in both private and public life. In doing so, she connects thinkers in the history of philosophy to political and ethical studies that reflect upon the axes of oppression that are relevant today.

Cite this episode: Chicago Style

Johal, Am. “Nietzsche and Friendship — with Willow Verkerk.” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, October 11, 2022. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/189-willow-verkerk.html.

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Podcast: In Theory: The JHI Blog Podcast (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Internationalist aesthetics: Kristin Engelhardt interviews Edward Tyerman
Pub date: 2022-10-10

In Theory editor Kristin Engelhardt interviews Professor Edward Tyerman, Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley, about his book, Internationalist Aesthetics: China and Early Soviet Culture (Columbia University Press, 2021).

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Podcast: Technecast
Episode: Genre: climate fiction, speculative fiction and blurring boundaries
Pub date: 2022-10-03

A two-parter this week.

In the first part, Edwin Gilson introduces the literary label of climate fiction and investigates its usefulness, as well as the blurring of realism and science fiction, through the prism of a number of literary works set in California.

Following on, Frances Hallam asks "What is cli-fi without sci-fi?". Their presentation gives us a glimpse at the interconnected histories and contemporary contentions across the scope of climate fiction and science fiction, and asks if we can meaningfully separate the two."

Edwin Gilson is a third-year PhD student at the University of Surrey, and his research relates to the Anthropocene through the lens of contemporary Californian climate fiction, with particular focus on the tension between the local and the planetary.

Frances Hallam (they/them) is an AHRC-funded PhD researcher at the University of Surrey. Their doctoral thesis, entitled ‘Aquafuturism’, explores ocean and sea creature imaginaries in 21st century speculative fiction that figure decolonial and eco-queer storytelling in the Atlantic.

- Technecast: This episode is presented by Felix Clutson. The Technecast is funded by the Techne AHRC-DTP, and edited by Polly Hember, Julien Clin & Felix Clutson. Contact: technecaster@gmail.com / @technecast / @pollyhember / @ClinJulien Royalty free music generously shared by Steve Oxen. FesliyanStudios.com

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Podcast: Uncommon Sense – Triple R FM
Episode: Interview with Andrew McGregor, The Cinematic Legacy of French New Wave Director Jean-Luc Godard
Pub date: 2022-09-30

Cinematic legend and icon Jean-Luc Godard died at age 91 recently, so it was apt that Dr Andrew McGregor returned to delve deeply into the life and legacy of the revolutionary auteur.

Andrew and Amy discuss the nouvelle vague movement that originated in the late 1950s into the 1960s in France and Godard's prominent place within it. They explore the innovative film-making techniques and artistic genius that distinguished Godard's work from others and transformed cinema forever. They also highlight and discuss a range of his most loved films.

Amy and Andrew share their top 5 favourite Godard films for listeners to look into at their own pace or interest!

Amy: Opération béton (1958), Une femme est une femme (1961), Vivre sa vie (1962), Alphaville (1965), Masculin Féminin (1966).

Andrew: À Bout de Souffle (1960), Le Mépris (1963), Pierrot le fou (1965), Deux ou trois choses que je sais d'elle (2 or 3 Things I Know About Her) (1967), Histoire(s) du cinéma (1988).

Dr Andrew McGregor is Senior Lecturer in French Studies at the School of Languages and Linguistics, The University of Melbourne.

ACMI in Melbourne is showing six Godard films as part of their Goodbye to Godard program from 22 September to 16 October 2022.

To view Godard's films from home, they can be found at your local library, university library, Picture Search Video & Vinyl in Richmond, on Kanopy, Apple Movies and Google Movies, as well as distributed by Madman Entertainment and Umbrella Entertainment.

In the original interview, we heard some of the iconic music from Godard's films, including 'La Ville Inhumaine' from Alphaville – Paul Misraki, and 'La Mort' from À Bout de Souffle – Martial Solal. The interview with music can be heard on the RRR website:https://www.rrr.org.au/on-demand/segments/uncommon-sense-the-cinematic-legacy-of-french-new-wave-director-jean-luc-godard

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Podcast: New Books in History (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Psychedelic World of Hollywood Hospital
Pub date: 2022-10-03

In this podcast episode, Greg Marchildon interviews Erika Dyck on the book she co-authored with Jesse Donaldson on an unusual chapter in Canada’s medical history. Entitled The Acid Room: The Psychedelic Trials and Tribulations of Hollywood Hospital, this book was published by Vancouver’s Anvil Press in 2021. This is a history of a private hospital in greater Vancouver which specialized in treatments for alcoholism, trauma and other conditions using LSD, mescalin and other psychotropic substances from the late 1950s until it shut down in the early 1970s. Erika Dyck is professor of History and Canada Research Chair in the History of Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan.

This interview was produced with the support of The Champlain Society. The mission of The Champlain Society is to increase public awareness of, and accessibility to, Canada’s rich store of historical records.

Gregory P. Marchildon is the Ontario Research Chair in Health Policy and System Design with the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto.

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Podcast: History Extra podcast (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Dangerous ideas & scandalous lives: Germany’s first Romantics
Pub date: 2022-09-19

At the turn of the 19th century, a small university town in Germany became the beating heart of an intellectual revolution. From philosophers and poets to scientists and playwrights, Jena attracted some of Europe’s brightest minds. Andrea Wulf tells Ellie Cawthorne about how the scandalous lives of these thinkers were as controversial as their ground-breaking ideas.

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Podcast: Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Simon Duffy - Deleuze and the History of Mathematics
Pub date: 2022-09-17

Cooper and Taylor chat with Simon Duffy about the history of mathematics and the history of philosophy converging in the investigation and determination of problems and Ideas.

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Podcast: New Books in Literary Studies (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: On Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe"
Pub date: 2022-09-20

When it was first published in 1719, many people believed Robinson Crusoe was a true story. Crusoe provides readers with a close look at not only the isolated human on an individual level, but also humanity on the international level through its depictions of global trade and economics. Professor Stephanie DeGooyer is the Fredrick Burkhart fellow at UCLA. She is an associate professor of English, and her current project is titled “Acts of Naturalization: Immigration and the Early Novel.” See more information on our website, WritLarge.fm. Follow us on Twitter @WritLargePod.

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Podcast: Novel Dialogue (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: 4.1 “Sometimes I’m just a little disappointed in English”
Pub date: 2022-09-08

A novelist, a translator and a theorist of translation walk into a Zoom Room......Alejandro Zambra, Megan McDowell, and Kate Briggs provide the perfect start to Season 4 of Novel Dialogue. Our first themed season is devoted to translation in all its forms: into and out of English and also in, around, and over the borders between criticism and fiction. We talk to working translators, novelists who write in multiple languages, and we even time travel to discover older novels made new again in translation. How perfect then to begin with Kate, whose 2017 This Little Art is filled with translational brainteasers: how do I translate characters speaking French in a German novel? what does it mean that “A translation becomes a translation only when somebody declares it to be one”?

In this episode, Alejandro and Megan discuss their working relationship and share both Spanish and English passages from Alejandro’s most recent novel, Chilean Poet. There follows a dazzling discussion of poetry within novels, of struggling to be “reborn” as you learn a second language “as something that no longer goes without saying.” Alejandro proposes that to speak Spanish itself, (except “bestseller Spanish”) is already to pivot between the language as it’s spoken differently in different countries. Finally, the new ND “signature question” engenders a cheerful tirade from Megan that brings the conversation to a delightfully feisty conclusion.

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Mentioned in the episode

--Roland Barthes, The Preparation of the Novel; How to Live Together
--Samanta Schweblin
--Mariana Enriquez
--Lina Meruane
--Joseph Conrad
--Vladimir Nabakov
--Oulipo writers who chose rules to organize their writing: e.g.. Georges Perec wrote a novel without the letter e.
--Wordsworth, "Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent’s Narrow Room"
--Robert Browning as practitioner of "dramatic monologue" (or "double poem")
--Alfred, Lord Tennyson
--Elizabeth Barrett Browning
--Emily Brontë
--Charlotte Brontë
--Emily Dickinson
--T. S. Eliot, "The Waste Land"
--I. A. Richards
--Randall Jarrell ("Gertrude spoke French so badly anyone could understand it.....")

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Podcast: Museum Confidential (LS 37 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: The Hidden History of Black Cinema
Pub date: 2022-09-09

On our Season 7 premiere, we visit the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles for the opening of a groundbreaking new exhibition, REGENERATION: BLACK CINEMA 1898–1971. Enjoy a fascinating chat with exhibition’s co-curators, Doris Berger, Vice President of Curatorial Affairs at the Academy Museum, and Rhea Combs, Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery.

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Podcast: Thales' Well (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: On Architecture with Graham Harman
Pub date: 2022-09-09

On this episode Professor Graham Harman returns to talk about architecture and philosophy. We had a fascinating conversation discussing architecture in relation to the history of philosophy. Graham has tackled just this topic in new book Architecture and Objects (2022), which has recently come out with University of Minnesota Press. We discuss a whole host of topics including the role of the ‘big three’ philosophers – Heidegger, Derrida and Deleuze –how their thought informs architecture, and the ways Graham draws on, develops, and applies his own distinctive object-oriented-ontology (Triple O) position to architecture. Graham also talked about teaching architecture as a philosopher, materialism, the dangers of ‘literalism,’ ecology, the ideological dimension of architecture, and of course we spoke about buildings such as Imperial War Museum North, Sydney Opera House, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, the Louis Vuitton Foundation, Newgrange, and the Tate Gallery London.

Graham Harman is a world-leading philosopher. He works at Sci-Arc in Los Angeles. He has authored several books, articles and journals and you can find more information about him on his institutional webpage. In the discussion Graham mentioned these books specifically Immaterialism: Objects and Social Theory (2016, Polity), Object-Oriented Ontology: A New Theory of Everything (2018, Pelican) and Speculative Realism: An Introduction (2018, Polity).

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Podcast: Cosmopod (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Science Fiction, Emancipation and Yugoslavia with Darko Suvin
Pub date: 2022-09-05

Rudy joins Darko Suvin, author of many books and pieces on science-fiction and also, an Splendour, Missery and Possibilities: An X-Ray of Socialist Yugoslavia for a discussion on his life-long work. We talk about the role of science fiction in socialist politics, Bertolt Brecht and the estrangement effect, and what emancipation means. We also talk about his life in Yugoslavia, and what he saw as positive and negative from the Yugoslav experience, and what were ultimately the hurdles that prevented Yugoslavia from achieving full emancipation.

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Podcast: Philosophy Podcasts
Episode: Claudia Melica. The owl's flight
Pub date: 2022-09-04

This book presents a unique rethinking of G. W. F. Hegel's philosophy from unusual and controversial perspectives in order to liberate new energies from his philosophy. The role Hegel ascribes to women in the shaping of society and family, the reconstruction of his anthropological and psychological perspective, his approach to human nature, the relationship between mental illness and social disease, the role of the unconscious, and the relevance of intercultural and interreligious pathways: All these themes reveal new and inspiring aspects of Hegel’s thought for our time.

Stefania Achella, University of Chieti-Pescara;

Francesca Iannelli, Roma Tre University;

Gabriella Baptist, University of Cagliari;

Serena Feloj, University of Pavia;

Claudia Melica, University La Sapienza of Rome;

Fiorinda Li Vigni, Italian Institute for Philosophic Studies, Naples, Italy.

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110709278/html

Speaker 1: Welcome to Philosophy Podcasts, where we interview leading philosophers about their recent work. We're based in the US, but we're reaching across the Atlantic to get a perspective from Europe and specifically Italy. We're talking about a book with a lot of great ideas and very inspiring and productive ideas. It's called The Owl's Flight and the subtitle is Hegel's Legacy to Contemporary Philosophy. It's edited by six Italian women philosophers, and I'm delighted that one of them has joined me today to talk about the volume. I'm speaking to Claudia Melica. Her blurb says she's qualified as an associate Professor in Moral Philosophy and History of Philosophy. She's affiliated with Sapienza University of Rome, University of Trento, and IISF in Naples. Welcome, Claudia. Claudia Melica: Oh, thank you very much for taking me in your podcast, take our books in your podcast. Speaker 1: It's a great pleasure. I want to thank you for doing this interview in English, because if we tried to do it in Italian, I would not be able to do it. I know that your ideas would probably come most naturally in Italian to you and be willing to express them in English, I really appreciate that. Let's start with Hegel. I think my overview would be that on one hand, Hegel's very important in the 20th century. He was thought of as the founder or the intellectual precursor both to Marx as a man to bourgeois liberalism. On the other hand, there was a lot of criticism of Hegel in the 20th century. And my sense, please, correct me if I'm wrong, is that there's more of an embrace of Hegel in the beginning of the 21st century. Claudia Melica: You are perfectly right. This is really a good point, but before speaking about Marx or Marxism, we should perhaps mention shortly one of the point of why Marx appreciated very much the Hegelian dialectical method, because for Marx, such method was able to show the contradiction implicit within the history. And in Marx's opinion, such Hegelian dialectic gave a lot of important to the so-called negative or opposite, which Marx later will call it alienation. Well, for Marx, this is a condition for the poor workers in a so-called capitalistic society. Therefore, for Marx, the worker identify himself with his job and with the object that he produce, but in a certain way, he will lose his independence, his autonomy. Claudia Melica: This was clearly mentioned in some passage of The Phenomenology of Spirit, especially chapter four, by Hegel yet, but Marx added that because in a capitalistic society, because we are in a capitalistic society, there will be certainly someone who will profit economy of the job of those so-called poor workers. So, very shortly, certainly Marx and Marxist grounded on Hegel, but then they move in a totally different direction, whether the so-called historical materialism. It's certainly true, as you mentioned it, that also Hegel was the source for the so-called the bourgeois liberalist, which is totally opposite from in general the Marxist view, because the Marxist view, it's more a collective idea. Let's call it like that in a very simple way. Claudia Melica: And when you speak about bourgeois liberalist, you push a lot the concept in the direction of the individualism. Anyway, Hegel was able in his philosophy to recognize that the subject has got its autonomous value. Obviously, this is a risk for individualism, private purposes, and that's why we speak and we add the term, which is not simply an adjective bourgeoisie, because if in one way, eliminate the action of the state of the government, on the other side, the risk is that the competition between different individual and especially in society organized where only the bourgeoisie profit of the work of the other, while such liberals could be dangerous. Claudia Melica: Today, we assist our rethinking of such concept, because the market and politics push over a lot and there are a lot of difficulty in the so-called social justice on Rawls' study very deeply. Anyway, our volume has not taken into consideration such point of view. Therefore, it's not analyzing which influence Hegel, which chapters has got Hegel on Marx or on such concept that I'm trying to explain to you. Speaker 1: I'm a little embarrassed to ask this, but I think this is my real question. So, I'll ask it. It's not a very interesting question, but it's one that comes to mind. And if we want to look at social problems today, why would we want to reread or reinterpret a man who lived centuries ago? I mean, I can think of several different reasons. One would be one might think this was an extraordinary person, although you'd think, "Well, he was just a person. He sat on the toilet like everyone else and probably was well educated and had a lot of advantages that enabled him to write what he wrote. He had a following and he's been remembered." Speaker 1: So, I don't want to put too much on him being a great man or a hero. Maybe he worked at an important time. Maybe it's just that he's part of the cannon. But I guess my question is, what are your thoughts on terms of it might look strange that if you want to learn about problems today, let's read and interpret and read the prior interpreters of this man? Claudia Melica: I understand your point and this is a point which is not easy to reply, but anyway, what we try to do is to demonstrate that still in our days, Hegel is not obsolete. And obviously and generally, when you ask why we should go back to the past, why we should use still such a philosopher of the late 18th century or early 19th century, why it's useful, the way in which you find useful and when you find out some theories and you discover that such theories could be used as a paradigm still in our days. That is theories have been so rich in certain aspect that still can be very fruitful for our investigation. Obviously, Hegel was a man of his time and therefore influenced by historical situation of Germany of late 18th century, early 19th century. Claudia Melica: And obviously, in a certain way, he was not so open mind to give a role of the women at the time, but he was able to demonstrate, for example, in the social context, we spoke about social justice, how two different self-consciousness could gain their recognition. And in this case, such argument was still used in our days by activist and feminist [inaudible 00:10:13] rethink Hegelian thought. Claudia Melica: I think for example, one very well-known part is when Hegel in The Phenomenology of Spirit, in the beginning of chapter six, he took the tragedy philosophically, and he took the character of Antigone and he was able to show how Antigone in a certain way, she was an heroine, because she was able to broken the law of the state represented by crown. She represents in a certain way, the law of the family anyway, a different kind of law. And she represent the effort of a subjective individual to get its autonomy. And such character was very largely appreciate by the gender studies and still deeply studied and still in our days has a deep value in research on Hegel and not only on Hegel. Speaker 1: As I hear you talking, it makes me think there's a sense that Hegel also was going back to the past. He was going back to read antiquity or to interpret that. There's a sense of going back to the source as a way of getting rid of things that have covered it over since then. Claudia Melica: Yeah, no, no, you're perfectly right. Obviously, also Hegel was going back to the past and the fact that he was going back to the past is very important because he was trying to reconstruct the origin, for example, of the ethical life in ancient Greece. One in ancient Greece was organized as a so-called in Greek term napolis, an independent little state. It was a way to going back to Greece to show the difficulty of an individual to face the accustomed, the abbots, the norms of an ethical life. So, this is an important point for Hegel. Claudia Melica: And anyway, Hegel was a great historical. Hegel was the one who wrote not only The Phenomenology of Spirit, but is very well then he wrote his History of Philosophy and therefore he was able to reconstruct philosophically from his point of view the different period of the philosophy. Speaker 1: Right, you were talking about The Phenomenology of Spirit and how influential it is today. Incidentally, I'm affiliated with Boston College. I'm a student there. And this term, there are two classes on The Phenomenology of Spirit, two classes devoted to it, one in the philosophy department and one in the political science department, I think. I think that one of the things you talk about is... I'll read this sentence from your introduction. Speaker 1: We also believe it is necessary to ask ourselves whether the Hegelian dialectical process is apt to eliminate inequalities in the current epic, neutralizing as a consequence, even sexual difference or whether it fails to free itself from such conditioning. I mean, you can comment on any part of that you want, but I was thinking that we're very concerned now with difference and groups that are opposed to each other. I'm wondering if the dialectical process somehow naturally captures such tension. Claudia Melica: Oh, well, we know and we wrote in our book and especially in our introduction where, as you correctly mentioned, we are six women, six editors. We know that in our day, gender studies, as you quoted, are concerned with the differences, not only between gender, but also sexual identity. And we know there is a huge references in the secondary literature that such differences is the determinated socially or by the culture, what Hegel called in a German expression, [inaudible 00:15:09], or biologically determined, naturally determined what in German is called the nature. Claudia Melica: It's very well known that feminists, activists was trying all time to discuss and to criticize as such differences, but the level of complexity now and articulation have reached such position. So, for example, the reinterpretation of the very well-known French philosopher, Simone de Beauvoir. She was able to reinterpretate some passage of Hegel Phenomenology of Spirit, and especially chapter four, where there is of references to the battle of recognition between master and slave. And she was able to insert such dialectical Hegelian argument within the feminist debate in France of the time. Claudia Melica: She was also going to listen to the lecture of Kojève, which has a great influence of the French thinker at the time. And nowadays, Simone de Beauvoir, as for example, was shown in many, many papers of our book. For example, in the paper of Mara Montanaro. The interpretation of Simone de Beauvoir were of early year 50 and 60 is still interpretated, still read as a very fruitful way to read and think on Hegel. But anyway, we noticed that there are a lot of change in sensibility and we could interpretate Hegel from different point of view, which we call it voices immense from different culture, from different perspective. Claudia Melica: That's why we include it in the volume 40 different paper, but they are in a special form, because the book has got a special form. From all the world, really, we try to invite speakers from China, from Spain, from any part of the world to face such different culture and problems. Speaker 1: Right. Now, that's very helpful. Thank you. By the way, you are the one who is speaking to me today, but I wanted to mention the names of the other editors. Could you say something briefly about the other five please? Claudia Melica: Yeah, I will be very pleased because I'm only here speaking with you given my voice, but actually, we are six women and we are all academics. We struggle, all of us, to reach a position in university and let's mention all of them, because they are Professor Stefania Achella from University of Chieti, Professor Francesca Iannelli from University Roma Tre, Gabriella Baptist from University of Cagliari, Professor Serena Feloj from University of Pavia, Fiorinda Li Vigni. She's a professor, but she is also a lead in Institute for Philosophic Studies in Naples, and last, really last, me. Speaker 1: I'm sure that's not true. Claudia Melica: That's true. Speaker 1: It's very impressive and it is interesting to see so many different voices and helpful to see so many different voices in a volume. In your editor's introduction, you use the phrased in a different voice. It might have been Hegel in a different voice, but you were pointing there to the Carol Gilligan book. Is that right? Claudia Melica: Yeah. Yeah. We also quoted in a footnote, yes, we appreciate very much the book of Gilligan, which was printed in the last century in the year '70 and which was translated in Italian. In Italy, it had a great influence as it's very well known, Gilligan, she is still alive psychologist. She analyzed the different voices of the women of the time. [inaudible 00:20:11], it's also implicitly referred to her. So, the purpose is to give voices for the first time, not only a volume, which include mostly, but not only women, also some very good male researchers and professors are included to the volume. Claudia Melica: But the conference, which reorganized the original and reorganized it in Rome in 2018, was the World WOMen Conference. WOMen was W, O, and M was capital block. Therefore want to say women, but at the same time, together with men. This is a way to assert different voices in such a large community in what we call post-ideological scenario. But yes, Carol Gilligan is very important for us and it's very important to speak of plural voices also in this case. Speaker 1: Right, and multicultural as well. Claudia Melica: Yeah. Speaker 1: Let's talk about the different sections of your book of the volume. You mentioned, I think, section two, which is about women foreign against Hegel and you talk about Simone de Beauvoir there. Claudia Melica: Yes. Speaker 1: One of the articles that comes up a few times is an article called, "Let's Spit on Hegel". Claudia Melica: Yes. Well, the title of the book Let's Spit on Hegel was a title of a book of Carla Lonzi. Carla Lonzi was a very well-known activist and feminist in Italy. And she was the one who was deeply, deeply critics against Hegel. This is in a certain way linked with the topic we are trying to develop together, because one side of the feminism at the time in early 17th century in Italy was following Simone de Beauvoir as saying that Hegel could be fruitful to understand the social differences, social inequality between men and women. Also, Simone de Beauvoir told us in her book in The Second Sex that actually the women never, never struggled, never put themself into the battle for recognition. Claudia Melica: Well, Carla Lonzi was very explicit. She won't throw away totally Hegel. She said, "He has nothing to do with our battle. Our battle are totally different." So with really peculiar expression, she wrote this book, Let's Spit on Hegel, which had a great influence in Italy. There is a movement connected with her and there are many article, many, many paper dedicated to Carla Lonzi too. Especially there is one part, Federica Giardini, she's a very well-known professor in Roman Tre and she is also a feminist and a very good researcher on feminist thinking. She analyzed this point too. Speaker 1: I'm not sure if there's a section that focuses on the master-slave dialectic in Hegel. Of course, it's very famous. Is there a specific section developed not devoted to it, but it goes through all of them, would you say? Claudia Melica: Well, the section concerning the master and slave dialectic is explicitly only into the Phenomenology of Spirit and in chapter four. I'm going to explain you, what is the topic over there? But this section was deeply analyzed by some interpreters and especially most of them in Hegel's Master and Servant Dialectics in section two. Serena Feloj, she wrote a paper with references on American contemporary debate, which is very important, because she analyzed the way in which Butler or Fraser or Irigaray, they interpretated such part of Hegel. And I quoted Mara Montanaro with Simone de Beauvoir or Federica Giardini in the reinterpretation of Carla Lonzi. Anyway, for the American audience and not the specialist on Hegel, what is this master and servant or slave dialectic? Claudia Melica: To make it very easy, and clearly, it is the following. For Hegel, a self-conscious could not recognize its value, if it is not recognized by another self-consciousness. To recognize the value of someone else, Hegel analyzed something that is so developed into the history. So, for example, the opposition, and at the same time, there's a relation between master and slave, but what's happened exactly? The self-consciousness of the master is pushed by a desire to obtain more and more and more and more objects, but he cannot obtain them alone. He need the work. He need a huge work of the slave or of the servant. Therefore, the master is totally dependent for his desire, for his material desire from the work of the servant. Claudia Melica: But Hegel made a good point of if from one side, it looks like at the first glance that the servant looked totally dependent and submitted by the master. On the other side, the servant is able to transform the object with his work and he is not the one who after he has used, the object, is thrown away and it doesn't need it anymore. But anyway, it is important, this passage, because for the first time, Hegel is trying to speak about dialectical opposition, social justice, inequality. This comes, which in Germany, recognition is erkennung. It means not only recognize the value of something else, but means also to know deeply, to have the self-consciousness of someone else, because I know myself deeply only if I recognize the other and the value of the other. Claudia Melica: And therefore, this is a very important model or paradigm, which was used also later to investigate all the opposition within the history and also, as I told you, through all the feminist battle, because the question was for the feminist thought, whether such paradigm should be applied to women too. Does it work for women too? So women slave submitted to master as man or not. This is one of the question, which for example, as first was questioned by Simone de Beauvoir, but still investigated it. Speaker 1: Right. Just as much to different cultures embraces different nationalities and so forth, right? Claudia Melica: Yeah. Speaker 1: So this is difficult because there's so much in this book, but I want to give listeners an idea of an overview of what's in the different sections. Even though it may seem surface level, it'll be a pointer, I hope. So, the first section deals with The Night of Reason. It was talking about madness dreams and passion. Could you speak a little bit about what people could find there? Claudia Melica: Yes. It's not seen from this point of view. There are a lot of generalization about Hegel. So, for example, he's a systematic thinker or only a rational thinker. But what we would like to show that Hegel this time, he was studying the so-called neurosciences. So, he was studying psychiatric, psychology of the time. He was given a lot of important of what as a metaphor was called the dark side of the reason. He was not criticizing such part. He was able to demonstrate that the spirit and spirit means our spiritual manifestation go through our development could be found also in illness or in dreams or well, in this dark side. Claudia Melica: That's why when he was teaching in Berlin during his lecture, which were lecture followed by thousands of student, he wrote a book, which was an Encyclopaedia, a compendium, including all the sciences. And within all those sciences, Hegel included a sciences of the time called anthropology, which was not the anthropology of our days. Within the anthropology, there was what is today also psychiatric, psychology, and so on. And then in this part, he was able to study madness and conscious. Claudia Melica: This was recently discussed by a very well-known interpreter, Catherine Malabou, which is the subject of a paper by Federica Pitillo and how the neurosciences have become important in our time to communicate the concept and reinterpreted the such Hegelian anthropology and the implication also of the research on the brain, which started at a time and which is quite important for us, because this give us a new perspective of ego, which until now was not very well known for such a study. Speaker 1: That was fascinating. Absolutely. And then we've talked about section two. I will come back to section three at the end. For section four, it's entitled The Twentieth Century and Hegel: Subversion or Conciliation? Claudia Melica: Yes. In this section four, which is the purposes. The purposes is the following. There have been many interpreters like Jacques Derrida for example, which is the subject of the first paper by Gabriella Baptist, which totally criticize Hegel's point of view. And the point of view, very simply criticized by Derrida, was to destroy the subject, to destroy the effort done by Hegel to affirm the autonomy of the subject, even if for Hegel, always within a qualitative structure, which was the ethical life. But there is this paper by Gabriella Baptist, which is the beginning of section four, where she showed well, this point of view of very Derrida was going in a total different position of what originally Hegel did. Claudia Melica: So, for example, there are many other people like the one of Herta Nagl-Docekal. She analyzed in the same section four, how Hegel, it's important today in order to discuss common value. I would like to underline that for Hegel, it's not only in German, the word Gesellschaft, which you could translate in English society, but Gemeinschaft means really to do something together as society, which shares something in common. There is this paper by Herta Nagl-Docekal, very well-known professor from Vienna. She analyzed all the social pathologies of Hegel concept of ethical life. And she focused on Charles Taylor of common constitution and individual identity, which in United States nowadays and USSR deeply discussed in our day. Claudia Melica: And then she analyzed also John Rawls' takes on Hegel crucial achievement was very important for organizing modern state and the institution in order to build a so-called real freedom, not abstract freedom. And also, she discussed, which is very important, Axel Honneth, who was and still is a German, a very well-known Hegelian interpreter who claim to reformulate the philosophy of right of Hegel in term of social sphere, because such social problem, really very important even today in any global society, not only in Hegel's time. I would like to stop. Speaker 1: Yes. And I think Honneth's an appointment currently in the US at Columbia, I believe. Claudia Melica: Yeah. Speaker 1: But I should also mention that. So, when you talked about section four, you talked about first an essay by Gabriella Baptist and then the second essay by Nagl-Docekal. Claudia Melica: Nagl-Docekal. Speaker 1: Nagl-Docekal, and I should point out that's the structure of each of these sections is that there's an introductory essay by one of the editors and then there's an essay by an invited contributor with a lot of stature. And then there's seven or eight other essays. Maybe you could go through the other invited contributors. Claudia Melica: Yes. I'm very grateful to introduce such subject, because it's very important for us to explain the structure, the form of the book, because it's not simply a collection of different papers. We wanted to give a form of the book, which could be understandable. Therefore, we decide to organize the structure of the book in the following way. As you precisely told to the audience, there is in each part an introductory essay, written by the different editors. So, Achella, another by Iannelli, another by Baptist, another by Feloj, another by Li Vigni, and the other by Melica. Then we decide that each section should be open by a contribution from a word renowned expert in Hegelian studies. And they should in our opinion, so we planned the book, came from all different part of the world. Claudia Melica: Therefore, we invited speaker Rossella Bonito Oliva from Italy, Nuria Sánchez from Spain, Madrid, Erzsébet Rózsa from Debrecen in Hungary. We quoted yet, but we should quote it again, Herta Nagl-Docekal from Vienna, Austria, Myriam Bienenstock from France, from Paris, and so on. But it's also important to underline that the book, it's opened by the director of the Hegel Archive. She is a woman and she is Birgit Sandkaulen. And she is leading the famous and very important Hegel Archive in Bochum in Germany. And the book's closed by Angelica Nuzzo. She's Italian, but she's teaching since years in New York and in United States. Speaker 1: At CUNY. Claudia Melica: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the book is divided in five different section. We can speak later about the five different section. Speaker 1: So, I think we only have CUNY, meaning City University of New York. And I think the fifth section is in the interest of time, I'll leave the fifth section to just naming the title, which is Rethinking the Absolute Spirit. Spirit is one of the essential topics in Hegel, but let's close with description of the section three about the female characters in Hegel's philosophy, and if you could also mention the title of the book. People are probably wondering, "What does an owl have to do with philosophy?" I did anyway. I think I had a sense of what it was, but yeah, go ahead. Claudia Melica: Yeah. Well, it's very well known that this kind of birds normally arrive at night and this is a metaphor used by Hegel in the preface of the philosophy of right, where it would like to say the following. This kind of bird, it's the symbol of the philosophy. The philosophy arrive only in the end, but the philosophy may have... We use it as metaphor and that's why we use it as a title. ... a female form. That's why we thought that the Hegelian philosophy may have different languages, but the title is also that Hegel told us this such bird arrived at night and begin to flight only with the falling of the dusk. And what does it mean? Claudia Melica: It is a metaphor which became most celebrated and very well known. It means that the way of making philosophy is part of an historical process. Only when these historical process, which means chronologically, historically, it's concluded, then arrive philosophy, which it's able to understand, to comprehend with conceptual thought all historical process. Therefore, arrived such female figure, let's say it with that, that may offer an insider view of all the historical process. That's why we decide to give a title in this way. Speaker 1: Finally, just a survey of some of the articles in that section on the female characters or some of the other female character. Claudia Melica: Well, there are many other female character in Hegel. Not only he took it from the ancient tragedy from Sophocles, not only Antigone, but he took it from Shakespeare. So, for example, just to quote Shakespeare, Julia or Miranda or even lady Macbeth being quoted by Hegel and reinterpreted as a metaphor as heroine to reread the conflict within the history. That's why we decide to call also a chapter, section three of this book, Female Characters in Hegel's Philosophy, where it's analyzed also these potential in Hegelian interpretation of those tragic heroines, not only the ancient one, so the Greek heroines, but also the modern one as from the English Schiller as by Shakespeare. Speaker 1: Fascinating. Okay. Thank you so much, Claudia Melica. The book is The Owl's Flight: Hegel's Legacy to Contemporary Philosophy. I went longer than I told you, an hour, but there's so much to cover. It's a fascinating volume and it's published by, The Owl's Flight: Hegel's Legacy to Contemporary Philosophy, De Gruyter 2022. Thank you so much, Claudia. Claudia Melica: I am really very grateful for the conversation and for the interview. Thank you. Speaker 1: Thank you. Claudia Melica: Thank you.

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Fairy tales. Why have they survived a thousand years of re-telling? How do they adapt to reflect changing times, places, and storytellers? And what is it about them that captivates us from early childhood and continues to intrigue us throughout our lives? In this episode of Book Dreams, Eve and Julie explore the magic of these familiar stories with scholar, author, and teacher Jack Zipes, one of the world’s leading authorities on fairy tales, folklore, and children’s literature. They talk about the lasting power of classics like Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood, and also about Jack’s new translation of The Original Bambi: The Story of a Life in the Forest, by the Austro-Hungarian Jewish writer Felix Salten, which was the source material for the 1942 Disney film.

Jack explains that the novel is “a brilliant and profound story of how minority groups throughout the world have been brutally treated,” an “allegory about the weak and powerless” that is both “dystopic and sobering.” By contrast, “The stupidity of the movie is so outrageous that as I was doing research on this book, I literally almost threw up.” They talk, too, about how Jack’s experiences as an activist leader during the social upheavals of the 1960s lead him to a career in children’s literature: “I realized if there's going to be a movement that really digs in and has roots in the majority of people, we have to learn how to teach critically and develop methods in which children would be able to begin to think for themselves and continue to be curious, ask questions, and also take interest in groups in the United States with which they are not familiar.”

Jack Zipes is Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota. He has written, translated, and edited dozens of books, including The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, Why Fairy Tales Stick, and Don't Bet on the Prince: Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales of North America and England. In addition to his scholarly work, Jack is an active storyteller in public schools and has worked with children's theaters in Europe and the United States. Among his many awards are a Guggenheim Fellowship, the International Brothers Grimm Award, and the World Fantasy Convention Award for Lifetime Achievement. In 2018, Jack founded the publishing house, Little Mole & Honey Bear, which republishes historical children’s books with timeless values in order to “preserve the things that make us human and stand up to forces that would tear our society apart.”

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Podcast: Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan
Episode: Feature interview: Pascal Cotte
Pub date: 2022-07-20

For centuries, people have asked, who is Mona Lisa and why is she smiling in the famous painting by Leonardo DaVinci. French engineer Pascal Cotte helped answer so many questions when he was invited by the Louvre to photograph the Mona Lisa more than 15 years ago using a new technique he developed, a type of multispectral imaging. He continues to pour over the images and now he believes he has the answer to another question: where is that landscape is behind the Mona Lisa's shoulders.

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Podcast: Radio Free Humanity: The Marxist-Humanist Podcast (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 72: Chomsky’s Linguistics & Politics—Interview with David Golumbia
Pub date: 2022-07-08

Episode 72: Chomsky’s Linguistics & Politics—Interview with David Golumbia by MHI

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Podcast: The Political Theory Review (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 105: Terry Pinkard - Practice, Power, and Forms of Life
Pub date: 2022-07-13

A conversation with Terry Pinkard about his recent book, "Practice, Power, and Forms of Life: Sartre's Appropriation of Hegel and Marx" (U of Chicago Press 2022).

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Podcast: Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea (LS 35 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: A Brief History of Weaponised Insects
Pub date: 2022-07-03

If you’ve seen classic B Movies like 1954’s 'Them' or the criminally underappreciated classic, 'Starship Troopers', the words “Insect Warfare” probably conjure up some specific, likely silly imagery.

But insects have featured in human conflicts in very real and often terrifying ways since the beginning of the historical record and likely, long before it.

Jeffrey Lockwood is Professor of Natural Sciences and Humanities at the University of Wyoming and the author of 'Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War'.

He joins Jonathan to discuss,

Catherine McGuinness, Zoologist and Educational Assistant at the National Museum of Ireland & Dr. Lara Dungan also joined Jonathan for Newsround.

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Podcast: The Ancients (LS 61 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Prehistoric Rock Art of Atlantic Europe
Pub date: 2022-07-03

Dozens of incredible examples of prehistoric rock art have been found across western Europe in recent decades - but what do they mean?

Artworks can be discovered all along the Atlantic seaboard, from Spain to Scotland, where one stunning example was uncovered just last year. Ancient peoples left traces of their prehistoric cultures across the length and breadth of the landscape - but what does this art reveal about them?

In this episode Tristan is joined by Dr Joana Valdez-Tullett to discover more about the mysterious world of Atlantic rock art.

Joana's book: https://www.barpublishing.com/design-and-connectivity.html

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Podcast: Curious Objects (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Bonus Episode: Craft in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Pub date: 2022-06-29

As you await the upcoming season of Curious Objects, please enjoy this special bonus episode, in which Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Abraham Thomas, ceramist Roxanne Jackson, and painter Andrew LaMar Hopkins join host Benjamin Miller onstage at the 2022 edition of the Winter Show to grapple with the legacy of Walter Benjamin’s famous 1935 essay “Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” How have Benjamin’s contentions about “aura” fared in the ensuing eighty-odd years since its publication? And how might we apply his thoughts on art to works of craft being produced today?

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Podcast: Literature, Cognition and Emotions
Episode: 2. Natalia Igl: The Materiality and Multimodality of Literature
Pub date: 2022-06-24

What is a multimodal novel? And why is the genre on its return in our digital age? How should we understand the notion of the embodied reader? And why bother about rhythm and rhyme in the 21st century?

Books are more than just neutral containers of narratives; they are material, palpable objects, often multimodal in nature. In this podcast, Natalia Igl, associate researcher at LCE and Marie Skłodowska-Curie recent postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Oslo, discusses how and why the material and multimodal aspects of a book, literary journal, or poem affect our readerly experience perhaps more than we suspect. In a conversation with Stijn Vervaet, she explains how a literary work’s multimodality and materiality operates, and how we read with our bodies.

This work has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska Curie grant agreement No 794549.

Post-production: Eivind Rutle

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Podcast: University of Minnesota Press
Episode: A field guide to a nonfascist life at the end of the world as we know it
Pub date: 2022-06-28

“Capitalism defeated traditional societies because it was more exciting than they were. But now there is something more exciting than capitalism: its destruction.” In the face of things with true power (capitalism, the law, public opinion, etc.), philosophy is not provisioned to battle them head-on. But it can wage “a guerrilla campaign against them,” writes Andrew Culp (referencing Deleuze) in his new book A GUERRILLA GUIDE TO REFUSAL. Harnessing critical theory, this book takes us on a journey through a subterranean network of communiques, military documents, contemporary art, political slogans, adversarial blogs, and captive media. This conversation among scholars traces a nonfascist life at the end of the world as we know it.

Andrew Culp is professor of media history and theory in the School of Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts. He is author of A Guerrilla Guide to Refusal (2022) and Dark Deleuze (2016).

Will Conway is a PhD candidate whose research centers around disability, biopolitics, and theories of resistance.

Jose Rosales is an independent researcher. With Claire Fontaine and Iman Ganji, they are co-author of Foreigners Everywhere and the author of 'Communism as the Riddle Posed to History' in The Double Binds of Neoliberalism (Rowan & Littlefield, 2022), as well as various other texts that can be found online. Currently, they are co-editor (alongside Andreas Petrossiants) of the multi-volume series, Diversity of Aesthetics.

Violet is a queer independent researcher based in India working on theories of resistance, biopolitics, and destituent communism.

References:

Gilles Deleuze

Michel Foucault

Arlette Farge

May 68

Jean Genet

Guy Hocquenghem

Johann Most

Lucy Parsons

Friedrich Engels

Paul B. Preciado (and “Marcos”)

Christopher Chitty (Sexual Hegemony)

Karl Marx

Jacques Derrida

Roberto Esposito

Antonio Negri

Félix Guattari

Bernadette Corporation’s Get Rid of Yourself (film)

Edward Said

Eqbal Ahmad (Confronting Empire)

Frantz Fanon

Robin D. G. Kelley (Race Rebels)

Homi Bhabha

Fred Moten

Nahum Dimitri Chandler (paraontology)

Claire Fontaine

Tiqqun

Saidiya Hartman

Kwame Ture

Nanni Balestrini (The Unseen)

Keywords: archive, power, surveillance, cybernetics, refusal, political, political control, philosophy, anarchy, class, class war, transformation

Several references are made to specific current events, and as such we want to mention the date of this recording: March 31, 2022.

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Podcast: New Books in Literary Studies (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Meredith Farmer and Jonathan D. S. Schroeder, "Ahab Unbound: Melville and the Materialist Turn" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
Pub date: 2022-06-27

Today’s guests are Meredith Farmer and Jonathan D.S. Schroeder, the co-editors of a bracing new collection of essays about the figure of Ahab in Melville’s novel Moby-Dick. Meredith is the Assistant Teaching Professor of Core Literature at Wake Forest University. Her book Melville’s Leaks: Science, Materialism, and the Reconstitution of Persons is under contract at Northwestern University Press. Jonathan is the Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies at Brandeis University. His articles have been published in American Literature, American Literary History, and the Routledge Handbook of Reenactment Studies. His book Prisoners of Loss: An Atlantic History of Nostalgia, is under contract with Harvard University Press. Their new collection of essays is titled Ahab Unbound: Melville and the Materialist Turn(U Minnesota Press, 2021), published with the University of Minnesota Press. The collection includes contributions from a range of scholars from Christopher Castiglia, Samuel Otter, Steve Mentz, Jonathan Lamb, and Bonnie Honig, among others.

John Yargo recently received his PhD in English literature from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, specializing in the environmental humanities and early modern culture. His articles have been published or are forthcoming in the Journal for Early Modern Culture Studies, Studies in Philology, and Shakespeare Studies.

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Podcast: The Interesting Times podcast
Episode: Pragmatic Utopias
Pub date: 2022-06-21

Welcome to Episode 2 of The Interesting Times podcast. We are joined by the indomitable Ira Allen, an associate professor serving in both the English and political science departments at Northern Arizona University, to discuss the potential shapes lights at the end of the dark tunnel we seem to be becoming further entrenched in by the day. He wields a joyful and fascinating intellect that challenges us to think not only about grandiose possibilities but also the constraints that we must assume will necessarily attenuate these visions. We are so lucky to have him on the show and I am sure you will get a lot from listening to his thoughts on a host of critical and ever-pressing matters. Thanks as always for supporting this venture. I am including a link to Ira’s book as well as links to a few of the other books that come up in our conversation below.

Ira’s book: The Ethical Fantasy of Rhetorical Theory
https://www.amazon.com/Ethical-Fantasy-Rhetorical-Composition-Literacy/dp/0822965364

A Theory of Justice by John Rawls

https://www.amazon.com/Theory-Justice-John-Rawls/dp/0674000781

The Law of Peoples by John Rawls

https://www.amazon.com/Law-Peoples-Public-Reason-Revisited/dp/0674005422

The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow

https://www.amazon.com/Dawn-Everything-New-History-Humanity-ebook/dp/B08R2KL3VY

Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber

https://www.amazon.com/Debt-First-5-000-Years/dp/1612191290

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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

A Theory of Justice: Revised Edition (Belknap)

Debt: The First 5,000 Years

Podcast: Jacobin Radio (LS 60 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Long Reads: Esther Leslie on Walter Benjamin's Messianic Marxism
Pub date: 2022-06-18

Esther Leslie joins Long Reads for a discussion about Walter Benjamin, one of the most influential cultural theorists of the last century. His unorthodox Marxism and ideas about culture and history have inspired several generations of critical thought about the world made by capitalism. Esther is a leading authority on Benjamin’s life and work who teaches at Birkbeck University in London.

Long Reads is a Jacobin podcast looking in-depth at political topics and thinkers, both contemporary and historical, with the magazine’s longform writers. Hosted by Features Editor Daniel Finn. Produced by Conor Gillies, music by Knxwledge.

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Podcast: The Forum (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Popol Vuh: Central American epic that survived Spanish conquest
Pub date: 2022-06-09

Mythological sagas are often fantastical and push the imagination to the limit but the Popol Vuh, which originates in what is Guatemala today, has a gallery of extraordinary characters both good and bad. They get involved in a series of mind-boggling battles and challenges and this eventually leads to the creation of the human race. The Maya K’iche’ story of the Popol Vuh has come down to us in an 18th-Century transcription and Spanish translation by a priest called Francisco Ximenez, and as with many ancient stories, there are tantalising questions about the history of the manuscript and the origins of the tale itself.

Rajan Datar traces the meanings and significance of the Popol Vuh with the help of Frauke Sachse who is director of Pre-Columbian Studies at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington DC; Iyaxel Cojti Ren, professor at the University of Texas; Allen Christenson who is professor at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah as well as an ethnographer and author of a new translation and critical edition of the Popol Vuh. The reader is Florencia Cordeu.

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Podcast: Subtitle (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: How the Ojibwe language survived the pandemic
Pub date: 2022-06-08

How do you keep your language alive while also protecting the health of elders? That's been the quandary facing Ojibwe educators during the pandemic. As native speakers, Ojibwe elders were the primary teachers of the language, but they were also the most vulnerable to COVID. Leah Lemm of Minnesota's Mille Lacs Ojibwe band tells us how she and others figured out how to continue learning while also ensuring the wellbeing of teaching elders like her own father.

Music in this episode by Airae, Gridded, Megan Woffard, Headlund, Joseph Beg, Jules Gaia, Rymdklang Soundtracks, Molecular Machine. Read a transcript of the episode here.

Some Ojibwe language resources recommended by Leah: James Vukelich's Ojibwe Word of the Day; the University of Minnesota's online Ojibwe dictionary; the Ojibwe Rosetta Stone project; and the Mille Lacs band of Ojibwe and the Minnesota Historical Society's Aanjibimaadizing book project.

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Podcast: PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: The Deleuze Seminars ft. Professor Daniel W. Smith
Pub date: 2022-06-14

Pills is graced by the presence of the eminent Deleuze scholar, editor, and translator, Daniel W. Smith. Dan explains how he came to Deleuzian philosophy, why it's important, and previews the exciting Deleuze Seminars project, which is almost finished translating 20 years of Deleuze's lectures into English.

The Deleuze Seminars project can be explored here: https://deleuze.cla.purdue.edu/

Si vous pouvez comprendre le français, il y en a plus a la Bibliotheque Nationale de France https://gallica.bnf.fr/html///und/enregistrements-sonores/gilles-deleuze-cours-donnes-luniversite-paris-8-vincennes-saint-denis-1979-0?mode=desktop

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Podcast: Ctrl Alt Delete (LS 61 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: #389 Sheila Heti: Art is the Opposite of an Algorithm
Pub date: 2022-06-02

My guest today is the brilliant Sheila Heti, author of Motherhood and How Should a Person Be? In this episode we discuss her latest book Pure Colour, a new novel l about art, love, loss and time. It has been described as a galaxy of a novel: explosive, bright, huge and streaked with beauty. Sheila Heti has also been described as philosopher of modern experience - and I really enjoyed this conversation. Motherhood, her novel which grapples with the question of whether or not to have kids was a huge inspiration on me - and I think Sheila is one of the most talented artists of our time. Enjoy this conversation, I loved it and was on cloud nine after recording!

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Sheila Heti's Pure Colour: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/153/9781787302808
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My books: https://uk.bookshop.org/contributors/emma-gannon
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Podcast: Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea (LS 35 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Futureproof Extra: How Sensors Shape Our Everyday Life
Pub date: 2022-06-07

From thermostats, to step counters, pressure gauges, and chips that guide the Roomba around your living room, there are now more electronic sensors in the world than there are people.

So what do all of these sensors mean for us and our relationship with the world and where exactly will it take us?

Chris Salter, artist & Professor of Immersive Arts at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHDK) and the author of ‘Sensing Machines: How Sensors Shape Our Everyday Life’ joins Jonathan to discuss.

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Podcast: Philosopher's Zone (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The phenomenology of love
Pub date: 2022-06-05

There’s a venerable philosophical tradition devoted to explaining what love is, and it stretches back to the ancient Greeks. It deals with questions like “the problem of particularity” – the mystery of why, if we fall in love with someone because of their physical beauty and attractive character, we don’t then fall in love with anyone and everyone who shares these traits. What philosophy hasn’t had so much to say about is the phenomenology of love – the question of what love feels like. This week we’re getting inside the experience.

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Podcast: Damn the Absolute! (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: S2E03 Literature Must Be an Unsettling Force for Democracy w/ Elin Danielsen Huckerby
Pub date: 2022-06-01

Whether it's theology, philosophy, politics, or science, it is not uncommon for people to believe their particular worldview has greater authority over others. This authoritarian approach to ideas implies that one person's representation of truth more closely and certainly reflects reality—they have the truth and we must submit to it.

Alternatively, pragmatists believe this abstract certitude leads to religious fundamentalism, philosophical dogmatism, political absoluteness, and rigid scientism.

For thinkers like the late-twentieth century philosopher Richard Rorty, language is an instrument for coordinating our efforts in addressing concrete issues we face in our lived environments.

He doesn't believe theology, politics, philosophy, or even science are about acquiring an accurate representation of reality. In fact, he rejects the notion that the nature of truth is one of language mirroring reality. Instead, he views language as a dynamic tool, not something that reproduces truth.

Often credited with rehabilitating pragmatism, Rorty encourages us to abandon these authoritarian approaches for what he calls a literary culture. While he holds that none of these disciplines have an epistemically privileged position from which they can determine which truth claims more closely represent reality, they each still play important roles in society.

In other words, each provides us with particular vocabularies with different uses. Their vitality resides in the way they empower us to describe and redescribe experiences in continually novel and fruitful ways.

Elin Danielsen Huckerby is a research fellow at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, associated with an EU-funded project on Inclusive Science and European Democracies. She recently graduated with a PhD from the University of Cambridge, where she worked on Rorty’s uses of literature in his philosophical work.

She believes Rorty's literary attitude gives us more productive ways to move culture, science, and politics forward.

A few questions to ponder.

What is the role of literature in liberal democracies? What is moral progress for Rorty? How can liberal democracies benefit from embracing a more literary rather than scientistic culture? And, how worried should we be about Rorty's rejection of objective truth? Show Notes

Richard Rorty

The Takeover by Literary Culture: Richard Rorty's Philosophy of Literature by Elin Danielsen Huckerby (2021)

"Rortian Liberalism and the Problem of Truth" by Adrian Rutt (2021)

S1E20 Can Pragmatism Help Us Live Well? w/ John Stuhr (2021)

S1E14 A Tool for a Pluralistic World w/ Justin Marshall (2021)

S1E12 Philosophers Need to Care About the Poor w/ Jacob Goodson (2021)

S1E07 Charles Peirce and Inquiry as an Act of Love w/ David O’Hara (2021)

S1E06 Levinas and James: A Pragmatic Phenomenology w/ Megan Craig (2020)

S1E01 Richard Rorty and Achieving Our Country w/ Adrian Rutt (2020)

“The Power of One Idea” by Jeffrey Howard (2020)

“The Pragmatic Truth of Existentialism” by Donovan Irven (2020)

Richard Rorty: The Making of an American Philosopher by Neil Gross (2008)

"Trotsky and the Wild Orchids" by Richard Rorty (1992)

Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity by Richard Rorty (1989)

Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature by Richard Rorty (1979)

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Podcast: Nostalgia Trap (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Nostalgia Trap - Episode 327: Laugh Lines w/ Carrie Conners
Pub date: 2022-05-31

Carrie Conners is a poet, writer, and professor of English at LaGuardia Community College; her latest book Laugh Lines: Humor, Genre, and Political Critique in Late Twentieth Century American Poetry explores how American poets since the 1950s engage humor as a political and aesthetic tactic. In this conversation, we talk about the language games of standup comics from George Carlin to Dave Chappelle, and trace the wider shifts in poetry, comedy, and political culture since the invention of the atomic bomb. We also examine how Carrie navigates these ideas in her own poetry, with excerpts from her two excellent collections, Luscious Struggle (2020) and Species of Least Concern (2022).

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Podcast: SikhArchive (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: On Nehru, High Modernism and Chandigarh with Professor Taylor Sherman
Pub date: 2022-05-27

Hi, I’m Sukhraj Singh from Sikh Archive and welcome to the 47th episode of our Podcast series of conversations with historians, authors, academics, researchers and activists on topics related to their areas of expertise on Sikh or Panjabi history.

In this episode we are joined by Taylor Sherman, who is a professor of history at the London School of Economics where her research concerns the cultural and political history of South Asia between the 1930s and the 1970s.

We discuss today the politics of Nehru and his defining role in the formation of the Indian State with particular reference to high modernism and the establishment of Chandigarh, which is an element of her forthcoming book, titled, Nehru’s India: A history in Seven Myths.

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Podcast: Getty Art + Ideas (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Art, Luxury, and Power in Ancient Iran
Pub date: 2022-05-25

“This interconnection between Greek tradition and science and mathematics, and the Babylonian traditions in astronomy and all these other very technical and very advanced sciences, this was a moment which really created the basis for science, mathematics, and so on in the Western world, and indeed, throughout the world, in later centuries and millennia.”

For more than a millennium, the Persian empire was the major political and economic force in western Asia. Beginning in the sixth century BCE, three dynasties of Persian rulers created the largest and most complex nation in the world. From the monumental reliefs of the Achaemenid ceremonial capital, Persepolis, to elaborate silver platters that tell the story of David and Goliath, the art and luxury objects of this period demonstrate the Persians’ political power and self-image. At the same time, much of our knowledge of ancient Iran comes from Greek and Roman writings and artworks because of the relationships and rivalries among these civilizations. The exhibition Persia: Ancient Iran and the Classical World showcases a wide range objects from the three cultures that shed new light on ancient Persia and tell the story of cultural exchange in this fascinating empire.

In this episode, Getty Museum director Tim Potts and curators Jeffrey Spier and Sara Cole discuss their exhibition Persia: Ancient Iran and the Classical World and some of the key objects in the show. The exhibition is on view at the Getty Villa through August 8, 2022.

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Podcast: Maghrib in Past & Present | Podcasts (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The ”Lush Garden” of Andalusian Music
Pub date: 2022-05-19

Episode 143: The "Lush Garden" of Andalusian Music

In this podcast, Dr. Carl Davila explores the Andalusian music tradition of Morocco, known as al-ala, through the written song collections, such as the famous Kunnash al-Ha'ik. By examining the literary record, embodied in around 40 handwritten manuscripts found in libraries across Europe and North Africa, we can come to understand the evolution of the repertoire over the past two and a half centuries. Of special interest here is a little-known work called al-Rawdat al-Ghanna' fi Usul al-Ghina' ("The Lush Garden for the Principles of Song'') of which there are just three surviving copies — including one in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Rabat. In this podcast we will explore such questions as: Who wrote this work, and when? What is actually in it? And perhaps most significant: Where does it fit in the history of the written repertoire of Andalusian music?

Dr. Carl Davila holds a PhD in Arabic Studies from Yale University (2006). He lived in Fez off and on for nearly three years in the early 2000s and has visited Morocco frequently since then. Being the first scholar to write extensively in English on the Andalusian music in Morocco, he has published two monographs and numerous articles on the cultural, historical and literary aspects of this grand musical tradition. At the moment, he is developing a book series with E.J. Brill that will present English translations and commentary for all eleven nubas in the modern and historical repertoires. He is currently Associate Professor of History at the State University of New York in Brockport.

This episode was recorded on April 21st, 2022 at the Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies (TALIM).

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Podcast: Gatty Lecture Rewind Podcast (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 71: Kale B. Fajarado, Associate Professor of American Studies and Asian American Studies, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Pub date: 2022-05-19

In our last episode of the season, Michael talks with Kale Fajardo, Associate Professor of American Studies and Asian American Studies at the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities), about his research on queer river-and-seafaring Filipino figures in contemporary Philippine cinema.

A few of Kale Fajardo's publications:

Filipino Crosscurrents (link)

Queering and Transing the Great Lakes:Filipino/a Tomboy Masculinities and Manhoods Across Waters (link)

"Decolonizing Manila-Men and St. Maló, Louisiana: A Queer Postcolonial Asian American Critique" in Filipino Studies: Palimpsests of Nation and Diaspora (link)

Research & lecture summary: 01:40

Advice for researchers & recommendations: 30:20

Kale Fajardo's Movie Recommendations:

Days by Tsai-Ming Liang (link)
Ramen Teh by Eric Khoo (link)

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Podcast: Alain Guillot Show
Episode: 515 Rosemary Salomone: How English became the Worlds common language
Pub date: 2022-05-15

https://www.alainguillot.com/rosemary-salomone/ Rosemary Salomone is a Professor of Law at St. John's University, she is the author of The Rise of English: Global Politics and the Power of Language. Get the book here: https://amzn.to/3lcOxNv

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The Rise of English: Global Politics and the Power of Language

Podcast: The Buzz: The JJA Podcast
Episode: A Look at Jazz Criticism
Pub date: 2022-05-15

A Look at Jazz Criticism with host Rick Mitchell. Guests: John Gennari, author of Blowin’ Hot and Cool: Jazz and Its Critics (University of Chicago Press, 2006) and a Professor of English and Critical Race and Ethic Studies at the University of Vermont and Giovanni Russonello, Jazz Critic for the NY Times.

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Podcast: The Developer podcast (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The architectural history of Queer Spaces: "Flowers blossoming in the desert of Modernity"
Pub date: 2022-05-13

A fresh canon of queer architectural precedents drawn from a rich and undocumented cultural history, artist Adam Nathaniel Furman and architectural historian Joshua Mardell discuss their book Queer Spaces: An Atlas of LGBTQIA+ Places and Spaces and why it's so important that the Royal Institute of British Architects has published this book, giving up-and-coming queer designers a celebratory history and institutional legitimacy

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Podcast: Tides of History (LS 71 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Migration, Ancient DNA, and European Prehistory: Interview with Kristian Kristiansen
Pub date: 2022-05-05

Over the past several decades, ancient DNA and other archaeological sciences have transformed our understanding of Europe in prehistory. Professor Kristian Kristiansen has worked with these new methods since the very beginning, and combines them with a deep grounding in both traditional archaeology and big-picture thinking about what it all means.

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Podcast: Philosopher's Zone (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Beauty: aesthetic or moral ideal?
Pub date: 2022-05-08

These days, beauty is a moral imperative, an ideal to live by, and one according to which we judge ourselves and others. As a result, we increasingly shape our identities around our bodies – and not just our actual bodies with their lumps and bumps, but our imaginary future bodies: thin, smooth and firm. Gradually our notion of the good life comes to be centred on physical appearance, and this causes a range of harms which until now, philosophers have not taken seriously enough.

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Podcast: New Books in Sociology (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Dhanveer Singh Brar, "Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski: The Sonic Ecologies of Black Music in the Early 21st Century" (Goldsmiths Press, 2021)
Pub date: 2022-05-06

Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski: The Sonic Ecologies of Black Music in the Early 21st Century (Goldsmiths Press, 2021) uses three Black electronic musics – footwork, grime, and the work of the producer Actress – to provide a theory of how Black musical experimentation has disrupted the circuits of racialized domination and exclusion in the 21st Century city. The book carefully attends to the unique ‘sonic ecologies’ produced by these three musical forms in South/West Chicago; East London and South London respectively, steering a course between uncritical celebration narratives of ‘resistant’ cultural production and dystopian analyses of urban decay.

Brar instead theorises these musics as forms of popular experimentalism which are not just inseparable from questions of space, race and class, but are productive of social and spatial relations. The book draws upon, and intervenes in, Black Studies literature to contribute a set of examples, questions and provocations that help readers to think about how the ‘Blackness of Black electronic dance music’ has produced (and continues to produce) a fugitive urban aesthetic sociality that has flourished in spite of the degradations of state and capital.

At the end of the interview, Dhanveer recommended some music as good entry points into the three musical worlds that we discuss and that he analyses in the book:

Actress – Splazsh (2010)

DJ Rashad – Just a Taste Vol. 1 (2011)

Slimzee/Wiley/Dizzee Rascal and more – Sidewinder sessions (2002-2004)

Gummo Clare is a PhD researcher in the School of Media and Communications, University of Leeds.

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Podcast: Public Cultural Studies
Episode: 8 | Opera and Society with Dr. Nick Stevens
Pub date: 2022-05-01

On this episode I'm talking with Dr. Nick Stevens about the intersections of opera and society in various historical moments—up to and including the present day. Nick is a musicologist (ecommerce production associate) for ArkivMusic, who has also taught most recently as the Visiting Assistant Professor in Musicology at the Wichita State University School of Music. His monograph, Crisis Mode: Opera as Form and Medium After the End of History,is under contract and due out within the next couple of years. On this show we discuss the "undoing of women" in traditional opera genres, the status of contemporary opera and its imbrication with neoliberal crisis, as well as musicological debates, working outside of academia, and more.

References:

Janet Roitman, Anti-Crisis

Catherine Clement, Opera: The Undoing of Women

Wayne Koestenbaum, The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire

Judith Butler, Gender Trouble

Susan McClary, Feminine Endings

Elizabeth S. Anker, Rita Felski, Critique and Postcritique

Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker, A History of Opera

Clara Hunter Latham, "How Many Voices Can She Have? Destabilizing Desire and Identification Opera Quarterly, Volume 33, Issue 3-4, summer-autumn 2017.

Michael Dango, Crisis Style: The Aesthetics of Repair

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The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire

Podcast: New Books in African Studies (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Sarah Brouillette, "Underdevelopment and African Literature: Emerging Forms of Reading" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Pub date: 2022-04-29

In Underdevelopment and African Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2020), Sarah Brouillette tackles the print culture and literature in English in South and East Africa. Starting from the period of the 1970s to the contemporary times. She analyses literary texts as well as textbooks and books written for the learners of the English language. She puts forth how piracy, short-fictions app, apps and so on form an intricate part of this diverse field.

Sarah Brouillette is a professor at Carleton University in Canada.

Gargi Binju is a researcher at the University of Tübingen.

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Podcast: The Prospect Podcast (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Miranda France: Rethinking Picasso
Pub date: 2022-05-03

How did the women in Picasso's life suffer for his art? Should we rethink our canonisation of the painter's works? Writer and translator Miranda France joins deputy editor Sameer Rahim on the podcast.

Podcast: COMPLEXITY (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Hard Sci-Fi Worldbuilding, Robotics, Society, & Purpose with Gary Bengier
Pub date: 2022-02-11

As a careful study of the world, science is reflective and reactive — it constrains our flights of fancy, anchors us in hard-won fact. By contrast, science fiction is a speculative world-building exercise that guides imagination and foresight by marrying the known with the unknown. The field is vast; some sci-fi writers pay less tribute to the line between the possible and the impossible. Others, though, adopt a far more sober tactic and write “hard” sci fi that does its best to stay within the limits of our current paradigm while rooting visions of the future that can grow beyond and beckon us into a bigger, more adventurous reality.

The question we might ask, though, is: which one is which? Our bounded rationality, our sense for what is plausible, is totally dependent on our personal life histories, cultural conditioning, information diet, and social network biases. One person’s linear projections seem too conservative; another person’s exponential change seems like a fantasy. If we can say one thing about our complex world, it might be that it always has, and always will, defy our expectations…

Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. I’m your host, Michael Garfield, and every other week we’ll bring you with us for far-ranging conversations with our worldwide network of rigorous researchers developing new frameworks to explain the deepest mysteries of the universe.

This week on Complexity, we join up with Caitlin McShea and the InterPlanetary Project’s Alien Crash Site podcast for a wild discussion with SFI Trustee, technologist, and philosopher Gary Bengier about his science fiction novel Unfettered Journey. This book takes readers forward more than a century into a highly automated, highly-stratified post-climate-change world in which our protaganist defies the rigid norms of his society to follow fundamental questions about mind, life, purpose, meaning, consciousness, and truth. It is a perfect backdrop to our conversation on the role of complex systems science in our understanding of both present-day society and the futures that may, or may never, come to pass…

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Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies

Podcast: Assembly (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: S4 E6- Deaf Harmonies
Pub date: 2022-04-26

This episode is an exploration of deafness away from a loss of hearing to a hearing faculty and a practice of attuning to the harmonic sounds of everyday life that travel in between shortcomings of contemporary urban soundscapes. Joining us on the show is Alison O'Daniel. Alison is an Assistant Professor of Film at California College of the Arts in San Francisco, a visual artist and a filmmaker working around sound, moving image, sculpture, installation and performance. She has screened and exhibited in countless galleries and museums both domestically and internationally. These include Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Centro Centro Madrid, Spain; Renaissance Society, Chicago; Art in General, New York; Centre d’art Contemporain Passerelle, Brest, France; Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia; Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha; Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles; and Samuel Freeman Gallery, Los Angeles. The Tuba Thieves, an ongoing film project, explores how high school students listen and hear when one of the main instruments in their marching band is missing in response to a rash of tuba thefts that occurred between 2011 and 2013 from high schools across Southern California. Alison shares with us a riveting story about how the making of the Tuba Thieves led to the discovery of a barn-like concert hall in the green, hilly mountains of the Hudson Valley area where a pianist once sat in front of the piano for 4 minutes and 33 seconds without pressing any key. Watch the teaser for the Tuba Thieves and an excerpt of the 4' 33" scene. Make sure to follow Alison's instagram handle to stay up to date on her future works. Read about her past works as well such as the installation at a former chapel of a German monastery which in the form of a colorful carpet captures the feeling of hard to hear and the transcript of an interview about Tuba Thieves that Alison conducted with Anne Ellegood .

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Podcast: Queens Podcast Lab
Episode: Inequality, White Ignorance, and Public Sociology (Jennifer Mueller)
Pub date: 2022-04-25

We discuss white ignorance, inequality, and public scholarship with Jennifer Mueller of Skidmore College.

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Podcast: Seriously... (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The End of Invention
Pub date: 2022-04-19

Someone born in the late 19th century would have lived through the most rapid period of technological progress in human history. By comparison, people born since the Second World War have seen stagnation and sclerosis. At least, that’s what some people claim - that we are living through “the great stagnation”.

The productivity of scientists and inventors is slowing - and economist Sam Bowman is worried. There are fewer new drugs coming to market, and it takes more and more people to make smaller computer chips. It takes longer for PhD students to finish their studies, and research grants go to ever older scientists.

The balance of research funding has shifted from government to companies, and companies look for profitable inventions rather than necessarily revolutionary ones. It looks as though big new ideas are getting harder to find. Can we fix the system, or are we doomed to permanent slowdown?

Presenter: Sam Bowman Producer: Jolyon Jenkins Executive Producer: Katherine Godfrey Sound Design & Engineering: Rob Speight A Novel production for BBC Radio 4

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Podcast: Berkeley Talks (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Sociologist Harry Edwards on sport in society
Pub date: 2022-04-08

In Berkeley Talks episode 138, Harry Edwards, a renowned sports activist and UC Berkeley professor emeritus of sociology, discusses the intersections of race and sport, athletes' struggle for definitional authority and the power of sport to change society.

"You can change society by changing people's perceptions and understandings of the games they play," said Edwards in March at a campus event sponsored by the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues and Cal Athletics. "I'm saying whether it's race relations in America, whether it's relations between the United States and the Soviet Union and China, whether it's what's going on in South Africa with apartheid, you can leverage sport to change people's perceptions and understandings of those relationships. Change society by changing people's perceptions and understandings of the games they play."

Listen to the episode and read a transcript on Berkeley News. (This page will go live by Friday afternoon.)

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Podcast: New Books in Performing Arts
Episode: Kenneth Partridge, "Hell of a Hat: The Rise of '90s Ska and Swing" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2021)
Pub date: 2022-04-15

In the late ’90s, third-wave ska broke across the American alternative music scene like a tsunami. In sweaty clubs across the nation, kids danced themselves dehydrated to the peppy rhythms and punchy horns of bands like The Mighty Mighty Bosstones and Reel Big Fish. As ska caught fire, a swing revival brought even more sharp-dressed, brass-packing bands to national attention. Kenneth Partridge's Hell of a Hat: The Rise of '90s Ska and Swing (Pennsylvania State UP, 2021) dives deep into this unique musical moment.

Prior to invading the Billboard charts and MTV, ska thrived from Orange County, California, to NYC, where Moon Ska Records had eager rude girls and boys snapping up every release. On the swing tip, retro pioneers like Royal Crown Revue had fans doing the jump, jive, and wail long before The Brian Setzer Orchestra resurrected the Louis Prima joint. Drawing on interviews with heavyweights like the Bosstones, Sublime, Less Than Jake, and Cherry Poppin' Daddies—as well as underground heroes like Mustard Plug, The Slackers, Hepcat, and The New Morty Show—Kenneth Partridge argues that the relative economic prosperity and general optimism of the late ’90s created the perfect environment for fast, danceable music that—with some notable exceptions—tended to avoid political commentary.

An homage to a time when plaids and skankin’ were king and doing the jitterbug in your best suit was so money, Hell of a Hat is an inside look at ’90s ska, swing, and the loud noises of an era when America was dreaming and didn’t even know it.

Looking for the bands Partridge didn't get to highlight in the book? You can find his writing about them on his Substack.

Rebekah Buchanan is an Associate Professor of English and Director of English Education at Western Illinois University. Her research focuses on feminism, activism, and literacy practices in youth culture, specifically through zines and music.

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Podcast: The Institute of Black Imagination. (LS 44 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: E43. Kenturah Davis: The Limits of Language.
Pub date: 2022-04-10

Today’s episode is with contemporary artist Kenturah Davis. Exploring language, looms, and listening beyond the limen, Kenturah's work reminds us that identity requires an intimacy with the unknown and oftentimes hidden portraits of ourselves.

We explore topics that range from the diminishing value of a Masters of Fine Arts degree to urban planning and design to Toni Morrison’s essay“The Site of Memory”, this conversation is one that holds our hearts in an audible essay on the shadows of life and living.

What to read.

The Site of Memory by Toni Morrison

Playlist inspired by this conversation.

Atladena- Kelela

Apocalypse-Thundercat

Who to follow.

Kenturah Davis

This conversation was recorded on 12/14/21.

Host Dario Calmese

Producer Carmen D. Harris

Visual Art Direction and Designs:

River Wildmen, AfroVisualism

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Original Music composed by Dario Calmese

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Podcast: New Books in Critical Theory (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: G. S. Sahota, "Late Colonial Sublime: Neo-Epics and the End of Romanticism" (Northwestern UP, 2018)
Pub date: 2022-04-12

Taking cues from Walter Benjamin’s fragmentary writings on literary-historical method, Late Colonial Sublime: Neo-Epics and the End of Romanticism(Northwestern UP, 2018) re-constellates the dialectic of Enlightenment across a wide imperial geography, with special focus on the fashioning of neo-epics in Hindi and Urdu literary cultures in British India. Working through the limits of both Marxism and postcolonial critique, this book forges an innovative approach to the question of late romanticism and grounds categories such as the sublime within the dynamic of commodification. While G. S. Sahota takes canonical European critics such as Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer to the outskirts of empire, he reads Indian writers such as Muhammad Iqbal and Jayashankar Prasad in light of the expansion of instrumental rationality and the neotraditional critiques of the West it spurred at the onset of decolonization.

By bringing together distinct literary canons—both metropolitan and colonial, hegemonic and subaltern, Western and Eastern, all of which took shape upon the common realities of imperial capitalism—Late Colonial Sublime takes an original dialectical approach. It experiments with fragments, parallaxes, and constellational form to explore the aporias of modernity as well as the possible futures they may signal in our midst. A bold intervention into contemporary debates that synthesizes a wealth of sources, this book will interest readers and scholars in world literature, critical theory, postcolonial criticism, and South Asian studies.

G.S. Sahota is associate professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz, where he holds the Aurora chair in Sikh and Punjab Studies. His first book, Late Colonial Sublime: Neo-Epics and the End of Romanticism (Northwestern University Press, 2018), was awarded the Modern Language Initiative Grant of the Mellon Foundation. He is currently undertaking research toward two separate books (Transposed Minds: Indo-German Cultural Exchange and a Critique of Identity, and The Name of Reason: Sikhism, Secularism, and a Future Philosophy), pursuing a photography project on the gurdwaras of California, composing fragmentary thought-images, and learning Italian.

Saronik Bosu (@SaronikB on Twitter) is a doctoral candidate in English at New York University. He is writing his dissertation on literary rhetoric and economic thought. He co-hosts the podcast High Theory and is a co-founder of the Postcolonial Anthropocene Research Network.

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Podcast: Historically Thinking (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 259: In Praise of Good Bookstores
Pub date: 2022-04-11

The sociologist Edward Shils said or wrote somewhere that one of the three principle means of education were bookstores—preferably a used bookstore. Shils, for two generations a student and then faculty member at the University of Chicago, spent a lot of time in bookstores, and particularly in the Seminary Co-operative Bookstore, of which he was the 8,704thmember.

Jeff Deutsch is the director of Chicago’s Seminary Co-op Bookstores, which in 2019 he helped incorporate as the first not-for-profit bookstore whose mission is bookselling. (You can get some idea of the range of the Co-Op's enterprises from Jeff's annual letter.) He is the author of In Praise of Good Bookstores, which is the subject of our conversation today. It is not only a loving tribute to an endangered civic institution, but an imagining of a future in which bookstores not only endure but thrive.

Jeff and I talk about many things, including his grandfather and my great-grandfather; how to arrange your books; types of browsing; and the need for getting lost in a bookstore.

For Further Investigation

At the back of Jeff's book, you'll find a QR code that takes you to this site: Princeton University Press has set up a page through which you can find an independent bookstore near you. New Dominion Books: the closest independent bookshop to my house City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco Hub City Bookshop in Spartanburg, SC

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Podcast: Tides of History (LS 71 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Languages of the World in 1200 BC
Pub date: 2022-03-31

Language is fundamental to how people experience the world, but how can we know what languages people spoke in the distant past? By 1200 BC, the linguistic outlines of the world were becoming a bit clearer, thanks to an explosion in written texts. Follow along as we go on a historical linguistic tour of the globe around 1200 BC, from the first Bantu-speakers of western Africa to the Indo-Iranians of the steppe to the Austronesians of southeast Asia.

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Podcast: New Books in Christian Studies (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Rebecca Cypess, "Women and Musical Salons in the Enlightenment" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Pub date: 2022-04-01

Today we speak to Rebecca Cypess, Associate Professor at Rutgers University, about her new book: Musical Salons in the Enlightenment (University of Chicago, 2022). Interest in music sociability during the eighteenth century, including domestic and semi-domestic music-making, has been steadily growing. As scholars have noted, musical salons were crucial in providing a space where women could perform in public, which was otherwise impossible, for the most part. In this book, music scholar and performer Rebecca Cypess focuses on the figure of the salonnière, the female host at the center of most musical salons in Europe and America in the second half of the eighteenth century. Through case studies include the salons of Anne-Louise Brillon in Paris, Marianna Martines in Vienna, Sara Levy in Berlin, Elizabeth Graeme in Philadelphia, and the painter Angelika Kauffman in Rome, Cypess addresses several far-reaching issues in Enlightenment musical culture. Among them are questions having to do with collaboration and improvisation vs. authorship, sensual vs. intellectual experiences, the role of women in 'governing' the salons and collecting musical scores and instruments, and how these collections can function as texts that illuminate the lived experiences of eighteenth-century music. In this richly written book, Cypess draws on letters, diaries, and other written documents, as well as iconography, to make connections with non-musical practices, including games, and to recreate the salon as an immersive musical and creative environment.

Jana Byars is the Academic Director of Netherlands: International Perspectives on Sexuality and Gender.

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Podcast: Ottoman History Podcast (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Scholarly Salons in 16th-Century Damascus
Pub date: 2022-03-27

with Helen Pfeifer hosted by Maryam Patton | In 1517, the Ottomans captured Cairo and with it, the Arabophone lands of the Mamluk Sultanate. Suddenly, scores of learned scholars who had been preparing and vying for positions of esteem in either the academy or the bureaucracy found themselves under new authority. How did these scholars navigate the new political and linguistic environments? As Helen Pfeifer argues in a new book, Empire of Salons: Conquest and Community in Early Modern Ottoman Lands, the answer lies in gentlemanly salons, where elite men displayed their knowledge and status. These social laboratories played a key role in negotiating Syria and Egypt’s integration into the empire. Through Pfeifer's study of the life and network of the star scholar Badr al-Din al-Ghazzi, we learn how urban elite of former Mamluk Syria and Egypt continued to exert social and political influence, rivaling powerful officials from Istanbul. The gentlemanly salons also illustrate how Ottoman culture was forged collaboratively by Arabophone and Turcophone actors. « Click for More »

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Podcast: Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 350) Brad Evans: Reclaiming community and the power of silence
Pub date: 2022-03-29

“We’ve collapsed the idea of community with 'connectivity'. But being 'connected' doesn’t mean you have any sense of community. To have a community, you need something very visceral, you need to be in close proximity with people, to communicate on a day-to-day basis, to understand the flaws of people. It’s not about curated existences.”

In this episode, we welcome Brad Evans, a political philosopher, critical theorist, and writer, who specializes in the problem of violence. His work is particularly concerned with addressing the multiple forms violence takes in the world, while developing a more poetic critique that highlights the importance of the arts and the imaginary.

The author of nineteen books and edited volumes, along with over a hundred academic and media articles, he currently holds a Chair in Political Violence & Aesthetics at the University of Bath, United Kingdom.

(The musical offering in this episode is Debt by Luna Bec.)

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Podcast: New Books in Gender (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Abigail Susik, "Surrealist Sabotage and the War on Work" (Manchester UP, 2021)
Pub date: 2022-03-31

According to the definition offered by Tate on the occasion of the exhibition Surrealism Without Borders, Surrealism “aims to revolutionise human experience. It balances a rational vision of life with one that asserts the power of the unconscious and dreams.” Surrealism, therefore, produces images and artefacts that are rooted outside the real and that evade rational description.

For many artists, however, the practice of Surrealist art took on an explicitly political and therefore practical dimensions. In Surrealist Sabotage and the War on Work(Manchester UP, 2021), art historian Abigail Susik argues that many Surrealists tried to transform the work of art into a form of unmanageable anti-work.

Abigail Susik speaks with Pierre d’Alancaisez about what the politics of work meant to the early French Surrealists, the ambiguous labour practices of artists like Simone Breton, and the imagery of typewriters and sewing machines that permeates the work of artists such as Oscar Domínguez. She brings these questions into the present by engaging with the work of the Chicago Surrealists of the 1960s and 70s.

Abigail Susik is Associate Professor of Art History at Willamette University and co-editor of Surrealism and film after 1945.

Man Ray, Séance de rêve éveiillé
Oscar Domínguez, Machine à coudre électro-sexuelle
Surrealism Without Borders at Tate Modern
Abigail’s op-eds in the Washington Post and New York Times
Abigail’s forthcoming book Radical Dreams

Pierre d’Alancaisez is a contemporary art curator, cultural strategist, researcher. Sometime scientist, financial services professional.

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Podcast: Past Perfect!
Episode: Clergy, Foreign Lands, and Apocalypse: Medieval Perception of the World
Pub date: 2022-03-13

In this episode, Felicitas Schmieder, a professor of Medieval History in FernUniversität Hagen and visiting professor at CEU, speaks about medieval urbanism, perception, and eschatology. She begins with the research on her hometown, Frankfurt am Main, and the unique features of this royal city. Her focus is the medieval clergy, its role, and its challenges in the feudal world. Felicitas Schmieder would explain the pros and cons of being a cleric and why she does not consider the medieval Church an obstacle but rather a productive force for the city's development.In the second part, the professor speaks about her studies of perception in the Middle Ages. With Marco Polo as an example, she describes the key differences between modern and medieval people's vision of the world and foreign lands. The final part of the episode is devoted to medieval eschatology and how it influenced the people's understanding of the changes and environmental catastrophes around them. Felicitas Schmieder describes how people handled the changes of the Late Middle Ages, how they knew that Apocalypse was coming and how medieval prophets showed Apocalypse as a possible win-win situation. Past Perfect! is CEU Medieval Radio’s show on medieval and early modern history and culture, where Christopher Mielke casually discusses with his guests various issues from the crusades to archeo-zoology to medieval urine sampling. The discussions are made with the aim to popularize medieval and early modern studies with the help of experts such as early musicians, historians, philologists and archeologists.This episode was first recorded and broadcast in 2013.

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Podcast: New Books Network (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Daudi Abe, "Emerald Street: A History of Hip Hop in Seattle" (U Washington Press, 2020)
Pub date: 2022-03-23

West Coast hip hop means much more than LA, argues Dr. Daudi Abe, a professor of humanities at Seattle Central College. In Emerald Street: A History of Hip Hop in Seattle (University of Washington Press, 2020), Abe argues that Seattle deserves an honored spot in the cultural geography of hip hop in the United States. Although less well known than Los Angeles, New York, or even Atlanta and New Orleans, Seattle has spawned two Grammy-award winning artists (Sir Mix-a-Lot and Macklemore) and has had an active hip hop, graffiti, and breaking scene since the early 1980s. Hip Hop, as Abe argues in the book, is all about making yourself known and representing where you're from as a means of communicating to others what it's like being from that place. In that regard, Seattle has consistently been a loud and proud voice in that regard, with the city's hip hop sitting alongside grunge and indie rock as parts of the musical landscape of the Pacific Northwest.

Dr. Stephen R. Hausmann is an assistant professor of history at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota.

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Podcast: Politics Theory Other (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Interregnum - The cruelties of self-help culture
Pub date: 2022-03-20

In the second episode of Interregnum Richard Seymour discusses his recent article, 'The cruelties of self-help culture'. We talked about the magical thinking propagated by what Richard calls "the success wing of self-help literature" and why its claim that success depends almost solely on individual effort is so appealing. We also talked about the history of self-help culture and the significance of Samuel Smiles, the Victorian liberal reformer and author of the 1859 book Self Help: Illustrations of Character and Conduct. Finally we discussed Richard's plans to write a self-help book from the left.

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Podcast: THIS IS REVOLUTION >podcast (LS 44 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: THIS IS REVOLUTION＞podcast Ep. 255: From Politics to Hyper Politics w/ Anton Jäger and the Saturday Crüe
Pub date: 2022-03-09

Pascal, Stefan, and Marcus speak with Anton Jäger about his latest article “From Post-Politics to Hyper-Politics”. https://jacobinmag.com/2022/02/from-p...

Anton Jäger is a doctoral student at the University of Cambridge, working on the history of populism in the United States. Together with Daniel Zamora, he is currently working on an intellectual history of basic income.

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Podcast: Last Born In The Wilderness (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Beatrice Adler-Bolton: The Sociological Production Of The "End Of The Pandemic"
Pub date: 2022-03-17

This is a segment of episode 315 of Last Born In The Wilderness “Let It Rip: The Sociological Production Of The "End Of The Pandemic" w/ Beatrice Adler-Bolton.” Listen to the full episode: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/beatrice-adler-bolton

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton, disability justice advocate and co-host of the Death Panel podcast, joins me to discuss the sociological production of the "end of the pandemic," and what that means for the "surplus" populations made most vulnerable by the economic demands of capital. She is the author of the upcoming book ‘Health Communism: A Surplus Manifesto,’ co-authored with Artie Vierkant, which "argues for a new global left politics aimed at severing the ties between capital and health."

As the hosts of the Death Panel podcast have documented, discussed, and warned, the declarations made by the political and economic elites that we have entered into a "post-Covid" reality — where any and all public health measures meant to mitigate the spread of the virus are effectively lifted, and deemed unnecessary moving forward — is but a sociological construct, not based in epidemiological reality and sound public health policy. We have entered into the "let it rip" phase of the pandemic, it seems. What does this means for the immunocompromised/disabled and other vulnerable populations, as practically all efforts and measures (however weak) to mitigate the spread of this virus come to an end?

Beatrice Adler-Bolton is a blind/low vision and chronically ill artist, writer, and disability justice advocate. Beatrice studies radical patient groups and the capitalist political economy of health as an independent researcher and is earning a master's in Disability Studies at CUNY. She is the co-host of the Death Panel podcast with Artie Vierkant and Phil Rocco. Beatrice’s first book, called ‘Health Communism: A surplus manifesto,’ co-authored with Artie Vierkant, will be published by Verso Books in the US and UK in October 2022. Health Communism argues for a new global left politics aimed at severing the ties between capital and health.

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Podcast: The Sense of Place Podcast (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Ep 21: Exploring Post War & Contemporary Architecture ft. John Grindrod
Pub date: 2022-03-12

In today’s episode, I chat with author John Grindrod. John’s work explores Britain’s post-war and contemporary architecture from a personal and sociohistorical perspective. John describes his books as being for those of us who are fascinated by the modern histories of our towns, cities, and suburbs - but also aren’t quite sure what to make of them.

John has published four books: Concretopia: A Journey Around the Rebuilding of Postwar Britain (2013), Outskirts: Living Life on the Edge of the Green Belt (2017), How to Love Brutalism (2018), and Iconicon: A Journey Around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain (2022).

In my conversation with John, we learn about the key characteristics of post-war architecture, and what got John particularly interested in this era of construction. We also explore what the greenbelt is and the issues surrounding it, as well as John’s self-professed love of Brutalism. Finally, we take a look at John's new book, Iconicon, and ponder the ups and downs of our mutual home town, Croydon.

For more on John, check out https://www.johngrindrod.co.uk/

(Recorded March 2022)

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Podcast: Tech Empire with Michael Kwet and Tshi Malatji
Episode: What is anarchism? with Zoe Baker
Pub date: 2022-03-07

Today we welcome Zoe Baker to discuss anarchism. In this episode, we outline what anarchism is, how it emerged, and its distinction against Marxism. We also discuss the global reach of anarchism, anarchist anti-imperialism, as well as anarchist takes on technology, ecology, anarcho-syndicalism and unions, and the problems of nationalizing private property.

Zoe Baker is a trans anarchist historian who recently completed her PhD detailing the history of anarchism from the 19th century through the Spanish Civil War. Zoe is currently writing a book on anarchism for AK Press.

Tech Empire is part of the Yale Podcast Network, and can be found on Soundcloud, iTunes, and YouTube, with additional outlets coming soon. You can follow Zoe on Twitter at @anarchopac. Follow Tech Empire at @TechEmpireCast, Michael Kwet at @Michael_Kwet, and Tshi Malatji at @tshimalatji.

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Podcast: New Books Network (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Celia Stahr, "Frida in America: The Creative Awakening of a Great Artist" (St. Martin's Press, 2020)
Pub date: 2022-03-07

Mexican artist Frida Kahlo adored adventure. In November, 1930, she was thrilled to realize her dream of traveling to the United States to live in San Francisco, Detroit, and New York. Still, leaving her family and her country for the first time was monumental.

Only twenty-three and newly married to the already world-famous forty-three-year-old Diego Rivera, she was at a crossroads in her life and this new place, one filled with magnificent beauty, horrific poverty, racial tension, anti-Semitism, ethnic diversity, bland Midwestern food, and a thriving music scene, pushed Frida in unexpected directions. Shifts in her style of painting began to appear, cracks in her marriage widened, and tragedy struck, twice while she was living in Detroit.

Frida in America: The Creative Awakening of a Great Artist (St. Martin's Press, 2020) is the first in-depth biography of these formative years spent in Gringolandia, a place Frida couldn’t always understand. But it’s precisely her feelings of being a stranger in a strange land that fueled her creative passions and an even stronger sense of Mexican identity. With vivid detail, Frida in America recreates the pivotal journey that made Senora Rivera the world famous Frida Kahlo.

Jonathan Najarian is Lecturer of Rhetoric in the College of General Studies at Boston University. He is the editor of Comics and Modernism: History, Form, Culture, a collection of essays exploring the connections between avant-garde art and comics. He is also at work on a biography of the visual artist Lynd Ward, titled The Many Lives of Lynd Ward. He can be reached at joncn@bu.edu.

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Podcast: Ideas (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: The Poetics of Space
Pub date: 2022-03-07

For more than 60 years, French thinker Gaston Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space, has inspired poets, artists, architects, philosophers ⁠— and daydreamers. Millions of us around the world have spent two years sequestered in our homes, so what does his book about daydreaming and the imagination offer us now?

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Podcast: Growing Democracy Podcast (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Series 6 Episode 3: Tessa Xuan & Dr. Suparna Bhaskaran, Socially Constructing "The Other"
Pub date: 2022-02-28

This episode is part of Series 6, Race and Democracy in Northeast Ohio. Our third episode begins by exploring how individuals identify themselves, and why self-identification is a fundamental part of autonomy. Ashley and Shemariah talk with Tessa Xuan (Statewide Co-Director, OPAWL) and Dr. Suparna Bhaskaran (non-resident Fellow at the Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy at The New School, OSU). The conversation focuses on defining and understanding social construction of identity and intersectional solidarity, and how "othering" is used as a tool to divide. This series is made possible with funding from Mark Lewine and the John Gray Paynther Program.

Links: Immigration Justice Storytelling Campaign - http://opawl.org/advocacy/love-has-no-borders/

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Podcast: LA Opera Podcasts: Behind the Curtain (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Exploring Spanish Language Opera - El retablo de Maese Pedro with Dr. Mitchell Morris
Pub date: 2022-02-24

In this podcast, musicologist Dr. Mitchell Morris continues our Exploring the Canon podcast series with a discussion of Spanish composer Manuel de Falla and his work El retablo del Maese Pedro, a puppet opera based on Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. This recording was created as part of LA Opera Connects professional development series for teachers, Opera for Educators, in celebration of the premiere of The Three Women of Jerusalem, or Las tres mujeres de Jerusalén, a new Spanish-language opera by composer and librettist Carla Lucero. This production will premiere at Cathedral of our Lady of the Angels on March 19, 2022.

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Podcast: Indoor Voices
Episode: Episode 70: The intersection of art and social justice
Pub date: 2022-02-24

Cynthia Tobar, faculty librarian and head of archives at Bronx Community College, talks with Gregory Sholette and Chloë Bass about Social Practice CUNY (SPCUNY), a unique pedagogical initiative that supports the integration of art with interdisciplinary research, community collaboration, environmental justice and urban studies.

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Podcast: Visions of Education (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 176: New Materialism and Social Studies with Peter Nelson & Scott Durham
Pub date: 2022-02-19

In episode 176, Michael and Dan chat with Peter Nelson about his new publication in Theory & Research in Social Education titled, “Between aspiration and reality: New materialism and social studies education.”

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Podcast: The Arts of Travel (LS 35 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Sabina Knight on China's Literature (Part 1 - Daoism, Confucianism & Anti- War Poetry)
Pub date: 2022-02-20

We spoke to Dr. Sabina Knight of Smith for a two-part conversation on her book: Chinese Literature: A Very Short Introduction.

In part one, we discuss the historic & contemporary influence that Daoism, Confucianism & Anti-War Poetry have had on China's literature & literary culture.

For more w. Dr. Knight you can find her book here: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/chinese-literature-a-very-short-introduction-9780195392067?cc=us⟨=en&

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Podcast: New Books in Gender (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Kristina Wilson, "Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Power in Design" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Pub date: 2022-02-22

In the world of interior design, mid-century Modernism has left an indelible mark still seen and felt today in countless open-concept floor plans and spare, geometric furnishings. Yet despite our continued fascination, we rarely consider how this iconic design sensibility was marketed to the diverse audiences of its era. Examining advice manuals, advertisements in Life and Ebony, furniture, art, and more, Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Power in Design(Princeton UP, 2021) offers a powerful new look at how codes of race, gender, and identity influenced—and were influenced by—Modern design and shaped its presentation to consumers.

Taking us to the booming suburban landscape of postwar America, Kristina Wilson demonstrates that the ideals defined by popular Modernist furnishings were far from neutral or race-blind. Advertisers offered this aesthetic to White audiences as a solution for keeping dirt and outsiders at bay, an approach that reinforced middle-class White privilege. By contrast, media arenas such as Ebony magazine presented African American readers with an image of Modernism as a style of comfort, security, and social confidence. Wilson shows how etiquette and home decorating manuals served to control women by associating them with the domestic sphere, and she considers how furniture by George Nelson and Charles and Ray Eames, as well as smaller-scale decorative accessories, empowered some users, even while constraining others.

A striking counter-narrative to conventional histories of design, Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body unveils fresh perspectives on one of the most distinctive movements in American visual culture.

Nushelle de Silva is a PhD candidate in the Department of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her work examines museums and exhibitions, and how the dissemination of visual culture is politically mediated by international organizations in the twentieth century.

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Podcast: New Books in National Security (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Heather L. Dichter, "Bidding for the 1968 Olympic Games: International Sport's Cold War Battle with NATO" (U Massachusetts Press, 2021)
Pub date: 2022-02-11

Today we are joined by Heather Dichter, Associate Professor of Sports History and Sports Management at the International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University. She is also the author of Bidding for the 68 Olympic Games: International Sport’s Cold War Battle with NATO (University of Massachusetts Press, 2021). In our conversation, we discussed the origins of the East German sporting travel ban, the NATO alliance and the competition to host the 1968 Summer and Winter Olympics, and the role of smaller NATO members in reshaping the alliance’s border and travel regulations.

In Bidding for the 68 Olympic Games, Dichter examines a little-known and understudied until now diplomatic conflict between NATO and the International Olympic Committee. In the 1950s and 1960s, NATO members struggled to balance their adherence to the Hallstein Doctrine – non-recognition of state-symbols of East Germany – with their participation in and desire to host sports mega-events. The Hallstein doctrine limited travel for East German athletes, who could only participate as members of a club or a German team, as well as banned the inclusion of the East German anthem or flag in public. The IOC’s strict claims to apoliticism and their demand that all athletes be allowed to travel to competitions made NATO’s obstruction of East German travel unpopular and untenable. In the press, NATO members pointed to the Berlin Wall as the ultimate barrier to free travel, but behind the scenes and then later in public, the alliance’s solidarity threatened to crumble as Canada, France, and the United States competed for the right to host the Olympic Games.

Although the East German travel ban featured in press commentary about the 1968 Olympics, most histories of Cold War sports overlook this crucial moment in European sport. Dichter’s work moves beyond previous histories through an extensive analysis of a wide range of archives across multiple countries, including the United States, Canada, France, Switzerland, Germany and Norway. Her research includes not only newspapers, but more importantly diplomatic documents from NATO, NATO alliance members, and the IOC that enable her to better understand the diplomatic strategies pursued by the competing interests: nation-states, military alliances, sporting bodies, athletic federations and even athletes. Only through this transnational and multi-archival approach can Dichter illustrate the importance that NATO members placed on sport and explain why sport proved so difficult for them to handle despite broad agreement in other diplomatic arenas.

The Bidding for the 68 Olympic Games is a fascinating account of a largely unknown and poorly understood conflict between NATO and a range of international sporting organizations, including the International Olympic Committee. It will appeal to people interested in sport, international diplomacy, and the Cold War.

Keith Rathbone is a senior lecturer at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He researches twentieth-century French social and cultural history. His book, entitled Sport and physical culture in Occupied France: Authoritarianism, agency, and everyday life, out now with Manchester University Press, examines physical education and sports in order to better understand civic life under the dual authoritarian systems of the German Occupation and the Vichy Regime. If you have a title to suggest for this podcast, please contact him at keith.rathbone@mq.edu.au and follow him at @keithrathbone on twitter.

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Podcast: Bande à part (LS 44 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: 160: Museums and Memory
Pub date: 2022-02-13

We talk about the powerful and moving Second World War and Holocaust Galleries at the Imperial War Museum. See links below.

Imperial War Museum, London: https://www.iwm.org.uk/visits/iwm-london Second World War Galleries: https://www.iwm.org.uk/events/second-world-war-galleries The Holocaust Galleries: https://www.iwm.org.uk/events/the-holocaust-galleries https://www.iwm.org.uk/support-us/donations/second-world-war-and-holocaust-galleries

Jonathan Freedland, ‘Imperial War Museum Holocaust Galleries review – history’s greatest horror’, The Guardian (11 October 2021): https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/oct/11/imperial-war-museum-london-holocaust-gallery-review

‘The Holocaust Galleries - Imperial War Museum, London’, Casson Mann (2021): https://www.cassonmann.com/projects/holocaust-galleries

Vikki Hawkins, ‘Displaying marginalised and “hidden” histories at the Imperial War Museum London: The Second World War gallery regeneration project’, War & Society, Volume 39, Issue 3 (2020): https://doi.org/10.1080/07292473.2020.1786895

Museum of London: https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/west-smithfield/relocation-west-smithfield

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Podcast: Philosopher's Zone (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Art and climate
Pub date: 2022-02-13

Our current climate crisis is, as much as anything else, a crisis of communication. Artists have a unique opportunity to step in and deliver environmental messages in a way that speaks to the emotions and the gut. And in doing this, they're reconfiguring the conceptual map of what art is supposed to be. Can a public sleepover in a town hall to raise awareness of disaster preparedness be called “art”? And what role do mystery and aesthetics play in this sort of work?

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Podcast: AnthroPod (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: 61. Radical Humanism and Decolonization: An Interview with Kamari Maxine Clarke
Pub date: 2022-02-03

Professor Kamari Clarke reflects on her ethnographic work in Africa, her thinking on the legacies of colonialism in the discipline of Anthropology, and her recent work with the Radical Humanism Initiative.

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Podcast: ArchitectureTalk (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: 120. Part 1: Mental Landscapes and the Architectural Archipelagos of Indian Modernism with William J.R. Curtis
Pub date: 2022-02-03

This week, we travel back in time with architectural historian and theorist William J.R. Curtis and his reading of the narrative of Indian Modernism. Part one of a two part series, Curtis and Prakash focus today’s conversation on the life and work of Aditya Prakash, the nature and production of Modernism in India, and Curtis’ own engagement with Indian Modernism.

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Podcast: Game Studies Study Buddies (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: 43 – Schüll – Addiction By Design
Pub date: 2022-01-31

We discuss Natasha Dow Schüll’s Addiction By Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas.

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Podcast: Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: 182 | Sally Haslanger on Social Construction and Critical Theory
Pub date: 2022-01-31

Reality is just out there — but how we perceive reality and talk about it depends on choices we human beings make. We decide (consciously or not) to conceptualize the world in certain ways, whether it’s because those ways provide elegant predictive descriptions or because they serve a more subtle political purpose. To get at the true nature of reality, therefore, it’s important to think about which aspects of it are socially constructed, and why. I talk with Sally Haslanger about these issues, and the techniques we can use to understand the world and make it a better place.

Update (22 March): Our discussion here could have (and did) leave some listeners with the wrong impression of how Sally and I feel about trans rights -- we are entirely for them! My fault for not making things more clear during the conversation. So I have added a brief note during the podcast intro to make our position perfectly explicit. Thanks to everyone who commented.

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Podcast: Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: James Hannaham : Pilot Impostor
Pub date: 2022-02-01

Writer, critic, performer, & visual artist James Hannaham talks about his latest and most uncategorizable book Pilot Impostor. This book slips between the borders of prose and poetry, fiction and nonfiction, image and text, facts and fake news, selfhood and persona, pretending and privilege. And Pilot Impostor comes into being piece by piece through an engagement […]

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Podcast: A Correction Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Vivek Chibber on Orientalism and Edward Said
Pub date: 2022-01-30

Vivek Chibber is a professor of sociology at New York University. He is the editor of Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy.

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Podcast: Millennials Are Killing Capitalism (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: “Against Alienation” - Lara Sheehi and Stephen Sheehi on their book Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine
Pub date: 2022-01-24

In this episode we talk to Lara and Stephen Sheehi about their recently published book Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine. Lara Sheehi is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at the George Washington University Professional Psychology Program.

Stephen Sheehi is a Professor of Middle East Studies and Director of the Decolonizing Humanities Project at William & Mary.

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Their work in this text is heavily influenced by Frantz Fanon and critically engages theories of decoloniality and Liberatory psychoanalysis. It centers the stories and struggles of clinicians and their clients in Palestine.

In this conversation Lara & Stephen talk about the historical relationship between psychoanalysis and colonialism, and how power relations and epistemology structure those relations.

Upending those relations of course are anti-colonial or decolonial theories of psychoanalysis and in this context relationships forged between Palestinian clinicians and their Palestinian clients. Both are subjected to the same settler colonial apartheid regime that necessitates a national liberation struggle.

Along the way they talk about the different forms of every day and extreme oppression faced by Palestinian people, we talk about the work of Palestinian clinicians to confront that harm, and how confronting that requires transgressive acts, organization and ultimately resistance.

We take up problems like ideological misattunement between Israeli clinicians and Palestinian clients, talk about concepts like disalienation, and conscientisation and other key concepts in Fanonian and decolonial psychoanalytic theory. Providing key insights for resisting individuation, alienation and colonial oppression.

Lara Sheehi also mentions that she and others have some networks of anti-colonial and anti-capitalist therapists and BIPOC anti-imperialist therapists for folks who are looking for that you can connect with Dr. Sheehi to find out more information.

Also just a note, we realize that this book is priced too high for most people to purchase it for themselves. You can ask your public or school library to purchase a copy - as this was really the publishing model that the publisher chose for this text. The authors are committed however to making sure that anybody who wants to read it can find a way to get access to the text. So if you aren’t able to get your hands on it, please reach out to Lara.

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Podcast: fDi Podcast (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Bilbao Effect #5: London, UK
Pub date: 2022-01-21

The Tate Modern needs little introduction. As one of the most recognisable museums in the world, it has helped put London on the map as an international art and cultural centre. But perhaps less often discussed is its contribution towards the transformation of London’s waterfront in what could be described as a “Tate Modern effect”.

In conversation with Seth O’Farrell, Frances Morris stresses that throughout the museum’s history, it has engaged the local community so as not to “parachute” into an area it had little to do with. But challenges have emerged with the encroachment of privatisation and neighbouring commercial developments. Now, with the increasing need for private funding, the pandemic and the climate crisis, Ms Morris is confident that the museum can step up to the plate as the demands on the "museum of the 21st century" change once more.

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Podcast: Below the Radar (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Badiou, Universalism and Racial Politics — with Elisabeth Paquette
Pub date: 2022-01-25

Continental philosopher and assistant professor of Philosophy and Women Gender Studies at the University of North Carolina, Elisabeth Paquette, joins Am Johal to speak about her latest book, Universal Emancipation: Race Beyond Badiou.

Elisabeth speaks about some of her transformative moments as a continental philosopher, including an essential question posed to her by Paget Henry, and her experience joining the Black Lives Matter Charlotte Protests in 2016. Her and Am also speak about the important questions surrounding ideas of justice, how justice can be emancipatory, and the ways that states fail in enacting justice — due to its deep foundations upon race and culture.

Elisabeth spends time critiquing Badiou’s class-first philosophies that undermines possibilities for universality in the sense of race, and then discusses the histories of Marxism centering on whiteness and Eurocentric attitudes. She also speaks about the importance of positive conceptions of race, and draws from Sylvia Wynter to determine that true universal emancipation needs to be filled with the varied and particular knowledges of racialized folks.

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Resources: — Universal Emancipation: Race Beyond Badiou, by Elisabeth Paquette: https://www.abebooks.co.uk/Universal-Emancipation-Race-beyond-Badiou-Paquette/30926172047/bd — LGBTQ Staff and Faculty Caucus at UNC Charlotte: https://qtsfc.charlotte.edu/about-u — Decolonial Feminist Politics Workshop: https://decolonialthoughtworkshop.wordpress.com/ — Red Skin, White Masks by Glen Coulthard: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/red-skin-white-masks — Glen Coulthard on Below the Radar: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/37-glen-coulthard.html — Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon: http://abahlali.org/files/__Black_Skin__White_Masks__Pluto_Classics_.pdf — Black Marxism by Cedric J. Robinson: https://uncpress.org/book/9780807848296/black-marxism/

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Podcast: LA Opera Podcasts: Behind the Curtain (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: James Conlon on History, Opera and Composers of the 19th and 20th Century
Pub date: 2022-01-14

In this podcast, the first of an Exploring the Operatic Canon series, Maestro James Conlon discusses one of opera lovers' favorite parts of the canon: the operas of the 19th and 20th centuries. From Verdi to Stravinsky, Maestro Conlon shares his wisdom and insight.

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Podcast: Mad in America: Rethinking Mental Health (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Sebastienne Grant - Critical Psychology for a Better Society
Pub date: 2022-01-12

Sebastienne Grant is a professor of critical psychology at Prescott College in Prescott, Arizona. She currently serves as the program director for a Master’s program in Critical Psychology and Human Services. Dr. Grant received her PhD in Psychology: Consciousness and Society from the University of West Georgia.

Grounded in the traditions of Buddhism, critical psychology, existential-humanistic psychology, and transpersonal psychology, Dr. Grant is concerned with questions of wellbeing—both individual and societal.

She has written on transhumanism from Buddhist and existential perspectives, as well as the tensions of social justice under neoliberalism. Her most recent publication is a chapter titled “Addressing the Empty Self: Toward Socially Just Subjectivities” in the book Subjectivity in Psychology in the Era of Social Justice.

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Podcast: New Books in Literary Studies (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Marc Caplan, "Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin: A Fugitive Modernism" (Indiana UP, 2021)
Pub date: 2022-01-13

In Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin: A Fugitive Modernism(Indiana UP, 2021), Marc Caplan explores the reciprocal encounter between Eastern European Jews and German culture in the days following World War I. By concentrating primarily on a small group of avant-garde Yiddish writers—Dovid Bergelson, Der Nister, and Moyshe Kulbak—working in Berlin during the Weimar Republic, Caplan examines how these writers became central to modernist aesthetics. By concentrating on the character of Yiddish literature produced in Weimar Germany, Caplan offers a new method of seeing how artistic creation is constructed and a new understanding of the political resonances that result from it.

Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin reveals how Yiddish literature participated in the culture of Weimar-era modernism, how active Yiddish writers were in the literary scene, and how German-speaking Jews read descriptions of Yiddish-speaking Jews to uncover the emotional complexity of what they managed to create even in the midst of their confusion and ambivalence in Germany. Caplan's masterful narrative affords new insights into literary form, Jewish culture, and the philosophical and psychological motivations for aesthetic modernism.

Lea Greenberg is a scholar of German studies with a particular focus on German Jewish and Yiddish literature and culture; critical gender studies; multilingualism; and literature of the post-Yugoslav diaspora.

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Podcast: The Ancients (LS 60 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Seleucid Empire: In the Shadow of Rome
Pub date: 2022-01-13

At its height, the Seleucid Empire stretched from Thrace (modern day Bulgaria) to the Indus River Valley. Emerging from the tumultuous ‘Successor Wars’ that followed Alexander the Great’s passing, for over a century it was a superpower of the eastern Mediterranean. This, however, ultimately led it into conflict with Rome at the beginning of the 2nd century BC. The result was a devastating defeat for the Seleucid King Antiochus III ‘the Great’ at the Battle of Magnesia, fought around this time of year in either December 190 BC or January 189 BC. Following the battle, the Seleucids were humbled by a damaging treaty, but what happened next? What followed for the Seleucids, having been humbled by the Romans? Did they descend from superpower to suppliant? Or did they experience a resurgence? In today’s podcast, Eduardo Garcia-Molina, a PHD Classics student at the University of Chicago, argues the latter. Focusing in on the reign of Antiochus IV, Eduardo highlights how the Seleucid Empire remained a powerful entity in the wake of Magnesia and their Roman defeat.

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Podcast: The Sociology Show (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Interview with Dr Christine Feldman-Barrett
Pub date: 2022-01-10

In this episode, Matthew talks to Dr Christine Feldman-Barrett from Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. In part one the discussion focusses on Christine's interest in youth subcultures and her book "We are the Mods'. In part two the conversation moves on to her latest publication - "A women's history of The Beatles'.

Podcast: The Fire These Times (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: 94/ The Political Economy of Solarpunk w/ Andrew Dana Hudson
Pub date: 2022-01-07

This is a conversation with speculative fiction writer and sustainability researcher Andrew Dana Hudson. His stories have appeared in Slate Future Tense, Lightspeed Magazine, Vice Terraform, MIT Technology Review, Grist, Little Blue Marble, The New Accelerator, StarShipSofa and more, as well as various books and anthologies. His fiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and longlisted for the BSFA. In 2016 his story “Sunshine State” won the first Everything Change Climate Fiction Contest, and in 2017 he was runner up in the Kaleidoscope Writing The Future Contest. His 2015 essay “On the Political Dimensions of Solarpunk” has helped define and grow the “solarpunk” subgenre. He is a member of the cursed 2020 class of the Clarion Workshop.

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What is Solarpunk?
Introduction to his essay “On the Political Dimensions of Solarpunk“
The urgency of Solarpunk and the response to Cyberpunk
Post-normal fiction
Solarpunk and global network society: why did it start in the 2010s?
The importance of care work
Solarpunk and the future of cities
Solarpunk and utopias
Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction
The climate activism momentum
How has Solarpunk changed over the years? Also: discussion of COP26 and Green New Deal

Books mentioned + Recommended:

Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures edited by Priya Sarukkai Chabria and Taiyo Fujii and Shweta Taneja (which includes a story by Andrew)
Our Shared Storm: A Novel of Five Climate Futures by Andrew (Pre-order now)
Lo stato solare by Andrew
Infomocracy by Malka Ann Older
Gnomon by Nick Harkaway
Infinite Detail by Tim Maughan
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
Walkaway by Cory Doctorow

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Podcast: Ben Franklin's World (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: 319 Ada Ferrer, Cuba: An Early American History
Pub date: 2022-01-04

One of the Caribbean islands that Christopher Columbus stopped at during his 1492-voyage was an alligator-shaped island that sits at the mouth of the Gulf of Mexico in between the Yucatán and Florida peninsulas. This is, of course, is the island of Cuba.

What do we know about early Cuba, the island the Spanish described as the “Key to the Indies?” What kind of relationship and exchange did early Cuba have with British North America and the early United States?

Ada Ferrer, a Professor of History at New York University and author of Cuba: An American History, joins us to investigate the early history of Cuba.

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Podcast: New Books in Architecture (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Anna Bokov, "Avant-Garde as Method: Vkhutemas and the Pedagogy of Space, 1920-1930" (Park Publishing, 2020)
Pub date: 2021-12-29

In Avant-Garde as Method: Vkhutemas and the Pedagogy of Space, 1920-1930(Park Publishing, 2020), Anna Bokov examines the history of the Higher Art and Technical Studios (Vysshie khudozhestvenno-tekhnicheskie masterskie) in Moscow, known most commonly by its acronym Vkhutemas. Operating between 1920 and 1930, Vkhutemas was a centre for developing new pedagogical methods to support mass education in art and technology. In this richly illustrated study, Bokov traces how radical experiments in art, architecture, and design were translated into systematic body of knowledge – and how this knowledge was then applied in various projects aimed at shaping modern Soviet society. From small utensils and furniture pieces to large-scale urban designs, the Vkhutemas influence was visible everywhere, and Bokov foregrounds the school’s impact both on the formation of modernism, along with its lasting creative legacy.

Anna Bokov is an architect, urban designer, and historian specialising in the history of the avant-garde movements and design pedagogy. She is a faculty member at the Cooper Union and the City College in New York and Fellow of the Centre for Advanced Studies in Architecture at ETH Zürich.

Iva Glisic is a historian and art historian specialising in modern Russia and the Balkans.

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Podcast: The Governance Podcast (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Culture, Science, and the Predicament of Climate Change: In Conversation with Michael Hulme
Pub date: 2021-12-08

On this week’s episode of the Governance Podcast, our Director Prof. Mark Pennington interviews Prof. Michael Hulme from Cambridge University. This episode is titled “Culture, Science, and the Predicament of Climate Change”, where he suggests looking at climate change challenges as predicaments for human societies to cope with.

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Podcast: New Books Network (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Kate Rigby, "Reclaiming Romanticism: Towards an Ecopoetics of Decolonisation" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Pub date: 2021-12-10

The earliest environmental criticism took its inspiration from the Romantic poets and their immersion in the natural world. Today the “romanticising” of nature has come to be viewed with suspicion. Written by one of the leading ecocritics writing today, Kate Rigby's book Reclaiming Romanticism: Towards an Ecopoetics of Decolonisation (Bloomsbury, 2020) rediscovers the importance of the European Romantic tradition to the ways that writers and critics engage with the environment in the Anthropocene era. Exploring the work of such poets as Wordsworth, Shelley and Clare, the book discovers a rich vein of Romantic ecomaterialism and brings these canonical poets into dialogue with contemporary American and Australian poets and artists. Kate Rigby demonstrates the ways in which Romantic ecopoetics responds to postcolonial challenges and environmental peril to offer a collaborative artistic practice for an era of human-non-human cohabitation and kinship.

Eyad Houssami makes theatre and has participated in the revitalization of an ancient organic farm in southern Lebanon. He is editor of the Arabic-English book Doomed by Hope: Essays on Arab Theatre (Pluto/Dar Al Adab) and was editor-at-large of Portal 9, a bilingual literary and academic journal about urbanism. His doctoral research project at the University of Leeds and this work are supported by the UK Arts & Humanities Research Council (grant number AH/R012733/1) through the White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities. A Syrian multinational, he studied at Yale and earned a certificate in beekeeping from SOILS Permaculture Association Lebanon.

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Podcast: Philosopher's Zone (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Mathematics and the good life
Pub date: 2021-12-12

Mathematics is often understood as something technical – essential to making sure our buildings and bridges don’t fall down, but not offering much in the way of moral interest. This week we’re asking whether or not that’s true, and finding that mathematics has strong historical connections to the philosophy of how to live well.

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Podcast: In the Foreground: Conversations on Art & Writing (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: “The Ethics of Seeing”: Kaira M. Cabañas on Creative Care and Art’s Histories
Pub date: 2021-12-07

In this episode, which continues the miniseries focused on sound, media, and visual art, Caitlin Woolsey (Assistant Director of the Research and Academic Program at the Clark Art Institute) speaks with Kaira M. Cabañas,professor of art history at the University of Florida, where she is also affiliate faculty in the Center for Latin American Studies and Center for Gender, Sexualities and Women’s Studies Research. Kaira describes how her early studies helped her think about the relations and discontinuities between cultural contexts, and reflects on artists who practice film “otherwise.” She shares her most recent project focused on transatlantic exchanges in art and psychiatry, and critiques what is often perceived as the current “crisis” in the discipline, asking: a crisis for whom?

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Podcast: The TLS Podcast (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: George Orwell and his Roses and a History of Self-Improvement
Pub date: 2021-12-02

This week, Lucy Dallas and Alex Clark discuss roses, Orwell and rhizomatic thinking with Margaret Drabble; Kathryn Hughes is our guide through histories of self-improvement; plus, what log-rolling really means.

'Orwell's Roses' by Rebecca Solnit

'The Art of Self-Improvement' by Anna Katharina Schaffner

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Podcast: In the Foreground: Conversations on Art & Writing (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: “Grounded by a Set of Relations”: Nancy Um on "Horizontal" Cultures within Art History
Pub date: 2021-11-30

In this episode Caro Fowler (Starr Director of the Research and Academic Program at the Clark Art Institute) speaks with Nancy Um, professor of art history at Binghamton University in New York State, whose research explores the Islamic world from the perspective of the coast, with a focus on material, visual, and built culture on the Arabian Peninsula and around the rims of the Red Sea and Indian Ocean. Nancy describes her experience of conducting fieldwork in Yemen, particularly as a young female scholar, and reflects on the constraints of focusing on an area marked by geopolitical instability. She recounts her decision to focus on bodies of water instead of territories, and how this approach destabilizes some of the traditional organizing principles of the discipline, but allows her to pursue global art history on a local scale. Finally, she considers digital art history as a site of access, and as part of a dynamic approach to her own work changing over time.

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Podcast: Why Theory (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Retroactivity
Pub date: 2021-11-27

Ryan and Todd explore the concept of retroactivity or Nachträglichkeit from its development in Hegel's philosophy to its pivotal status as the basis for freedom in Slavoj Zizek's thought. In between, they discuss how Freud, Lacan, and Laplanche each deploy this central theoretical concept and trace its political implications.

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Podcast: Deconstructing Yourself (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Eco-Aesthetics and the Poetry of Longing with Rick Jarow
Pub date: 2021-11-30

What can ancient Sanskrit poetry of love and longing teach us about our own deepest spirituality? Join host Michael Taft as he explores this question with professor, author, and teacher Rick Jarow. Further topics include the tantric aspect of poetry, how landscape and nature informs and embodies our spirituality, the role of the word in transcendence, sacred passion for the divine as expressed in the poetics of longing, and much more.

Rick Jarow Ph.D. is a author, teacher, and scholar of Indian languages and literature. Recently retired from his position as a Religious Studies professor at Vassar college in New York, Rick leads workshops and retreats worldwide. His books include: In Search of the Sacred, Tales for the Dying, and a new work: The Cloud of Longing: A New Translation and Eco-Aesthetic Study of Kalidasa's Meghaduta.

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Podcast: Converging Dialogues (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: #91 - German Idealism: The Philosophies of Kant and Fichte: A Dialogue with Gabriel Gottlieb
Pub date: 2021-11-29

In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Gabriel Gottlieb about German idealism and the philosophies of Immanuel Kant and Johann Gottlieb Fichte. They define German idealism and where this period sits within the history of philosophy. They discuss the interaction between subject and object and how intersubjectivity plays a role. They mention the impact of Hume on German idealism and define Kant's terms of Apriori and Aposteriori. They talk about how one could understand experience from reason and why Kant was hyperfocused on the rational functions of humans. They also mention Kant's arguments for the existence of god and how German idealism evolved after Kant.

A background of Fichte is provided and what his beliefs were about the self as activity. They discuss Fichte's moral system and how that lends towards a moral psychology. They mention Fichte's ideas about drives and how his ideas are juxtaposed with Freud's ideas concerning drives. They mention Fichte's nationalism and Fichte's complications with Judaism. They also talk about the philosophy of Schelling and the impact of German idealism on 20th Century philosophy.

Gabriel Gottlieb is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Xavier University. His primary interests are on German idealism, specifically the philosophy of Fichte. He is the editor of Fichte's Foundations of Natural Right: A Critical Guide. You can find some of his writing here. Twitter: @xgabegottliebx

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Podcast: THIS IS REVOLUTION >podcast (LS 44 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: THIS IS REVOLUTION＞podcast Ep. 212: The Memeing of Mark Fisher w/ Mark Watson
Pub date: 2021-11-24

The Frankfurt School meets Fisher in this critique of capitalism incorporating memes, mental illness and psychedelia into a proposed counterculture. Spring 2020 to 2021 was the year that did not take place. We witnessed a depression, not economically speaking, but in the psychological sense: A clinical depression of and by society itself. This depression was brought about not just by Covid isolation, but by the digital economy, fueled by social media and the meme. In the aftermath, this book revisits the main Frankfurt School theorists, Adorno, Horkheimer, Benjamin and Marcuse, who worked in the shadow of World War Two, during the rise of the culture industry. In examining their thoughts and drawing parallels with Fisher's Capitalist Realism, The Memeing of Mark Fisher aims to render the Frankfurt School as an incisive theoretical toolbox for the post-Covid digital age. Taking in the phenomena of QAnon, twitch streaming, and memes it argues that the dichotomy between culture and political praxis is a false one. Finally, as more people have access to the means for theoretical and cultural broadcasting, it is urged that the online left uses that access to build a real-life cultural and political movement.

Mike Watson Mike Watson is a UK-born art and media theorist, critic and curator who holds a PhD in Philosophy from Goldsmiths College. Watson curated at the 55th and 56th Venice Biennale, as well as at Manifesta12 in Palermo. He has written regularly for Art Review, Artforum, Jacobin, and Radical Philosophy. @_leftaesthetics https://www.mikewatson.fi/

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Podcast: Diet Soap - a podcast (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 384: What's Wrong with Left Populism?
Pub date: 2021-11-18

Podcast: VINTAGE BOOKS (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Art under tyranny: Ai Weiwei
Pub date: 2021-11-21

Tune into hear Ossian Ward in conversation with Ai Weiwei, author of 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows. This conversation was recorded in partnership with Penguin Live and Manchester's HOME.

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Podcast: The Forum (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Mary Somerville: The queen of 19th-Century science
Pub date: 2021-11-18

For someone who was largely self-taught, Mary Somerville's rise to renown in the male-dominated world of science was quite remarkable. Although women were barred from being members of the learned societies where knowledge was shared in the early 19th-Century, Somerville found alternative ways to become one of the most respected figures in maths and science of her day.

Scottish-born Somerville played a crucial role in communicating the latest findings in science through a series of successful books. She regretted never making any original discoveries herself however, so does her experience suggest we should re-evaluate the role of originality in science?

Bridget Kendall is joined by Jim Secord, emeritus professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, who has edited the works of Mary Somerville; Dr Brigitte Stenhouse, lecturer in the History of Mathematics at the University of Oxford whose doctoral thesis looked at the mathematical work of Mary Somerville; and Ruth Boreham, former project curator at the National Library of Scotland, who is writing a biography of Mary Somerville.

Producer: Fiona Clampin

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Podcast: The Europe Desk (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Other ‘68ers
Pub date: 2021-11-16

Dr. Anna von der Goltz joined us to discuss her new book, The Other '68ers: Student Protest and Christian Democracy in West Germany.

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Podcast: BSP Podcast (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Sam McAuliffe - ‘The Improvisational Encounter: What is Common to Music and Hermeneutic-Phenomenology’
Pub date: 2021-11-13

Season five of our podcast continues with another presentation from our 2020 annual conference: ‘Engaged Phenomenology’ Online. This episode features a presentation from Sam McAuliffe, Monash University

ABSTRACT: Hermeneutic-phenomenology as a method of inquiry is increasingly finding its way into music studies, and the performing arts more generally. Indeed, with respect to music studies there is no shortage of projects where hermeneutic-phenomenology is employed as a means to better understand music, both from the perspective of creating music and experiencing it as a spectator. There is a clear distinction, then, between the practice of music and the application of hermeneutic-phenomenological inquiry; one is used to understand the other. Rarely acknowledged however, are those characteristics that are common to both music and hermeneutic-phenomenology. In this paper I would like to explore one of those shared characteristics: improvisation. By exploring the hermeneutic-phenomenological tradition from a Gadamerian perspective and the practice of music, broadly conceived, I argue that what is common to each is the ‘improvisational encounter’. Which is to say, the improvisation that is essential to the practice of music is equally essential to hermeneutic-phenomenological inquiry. By highlighting the hermeneutic-phenomenological nature of improvisation in music and the improvisational nature of hermeneutic-phenomenology we might better notice the relevance of each field to the other. Consequently, not only can applied hermeneutic-phenomenology better speak to the practice of music, but so too can studying music provide insight into hermeneutic-phenomenology as such. Thus, perhaps by acknowledging the commonalities between art and philosophy we can notice ways in which these disciplines might speak to and complement one another.

BIO: Sam McAuliffe is a PhD candidate at Monash University, working at the intersection of improvised music and philosophical hermeneutics. In addition to his academic work Sam has worked as a musical director for experimental theatre productions, has curated sound installations for major Australian art festivals, and he plays guitar in a variety of ensembles.

This recording is taken from the BSP Annual Conference 2020 Online: 'Engaged Phenomenology'. Organised with the University of Exeter and sponsored by Egenis and the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health. BSP2020AC was held online this year due to global concerns about the Coronavirus pandemic. For the conference our speakers recorded videos, our keynotes presented live over Zoom, and we also recorded some interviews online as well. Podcast episodes from BSP2020AC are soundtracks of those videos where we and the presenters feel the audio works as a standalone: https://www.britishphenomenology.org.uk/bsp-annual-conference-2020/

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Podcast: In Our Time: Science (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: William and Caroline Herschel
Pub date: 2021-11-11

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss William Herschel (1738 – 1822) and his sister Caroline Herschel (1750 – 1848) who were born in Hanover and made their reputation in Britain. William was one of the most eminent astronomers in British history. Although he started life as a musician, as a young man he became interested in studying the night sky. With an extraordinary talent, he constructed telescopes that were able to see further and more clearly than any others at the time. He is most celebrated today for discovering the planet Uranus and detecting what came to be known as infrared radiation. Caroline also became a distinguished astronomer, discovering several comets and collaborating with her brother.

With

Monica Grady Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences at the Open University

Carolin Crawford Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge and an Emeritus Fellow of Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge

And

Jim Bennett Keeper Emeritus at the Science Museum in London.

Studio producer: John Goudie

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Podcast: New Books in Gender (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Genevieve Yue, "Girl Head: Feminism and Film Materiality" (Fordham UP, 2020)
Pub date: 2021-11-03

The female form has been a fraught site of filmic meaning – of desire and violence, of sex and death – from the very beginnings of cinema. But how deep do these meanings travel? How are our understandings of gender and sexuality not the stuff of screen representation but shaped by film technology and culture as well?

Published in November 2020 by Fordham University Press, Genevieve Yue’s Girl Head: Feminism and Film Materiality, “in rich archival and technical detail… examines three sites of technical film production: the film laboratory, editing practices, and the film archive. Within each site, she locates a common motif, the vanishing female body, which is transformed into material to be used in the making of a film. The book develops a theory of gender and film materiality through readings of narrative film, early cinema, experimental film, and moving image art.”

In this discussion, Dr. Yue articulates her relationship to interdisciplinary research, traces her personal journey from dissertation to book, and argues for the centrality of material culture in feminist film studies.

Genevieve Yue is an assistant professor in the Department of Culture and Media and director of the Screen Studies program at Eugene Lang College, the New School. Her essays and criticism have been published in October, Grey Room, The Times Literary Supplement, Reverse Shot, Artforum.com, Film Comment, and Film Quarterly. She is also an independent film programmer and serves on the Board of Trustees for the Flaherty Film Seminar.

Annie Berke is the Film Editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books and author of Their Own Best Creations: Women Writers in Postwar Television (University of California Press, 2022). Her scholarship and criticism has been published in Feminist Media Histories, Public Books, Literary Hub, Ms., and Camera Obscura.

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Podcast: In the Foreground: Conversations on Art & Writing (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: “To See the Effects of Sound”: Niall Atkinson on Acoustic Topographies of the Early Modern
Pub date: 2021-11-09

In this episode, Caitlin Woolsey (Assistant Director of the Research and Academic Program at the Clark Art Institute) continues the miniseries on sound and visual art in conversation with Niall Atkinson, an associate professor of art history at the University of Chicago. Niall's research concerns the relationship between sound, space, and architecture and their role in the construction of pre-modern urban societies. They discuss his research methods for working on historical soundscapes, and ways of reconstructing sonic relationships in the past even if the sounds and sonic experiences themselves are now lost to us.

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Podcast: Ideas (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Return of the Guillotine
Pub date: 2021-11-02

Mock guillotines regularly show up at protests, from both the political right and left. This documentary by Matthew Lazin-Ryder traces the history of the guillotine as a symbol, from its bloody history during the darkest days of the French Revolution to its reinvention as an emblem of equality.

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Podcast: Hagley History Hangout
Episode: Unpeeling the Orange Empire: Citrus & Art in the Archive with Suzy Kopf
Pub date: 2021-11-01

How did citrus fruit come to carry its particular meaning in American consumer culture? Visual artist Suzy Kopf, instructor at the Maryland Institute College of Art, visited the Hagley Library to research citrus companies’ efforts to sell their products to Americans. What she found was a much deeper story of how changing technologies, markets, and popular culture made citrus, and its semitropical cousin avocado, into a beacon of sunshine, fun, and desirability.

Supported by an exploratory grant from the Center for the History of Business, Technology, & Society, Kopf dug into a variety of collections to uncover the untold stories of American citrus in the twentieth century. From produce marketing photographs, to real estate and vacation pamphlets, to instructional booklets for citrus growers and grocery store operators, Kopf found a wealth of materials in the Hagley archives to inform and inspire her artwork in multiple media.

Images referred to in this interview can be found at www.hagley.org/research/history-hangout-suzy-kopf.

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Podcast: Politeia
Episode: Stuart Elden and Samuel Lee on Foucault
Pub date: 2021-11-03

Should we question the traditional periodization of Foucault's oeuvre? What is the difference between biography and intellectual history? Why read Foucault today? Stuart Elden, Professor of Political Theory and Geography at the University of Warwick, will share his view about Foucault and the method of intellectual history.

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Podcast: Arts & Ideas (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Language of Flowers
Pub date: 2021-10-21

Gardening and George Orwell might not be the first pairing that comes to mind but he uses gardening metaphors in his writing and made many notes about the growth of vegetables and flowers he had planted. Rebecca Solnit discusses how this focus helps us understand his work and that of other writers interested in flowers. Shahidha Bari is also joined by Amy de la Haye, curator and author of 'Ravishing: The Rose in Fashion', Randy Malamud, whose study of cut flowers in culture is called 'Strange Bright Blooms', and Simon Morley, author of 'By Any Other Name: A Cultural History Of The Rose'.

Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit is out now. You can hear her discussing her ideas about truth in a previous episode of Free Thinking https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0008wc1

Producer: Luke Mulhall

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Podcast: New Books in Gender (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Adesola Akinleye, "(Re:) Claiming Ballet" (Intellect Books, 2021)
Pub date: 2021-10-21

(Re:) Claiming Ballet (Intellect Books, 2021) by Dr. Adesola Akinleye explores the history of movement through ballet, representation, and the future of dance. Though ballet is often seen as a white, cis-heteropatriarchal form of dance, in fact it has been, and still is, shaped by artists from a much broader range of backgrounds. This collection looks beyond the mainstream, bringing to light the overlooked influences that continue to inform the culture of ballet. Essays illuminate the dance form’s rich and complex history and start much-needed conversations about the roles of class, gender normativity, and race, demonstrating that despite mainstream denial and exclusionary tactics, ballet thrives with “difference.”

With contributions from professional ballet dancers and teachers, choreographers, and dance scholars in Europe and the United States, the volume introduces important new thinkers and perspectives. An essential resource for the field of ballet studies and a major contribution to dance scholarship more broadly, (Re:) Claiming Ballet will appeal to academics, researchers, and scholars; dance professionals and practitioners; and anyone interested in the intersection of race, class, gender, and dance.

For her choreographic work, Akinleye has been awarded ADAD Trailblazer, Bonnie Bird, New Choreography Award and One Dance UK Champion Trailblazer. For her work in community dance and education she was awarded Woman of the year in Community Dance by the Town of Islip, New York. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), Royal Society of Arts (RSA). She holds a PhD from Canterbury Christ Church University, and MA (distinction) in work-based learning Dance in Community and education (2007), and an MA in Film (distinction) 2020 from Middlesex University. Akinleye is also a certified Gyrotonic® and Gyrokinesis® instructor.

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Podcast: Democracy in Question? (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Biopolitics from Below
Pub date: 2021-10-27

This episode explores with Ranabir Samaddar the specific nature of democratic politics during the COVID-19 crisis. Anchored in the specificity of the experience of the pandemic in India, the episode also addresses the global transformation of politics in a time of crisis. How has the pandemic changed our understanding of politics? What does it mean to refocus on life as the primary object of politics? And what does the COVID-19 crisis reveal about the nature of the contemporary Indian state and the fundamental concepts of sovereignty and citizenship?

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Bibliograpy:

Samaddar, R (2017). Karl Marx and the Postcolonial Age. Calcutta: Palgrave MacMillan.

Samaddar, R (2007). The Materiality of Politics: The Technologies of Rule Volume 1. London: Anthem Press.

Samaddar, R et al (2022) India’s Migrant Workers and the Pandemic. New York: Routledge.

Grebmer, Klaus von, Jill Bernstein et al (2021). Global Hunger Index: Hunger and Food systems in conflict settings: Bonn / Dublin.

Agamben, Giorgio (1998). Homo sacer: sovereign power and bare life. California: Stanford University Press.

Glossary:

What is Global Hunger Index?
(00:2:17 or p.1 in the transcript)

The Global Hunger Index is a peer-reviewed annual report, jointly published by Concern Worldwide and Welthungerhilfe, designed to comprehensively measure and track hunger at the global, regional, and country levels. The aim of the GHI is to trigger action to reduce hunger around the world. Source:

Who is Foucault and what does biopolitics mean?
(00:3:36 or p.1 in the transcript)

Foucault and biopolitics: Michel Foucault was a major figure in two successive waves of 20th century French thought–the structuralist wave of the 1960s and then the poststructuralist wave. Foucault’s work is transdisciplinary in nature, ranging across the concerns of the disciplines of history, sociology, psychology, and philosophy. At the first decade of the 21st century, Foucault is the author most frequently cited in the humanities in general. The concept of biopolitics was first outlined by Michel Foucault (2003, 2007, 2009) in his lectures at the Collège de France in order to name and analyze emergent logics of power in the 18th and 19th centuries. According to Foucault, biopolitics refers to the processes by which human life, at the level of the population, emerged as a distinct political problem in Western societies. Biopolitics refers to the style of government that regulates populations through "biopower" - the application and impact of poitical power on all aspects of human life. Source:

What is Malthusianism?
(00:12:23 or p.3 in the transcript)

Malthusianism: Thomas Malthus, English economist and demographer who is best known for his theory that population growth will always tend to outrun the food supply and that betterment of humankind is impossible without stern limits on reproduction. This thinking is commonly referred to as Malthusianism. Source:

What was the Great Deccan famine?
(00:12:33 or p.3 in the transcript)

The 1630–1632 famine was the worst that occurred during the Mughal Empire in India. It was caused by a severe drought, followed by a huge flood and a plague of locusts. During that same period, the Ganges in East India changed its river bed, which led to bad harvests in the following years. Source:

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Podcast: Srsly Wrong (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 242 – The Dawn of The Dawn of Everything (w/ David Wengrow)
Pub date: 2021-10-18

The Wrong Boys are joined by David Wengrow to talk about changing human history (starting with the past) and his new book, co-authored with the late David Graeber, on myths about the origins of human society, why both Hobbes and Rousseau are wrong, and why human history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful, hopeful possibilities, than we tend to assume.

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How to Change the Course of Human History: https://www.eurozine.com/change-course-human-history/
Hiding in Plain Sight: Democracy’s indigenous origins in the Americas: https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/democracy/hiding-plain-sight
Graeber and Wengrow on the Myth of the Stupid Savage (Video – 2019): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvUzdJSK4x8
David Graeber & David Wengrow Teach-Out (Video – 2018): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNbWlD-lqYQ
Graeber/Wengrow: Paleolithic Politics & Why It Still Matters (Video – 2015): https://vimeo.com/145285143
Slavery and Its Rejection Among Foragers on the Pacific Coast of North America: A Case of Schismogenesis? (Video – 2018): https://www.college-de-france.fr/site/philippe-descola/seminar-2018-03-22-10h00.htm
Unfreezing the Ice Age: The Truth about Humanity’s Deep Past (2021): https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/oct/19/unfreezing-the-ice-age-the-truth-about-humanitys-deep-past
Forget ‘Liberté’ – 17th-Century Indigenous Americans Knew a Lot More About Freedom Than Their French Colonisers (2021): https://novaramedia.com/2021/10/19/forget-liberte-17th-century-indigenous-americans-knew-a-lot-more-about-freedom-than-their-french-colonisers/
Rethinking cities from the ground up (Wengrow, 2019) – https://medium.com/whose-society-whose-cohesion/rethinking-cities-from-the-ground-up-73d92059b15f

Correction: The Wrong Boys mispronounce the word “Teotihuacan” (Saying ‘Teo-teh-hoo-i-can’)- It is actually pronounced “Teo-Tiwa-Khan” (/teɪˌoʊtiːwəˈkɑːn/)

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Podcast: Speaking of Race (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Race and Ancestry in Forensic Anthropology
Pub date: 2021-10-16

The idea that race is a biological reality has hung on longest and strongest in the parts of biological anthropology that deal with skeletal remains. In this episode we talk with two forensic anthropologists, Sean Tallman and Allysha Winburn, about how typological notions of race and ancestry have changed over time in this segment of the discipline. They have published a recent paper discussing this change (Tallman, S. D., Parr, N. M., & Winburn, A. P. (2021). Assumed Differences; Unquestioned Typologies: The Oversimplification of Race and Ancestry in Forensic Anthropology. Forensic Anthropology, Early View, 1-24. doi:https://doi.org/10.5744/fa.2020.0046).

Additional resources:

J. Bindon, M. Peterson, & L. J. Weaver (Producer). (2017, 11/14/2017). Race and the Human Genome Project [Retrieved from http://speakingofrace.ua.edu/podcast/race-and-the-human-genome-project Bindon, J. R. (2020). Race in the wake of the Human Genome Project. Retrieved from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342215956_Race_in_the_wake_of_the_Human_Genome_Project Crews, D. E., & Bindon, J. R. (1991). Ethnicity as a taxonomic tool in biomedical and biosocial research. Ethnicity & disease, 1(1), 42-49. Dixon, R. B. (1923). The Racial History of Man. New York: C. Scribner's Sons. Holden, C. (2008). Personal genomics. The touchy subject of ‘race’. Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5903), 839. Hooton, E. A. (1931). Up from the Ape. New York: Macmillan. Lieberman, L., Kirk, R. C., & Littlefield, A. (2003). Perishing Paradigm: Race—1931–99. American Anthropologist, 105(1), 110-113. Morning, A. (2011). The nature of race. Berkeley: University of California Press. Wagner, J. K., Yu, J. H., Ifekwunigwe, J. O., Harrell, T. M., Bamshad, M. J., & Royal, C. D. (2017). Anthropologists' views on race, ancestry, and genetics. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 162(2), 318-327.

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Podcast: New Books in Gender (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Michelle Caswell, "Urgent Archives: Enacting Liberatory Memory Work" (Routledge, 2021)
Pub date: 2021-10-13

Today I talked to Michelle Caswell about her new book Urgent Archives: Enacting Liberatory Memory Work (Routledge, 2021).

What is the place of archives in our society? In archival studies, an answer to this question often presents an idea of linear, progressive temporality. A common trope goes: We learn history to have a better future. That is why history, and archives as a site of historical evidence, is important. In her thoughtful, groundbreaking work, a feminist archival studies scholar Caswell challenges the white imaginary of linear, progressive time embedded in our conception of archives. Pointing out how community archives from different ethnic communities across the US present cyclical temporalities where oppressions repeat, Caswell emphasizes the importance of activating the archives for their liberatory potential in the present. Over a year has passed since the murder of George Floyd and the beginning of the global pandemic that has highlighted not only structural inequality, but also an ongoing material and symbolic annihilation of Black Americans. As Michelle Caswell argues in her book, imagining liberatory memory work is an urgent project that needs to happen in the now.

In the introduction, Caswell begins with the question of the liberatory potential of community archives. Chapter 1 outlines the cyclical conception of time in critique of chronoviolence of white, dominant linear temporality. In chapter 2, Caswell draws from four focus groups to show how different ethnic groups use community archives to address repetitive oppressions by constructing corollary records. Chapter 3 focuses on her work with the South Asian American Digital Archives (SAADA) and the road to discovering the importance of liberatory activation. In Chapter 4, Caswell pushes back against the idea of archivists as passive technicians and repositions them as liberatory memory workers. In the conclusion, Liberation Now! Caswell emphasizes the need to disrupt the dominant narrative on future by embracing the joy of advocacy in the present. Urgent Archives will be an excellent resource for anyone who is interested in critically re-evaluating archives in academia and beyond.

In the interview, Caswell recommends following two readings to the listeners:

SAADA. Our Stories: An Introduction to South Asian America. Philadelphia: SAADA, 2021.

"The Chronopolitics of Racial Time," Time & Society, Special Issue: The Social Life of Time, 29, no. 2 (May 2020): 297-317.

Michelle Caswell is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the co-founder of the South Asian American Digital Archive.

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Podcast: Histories of the Unexpected (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Dolls!
Pub date: 2021-10-08

In this latest episode, the Unexpected duo, Professor James Daybell and Dr Sam Willis uncover the unexpected history of DOLLS! Which is all about seventeenth- and eighteenth-century fashions, the history of Barbie, twentieth-century consumerism and patriarchy, Lord and Lady Clapham and the Victoria and Albert Museum and Victorian Automatons! Who knew!

Podcast: The Slavic Connexion (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: "Frozen by the Thaw": The Soviet Masculinity Crisis of the Long Sixties with Marko Dumančić
Pub date: 2021-10-09

On this episode, Marko Dumančić joins Lera and Cullan to talk about his recently published monograph entitled Men Out of Focus: The Soviet Masculinity Crisis in the Long Sixties wherein he unpacks the changing conceptions of men in post-Stalinist society by taking a deeper look at Soviet films made at the time. This is a fun conversation, riddled with film talk. We hope you enjoy!

ABOUT THE GUEST

Marko Dumančić is an associate professor at Western Kentucky University’s History Department. He works on a range of topics involving gender and sexual identity in the Soviet Union during the Cold War and in former Yugoslavia during the 1980s and 1990s. His first monograph, Men out of Focus: The Soviet Masculinity Crisis in the Long Sixties, examines the causes undergirding changing conceptions of masculinity in post-Stalinist society. His current research looks at the concept of genocidal masculinities in Bosnia during the 1990s and seeks to determine the motivations of soldiers who committed wartime human rights abuses. His work has appeared in Journal of Cold War Studies, Cold War History, Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema, and The Cambridge History of Communism. You can find Men Out of Focus here.

PRODUCER'S NOTE: This episode was recorded on June 15th, 2021 via Zoom.

To reach us via email, send a message to slavxradio@utexas.edu if you have questions, suggestions, or would like to be a guest on the show!

CREDITS

Co-Producer: Lera Toropin (@earlportion)

Co-Producer: Cullan Bendig (@cullanwithana)

Associate Producer: Zach Johnson

Assistant Producer: Sergio Glajar

Assistant Producer: Misha Simanovskyy

Associate Producer/Administrator: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate

Executive Assistant: Katherine Birch

Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel

Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Charlie Harper, Ketsa, Scott Holmes) Additional sound effects and clips from movies referenced in the episode come from YouTube.

Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com

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Special Guest: Marko Dumančić.

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Podcast: fDi Podcast (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Bilbao Effect #2: Arles, France
Pub date: 2021-10-08

This week, we travel up from Bilbao to Arles in Provence, France, where the Luma Arles Tower was unveiled over the summer. Luma Arles itself spans art, design, performance, research and ecology and sits on a defunct rail yard site. Like Bilbao’s Guggenheim, the centrepiece for the $175m multi-disciplinary arts complex was designed by American architect Frank Gehry.

Maja Hoffmann, founder and president of the Luma Foundation, tells fDi how Luma Arles looks to create more of a “Luma effect” rather than the “Bilbao effect” as it implants itself locally before addressing its global audience.

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Podcast: LA Opera Podcasts: Behind the Curtain (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Artists, Creativity, and Sacrifice – A Conversation with Il Trovatore artists
Pub date: 2021-09-30

In this podcast, Il Trovatore performers Morris Robinson and Tiffany Townsend, along with Fight Choreographer Andrew Kenneth Moss, discuss their creative beginnings, the way they kept their creativity during COVID, and, of course, Verdi's Il Trovatore with this episode's host, Suzanna Guzmán.

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Podcast: The Dig (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Near Futures with Kim Stanley Robinson
Pub date: 2021-10-03

Kim Stanley Robinson on science fiction, climate crisis, Marxism, geo-engineering, political violence, green Keynesianism, and a lot more. Interviewed by guest host Daniel Aldana Cohen, who read 11 of Robinson’s books during the pandemic quarantine, running from Red Mars through The Ministry for the Future.

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Podcast: New Books in Critical Theory (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Henning Trüper, "Orientalism, Philology, and the Illegibility of the Modern World" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Pub date: 2021-10-06

At the turn of the nineteenth century, European philologists were engaged in the study of Semitic languages and Indology, breaking with the past in many ways. To understand this period, Henning Trüper argues for the importance of a broad-ranging investigation into the production of scholarly knowledge, focusing especially on Semitic Orientalism, as a way to understand the deep epistemological crisis facing the field.

In Orientalism, Philology, and the Illegibility of the Modern World(Bloomsbury Academic Press 2020), he argues that nineteenth century philologists, in their efforts to establish the explication of linguistic meanings as scientific, prioritized certain semantic language games over others, in particular referential ones. Exploring the tensions which arise between “philology of the real” (Realphilologie) and “philology of words” (Wortphilologie) Trüper uncovers the patchwork of methods which philologists employed in an attempt to construct a universal science—concluding that these practices have reverberating implications for the humanities even in the twentieth century and beyond.

Malcolm Keating is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Yale-NUS College. His research focuses on Sanskrit philosophy of language and epistemology. He is the author of Language, Meaning, and Use in Indian Philosophy (Bloomsbury Press, 2019) and host of the podcast Sutras (and stuff).

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Podcast: Commonwealth Club of California Podcast (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Fear of a Black Universe
Pub date: 2021-09-27

Join us for a conversation with cosmologist Stephon Alexander, who argues that great physics requires one to think outside the mainstream—to improvise and to rely on intuition. His approach has led him to three principles that shape all theories of the universe: the principle of invariance, the quantum principle, and the principle of emergence.

Alexander uses these three principles to explore some of physics' greatest mysteries, from what happened before the Big Bang to how the universe makes consciousness possible. Drawing on his experience as a Black physicist, Alexander makes a powerful case for diversifying our scientific communities because—after successfully incorporating a piece of life-changing advice that, in order to discover real physics, he needed to stop memorizing and start taking risks—Alexander has concluded that making further progress in physics probably requires embracing the excluded, listening to the unheard, and being unafraid of being wrong.

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George Hammond

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SPEAKERS

Stephon Alexander

Professor of Physics, Brown University; Jazz Musician; Author, Fear of a Black Universe: An Outsider's Guide to the Future of Physics

In Conversation with George Hammond

Author, Conversations With Socrates

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are currently hosting all of our live programming via YouTube live stream. This program was recorded via video conference on September 24th, 2021 by the Commonwealth Club of California.

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Podcast: Citations Needed (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 144: How the Cold War Shaped First-Person Journalism and Literary Conventions
Pub date: 2021-09-22

“Write from experience.” “Show, don’t tell.” Self-knowledge. Self-discipline. Well-known conventions like these, whether delivered in classrooms, writing seminars or simply from one writer to another, often anchor traditional writing advice for literary authors and journalists alike in the United States.

While they may seem benign and often useful, they also have a history of political utility. Thanks to a network of underwritten cultural projects and front groups, state organs like the CIA and State Department collaborated with creative-writing programs like the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and publications like the Paris Review to cultivate and reinforce writing tenets like these. The aim: to focus literature and journalism on the individual, feelings, and details, rather than on community, political theory, and large-scale political concepts.

This, of course, isn’t to say subversive literature cannot be first person and sensory, or that these modes of writing are per se conservative––but there is a long and well-documented history of conservative, anti-Left institutions pushing them because, on the whole, they veered (or at least were thought to have steered) writers away from the dot-connecting, the structural and the collective.

On this episode, we discuss the ways in which first-person journalism, solipsism and creative nonfiction, as taught and prized in the US, reinforce existing power structures, exploring how a Cold War-era history of state- and state-adjacent funding of literary journals, educational programs, and other cultural projects taught writers to center themselves and inconsequential details at the expense of raising urgent political questions and notions of class solidarity.

Our guest is author Eric Bennett.

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Podcast: Trending Globally: Politics and Policy (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Expand - Ignite - Invite: What Does a More Inclusive Art World Look Like?
Pub date: 2021-09-22

The past 18 months have been a strange time for art lovers. Museums and galleries have sat empty. Artistic communities have, like all of us, learned to live in isolation. At the same time, though, there’s been a revolution in how we think of public space in our cities and towns. Streets, parks, and even alleyways have turned into our storefronts, our classrooms, and our museums.

What do these changes mean for the art world, and for arts’ relationship to the rest of the world?

On this episode, Trending Globally partnered with ‘Providence Curates’ to explore this question. Providence Curates is a nonprofit made up of artists, writers, and curators, dedicated to expanding and diversifying artistic communities in the region and to reimagining how art can enter the public realm.

This conversation was put together for PVDFest Ideas 2021, an Arts and Ideas festival in Providence, Rhode Island.

Guests on this week’s show:

Jonny Skye is a gallerist based in Providence, RI, and a board member of Providence Curates.
Spencer Evans is an artist, a professor of drawing at RISD, and a board member of Providence Curates.
Melaine Ferdinand King is a 4th-year doctoral candidate in Africana Studies at Brown University
Judith Tolnick Champa is an artist, curator, and founder of Providence Curates and the Providence Biennale.

‘Providence Curates: Cultivating a Transformative Experiment,’ is an offshoot of the Providence Biennale. You can learn more on their website, and contact them directly at providencebiennial@gmail.com.

Special thanks to Stephanie Fortunato, Director, and Dr. Micah Salkind, Special Projects Manager of the City of Providence Department of Art, Culture + Tourism (ACT) PVDFest Ideas 2021, for making this collaboration possible. You can find a list of all of this year’s PVDFest Ideas events (both live and virtual) on their website.

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Podcast: The History of Computing (LS 30 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Chess Throughout The History Of Computers
Pub date: 2021-09-16

Chess is a game that came out of 7th century India, originally called chaturanga. It evolved over time, perfecting the rules - and spread to the Persians from there. It then followed the Moorish conquerers from Northern Africa to Spain and from there spread through Europe. It also spread from there up into Russia and across the Silk Road to China. It’s had many rule formations over the centuries but few variations since computers learned to play the game. Thus, computers learning chess is a pivotal time in the history of the game.

Part of chess is thinking through every possible move on the board and planning a strategy. Based on the move of each player, we can review the board, compare the moves to known strategies, and base our next move on either blocking the strategy of our opponent or carrying out a strategy of our own to get a king into checkmate.

An important moment in the history of computers is when computers got to the point that they could beat a chess grandmaster. That story goes back to an inspiration from the 1760s where Wolfgang von Kempelen built a machine called The Turk to impress Austrian Empress Maria Theresa. The Turk was a mechanical chess playing robot with a Turkish head in Ottoman robes that moved pieces.

The Turk was a maze of cogs and wheals and moved the pieces during play. It travelled through Europe, beating the great Napoleon Bonaparte and then the young United States, also besting Benjamin Franklin. It had many owners and they all kept the secret of the Turk. Countless thinkers wrote about theories about how it worked, including Edgar Allen Poe. But eventually it was consumed by fire and the last owner told the secret. There had been a person in the box moving the pieces the whole time.

All those moving parts were an illusion. And still in 1868 a knockoff of a knockoff called Ajeeb was built by a cabinet maker named Charles Hooper. Again, people like Theodore Roosevelt and Harry Houdini were bested, along with thousands of onlookers.

Charles Gumpel built another in 1876 - this time going from a person hiding in a box to using a remote control. These machines inspired people to think about what was possible. And one of those people was Leonardo Torres y Quevedo who built a board that also had electomagnets move pieces and light bulbs to let you know when the king was in check or mate. Like all good computer games it also had sound.

He started the project in 1910 and by 1914 it could play a king and rook endgame, or a game where there are two kings and a rook and the party with the rook tries to get the other king into checkmate. At the time even a simplified set of instructions was revolutionary and he showed his invention off at the Paris where notable other thinkers were at a conference, including Norbert Weiner who later described how minimax search could be used to play chess in his book Cybernetics.

Quevedo had built an analytical machine based on Babbage’s works in 1920 but adding electromagnets for memory and would continue building mechanical or analog calculating machines throughout his career. Mikhail Botvinnik was 9 at that point and the Russian revolution wound down in 1923 when the Soviet Union was founded following the fall of the Romanovs. He would become the first Russian Grandmaster in 1950, in the early days of the Cold War. That was the same year Claude Shannon wrote his seminal work, “Programming a Computer for Playing Chess.” The next year Alan Turing actually did publish executable code to play on a Ferranti Mark I but sadly never got to see it complete before his death. The prize to actually play a game would go to Paul Stein and Mark Wells in 1956 working on the MANIAC. Due to the capacity of computers at the time, the board was smaller but the computer beat an actual human.

But the Russians were really into chess in the years that followed the crowing of their first grandmaster. In fact it became a sign of the superior Communist politic. Botvinnik also happened to be interested in electronics, and went to school in Leningrad University's Mathematics Department. He wanted to teach computers to play a full game of chess. He focused on selective searches which never got too far as the Soviet machines of the era weren’t that powerful. Still the BESM managed to ship a working computer that could play a full game in 1957.

Meanwhile John McCarthy at MIT introduced the idea of an alpha-beta search algorithm to minimize the number of nodes to be traversed in a search and he and Alan Kotok shipped A Chess Playing Program for the IBM 7090 Computer, which would be updated by Richard Greenblatt when moving from the IBM mainframes to a DEC PDP-6 in 1965, as a side project for his work on Project MAC while at MIT. Here we see two things happening. One we are building better and better search algorithms to allow for computers to think more moves ahead in smarter ways. The other thing happening was that computers were getting better. Faster certainly, but more space to work with in memory, and with the move to a PDP, truly interactive rather than batch processed.

Mac Hack VI as Greenblatt’s program would eventually would be called, added transposition tables - to show lots of previous games and outcomes. He tuned the algorithms, what we would call machine learning today, and in 1967 became the first computer program to defeat a person at the tournament level and get a chess rating. For his work, Greenblatt would become an honorary member of the US Chess Federation.

By 1970 there were enough computers playing chess to have the North American Computer Chess Championships and colleges around the world started holding competitions. By 1971 Ken Thompson of Bell Labs, in a sign of the times, wrote a computer chess game for Unix. And within just 5 years we got the first chess game for the personal computer, called Microchess. From there computers got incrementally better at playing chess. Computer games that played chess shipped to regular humans, dedicated physical games, little cheep electronics knockoffs. By the 80s regular old computers could evaluate thousands of moves.

Ken Thompson kept at it, developing Belle from 1972 and it continued on to 1983. He and others added move generators, special circuits, dedicated memory for the transposition table, and refined the alpha-beta algorithm started by McCarthy, getting to the point where it could evaluate nearly 200,000 moves a second. He even got the computer to the rank of master but the gains became much more incremental. And then came IBM to the party.

Deep Blue began with researcher Feng-hsiung Hsu, as a project called ChipTest at Carnegie Mellon University. IBM Research asked Hsu and Thomas Anantharamanto complete a project they started to build a computer program that could take out a world champion. He started with Thompson’s Belle. But with IBM’s backing he had all the memory and CPU power he could ask for.

Arthur Hoane and Murray Campell joined and Jerry Brody from IBM led the team to sprint towards taking their device, Deep Thought, to a match where reigning World Champion Gary Kasparov beat the machine in 1989. They went back to work and built Deep Blue, which beat Kasparov in their third attempt in 1997. Deep Blue was comprised of 32 RS/6000s running 200 MHz chips, split across two racks, and running IBM AIX - with a whopping 11.38 gigaflops of speed. And chess can be pretty much unbeatable today on an M1 MacBook Air, which comes pretty darn close to running at a teraflop.

Chess gives us an unobstructed view at the emergence of computing in an almost linear fashion. From the human powered codification of electromechanical foundations of the industry to the emergence of computational thinking with Shannon and cybernetics to MIT on IBM servers when Artificial Intelligence was young to Project MAC with Greenblatt to Bell Labs with a front seat view of Unix to college competitions to racks of IBM servers. It even has little misdirections with pre-World War II research from Konrad Zuse, who wrote chess algorithms. And the mechanical Turk concept even lives on with Amazon’s Mechanical Turk services where we can hire people to do things that are still easier for humans than machines.

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Podcast: The Modern Art Notes Podcast (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Jules Tavernier and the Elem Pomo, Rubens in Repeat
Pub date: 2021-09-16

Episode No. 515 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features curator Betsy Kornhauser and art historian Aaron M. Hyman.

Along with Shannon Vittoria, Kornhauser is the co-curator of "Jules Tavernier and the Elem Pomo" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The exhibition examines the cultural interchange within Tavernier's Dance in a Subterranean Roundhouse at Clear Lake, California (1878), which the Met acquired in 2016, and the Elem Pomo portrayed within it. It also complicates Tavernier's picture and oeuvre by examining his other representations of Indigenous life as well as his engagement with the international banking and mining interests that developed the Clear Lake site and region represented in this picture, much of which had been made toxic by borax and mercury extraction.

The exhibition is on view in New York through November 28 before traveling to the de Young Museum in San Francisco. It is accompanied by an issue of the Met Bulletin that includes contributions from Elem Pomo cultural leader and regalia maker Robert Joseph Geary. The Bulletin is not available via the web, but it may be purchased for $14.95 at the Met or via phone by calling 212-570-3894 and asking for item number 80054339.

(A later MAN Podcast segment will focus on the Pomo material within the exhibition.)

On the second segment, Hyman discusses his new book Rubens in Repeat: The Logic of the Copy in Colonial Latin America. It examines the impact Peter Paul Rubens's prints had on art in Spanish colonies in the Americas, and how artists in the New World came to deviate from Rubens's constructions to build a new art history. Hyman teaches art history at Johns Hopkins University. Rubens in Repeat is published by the Getty Research Institute and Getty Publications, and will be available next month. Indiebound and Amazon offer it for about $70.

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Rubens in Repeat: The Logic of the Copy in Colonial Latin America

Podcast: Thinking Allowed (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Cool Consumers
Pub date: 2021-09-22

Cool Consumers: Laurie Taylor considers how music acquires the social connotations of “cool” & its implicit association with youth and outsider status. He's joined by Jo Haynes, Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Bristol. Also, the way in which racial marketing promoted menthol cigarettes to African Americans, linking them to notions of ‘cool’, with enduringly harmful effect. Keith Wailoo, Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University, unpacks a poignant and intricate story which reveals why 85% of Black smokers prefer menthol brands and how difficult it has been to ban them, not least because of the way that tobacco companies forged deep connections with Black media publishers and civil rights campaigners. He argues that the cry of 'I can't breathe' has multiple meanings in America's painful racial history.

Producer: Jayne Egerton

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Podcast: New Books in Environmental Studies (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Emma Marris, "Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Pub date: 2021-09-08

In Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021), Emma Marris wrestles with big ethical questions facing the conservation field. Emma takes us through several experiences that informed the book, exposing us to relevant on-the-ground decisions impacting the life or death of animals. When the interests of individual animals conflict with the goals of biodiversity preservation, is it okay to kill? Are any animals truly wild now that humans have directly altered so much of their habitat? How do we balance the rights of introduced species with those already established within an ecosystem? To start engaging these, and other questions, Emma takes us through a needed crash course in ethics, specifically environmental ethics. Much like her previous work, we are exposed to new ways of thinking about old problems. Listening in will not disappoint.

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Podcast: ABA Journal: Modern Law Library (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: A tale of love, loss and conservatorships in the Golden Age of Hollywood
Pub date: 2021-09-08

Britney Spears' legal battle over the conservatorship that put her under the control of her father brought international attention to the conservatorship system. But many other rich and famous people have–appropriately or not–also found themselves in the grips of a system that is much more easy to enter than to leave.

In Twilight Man: Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire, author Liz Brown tells the life story of Harrison Post, a story that starts in the Gilded Age and moves through the Golden Age of Hollywood, a film noiresque tale of betrayal, and a WWII fight for survival inside concentration camps. It's a story that began for Brown years ago when she discovered Post's signed photo inside her late grandmother's possessions and felt gripped by the gaze of the dark-eyed young man.

In this episode of the Modern Law Library, Brown tells the ABA Journal's Lee Rawles how she discovered Post's distant connection to her own family. Post was the lover and longtime companion of William Andrews Clark Jr., founder of the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra and heir to a Montana mining fortune.

Clark, who was much older than Post, provided a trust to ensure that Post would be taken care of after his death. But his good intentions were foiled when Post's sister and her husband became Post's conservators and energetically began draining that trust. Only after they had completed selling off Post's possessions and draining his funds did they move to end the conservatorship and free Post, who fled Hollywood in the hope of finding a safe new life in Norway–just before the Nazis invaded.

Brown discusses her research methods, including the providential discovery of Post's journals, in the podcast. She shares how anti-Jewish and homophobic public opinion may have played into Post's treatment, and how Clark's father's political shenanigans led directly to the passage of the 17th Amendment.

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Podcast: A Correction Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Adom Getachew on the Life and Work of Eric Williams
Pub date: 2021-09-08

Adom Getachew is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago. She is a political theorist with research interests in the history of political thought, theories of race and empire, and postcolonial political theory. Her work focuses on the intellectual and political histories of Africa and the Caribbean. Her first book, Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination, reconstructs an account of self-determination offered in the political thought of Black Atlantic anticolonial nationalists during the height of decolonization in the twentieth century. Adom holds a joint PhD in Political Science and African-American Studies from Yale University. She is on the faculty board of the Pozen Center for Human Rights, a fellow at the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory, and a faculty affiliate at the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture.

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Podcast: Ideas (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Body Language | Face to Face in an Uncertain World
Pub date: 2021-09-06

Philosopher Emmanuel Levinas believed the face-to-face encounter was the beginning of our ethical obligation to each other. In the first episode of our series Body Language, IDEAS considers the changing meaning of the face during COVID and imagines new ethical relationships for an uncertain time.

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Podcast: New Books in Anthropology (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Nayanika Mathur, "Crooked Cats: Beastly Encounters in the Anthropocene" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Pub date: 2021-09-07

Big cats—tigers, leopards, and lions—that make prey of humans are commonly known as “man-eaters.” Anthropologist Nayanika Mathur reconceptualizes them as cats that have gone off the straight path to become “crooked.” Building upon fifteen years of research in India, this groundbreaking work moves beyond both colonial and conservationist accounts to place crooked cats at the center of the question of how we are to comprehend a planet in crisis. There are many theories on why and how a big cat comes to prey on humans, with the ecological collapse emerging as a central explanatory factor. Yet, uncertainty over the precise cause of crookedness persists.

Nayanika Mathur's book Crooked Cats: Beastly Encounters in the Anthropocene (U Chicago Press, 2021) explores in vivid detail the many lived complexities that arise from this absence of certain knowledge to offer startling new insights into both the governance of nonhuman animals and their intimate entanglements with humans. Through creative ethnographic storytelling, Crooked Cats illuminates the Anthropocene in three critical ways: as method, as a way of reframing human-nonhuman relations on the planet, and as a political tool indicating the urgency of academic engagement. Weaving together “beastly tales” spun from encounters with big cats, Mathur deepens our understanding of the causes, consequences, and conceptualization of the climate crisis.

Sneha Annavarapu is Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at Yale-NUS College. To know more about Sneha's work, please visit www.snehanna.com

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Podcast: I Like Your Work: Conversations with Artists, Curators & Collectors (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Amir Fallah: Investigating Representation in the History of Western Art
Pub date: 2021-09-03

Internationally recognized artist Amir H. Fallah is known for his vibrant figurative work that draws from western painting vocabulary and turns the history of portraiture on its head. The work explores how one reconstructs identity and asks the question, how do you describe someone without showing their physical likeness? It’s incredibly powerful work that is also personal. In this interview, Amir talks about his background, how he began creating his current work, and his recent public pieces that were unveiled in California.

Amir H. Fallah received his BFA in Fine Art & Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art and his MFA in painting at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions across the United States and abroad. Selected solo exhibitions include the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tucson; South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings SD; Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland OR; San Diego Art Institute; and the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland KS.

In 2009, the artist was chosen to participate in the 9th Sharjah Biennial. In 2015, Fallah received the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant. In 2019, Fallah’s painting Calling On The Past received the Northern Trust Purchase Prize at EXPO Chicago. In 2020, Fallah was awarded the COLA Individual Artist Fellowship and the Artadia grant. In addition, the artist had a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, accompanied by a catalogue, and a year long installation at the ICA San Jose.

The artist is in the permanent collection of the Jorge M. Pérez Collection, Miami; McEvoy Foundation For The Arts, San Francisco; Nerman Museum, Kansas City; SMART Museum of Art at the University of Chicago; Davis Museum, Massachusetts; The Microsoft Collection, Washington; Plattsburgh State Art Museum, NY; Cerritos College Public Art Collection, CA; and Salsali Private Museum, Dubai, UAE.

Amir H. Fallah creates paintings, murals, and installations that explore systems of representation embedded in the history of Western art. His ornate environments combine visual vocabularies of painting and collage to deconstruct traditional notions of identity formation, while simultaneously defying expectations of the genre for portraiture by removing or obscuring the central figure. In Fallah’s works, the absence of the sitter’s likeness is substituted with a wider representation of their personhood—one that spans time and cultures and is articulated through a network of symbols and imagery. Fallah’s paintings question not only the historical role of portraiture, but the cultural systems that are used to identify one person from another.

When autobiographical, Fallah’s paintings employ a lexicon of symbols that amalgamate personal narratives with historical and contemporary parables. The paintings serve as a diary of lessons, warnings, and ideals providing coded insight into the formation of an identity, while investigating cultural values often passed between generations. When non-autobiographical, portraits of veiled subjects capitalize on ambiguity to skillfully weave fact and fiction, while questioning how to create a portrait without representing the physicality of the sitter. Although the stories that surround his subjects are deeply personal and are told through the intimate possessions they hold most dear, this work addresses generational immigrant experiences of movement, trauma, and celebration.

Fallah wryly incorporates Western art historical references into paintings formally rooted in the pattern-based visual language of art historical works from the Middle East. In doing so, his paintings possess a hybridity that reflects his own background as an Iranian-American immigrant straddling cultures. As seen in the artist’s tondos—circular paintings originally used in Renaissance portraiture—Fallah reinterprets classical floral paintings that entangle references to Dutch still lives and Persian miniatures. These botanicals depict flora that don’t “naturally” occur in the same ecosystem; this serves as a metaphor for immigrants that attempt to thrive in their new country, creating a new space that spans the limits of geography and disrupts the fallacy of borders.

Neither of this world or the next, Fallah’s works reside in the liminal space of being ‘othered’. The paintings utilize personal history as an entry point to discuss race, representation, and the memories of cultures and countries left behind. Through this process, the artist's works employ nuanced and emotive narratives that evoke an inquiry about identity, the immigrant experience, and the history of portraiture.

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Podcast: US Modernist Radio - Architecture You Love (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: #210/Marcel Breuer's Bohemia: James Crump
Pub date: 2021-08-23

Marcel Breuer was one of several architects who brought European Modernism to the US. He was known for hundreds of projects including the Atlanta Public Library, The Whitney Museum in New York, the Pirelli Building in New Haven, The Housing and Urban Development Building in Washington DC, and many iconic houses in Massachusetts and Connecticut. No one was more passionate than Breuer about his work - except for maybe Rufus Stillman, who commissioned four houses over the years. Joining us is James Crump, author of Breuer’s Bohemia, a new Marcel Breuer book - and movie. Later on, a few minutes with architect Frank Harmon.

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Podcast: New Books in Science, Technology, and Society (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Jennifer L. Lambe, "Madhouse: Psychiatry and Politics in Cuban History" (UNC Press, 2017)
Pub date: 2021-08-31

"On the outskirts of Havana lies Mazorra, an asylum known to--and at times feared by--ordinary Cubans for over a century. Since its founding in 1857, the island's first psychiatric hospital has been an object of persistent political attention. Drawing on hospital documents and government records, as well as the popular press, photographs, and oral histories, Jennifer L. Lambe charts the connections between the inner workings of this notorious institution and the highest echelons of Cuban politics. Across the sweep of modern Cuban history, she finds, Mazorra has served as both laboratory and microcosm of the Cuban state: the asylum is an icon of its ignominious colonial and neocolonial past and a crucible of its republican and revolutionary futures. From its birth, Cuban psychiatry was politically inflected, drawing partisan contention while sparking debates over race, religion, gender, and sexuality. Psychiatric notions were even invested with revolutionary significance after 1959, as the new government undertook ambitious schemes for social reeducation. But Mazorra was not the exclusive province of government officials and professionalizing psychiatrists. U.S. occupiers, Soviet visitors, and, above all, ordinary Cubans infused the institution, both literal and metaphorical, with their own fears, dreams, and alternative meanings. Together, their voices comprise the madhouse that, as Lambe argues, haunts the revolutionary trajectory of Cuban history."

I talked with Dr. Lambe about her first book, Madhouse: Psychiatry and Politics in Cuban History,which was published in 2017 by University of North Carolina Press as part of the Envisioning Cuba Series. Dr. Lambe is an Associate Professor of Latin American and Caribbean history at Brown University and is also the co-editor of The Revolution from Within: Cuba, 1959-1980 (2019). Dr. Lambe and I talked corruption, politics, and madness. Don't miss this wonderful conversation!

Rozzmery Palenzuela Vicente is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History at Florida International University. Her dissertation examines the cultural and intellectual politics surrounding black motherhood in twentieth-century Cuba. Twitter: @RozzmeryPV

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Podcast: Conversations with Tyler (LS 64 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Zeynep Tufekci on the Sociology of The Moment (Live)
Pub date: 2021-08-25

When Zeynep Tufekci penned a New York Times op-ed at the onset of the pandemic challenging the prevailing public health guidance that ordinary people should not wear masks, she thought it was the end of her public writing career. Instead, it helped provoke the CDC to reverse its guidance a few weeks later, and medical professionals privately thanked her for writing it. While relieved by the reception, she also saw it as a sign of a deeper dysfunction in the scientific establishment: why should she, a programmer and sociologist by training, have been the one to speak out rather than a credentialed expert? And yet realizing her outsider status and academic tenure allowed her to speak more freely than others, she continued writing and has become one of the leading public intellectuals covering the response to COVID-19.

Zeynep joined Tyler to discuss problems with the media and the scientific establishment, what made the lab-leak hypothesis unacceptable to talk about, how her background in sociology was key to getting so many things right about the pandemic, the pitfalls of academic contrarianism, what Max Weber understood about public health crises, the underrated aspects of Kemel Mustapha’s regime, how Game of Thrones interested her as a sociologist (until the final season), what Americans get wrong about Turkey, why internet-fueled movements like the Gezi protests fizzle out, whether Islamic fundamentalism is on the rise in Turkey, how she’d try to persuade a COVID-19 vaccine skeptic, whether public health authorities should ever lie for the greater good, why she thinks America is actually less racist than Europe, how her background as a programmer affects her work as a sociologist, the subject of her next book, and more.

Note: This conversation was recorded on July 14, 2021, before the FDA granted full approval to the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine.

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Podcast: Yale University Press Podcast (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Ep. 84 – Alma W. Thomas: Everything Is Beautiful
Pub date: 2021-08-18

Listen to this conversation with Chrysler Museum of Art curator Seth Feman and Columbus Museum curator Jonathan Frederick Walz — we discuss the art and life of the extraordinary American artist Alma Woodsey Thomas. Seth and Jonathan are co-curators of the major traveling exhibition Alma W. Thomas: Everything Is Beautiful

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Podcast: Acid Horizon (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Foucault (With Hair) - The Early Foucault With Stuart Elden
Pub date: 2021-08-10

On this episode, Adam and Will are joined by Stuart Elden to discuss his latest book, The Early Foucault. We discuss the academic experiences and personal relationships that were formative in the Foucault’s development as an intellectual. The conversation ranges from Foucault’s early interest in Hegelianism to the influence of Canguilhem, Hyppolite, Barraque, Althusser, and others!

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Podcast: New Books in Political Science (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Jason Frank, "The Democratic Sublime: On Aesthetics and Popular Assembly" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Pub date: 2021-08-27

The transition from royal to popular sovereignty during the age of democratic revolutions—from 1776 to 1848—entailed not only the reorganization of institutions of governance and norms of political legitimacy, but also a dramatic transformation in the iconography and symbolism of political power. The representational difficulties posed by the replacement of the personal and external rule of the king, whose body was the tangible locus of authority, with the impersonal and immanent self-rule of the people, whose power could not be incontestably embodied, went beyond questions of institutionalization and law into the aesthetic realm of visualization, composition, and form. How to make the people’s sovereign will tangible to popular judgment was—and is—a crucial problem of democratic political aesthetics.

Jason Frank’s The Democratic Sublime: On Aesthetics and Popular Assembly(Oxford UP, 2021) explores how the revolutionary proliferation of popular assemblies—crowds, demonstrations, gatherings of the “people out of doors”—mediated and gave tangibility to the people manifesting itself as a collective actor capable of enacting dramatic political reforms and change. During the age of democratic revolutions, popular assemblies became privileged sites of democratic representation because they at once claim to represent the people while also signalling the material plenitude beyond any representational claim. They retain this power in part because popular assemblies make manifest that which escapes representational capture; they rend a tear in the established representational space of appearance and draw their power from tarrying with the ineffability and resistant materiality of the people’s will. During the age of democratic revolutions, popular assemblies became the locus of the democratic sublime.

Tejas Parasher is Junior Research Fellow in Political Thought and Intellectual History at King’s College, University of Cambridge.

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Podcast: Empire Museum
Episode: #8 The History and Legacies of Eugenics (with Professor Marius Turda)
Pub date: 2021-08-03

Today's guest is the distinguished and acclaimed Marius Turda, a powerhouse historian of Biomedicine and Eugenics. Marius has been teaching at Oxford Brookes since 2005 and has published extensively during his career. He is the founder of the Working Group on the History of Eugenics and Race (HRE), a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Fellow of the Galton Institute. Marius unpacks eugenics with unwavering nuance in this podcast and provides sprawling, insightful answers to all my questions. If you want to learn more about this crucial topic, Marius is your man. Enjoy!

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Podcast: New Books in Science, Technology, and Society (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Hoyt Long, "The Values in Numbers: Reading Japanese Literature in a Global Information Age" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Pub date: 2021-08-03

Ideas about how to study and understand cultural history—particularly literature—are rapidly changing as new digital archives and tools for searching them become available. This is not the first information age, however, to challenge ideas about how and why we value literature and the role numbers might play in this process. The Values in Numbers: Reading Japanese Literature in a Global Information Age(Columbia UP, 2021) tells the longer history of this evolving global conversation from the perspective of Japan and maps its potential futures for the study of Japanese literature and world literature more broadly.

Hoyt Long offers both a reinterpretation of modern Japanese literature through computational methods and an introduction to the history, theory, and practice of looking at literature through numbers. He weaves explanations of these methods and their application to literature together with critical reflection on the kinds of reasoning such methodologies facilitate. Chapters guide readers through increasingly complex techniques while making novel arguments about topics of fundamental concern, including the role of quantitative thinking in Japanese literary criticism; the canonization of modern literature in print and digital media; the rise of psychological fiction as a genre; the transnational circulation of modernist forms; and discourses of race under empire. Long models how computational methods can be applied outside English-language contexts and to languages written in non-Latin scripts. Drawing from fields as diverse as the history of science, book history, world literature, and critical race theory, this book demonstrates the value of numbers in literary study and the values literary critics can bring to the reading of difference in numbers.

Jingyi Li is a PhD Candidate in Japanese History at the University of Arizona. She researches about early modern Japan, literati, and commercial publishing.

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Podcast: Booked On Rock with Eric Senich
Episode: Episode 15 | Russell Reising ["Beggars Banquet and the Rolling Stones' Rock and Roll Revolution"]
Pub date: 2021-07-31

The Rolling Stones’ Beggars Banquet from 1968 is one of the seminal albums in rock history. Arguably it not only marks the advent of the ‘mature’ sound of the Rolling Stones but lays out a new blueprint for an approach to blues-based rock music that would endure for several decades.

From its title to the dark themes that pervade some of its songs, "Beggars Banquet" reflected and helped define a moment marked by violence, decay, and upheaval. It marked a move away from the artistic sonic flourishes of psychedelic rock towards an embrace of foundational streams of American music – blues, country – that had always underpinned the music of the Stones but assumed new primacy in their music after 1968. This move coincided with, and anticipated, the ‘roots’ moves that many leading popular music artists made as the 1960s turned toward a new decade; but unlike many of their peers whose music grew more ‘soft’ and subdued as they embraced traditional styles, the music and attitude of the Stones only grew harder and more menacing, and their status as representatives of the dark underside of the 60s rock counterculture assumed new solidity. For the Rolling Stones, the 1960s ended and the 1970s began with the release of this album in 1968.

"Beggars Banquet and the Rolling Stones’ Rock & Roll Revolution: They Call My Name Disturbance" was released in hardcover and kindle through Routledge in December of 2019. On August 2nd, Routledge will release the book in paperback through routledge dot com.

Editor Russell Reising is Professor of American Literature and Asian Studies at University of Toledo, has published widely on topics in American literature, literary criticism, popular music, and psychedelia, and he edited “Every Sound There Is”: The Beatles’ Revolver and the Transformation of Rock and and “Speak to Me”: The Legacy of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, both from Ashgate.

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Podcast: The Critic Podcast (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: How the British Army fought the IRA
Pub date: 2021-07-28

Continuing Black History Week's series on the British armed forces, in this podcast, Professor Jeremy Black, author of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency, talks to The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about the British army's thirty year deployment in Northern Ireland during The Troubles.

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Podcast: New Books in Gender (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Meryl Altman, "Beauvoir in Time" (Brill, 2020)
Pub date: 2021-07-23

Meryl Altman's new book Beauvoir in Time, published by Brill Rodopi Press (2020), situates Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex (1949) in its historical context and responds to criticism that muddles what she actually said about sex, race and class. She takes up three aspects of Beauvoir's work today’s feminists find problematic: the characterizations of the frigid woman and lesbians, the analogy of race and class that obscures Black and working-class women and her examples drawn from white middle-class experience. Charged with ethnocentrism, her contribution is distorted by not considering her place and time. Through close reading of Beauvoir's writing in many genres, alongside expansive criticism, Altman shows that what appears as a problem for feminist theory is best understood by a full consideration of Beauvoir’s engagement with Freudian, Marxist and anticolonial thinkers. Extremely helpful in understanding the place of The Second Sex within international feminist theory, Altman offers insights into how Beauvoir is still relevant in the age of intersectionality and identity politics.

Meryl Altman is Professor of English and Women's Studies at DePauw University.

Lilian Calles Barger is a cultural, intellectual and gender historian. Her most recent book is entitled The World Come of Age: An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology (Oxford University Press, 2018). Her current writing project is on the intellectual history of women and the origins of feminism seen through the emblematic life and work of Simone de Beauvoir.

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Podcast: LA Opera Podcasts: Behind the Curtain (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: History vs. Opera: Don Giovanni with Dr. Muriel McClendon, Dr. Teofilo Ruiz and Jeremy Frank
Pub date: 2021-07-28

In this podcast, Dr. Muriel McClendon, Associate Professor of History at UCLA, and Dr. Teofilo Ruiz, a scholar of social and popular cultures of late medieval and early modern Spain, chat with LA Opera Associate Chorus Master Jeremy Frank about Mozart’s "Don Giovanni" — the fantasy and reality of the story, the meanings of Mozart’s music, and the complexity of the histories that centered this story in social roles and agency are discussed in a deep exploration of one of Mozart’s most well-known operas.

This discussion, which was recorded as part of LA Opera Connects professional development series, Opera for Educators, covers some adult topics, and may not be suitable for listeners of all ages.

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Podcast: The Funambulist Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: SHAHRAM KHOSRAVI /// Waiting Bodies in Dictatorial and Bordering Regimes
Pub date: 2021-07-20

This conversation was recorded to be published in The Funambulist 36 (July-August 2021) They Have Clocks, We Have Time.

Waiting is a particular temporal praxis, whose political dimension is more likely to be missed by those who make people wait than by those who have to wait for a visa, for food, for access to the city, etc. Shahram Khosravi shares with us some of his reflections on this action of waiting; its Kafkaian dimension, but also its revolutionary potential.

Shahram Khosravi is a former taxi driver and currently an accidental Professor of Anthropology at Stockholm University. Khosravi is the author of some academic books and some articles but he prefers to write stories. He has been an active writer in the international press. The past year he has been working on an art book on Waiting and two years ago he started Critical Border Studies, a network for scholars, artists and activists to interact. See also his short story in this issue.

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Podcast: History Extra podcast (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The piano: a musical history
Pub date: 2021-07-20

For more than 300 years, the piano has captivated audiences, while composers have pushed the instrument’s boundaries. Susan Tomes, author of The Piano: A History in 100 Pieces, discusses some of the most impressive pieces of piano music ever written, and shares the stories of the composers who penned them.

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Podcast: Buildings On Air (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 58 - Marianela D'Aprile and Doug Spencer
Pub date: 2021-07-19

This month we are joined by two Buildings on Air favorites: architecture writer/critic Marianela D’Aprile and architecture historian/educator Douglas Spencer! We answer a listener question about giving notice at an architecture job, gloss the ideas of architecture theorist Manfredo Tafuri (Mamma Mia… here we go again!), and discuss some central ideas of the emergent architectural left.

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Podcast: Fully Automated (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 32: The New Twenty Years’ Crisis, with Philip Cunliffe, Shahar Hameiri, Patrick Porter, and Nicholas Kiersey
Pub date: 2021-07-14

The episode features a roundtable on Philip Cunliffe’s latest book, The New Twenty Years' Crisis (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020). And, in a bit of a break with tradition, this episode also sees me jump out of the host’s seat, and invite Shahar Hameiri (University of Queensland) to take over the reins.

Joining me in the panel to discuss the book is the author, Philip Cunliffe (making his third appearance on the show), and Patrick Porter (University of Birmingham). Tara McCormack (University of Leicester) was also scheduled to join us but had to withdraw at the last minute, due to illness.

It was great to have Phil back on the show, to discuss this important book. The last time he was on, we talked about his previous book, Cosmopolitan Dystopia, which was a survey of human rights discourse on global politics since the end of the Cold War. The new book takes the theme of liberal war-making from that book, and attempts to read it through the lens of E. H. Carr’s classic 1939 text, The Twenty Years' Crisis.

On the eve of World War Two, Carr described the politics of his time as a kind of interregnum, or a time of passage between two regimes of world order. For Carr, the great tragedy of his time was that the normative commitments of the intellectuals of interbellum period — namely, to the power of public opinion, to sovereign self-determination, and to international law and institutions — were incongruent with the kinds of mass-mobilized politics that were rapidly sweeping away their world order, and undermining the very conditions of possibility for securing those commitments.

For Cunliffe, however, the lessons of Carr’s study of the 1919-1939 period must today be applied in a kind of inverted manner. For where it was mass politics that ultimately frustrated and undid the political project of the utopian idealists, we do not today live in such a massified moment. To the contrary, as scholars like Peter Mair have described, we live in a demassified moment, where the agendas of college-educated neoliberal Brahmins dominate, unchecked. Worse, as Cunliffe explores, these new elites are kind of anti-utopians. They detest the values of the interbellum period, deriding public opinion and breaching sovereign self-determination in the name of so-called responsibility.

Cunliffe explores this argument through a number of fascinating case studies, taking us from the salons of International Relations conventions, which have been overtaken by ‘critical’ theorists (a group of scholars whose methods are singularly symptomatic of the “imaginary” of our unipolar moment), to the hallways of Brussels, capital of that grandest of examples of “de-massified,” neoliberal democracy, the European Union. The overarching theme that emerges is one of a shocking lack of self-awareness on the part of our political and intellectual elites.

As you’ll hear, the panelists are on the whole friendly to Phil’s diagnosis, but they do push back on some of his normative suggestions. Despite these disagreements, however, I will say that I think this is one of the more important episodes we’ve done on this show. Diagnostically, Phil is one of the sharpest commentators around, on the contradictions of our postmodern moment. I want to thank Phil, Patrick, and Shahar for their time and effort in helping to make this conversation happen.

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Podcast: The LRB Podcast (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Two Utopias
Pub date: 2021-07-13

James Meek talks to Thomas Jones about the connected fates of two wind tower factories, one in Scotland, the other in Vietnam, and asks why the determination to achieve a green future isn’t matched by a determination to ensure fair wages and good conditions for the workers who will make it possible.

Meek also describes the challenges of reporting on the story remotely during the pandemic. You can find his piece and watch some of the video shot by his researcher, Chi Mai, of the CS Wind factory in Phu My, on the episode page: https://lrb.me/twoutopiaspod

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Podcast: Highbrow Drivel (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Did hippies ruin psychedelics?
Pub date: 2021-07-11

We've already discussed the scientific benefits of psychedelics. Today we look at whether that comes from magical elves, third eyes and interdimensional wisdom, or perhaps if there is a way to experience all the benefits of psychedelics without giving into mystical madness.

Our expert guest:
Dr Chris Letheby is a philosopher working on issues related to the therapeutic and transformative potential of classic psychedelic drugs. His doctoral research, conducted at the University of Adelaide, presented the first systematic analysis of psychedelic experience within the framework of 21st century philosophy of cognitive science.

He is currently (2018-2021) Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Western Australia and (2019-2022) Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Adelaide on the ARC-funded project 'Philosophical Perspectives on Psychedelic Psychiatry'. His monograph Philosophy of Psychedelics is forthcoming with Oxford University Press in the series 'International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry'.

Our comedy guest:
Rachel Hornbuckle is a wickedly funny comedian based in Brisbane after honing her skills on the London comedy circuit. Follow her on Instagram for the latest.

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Podcast: History Extra podcast (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Hogarth: the chronicler of the 18th century
Pub date: 2021-07-02

Jacqueline Riding discusses her new biography of William Hogarth, which charts the life and work of the famed artist and satirist. Hogarth was a larger-than-life figure whose many engravings and portraits highlighted the morals and vices of the 18th century.

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Podcast: Jacobin Radio (LS 60 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Jacobin Show: The Promise of Radical Universalism w/ Nivedita Majumdar
Pub date: 2021-07-02

Nivedita Majumdar, associate professor of English at John Jay College at CUNY, joins us to discuss the resurgence of cultural essentialism, the limitations of postcolonial theory, and what it would mean to forge a politics of radical universalism.

Every Wednesday at 6 PM ET, The Jacobin Show offers socialist perspectives on class and capitalism in the twenty-first century, the failures of liberalism, and the prospects of rebuilding a left labor movement in the US. This is the podcast version of the show from June 30, 2021 with Jen Pan and Paul Prescod hosting.

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Podcast: New Books in Language (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Nathan R. Johnson, "Architects of Memory: Information and Rhetoric in a Networked Archival Age" (U Alabama Press, 2020)
Pub date: 2021-07-06

We are now living in the richest age of public memory. From museums and memorials to the vast digital infrastructure of the internet, access to the past is only a click away. Even so, the methods and technologies created by scientists, espionage agencies, and information management coders and programmers have drastically delimited the ways that communities across the globe remember and forget our wealth of retrievable knowledge.

In Architects of Memory: Information and Rhetoric in a Networked Archival Age(University of Alabama Press, 2020), Nathan R. Johnson charts turning points where concepts of memory became durable in new computational technologies and modern memory infrastructures took hold. He works through both familiar and esoteric memory technologies—from the card catalog to the book cart to Zatocoding and keyword indexing—as he delineates histories of librarianship and information science and provides a working vocabulary for understanding rhetoric’s role in contemporary memory practices.

This volume draws upon the twin concepts of memory infrastructure and mnemonic technê to illuminate the seemingly opaque wall of mundane algorithmic techniques that determine what is worth remembering and what should be forgotten. Each chapter highlights a conflict in the development of twentieth-century librarianship and its rapidly evolving competitor, the discipline of information science. As these two disciplines progressed, they contributed practical techniques and technologies for making sense of explosive scientific advancement in the wake of World War II. Taming postwar science became part and parcel of practices and information technologies that undergird uncountable modern communication systems, including search engines, algorithms, and databases for nearly every national clearinghouse of the twenty-first century.

Nathan R. Johnson is assistant professor of Rhetoric at the University of South Florida. His work has appeared in the Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, Poroi, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology and enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture.

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Podcast: LA Review of Books (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Davarian L. Baldwin: In The Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities
Pub date: 2021-07-02

Kate and Eric speak with writer and historian Davarian L. Baldwin, the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies and founding director of the Smart Cities Lab at Trinity College. His newest book is In The Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities, an exploration of the often uneasy relationship between universities and the cities they inhabit. The book draws on numerous examples, such as Yale, Columbia, NYU, University of Chicago and even Trinity College, to show the impact schools have on their surrounding neighborhoods. As often as not, these universities are drivers of inequality, displacement, and gentrification. In an era of post-industrialization, universities have replaced factories to regularly become the largest employers of their cities, with tax-exempt status to boot, giving them an undue amount of power, while their focus remains on self-enrichment.

Also, we are joined by Susan Bernofsky, author of Clairvoyant of the Small, a book length study of the the life and works of Robert Walser. Susan recommends Kate Zambreno's To Write as if Already Dead, which is itself a study of the work of author and artist Herve Guibert, who died in his early thirties from AIDS.

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Podcast: Ithaca Bound (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Italian Renaissance Art w. Dr Jason Cardone
Pub date: 2021-06-30

Adjunct Professor of Art History at The American University of Rome, Dr Jason Cardone, joins the show to discuss art during the Italian Renaissance.

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Podcast: EconTalk (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Anja Shortland on Lost Art
Pub date: 2021-06-21

Economist and author Anja Shortland of King's College London talks about her new book, Lost Art, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. When a famous painting disappears into the underworld of stolen art, how does it make its way back into the legitimate world of auction houses and museums? Drawing on the archives of a private database of stolen objects--the Art Loss Register--Shortland discusses the economics of the art world when objects up for sale may be the result of theft.

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Podcast: The Prospect Podcast (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: The new British metafiction
Pub date: 2021-06-22

Novelist Natasha Brown joins the Prospect Interview to talk about writing contemporary Britain and the fragmented self in her debut, Assembly. The novel follows a Black British woman as she navigates her high-powered job in London’s financial world, faces a medical emergency, and prepares to go to her boyfriend’s family party at their lavish countryside estate. Natasha talks to assistant editor Rebecca Liu about bringing finance into fiction, writing the inner lives of the wealthy, and what fiction can offer a nation currently caught in endless culture wars.

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Podcast: Rights Talk
Episode: E21: Indigenous Peoples in the Americas, Activism, and Film with CCNY Prof. Carlos Aguasaco and NMAI's Cindy Benitez
Pub date: 2021-06-19

This episode focuses on the grave human rights challenges confronted by indigenous peoples throughout the Americas, activism, and film, and more specifically the Americas Film Festival of New York (TAFFNY). It features Carlos Aguasaco, Associate Professor of Latin American Cultural Studies and Spanish and in coming department chair, at City College’s Division of Interdisciplinary Studies, and Cindy Benitez, film curator and scholar specializing in Native and indigenous film and Film Program Manager for the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI). For further information about the film festival, please visit: https://www.taffny.com/

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Podcast: The Lawfare Podcast (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Jonathan Rauch on the Constitution of Knowledge
Pub date: 2021-06-14

Public discourse is in bad shape these days. We all yell at and cancel each other on social media and college campuses, and politicians—especially those on the Trumpist right—lie so much that the very notion of truth threatens to lose any meaning. But, Jonathan Rauch is optimistic that this can change for the better. Jonathan is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and the author of, most recently, "The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth." Alan Rozenshtein spoke with Jonathan about his book, his diagnosis of our present condition and his hopes for the future.

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Podcast: Seriously... (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: A Sense of Music
Pub date: 2021-06-11

Music can make us feel happy and sad. It can compel us to move in time with it, or sing along to a melody. It taps into some integral sense of musicality that binds us together. But music is regimented, organised. That same 'sense' that lets us lean into Beethoven makes a bad note or a missed beat instantly recognisable. But does that same thing happen in the minds of animals? Can a monkey feel moved by Mozart? Will a bird bop to a beat?

Do animals share our 'Sense of Music'?

Charles Darwin himself thought that the basic building blocks of an appreciation for music were shared across the animal kingdom. But over decades of scientific investigation, evidence for this has been vanishingly rare.

Fresh from his revelation that animals' experience of time can be vastly different to our own, in the award-winning programme 'A Sense of Time', presenter Geoff Marsh delves once more into the minds of different species. This time he explores three key aspects of musicality: rhythm, melody and emotional sensitivity.

Geoff finds rhythm is lacking in our closest relatives, the chimpanzees. But it's abundantly clear in a dancing Cockatoo, and internet sensation, named Snowball. He speaks with scientists who have revealed that birds enjoy their own music, but may be listening for something completely different to melody. And Geoff listens to music composed for tamarin monkeys, that apparently they find remarkably relaxing, but which sets us on edge.

In 'A Sense of Music', discover what happens when music meets the animal mind.

Produced by Rory Galloway Presented by Geoff Marsh

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Podcast: The Lonely Palette (LS 60 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Ep. 53 - Painting Edo, Post-Pandemic
Pub date: 2021-06-08

The world is reopening just as Harvard's special exhibition "Painting Edo: Japanese Art from the Feinberg Collection" is permanently closing, having been open to the public for one heartbreakingly short month. But the exhibition, which documented the Edo period in all its diverse, aesthetic richness, doesn't have to be in front of you to describe its uncannily Buddhist and modernist moment, or to share in the strange lightness of ours.

This episode was produced with support from Harvard Art Museums.

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Podcast: Failed Architecture Breezeblocks
Episode: Design Justice w/ Quilian Riano (pt.1)
Pub date: 2021-06-05

In a slight change from the normal format, this episode represents the first a series of conversations, where we’ll be talking to organizers engaged in the work of “Design Justice” that demands an end to systemic racism in architecture and design, and re-imagines a just and liberated future.

Nearly a year ago, architecture and design organisations joined countless others to mark their alignment with the Black Lives Matter protest movement by responding to the hashtag BlackoutTuesday with a black square. For the most part, their anti-racist commitment started and ended there.

Meanwhile, however, the initial meetings of Design As Protest and Dark Matter University began. In their words, “DAP is a collective of designers mobilizing strategy to dismantle the privilege and power structures that use architecture and design as tools of oppression”. Their list of demands includes calls to cease implementation of hostile design, center community leadership in the design process, and create anti-racist design models in education. In the past year, the collective has initiated a series of ongoing projects, including the Anti-Racist Design Justice Index, which is “a tool for architects, designers, planners, policymakers, and community activists committed to taking action towards identifying and dismantling systemic racism.” Emerging from DAP’s demand to create anti-racist models of design education, Dark Matter University is “an anti-racist design justice school,” which has since its establishment in early July independently expanded its network and mission to “radically transform education and practice toward a just future” from both inside and outside of academia.

Since last year, in support of DAP’s Anti-Racist Design Justice Index, Failed Architecture and the British social design and urbanism practice design collective, Migrants Bureau, have also been gathering the responses of architecture and design institutions following BlackoutTuesday in a Google sheet.

For this first conversation, we’re talking to Quilian Riano. Quilian is, an architectural and urban designer, researcher, writer, educator, founder of DSGN AGNC, and he’s also associate director of Kent State University’s Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative, a board member of the Architecture Lobby, and a core member of Design as Protest and Dark Matter University.

The release of this conversation was timed to mark almost a year since Blackout Tuesday, but also to coincide with the official release, later today, of DAP’s Anti-Racism Design Index. DAP will be hosting a national call for the launch at 2pm Eastern Time, a link to which is available below, along with the websites of all the initiatives mentioned.

Links (in order of their mention):

Design As Protest https://www.dapcollective.com/

Design as Protest National Call event https://www.dapcollective.com/events/national-call

Anti-racism Design Justic Index https://www.dapcollective.com/index

Dark Matter University https://darkmatteruniversity.org/

Migrant Bureau https://www.migrantsbureau.com/

List: Architecture & Design Organizations on BLM https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QcwaZCG3fUYKAnAdf3XFMUsfihQxpA1xRTTR5diUIxo/edit#gid=866527355

Article from Black Femailes in Architecture, Design as Protest, Failed Architecture, Migrants Bureau announcing the list: “Let’s Remind Architecture and Design Organisations of Their Support for Black Lives Matter” https://failedarchitecture.com/2020/08/lets-remind-architecture-and-design-organisations-of-their-support-for-black-lives-matter/

Quilian’s profile on DSGN AGNC http://dsgnagnc.com/quilian-bio/

Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative https://www.cudc.kent.edu/

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Podcast: About Buildings + Cities (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 83 —Otto Wagner — 5/5 — Proto-Modernist
Pub date: 2021-06-07

Our final episode on Otto Wagner considers his relationship to modernism, asking whether Wagner was a predecessor to modernism. We discussed his most modern building, the Österreichische Postsparkasse or Austrian Postal Savings Bank, like so much in Vienna at this time, a coming together of the old world and the new.

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Podcast: New Books in Sociology (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Jurgen Martschukat, "The Age of Fitness: How the Body Came to Symbolize Success and Achievement" (Polity, 2021)
Pub date: 2021-05-31

Today on New Books in History, Juergen Martschukat, professor of North American History at Universitat Erfurt, talks about his new book, The Age of Fitness: How the Body Became a Sign of Success and Performance (Polity Press, 2021), to celebrate its translation into and publication in English with Polity Press, this year, 2021. The book was originally published in 2019, by S. Fischer, in German.

We live in the age of fitness. Hundreds of thousands of people run marathons and millions go jogging in local parks, work out in gyms, cycle, swim, or practice yoga. The vast majority are not engaged in competitive sport and are not trying to win any medals. They just want to get fit. Why this modern preoccupation with fitness? In this new book, Jurgen Martschukat traces the roots of our modern preoccupation with fitness back to the birth of modern societies in the eighteenth century, showing how the idea of fitness was interwoven with modernity's emphasis on perpetual optimization and renewal. But it is only in the period since the 1970s, he argues, that the age of fitness truly emerged, as part and parcel of our contemporary neoliberal era. Neoliberalism enjoins individuals to work on themselves, to cultivate themselves in body and mind. Fitness becomes a guiding principle of social life, an era-defining network of discourses and practices that shape individuals' actions and self-conceptions. The pursuit of fitness becomes a cultural repertoire that is deeply ingrained in our institutions and way of life. This wide-ranging book shows how deeply fitness is inscribed in modern societies, and how important fitness has become to success or failure, recognition or exclusion, in a society that sets great store by self-responsibility, performance, market, and competition. It will be of great value not only to those interested in sport and fitness, but also to anyone concerned with the conditions of success and failure in our societies today.

Jana Byars is the Academic Director of Netherlands: International Perspectives on Sexuality and Gender.

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Podcast: The Politics of Everything (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Music for Nothing
Pub date: 2021-05-27

It’s easier than ever to listen to practically the entirety of recorded music. But for musicians, it’s harder than ever to make money. On Episode 31 of The Politics of Everything, hosts Laura Marsh and Alex Pareene talk about the economics of the industry with David Turner, who writes the newsletter Penny Fractions, and the English musician Tom Gray, who founded the #BrokenRecord campaign. Did streaming save music, or is it killing it? Should we blame Spotify or the record labels? And what should be done to make the music business more equitable?

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Podcast: Arts & Ideas (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: New Thinking: The Botanical Past
Pub date: 2021-06-01

Should Kew re-label its plants? What do you see when you study a still life painting on the gallery walls? How do nineteenth century authors depict deadly plants? New Generation Thinker Christienna Fryar discusses new ways of understanding British history through horticulture with her four guests: Lauren Working, is one of the 2021 New Generation Thinkers. She has studied the Jamestown colony, and delivers a postcard about still life painting and its connection to the exotic luxuries of early empire building. Her book is called The Making of an Imperial Polity: Civility and America in the Jacobean Metropolis. Katie Donington, has worked on a British botanist and plant collector George Hibbert who made his money from the plants on the sugar plantations, and then paid for specimens to be brought back to England from one of James Cook's expeditions. Daisy Butcher, has edited a collection called The Botanical Gothic, which brings together 19th century stories about deadly plants, mostly plants brought back to the UK from far-flung parts of the world that turn out to be threatening. Sharon Willoughby, head of interpretation at Kew Gardens, is looking at the way Kew presents its collections, starting for example, to use Chinese names for Chinese plants which were well known to Chinese scholars before the plant collectors arrived from countries including Britain to bring specimens to display here.

You might be interested in the Free Thinking discussion looking at Darwin's The Descent of Man https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000s31z Napoleon the gardener and art thief is discussed by guests including biographer Ruth Scurr https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000vr1w Trees of Knowledge hears from Peter Wohlleben and Emanuele Coccia https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0001nj1 And an upcoming episode of The Verb with Ian McMillan on June 11th will hear more from Peter Wohlleben and from poet Jason Allen-Paisant We are also launching a podcast made in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council - Green Thinking - which features academic research into the issues linking the climate challenge and society. You can find that on the Green Thinking playlist on our programme website https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07zg0r2 and available to download as the Arts & Ideas podcast.

New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to work with academics to share their research on the radio. This episode was made in partnership with the AHRC, part of UKRI. You can find a playlist exploring New Research on the Free Thinking website https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03zws90

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Podcast: New Books in Science, Technology, and Society (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Makis Solomos, "From Music to Sound: The Emergence of Sound in 20th and 21st-century Music" (Routledge, 2019)
Pub date: 2021-05-21

In From Music to Sound: The Emergence of Sound in 20th and 21st-century Music (Routledge, 2019), Makis Solomos (Professor of Musicology, University of Vincennes in Saint-Denis “Paris 8”) argues that the 20th century bears witness to a kind of paradigm shift relating to the subject matter of music, a shift “from a musical culture centered on the note to a culture of sound” (5). Crucially, Solomos sets out to track this transformation as a change that is music-internal: that is, one that may be understood with reference to the new aesthetic and cultural forms of particular compositions that put sound at stake. Solomos draws on analysis, listening, and the aesthetic writings of composers themselves to argue for the “emergence” of sound-as-such as a topic of 20th- and 21st-century music, one consequence of the increasing complexity of music since 1900.

His first sole-author monograph in English, From Music to Sound is an accessible and engaging entry point into Solomos’s work for an Anglophone audience that draws not only on his long career as a musicologist with extensive experience of contemporary music but also as a specialist in the musical thought of Theodor Adorno and the music of Iannis Xenakis. The book's attention to the contingency of the six themes around which Solomos organises this history—timbre, noise, listening, immersion, the composition of sound as material, and “sound-space”—marks it out not only as a contribution to the history of contemporary music but also to its historiography. Composers and works likely familiar to listeners are marshaled to develop these themes: Russolo, Webern, Schaeffer, Xenakis, Tristan Murail. Its rich selection of music examples provides ample points of departure into the work of composers perhaps less well known to listeners: François-Bernard Mâche, Fausto Romitelli, and Dmitri Kourliandski, among others. Though the principal focus of the book rests squarely on the tradition of Western art music composition, Solomos is careful to acknowledge that this titular transition from “music to sound” is not the exclusive preserve of institutional music culture: examples from recorded rock, jazz, and post-rock help round out the picture by pointing to the role that sound-studio cultures—and, we might say, technique and technics in general—play in the objectification of sound across genre lines.

Eamonn Bell (@_eamonnbell) is a postdoctoral Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin in the Department of Music. His current research project examines the story of the compact disc from a viewpoint between musicology and media studies.

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Podcast: The Prospect Podcast (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: The life and mind of Edward Said
Pub date: 2021-05-26

Sameer Rahim joins professor David Herman for a discussion on the life and work of the public intellectual Edward Said, who is the subject of a new biography, Places of Mind, by Timothy Brennan. Sameer, who wrote about the limitations of the thinker in our most recent issue of Prospect, joins David, a former student of Said’s, to discuss what Said got right, and wrong, about orientalism, his friendship with Salman Rushdie, and what Said would have made of the Israel – Palestine conflict today.

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Podcast: New Books in Economics (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Mary Pilon, "The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind the World's Favorite Board Game" (Bloomsbury, 2015)
Pub date: 2021-05-17

The inside story of the world's most famous board game-a buried piece of American history with an epic scandal that continues today.

The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind the World's Favorite Board Game(Bloomsbury, 2015) reveals the unknown story of how Monopoly came into existence, the reinvention of its history by Parker Brothers and multiple media outlets, the lost female originator of the game, and one man's lifelong obsession to tell the true story about the game's questionable origins.

Most think it was invented by an unemployed Pennsylvanian who sold his game to Parker Brothers during the Great Depression in 1935 and lived happily--and richly--ever after. That story, however, is not exactly true. Ralph Anspach, a professor fighting to sell his Anti-Monopoly board game decades later, unearthed the real story, which traces back to Abraham Lincoln, the Quakers, and a forgotten feminist named Lizzie Magie who invented her nearly identical Landlord's Game more than thirty years before Parker Brothers sold their version of Monopoly. Her game--underpinned by morals that were the exact opposite of what Monopoly represents today--was embraced by a constellation of left-wingers from the Progressive Era through the Great Depression, including members of Franklin Roosevelt's famed Brain Trust.

A gripping social history of corporate greed that illuminates the cutthroat nature of American business over the last century, The Monopolists reads like the best detective fiction, told through Monopoly's real-life winners and losers.

Mary Pilon is a journalist, screenwriter, and author of the bestselling books "The Monopolists" and "The Kevin Show" as well as co-host and co-author of “Twisted: The Story of Larry Nassar and the Women Who Brought Him Down.” Her work regularly appears in the New Yorker, Esquire, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Vice, New York, and The New York Times, among other publications.

Dr. Lee Pierce (they & she) is Assistant Professor of Rhetorical Communication at State University of New York at Geneseo and host of the podcast RhetoricLee Speaking. Connect with Lee on Gmail and social media @rhetoriclee.

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Podcast: GeogPod (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Episode # 35: Professor Tamsin Mather - Volcanoes, a 'fundamental fascination'
Pub date: 2021-05-19

This week John was joined by Professor Tamsin Mather from Oxford University. Tamsin is professor of Earth Sciences and her research centres around volcanoes and volcanic behaviour.

Thanks to Collins for sponsoring series 6 of GeogPod.

Links from the pod

Public Lecture: Volcanoes and past climate: adventures with deep carbon

Blog about Masaya and volcanic gases

Volcano watching: weapons of ash eruption

University of Oxford Earth Sciences undergraduate course

The Geological Society university pathway page

Teaching resources Tamsin helped create:

Your science out there - Oxford Sparks

Using your science to understand volcanic eruptions - Oxford Sparks

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Podcast: The Podcast for Social Research (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Practical Criticism No. 48—Björk
Pub date: 2021-05-18

In episode 48 of the Podcast for Social Research's "Practical Criticism" series, Rebecca Ariel Porte plays Björk for Ajay Singh Chaudhary. They converse about pop avant-gardes, Bruegel's Land of Cockaigne, utopian fantasies of Iceland, islands and the insular, the state of emergency, music designed to be remixed, protean pop personae, female friendship, nascent solidarities, music as muse, and why Björk is more like Taylor Swift than you'd think.

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Podcast: Arts & Ideas (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Napoleon the gardener and art thief
Pub date: 2021-05-05

The day before Napoleon's death on May 5th 1821, the willow tree he liked to sit under on St Helena was felled by tempestuous winds. Ruth Scurr has written Napoleon: A Life in Gardens and Shadows. Natasha Pulley's novel The Kingdoms imagines a history with Napoleon victorious in England, Emma Rothschild has traced a family in France over three centuries. Rana Mitter chairs a discussion about how looking at Napoleon as gardener, collector of art and founder of an institution dedicated to the arts and sciences in Egypt adds to our understanding of him as a military man and the panel consider alternative histories of France.

Ruth Scurr's book Napoleon: A Life in Gardens and Shadows is out now. You can hear her discussing her book about John Aubrey in this episode of Free Thinking https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06rwvrf Natasha Pulley's novel The Kingdoms is published May 25th 2021. You can hear her discussing the Japanese novel and film Rashomon https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b01vwk and the writing of Angela Carter https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p038jdb7 Emma Rothschild has published An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France over Three Centuries

Producer: Ruth Watts

You might be interested in another Free Thinking discussion about Napoleon in Fact and Fiction hearing from actor/director Kathryn Hunter, biographer Michael Broers historians Oskar Cox Jensen and Laura O'Brien, journalist Nabila Ramdani https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09s2nml and Radio 3's weekly curation of Words and Music features an episode focusing on authors and composers inspired by the life of Napoleon with readings from Jane Austen, Wordsworth, Anthony Burgess and Thackeray and music from Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev.

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Podcast: Getty Art + Ideas (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Rescuing Art by Women in Florence
Pub date: 2021-05-12

"They were rather shocked that we were interested specifically in restoring art by women. And I remember one specific curator said, 'Well, if you would just open your base to men as well, we would have a lot of worthy things for you to restore.'"

Where are the women artists in museums? The non-profit organization Advancing Women Artists was inspired by this simple, powerful question. Though artists like Artemisia Gentileschi and Plautilla Nelli were prolific and successful in their lifetimes, their works often languished in storage or were left in states of disrepair in Florence’s museums. Yet when Linda Falcone, director of Advancing Women Artists (AWA), began approaching these museums around 2008 looking for art by women to restore and conserve, many told her they would have some incredible candidates if only she would open up her criteria to include art by men. However, AWA maintained its exclusive focus on women, and in the years since, the importance of showcasing and preserving art by women has become widely understood in Florence and around the world.

In this episode, Linda Falcone discusses the history of AWA and shares the stories of some of the groundbreaking women who worked from the 17th to the 20th centuries and whose art can be found in Florentine collections today.

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Podcast: LA Review of Books (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Helen Oyeyemi: Peaces
Pub date: 2021-04-30

Eric and Daya are joined by acclaimed author Helen Oyeyemi, whose latest novel is Peaces. The plot involves two young lovers, Otto and Xavier Shin, who board an unusual train to celebrate their unofficial honeymoon. Accompanied by their pet mongoose, the two begin to explore the cars and the meet the three other passengers on board. The book can be described as a madcap existential mystery at the center of which is a question about how we see other people and what it means to be seen or not seen. Rachel Kushner returns to recommend The Autobiography of Chuck Berry. And there's also special bonus gushing over the recently completed season of Drag Race.

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Podcast: IT'S GOING DOWN (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: At the End of the World: Afrofuturism, Black Speculative Futures, and Black Transhumanism
Pub date: 2021-05-04

On this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, IGD contributor Scott Campbell speaks with Clay Colmon, who teaches in the Cultural Studies Department at Claremont Graduate University and is the Associate Director of Instructional Design at UPenn’s School of Arts and Sciences.

The two discuss the potential and meaning of change, the growing capaciousness of Afrofuturism, the power of Black speculative futures, the significance of vision and story in social struggle, the construction of the human, the possibilities of Black transhumanism and posthumanism, and the implications of all of the above in the work for liberatory social change.

Clay can be found on Twitter at @warmclay.

The interlude track is “Soul of the Sea” by Drexciya, accompanied by audio clips of Octavia Butler, N.K. Jemisin, Wanuri Kahiu, Nnedi Okorafor, Octavia Butler, and N.K. Jemisin, respectively.

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Podcast: Utopian Horizons (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Anime Architecture w/ Stefan Riekeles
Pub date: 2021-05-04

Stefan Riekeles, author of the book Anime Architecture: Imagined Worlds and Endless Megacities, joins me to talk about the dystopian worlds imagined by artists and directors that provide the background to some of the genre's most famous movies.

You can find the Kickstarter project I mention in the episode here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/objectoriented/object-oriented

Utopian Horizons is a podcast about utopia. Each episode covers a different utopia, dystopia, utopian thinker, or utopian movement, asking what they can tell us about ourselves, our society, and our future.

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Podcast: UNBOUND
Episode: Episode 8 - Justin Smith
Pub date: 2021-04-26

Eddie and Giuseppe had a chat with Justin Smith about the global history of philosophy, control F as a research method, reply guys, textual and oral traditions of philosophy, algorithms, irrationality, aliens and learning languages.

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Podcast: New Books in Science, Technology, and Society (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Douglas M. O'Reagan, "Taking Nazi Technology: Allied Exploitation of German Science after the Second World War" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
Pub date: 2021-04-23

In his new book Taking Nazi Technology: Allied Exploitation of German Science After the Second World War (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), Douglas O’Reagandescribes how the Western Allies gathered teams of experts to scour defeated Germany, seeking industrial secrets and the technical personnel who could explain them. Swarms of investigators invaded Germany's factories and research institutions, seizing or copying all kinds of documents, from patent applications to factory production data to science journals. They questioned, hired, and sometimes even kidnapped hundreds of scientists, engineers, and other technical personnel. They studied technologies from aeronautics to audiotapes, toy making to machine tools, chemicals to carpentry equipment. They took over academic libraries, jealously competed over chemists, and schemed to deny the fruits of German invention to any other land—including that of other Allied nations.

Drawing on declassified records, O'Reagan looks at which techniques worked for these very different nations, as well as which failed—and why. Most importantly, he shows why securing this technology, how the Allies did it, and when still matters today. He also argues that these programs did far more than spread German industrial science: they forced businessmen and policymakers around the world to rethink how science and technology fit into diplomacy, business, and society itself.

Douglas M. O'Reagan is a historian of technology, industry, and national security. He earned his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.

Craig Sorvillo is a PhD candidate in modern European history at the University of Florida. He specializes in Nazi Germany, and the Holocaust. He can be reached at craig.sorvillo@gmail.com or on twitter @craig_sorvillo.

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Podcast: Thorns Have Roses (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Climate fiction & reimagining the future
Pub date: 2021-04-25

This week, we're in conversation with Dr. Michael Svoboda, a professor of writing at George Washington University, to discuss how the climate crisis is depicted in movies and books.

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Podcast: Scratching the Surface (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: 184. Beatrice Galilee
Pub date: 2021-04-21

Beatrice Galilee is a curator, critic, and editor. She’s currently the founder and executive director of The World Around and is the author of the new book, Radical Architecture of the Future. She previous was the curator of contemporary architecture and design at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, architecture editor for Icon Magazine, and has curated exhibitions and written for publications all around the world. In this episode, Jarrett and Beatrice talk about blurry definitions of architecture, working in an institution versus going independent, and finding new ways to talk about architecture and design. Links from this episode can be found at scratchingthesurface.fm/184-beatrice-galilee.

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Podcast: Against Japanism (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: The History of Marxism in Japan w/ Gavin Walker - Part 1
Pub date: 2021-04-20

In this two part series, Kota sits down with Gavin Walker to discuss the history of Marxism in Japan. Instead of simply narrating the facts of this history chronologically, we focus on particular theoretical and political questions that animated the Japanese communist movement before and after the Second World War.

We begin our conversation by discussing what the history of Marxism in Japan tells us about “Japan” as represented by the Eurocentric and Orientalist conception of the world, and the importance of the national question, the ways in which Marxists address issues related to nationhood, nationalism, and internationalism.

We then zoom in on the debate on Japanese capitalism during the 1930s that divided the Japanese communist movement between the Koza-ha (Lecture Faction) and the Rono-ha (Labour Farmer Faction).

This debate was centred around the question of what the Meiji Restoration of 1868 meant for the development of capitalism in Japan, specifically the transition from feudalism to capitalism, and whether capitalism in Japan during the 1930s was sufficiently developed to pave the way for a socialist revolution.

On the one hand, the Koza-ha held that the fascistic nature of the Japanese state was a product of the remnants of feudalism that persisted in the countryside after the Meiji Restoration and held back the development of capitalism in Japan. Thus, they argued for a two stage revolution in which the completion of a bourgeois democratic revolution (including the abolition of the emperor system) precedes the socialist revolution. On the other hand, the Rono-ha argued that capitalism was fully matured by then, and hence what Japan needed was a one stage socialist revolution. We also discuss the theory of Uno Kozo who came out of the Rono-ha tradition, but charted an independent path in the postwar period and made a retrospective contribution to this debate.

While both Koza-ha and Rono-ha produced a vast amount of literature about Japanese society, and contributed to the dominance of Marxism among Japanese intellectuals that persisted into the postwar period, both were relatively silent about the role of imperialism and colonialism in the transition from feudalism to capitalism in Japan. We delve into the question of why this was the case and the link between the rapid development of capitalism in Japan, and the colonization of the Ainu homelands and the Ryukyu Kingdom, as well as Korea, Taiwan, South Pacific Islands, and northeastern China.

We conclude the first part of this interview by discussing how this debate on Japanese capitalism influenced the strategies and tactics of the Japanese communist movement in the prewar period, as well as the role of arts and culture in popularizing Marxism.

Part 2 will cover topics such as the impact of the Chinese Revolution and Maoism on the Japanese left, and the questions of nationalism and internationalism in postwar Japan.

Gavin Walker is Associate Professor of History at McGill University. He is the author of The Sublime Perversion of Capital (Duke, 2016) and the forthcoming Marx et la politique du dehors (Lux Éditeur, 2021), the editor of The End of Area: Biopolitics, Geopolitics, History (Duke, 2019, with Naoki Sakai), and The Red Years: Theory, Politics, and Aesthetics in the Japanese ’68 (Verso, 2020) as well as editor and translator of Kojin Karatani’s Marx: Towards the Centre of Possibility (Verso, 2020). He is widely published in critical theory, social and political thought, modern intellectual history, and Marxist theory. Among other projects, he is now writing a short book on the national question.

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Podcast: Yale University Press Podcast (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Ep. 82 – How Photography Became Contemporary Art
Pub date: 2021-04-16

As Michael S. Roth wrote in his review in The Washington Post, “The maturation of Grundberg as a renowned critic coincides with the maturation of photography as an art form and its conquest of the art market. With this fine book, he has given us a personal yet balanced account

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Podcast: Citations Needed (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 133: The Art of Fake-Ending Wars
Pub date: 2021-04-14

"Yemen war: Joe Biden ends support for operations in foreign policy reset," reports the BBC. "Trump: US will be out of Afghanistan by Christmas 2020," cheered Military Times. "Trump Orders Withdrawal of U.S. Troops From Northern Syria," the New York Times told us. For decades, the United States has very often appeared to have "ended" wars that do not, in fact, end at all. Open-ended jargon like "residual counter terror forces," "Vietnamization," "military advisors," along with deliberately ambiguous timetables, process criticisms––all are used to confuse the average media consumer. America's politicians know the American public broadly dislikes war and empire––and thus wants to see it restrained––but these same politicians don't really want to end wars so they have a frequent PR problem: How do you make it look like you’re ending a war or occupation without really doing so? To solve this conundrum, American political leaders have perfected the art of fake-ending a war. Which is to say, announcing a war is going to end, typically around election time, only to––once the headlines make a big splash––backtrack, obfuscate, claim the "situation on the ground has changed" or the military involvement will only be in a "limited" or "defensive" capacity, shuffle troops around or find other thin pretexts to continue the war or occupation. In this episode, we discuss the United States' history of fake-ending wars, who these pronouncements are meant to please, why troops levels are often impossible to know, and why so many of our so-called "wars" are not really wars at all, but military occupations that are never really meant to end. Our guest is Shireen Al-Adeimi, assistant professor at Michigan State University.

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Podcast: The LRB Podcast (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Long Way Round
Pub date: 2021-04-13

John Lanchester talks to Thomas Jones about his experience of being on a cargo ship blocked from entering the Suez Canal in 1967, his subsequent journey round the Cape of Good Hope, and the modern-day business of containers.

Read John's piece and more in the LRB here: https://lrb.me/longwayroundpod

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Podcast: Science History Podcast (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 41. Galileo’s Dialogue: John Heilbron
Pub date: 2021-04-11

Galileo occupies an inflection point in the history of science and society. Born in 1564, Galileo changed the trajectory of science though his work in astronomy, physics and related fields. He invented various clever devices, and he used the telescope to push the boundaries of knowledge about our solar system and Earth’s place in it. Galileo’s discoveries, and the manner in which he presented them in his 1632 book Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, hurled his fate into the judgements of the Roman Inquisition. Galileo recanted after he was found “vehemently suspect of heresy”. The inquisitors sentenced Galileo with the unusual punishment of house arrest, where he remained until his death in 1642.

The Dialogue represented much more than a book on Copernican heliocentrism – that is, that the Earth rotates daily and revolves around the sun. The Dialogue also became a cudgel in the European conflicts between Catholics and Protestants, and the fate of the book in the midst of the Inquisition placed Galileo’s lot in a precarious position. Did Galileo give a copy of the book to its Latin translator, which facilitated its distribution throughout Europe? Was Galileo’s recanting of heliocentrism genuine, or did he continue to spread heretical views while under house arrest? How did Galileo run afoul of a Pope who had previously supported his work? The questions surrounding the Dialogue live on, and with us to decipher the controversy is John Heilbron.

John received AB and MA degrees in physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1955 and 1958, respectively. He completed his Ph.D. in history, also at Berkeley, in 1964. He then taught at the University of Pennsylvania before returning to Berkeley in 1967, where he worked his way through the ranks of academia to a full professorship and director of the Office for History of Science and Technology in 1973. He served as Berkeley’s Vice Chancellor in the early 1990s, and since then has been active as a professor emeritus.

Since 1996, John has also conducted research at the University of Oxford, and since 2012 at the California Institute of Technology. John is a member of the International Academy of the History of Science, for which he served as president from 2001-2005. He is also a member of The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and The American Philosophical Society. He is the recipient of many awards for his scholarship on the history of science. John has written numerous books, and today we discuss his latest, a beautifully written book entitled, The Ghost of Galileo in a Forgotten Painting from the English Civil War, published in 2021 by Oxford University Press.

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Podcast: The Familiar Strange (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Ep #72 Weaponized Photography & Sex Work: Camille Waring on Online Intimacy & Lens Based Violence
Pub date: 2021-04-04

Before we dive into today’s episode we’d just like to add a content warning for this episode for sexual assault.

This week, Familiar Stranger Carolyn sits down with Camille Waring from the University of Westminster. Camille is currently doing her PhD on online representations of sex workers and how photography is being used against marginalized communities.

Throughout this chat, Carolyn dives into the meanings of photography today, what the actual act of taking a photograph means for people and definitions of “Lens Based Violence” and weaponized photography. Eventually, they ask the questions of “what is a photograph” and “who decides what can go on what platforms?”

It was a really interesting conversation with some thought provoking points made. We hope you enjoy it!

Just a note on the audio quality, we’re still conducting some interviews through Zoom so some parts of the interview might be harder to hear than others.

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Podcast: The TLS Podcast (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Philip Roth, For Better, For Worse, Forever?
Pub date: 2021-04-07

This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Elaine Showalter, Professor Emerita of English at Princeton University, to discuss Blake Bailey’s keenly anticipated ‘Philip Roth: The biography’; and Alexandra Harris, the author of ‘Weatherland: Artist and writers under English skies’, considers a twenty-first century perspective on Joseph Wright of Derby, an eighteenth-century painter who is perhaps more darkness than light, more magic than science, and who deserves to be ranked among Europe’s greats.

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Joseph Wright of Derby: Painter of darkness by Matthew Craske

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Podcast: About Buildings + Cities (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 80 — Otto Wagner — 2/5 — The Style Question
Pub date: 2021-03-31

In our second episode on Otto Wagner, we discussed a couple of Wagner's early buildings, specifically the Landerbank in Vienna and the Rumbach Street Synagogue in Budapest. Both are tantalising glimpses of the themes that would dominate his later, most famous works.

We then discussed the architectural theory that was being produced in vast quantities in the German-speaking lands of the 19th century, specifically how they addressed the question of architectural style, posing the question 'In what style should we build?' These authors, such as Gottfried Semper, Heinrich Hübsch and Carl Gottlieb Wilhelm Bötticher offered complex justifications for different architectural styles, grounded in stories about history, structural logic, skeuomorphs and culture.

Otto Wagner plunged headlong into this debate with his 1896 book, Modern Architecture: A Guidebook for His Students to this Field of Art, which offered his own view on the answer to the style question, and prefigured many of the arguments and ideas touted by the modern movement in the 20th century.

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Podcast: The Vocal Fries (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Standardized Language Ideology
Pub date: 2021-03-29

Megan and Carrie talk with Drs Gaillynn Clements, Visiting Assistant Professor in Linguistics at Duke University, and Marnie Jo Petray, Associate Professor in TESOL at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania, about their new edited volume, Linguistic Discrimination in US Higher Education Power, Prejudice, Impacts, and Remedies.

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Podcast: New Books in French Studies (LS 30 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Tyler Sonnichsen, "Capitals of Punk: DC, Paris, and Circulation in the Urban Underground" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019)
Pub date: 2021-03-29

This one's personal.

Tyler Sonnichsen's Capitals of Punk: DC, Paris, and Circulation in the Urban Underground (Palgrave, 2019) was an amazing book for me to read and speak with its author about. While I am always fascinated by the different approaches to and thematic areas covered by the books I explore for the podcast, this one took me back to my years as a Montreal teenager, cutting my own hair, sewing my own dresses/skirts, and running around town after the loudest, fastest (sometimes angriest) music I could find. And it brings the stories of some of my favourite sounds from that era (and since) together with my love of and fascination for France and French culture. That's never happened before for me on the podcast.

Capitals of Punk looks at the movement -between France and the United States, Paris and DC- of music, people, a broader (sub)cultural phenomenon that included writing, art, ideas, an ethos for creating and living. Drawing on interviews and the extensive archives kept by musicians, promoters, and fans on both sides of the Atlantic, the book traces how the underground music scenes of these two capital cities learned from and influenced each other. A musical geography that illuminates a counterculture across spaces and times, the book will appeal to punks young and old (!), and to anyone interested in the varieties of French and American music and urban history.

Roxanne Panchasi is an Associate Professor of History at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada who specializes in twentieth and twenty-first century France and its empire. If you have a recent title to suggest for the podcast, please send her an email (panchasi@sfu.ca).

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Podcast: Start the Week (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Newton: science and worldly riches
Pub date: 2021-03-22

Edward St Aubyn is the award-winning author of the Patrick Melrose series. His new novel, Double Blind, also revolves around transformation and the headlong pursuit of knowledge. He tells Tom Sutcliffe that his characters range across the sciences – from genetics to ecology to psychoanalysis. And their investigations into inheritance, freedom and consciousness intertwine with their feelings of love, fear and greed.

Isaac Newton is often revered as the scientific genius of the 18th century: an unworldly scholar who abandoned his intellectual life to rescue the country’s finances. But the academic Patricia Fara paints a more complicated picture in Life After Gravity. Here Newton is seen in the last 30 years of his life as he heads both the Royal Mint and the Royal Society – a scientist who revelled in the dirty worlds of money and politics.

Chris van Tulleken is an infectious diseases doctor who has also forged a career presenting health and science programmes on radio and television. With his twin brother Xand he has put competing health theories to the test, and shared his own personal experience of Covid 19. In his new series for Radio 4, The Jump, he investigates the latest scientific evidence looking at how animal viruses spread to humans, and how far human behaviours are causing pandemics.

Producer: Katy Hickman

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Podcast: Musing Mind Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Unselfing: Philosophy of Psychedelics w/ Chris Letheby
Pub date: 2021-03-22

In this episode, I’m joined by Dr. Chris Letheby: a philosopher of cognitive science who focuses on psychedelic experience & its implications for our understanding of consciousness.

Chris is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Western Australia and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Adelaide. He has a soon-to-be-published book: Philosophy of Psychedelics.

Along with Philip Gerrans, Chris is behind one of the most interesting theories of what the self is, a theory that explains why the sensation of being a ‘self’ arises in consciousness, which they call the “predictive self-binding account”.

His work goes on to study how high-dose psychedelic experiences disrupt this model of self-consciousness, and weaves the implications into a broader project he calls Naturalizing Spirituality.

Our conversation follows three main topics:

What is the predictive self-binding account of self-consciousness?
How do psychedelics disrupt self-consciousness?
What can these psychedelic experiences that alter our self-consciousness tell us about the prospects of a naturalized spirituality suited for the 21st century?

This was such a fun conversation, & I find Chris’ work absolutely brilliant. Cannot wait to see his work evolve.

Enjoy!

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Podcast: The Podcast for Social Research (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Practical Criticism No. 11—Claude Debussy
Pub date: 2021-03-23

In this episode of the Podcast for Social Research’s “Practical Criticism” series, Ajay plays Debussy’s “Jardins sous la pluie” for Rebecca, to whom the object of the week is, as usual, a surprise. Their conversation ranges over virtuosity, empty and full, tone painting, modern music, play, omission, peopling the world of your solitude, Shakespeare’s Richard II, Adorno, and Proust.

n.b. This episode indirectly cites the excellent pandemic playlist that Jacob Gordon is in the process of compiling.

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Podcast: New Books in Sociology (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Rebecca Hope Dirksen, "After the Dance, the Drums Are Heavy: Carnival, Politics, and Musical Engagement in Haiti" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Pub date: 2021-03-17

After the Dance, the Drums Are Heavy: Carnival, Politics, and Musical Engagement in Haiti (Oxford University Press, 2020) is a study of carnival, politics, and the musical engagement of ordinary citizens and celebrity musicians in contemporary Haiti. Drawing on more than a decade and a half of ethnographic research, Rebecca Dirksen presents an in-depth consideration of politically and socially engaged music and what these expressions mean for the Haitian population in the face of challenging political and economic circumstances. The book centers the voices of Haitian musicians and regular citizens by extensively sharing interviews and detailed analyses of musical performance in the context of contemporary events well beyond the musical realm.

Dr. Rebecca Dirksen is an ethnomusicologist working across the spectrum of musical genres in Haiti and its diaspora. Her research concerns cultural approaches to development, crisis, and disaster; sacred ecologies, diverse environmentalisms, and ecomusicology; and applied/engaged/activist scholarship. She is a professor in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University Bloomington and a founding member of the Diverse Environmentalisms Research Team (DERT).

Dr. Isabel Machado serves as reviews editor for the Oral History Journal and is guest editing a forthcoming special issue of the Journal of Festival Studies on the “Materiality of Festivities.”

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Podcast: The Week in Art (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: UK culture war: how should museums confront colonialism?
Pub date: 2021-03-12

This week, we focus on two books: Aimee Dawson talks to Alice Procter about the debate over contested heritage in the UK and her book The Whole Picture, a strident call for colonial histories to be told in museums. Jori Finkel speaks to Glenn Adamson about Craft: An American History, a radical reappraisal of craft's role in forging American identity. And in this episode’s Work of the Week, Ben Luke talks to the critic Michael Peppiatt—curator of an exhibition uniting Frank Auerbach and Tony Bevan at Ben Brown Fine Arts in London—about Auerbach's EOW Sleeping IV (1967), in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

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Podcast: The Cinematologists Podcast (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Ep118 - Conversations About Cinema (w/ Mark Cosgrove and Francesco Tava)
Pub date: 2021-03-19

In this episode Neil talks to Mark Cosgrove, cinema curator at The Watershed in Bristol and Dr Francesco Tava, senior lecturer in philosophy at University of West England (UWE), about their current season of colonial cinema and discussions, Thought in Action, presented in partnership with MUBI.

Their conversation covers the positives of online events in the pandemic including accessing filmmakers and panel members from all over the world as well as welcoming diverse audiences, the hybrid future of cinema events and the value of meeting communally to discuss movies, and the importance of the colonial conversation being raised at this moment in history and Bristol’s prominence in that conversation.

Elsewhere Dario and Neil discuss audiences and the desire to be back in cinemas hosting live podcast events where movies are shared and discussed, they pay tribute to Yaphet Kotto, discuss the Masters of Cinema release of the 1967 Soviet folk horror, Viy, and touch on the Oscar nominations momentarily to celebrate the double nomination of the documentary Collective, in the wake of episode 117 and its focus on Romanian cinema.

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Upcoming panel discussion events:

Zombi Child (dir. Bonelli, 2019) - Thursday March 25, 18.00 - 19.00

Apiyemiyekî? (dir. Vaz, 2020) - Thursday April 15, 18.00 - 19.00

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Podcast: Being Human
Episode: Imperceptible Blackness, Humanism Undone: An Interview with Shaundra Myers
Pub date: 2021-03-05

An interview with Shaundra Myers, professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. The interview focuses on Professor Myers' research, teaching, and the way both have been affected by various crises in 2020. It was recorded on Friday, February 19, 2021. Professor Myers' essay on black anaesthetics can be found here: academic.oup.com/alh/article-abst…/31/1/47/5273610.

[Note: Professor Myers reached out to say she misspoke when discussing the Combahee River Collective at 23:30. She meant to refer to Barbara Smith rather than Barbara Johnson.]

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Podcast: Jerusalem Unplugged
Episode: Sounds and smells of Jerusalem, photography and Wasif Jawhariyyeh, hashish and music with Issam Nassar
Pub date: 2021-03-10

Issam Nassar in this episodes remembers his childhood in Jerusalem through smells and sounds. Issam then shares his passion for photography and he then talks about Wasif Jawhariyyeh, a Christian Palestinian who left us with an amazing diary and memoirs of the Mandate era, showing a Jerusalem full of life, often neglected and forgotten.

Issam Nassar is a Palestinian historian of photography and the Middle East. He is professor of History at Illinois State University and a research fellow at the Institute of Jerusalem Studies. Nassar is also associate editor of the Journal Jerusalem Quarterly and has authored many books, among them European Portrayals of Jerusalem. Nassar is currently Professor at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies.

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Podcast: The Week in Art (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Old Masters meet Brutalism: inside Frick Madison in New York
Pub date: 2021-03-05

This week: the Frick Collection in New York has moved temporarily from its Gilded Age Mansion on Central Park to Marcel Breuer’s 1960s building created for the Whitney Museum. So what happens when the Old Masters meet Brutalism? We talk to Xavier Salomon, deputy director and chief curator of the Frick about this remarkable change of setting for one of the world’s great collections. We talk to Vincent Noce about his new book L'Affaire Ruffini, following an Old Master forgery scandal, involving works by artists including Cranach, Hals and Orazio Gentileschi and some of the world's most august institutions. And for this episode’s Work of the Week the artist Collier Schorr talks about the photographer August Sander's Young Soldier, Westerwald, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (and various other museum collections).

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Podcast: New Books in Art (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Fiona Greenland, "Ruling Culture: Art Police, Tomb Raiders, and the Rise of Cultural Power in Italy" (U of Chicago Press, 2021)
Pub date: 2021-02-26

Today we are joined by Fiona Greenland, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia, to talk about her new book, Ruling Culture: Art Police, Tomb Raiders, and the Rise of Cultural Power in Italy (University of Chicago Press, 2021).

Through much of its history, Italy was Europe’s heart of the arts, an artistic playground for foreign elites and powers who bought, sold, and sometimes plundered countless artworks and antiquities. This loss of artifacts looted by other nations once put Italy at an economic and political disadvantage compared with northern European states. Now, more than any other country, Italy asserts control over its cultural heritage through a famously effective art-crime squad that has been the inspiration of novels, movies, and tv shows. In its efforts to bring their cultural artifacts home, Italy has entered into legal battles against some of the world’s major museums, including the Getty, New York’s Metropolitan Museum, and the Louvre. It has turned heritage into patrimony capital—a powerful and controversial convergence of art, money, and politics.

In 2006, the then-president of Italy declared his country to be “the world’s greatest cultural power.” With Ruling Culture, Fiona Greenland traces how Italy came to wield such extensive legal authority, global power, and cultural influence—from the nineteenth century unification of Italy and the passage of novel heritage laws, to current battles with the international art market. Today, Italy’s belief in its cultural superiority is evident through interactions between citizens, material culture, and the state—crystallized in the Art Squad, the highly visible military-police art protection unit. Greenland reveals the contemporary actors in this tale, taking a close look at the Art Squad and state archaeologists on one side and unauthorized excavators, thieves, and smugglers on the other. Drawing on years in Italy interviewing key figures and following leads, Greenland presents a multifaceted story of art crime, cultural diplomacy, and struggles between international powers.

Jana Byars is the Academic Director of Netherlands: International Perspectives on Sexuality and Gender.

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Podcast: The MIT Press Podcast (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Marko Ilić and Anthony Gardner: Contemporary Art in Yugoslavia
Pub date: 2021-03-01

Writer and academic Anthony Gardner (NSK from Kapital to Capital, Politically Unbecoming) interviews Marko Ilić about his new book A Slow Burning Fire, which documents Yugoslavia's cultural output throughout the 60s, 70s and 80s.

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Podcast: So what you're saying is... (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Is British Comedy An Endangered Species?
Pub date: 2021-03-01

A recent report from OFCOM suggested that comedy was an endangered species on the BBC. Over the past decade the BBC's comedy output has declined by 40%. What does this mean for the future of comedy? And, indeed, given the degree to which comedy has been affected by issues of free speech and woke attitudes, what consequences do these have for comedy?

The #NCFCounterCulture panel:

Simon Evans (BBC Live At The Apollo; Michael McIntyre's Road Show; Rado 4 News Quiz, etc.)
Abi Roberts, stand-up comic and contributor to Spiked Online.
Emma Webb, Associate Fellow at Civitas

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Podcast: The Sociology Show (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Interview with Dr Kate Herrity & Dr Jason Warr
Pub date: 2021-02-22

In this episode, Matthew talks to Dr Kate Herrity from the University of Cambridge and Dr Jason Warr from De Montford University about their new book - Sensory Penalties. Sensory Penalties reflects an explosion in explorations of the sensory and disrupts conventional expectations of both form and focus by expanding anthropological practices and craft into the field of criminology and criminological research.

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Podcast: Ottoman History Podcast (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Musical Archives of the Midwest Mahjar
Pub date: 2021-02-22

with Richard Breaux

| Richard Breaux needed a hobby. He began collecting 78 rpm records as a break from his work as a professor of Ethnic and Racial Studies at University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. But when he stumbled upon a trove of Arabic language records at an estate sale, his hobby became a scholarly project of its own to document and reconstruct the history of the Arab diaspora in La Crosse, Wisconsin and the Greater Midwestern United States. In this episode, we talk about the history of early 78 rpm Arabic records in the United States, the people who owned them, and the story of a forgotten center of the Midwest Mahjar. « Click for More »

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Podcast: The afikra Podcast (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Art History Professor Alex Dika Seggerman [ afikra Conversations]
Pub date: 2021-02-24

Alex Dika Seggerman is an Assistant Professor of Islamic Art History at Rutgers University-Newark. Her scholarship investigates the intersection of Islam and modernism in art history. In this conversation, we are discussing Dr. Seggerman's book "Modernism on the Nile: Art in Egypt Between the Islamic and the Contemporary."

Created & Hosted by Mikey Muhanna, afikra; https://www.instagram.com/mikey_mu/‎

Edited by: Ramzi Ramman

Theme music by: Tarek Yamani https://www.instagram.com/tarek_yamani/

About the afikra conversation series:

Our long-form interview series, hosted on Zoom, featuring academics and arts ‎and media experts who are helping document and/or shape the history and culture of the Arab world through their ‎work. Our hope is that by having the guest share their expertise and story, the community still walks away with newfound curiosity - and maybe some good recommendations about new nerdy rabbit holes to dive into headfirst. ‎Following the interview, there is a moderated town-hall-style Q&A with questions coming from the live virtual audience ‎on Zoom.‎ Join the live audience: https://www.afikra.com/rsvp

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Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/afikra/

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Website: afikra.com

About afikra:‎

afikra is a grassroots movement that has evolved into a global community dedicated to exploring the history and ‎culture of the Arab world. Starting in 2014 in NYC, our mission has always been two-pronged: cultivate curiosity and ‎to build community. We've hosted intimate salon-style events all over the world that feature in-depth presentations on ‎topics related to the Arab world, given by members of our community. What makes afikra different is that our ‎programs and platform is designed to engage our community to ask their own questions, and provide an open ‎community of peers who support each other as we all look for the answers together. Our vision is to build a global ‎community of curious minds who are interested in promoting intellectualism and deepening our communal ‎knowledge of the Arab region.‎

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Podcast: London Review Bookshop Podcast (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Simon Winder and Adam Phillips: ‘Lotharingia’
Pub date: 2021-02-17

Following on from his bestselling and hugely entertaining Germania and Danubia, Simon Winder continues his idiosyncratic journey through Europe’s past with Lotharingia (Picador). Now almost forgotten, Lotharingia arose from the ashes of the Carolingian Empire and stretched from the North Sea coasts of what is now the Netherlands all the way to the Alps, encompassing myriad languages and nationalities. Despite its disappearance and ensuing obscurity Lotharingia, Winder shows, has exercised a surprising and powerful influence on the history of the continent of Europe, from the Early Middle Ages to the present day. Winder was in conversation about Europe’s lost country with psychoanalyst and essayist Adam Phillips.

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Podcast: The Infinite Monkey Cage (LS 75 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: A History of Rock
Pub date: 2021-02-15

A History of Rock

Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by rock enthusiasts Ross Noble, paleontologist Susie Maidment and geologist Chris Jackson to look at the history of rock. Unfortunately for Ross, this turns out to mean actual rolling stones, rather than THE Rolling Stones. We hear what secrets the study of rock reveals about the very birth of our planet, to the incredible creatures that walked the Earth many millions of years ago, preserved in our ancient stones.

Producer: Alexandra Feachem

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Podcast: Radical Futures Now
Episode: Hip-Hop Culture and Black Movements with Msia Clark Kibona
Pub date: 2021-02-12

Hip-Hop is more than just a genre of music; it is a form of resistance and storytelling. Hip-Hop also plays an integral role in Black Movements. We speak with Msia Kibona Clark, Associate Professor of African cultural & feminist studies in the Department of African Studies at Howard University. Her work examines hip-hop in Africa’s importance as social commentary, especially around Pan Africanism and African feminist thought. Msia describes the parallels and differences of Hip-Hop culture in the states and on the continent. Co-hosted by Rhiki Swinton and Trevor Loduem-Jackson: audio edited by Gilbert Daniel Bwette.

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Podcast: Give Theory A Chance (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Fabio Rojas on Theory for the Working Sociologist
Pub date: 2021-02-06

In this episode, we are joined by Fabio Rojas, professor of sociology at Indiana University Bloomington and author of Theory for the Working Sociologist (2017). Fabio introduces his approach to teaching sociological theory, discusses the four theoretical moves made within the discipline, and argues against the common practice of having students engage in lengthy readings of original texts and the disciplinary tendency to turn our favorite theorists into superheroes.

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Podcast: Converging Dialogues (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: #20 - The Phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty: A Dialogue with Talia Welsh
Pub date: 2021-02-08

In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Talia Welsh about the phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty. Talia provides her background in philosophy and with Merleau-Ponty specifically. She also discusses her work in gender and feminine studies. They discuss the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty and how one understands the experience of their own being. They provide an overview of phenomenology and Merleau-Ponty's contribution to this branch of philosophy. They also talk about how his philosophy can be applied and the juxtaposition that it has with psychology. They also talk about feminism and gender studies generally along with other topics.

Talia Welsh has a PhD in philosophy and is currently a UC Foundation professor of Philosophy and Women, Gender, and Sexuality studies at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. She spends most of her research with Merleau-Ponty and has translated his lectures given at Sorbonne in the volume, Child Psychology & Pedagogy: The Sorbonne Lectures 1949-1952. You can find her work here.

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Podcast: Students and Scholars
Episode: Ep05 - Darwinism in the 19th Century with Dr. Trent Olsen
Pub date: 2021-02-05

In this episode, we welcome Dr. Trent Olsen as our guest scholar. He will be discussing the impact Charles Darwin’s discoveries and published work in The Origin of Species had on the wider 19th century. He discusses points of literary connection between Darwin, William Wordsworth, Robert Louis Stevenson, Emily Pfeiffer, H.G. Wells, and Thomas Hardy as a spectrum of the shifting world views on humankind’s role in nature.

Dr. Olsen earned his doctorate at the University of Minnesota and is currently an associate professor at Brigham Young University-Idaho. In 2018 he published his book Wordsworth and Evolution in Victorian Literature: Entangled Influence with Routledge and a forthcoming book, The Complete Personal Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson(also with Routledge) due for publication in May 2021.

Bibliography

Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species

Emily Pfeiffer's "To Nature"

H.G. Wells The Island of Doctor Moreau

Robert Louis Stevenson's "Pulvis et Umbra"

Thomas Hardy's "Hap"

Trenton B. Olsen's Wordsworth and Evolution in Victorian Literature: Entangled Influence

William Wordsworth "The Tables Turned"

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Podcast: The Week in Art (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Botticelli and Leonardo: the new normal for Old Masters
Pub date: 2021-01-29

This week, the Old Masters in the digital age. We look at the $92m live-streamed auction sale (with fees) of a major Botticelli in New York and new research, including a study using artificial intelligence, into Leonardo’s Salvator Mundi.

While a prize Botticelli sold for a record price for the early Renaissance master at Sotheby's, a Rembrandt, expected to fetch $20m-$30m, was withdrawn from the auction at the last minute. So as the coronavirus crisis continues, is this really a good moment to sell Old Masters? Scott Reyburn, who writes for The Art Newspaper and the New York Times, reflects on the results of the sale and the Old Masters market more generally.

Then, Alison Cole, the editor of The Art Newspaper, explains the latest scientific findings about Salvator Mundi, the Leonardo painting that sold at Christie’s in 2017 for $450m—including a study using neural networks.

And for this episode’s Work of the Week, the artist Gerard Byrne talks about a diorama in the Biological Museum, in Stockholm, which inspired Byrne’s series of photographs, Beasts, and a film installation, Film Inside an Image, both now showing in an online viewing room at kerlingallery.com.

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Podcast: Race and Democracy (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Ep. 67 – Photography from the Civil Rights Era with William Abranowicz
Pub date: 2021-02-02

William Abranowicz has been a photographer for more than 40 years. His work is found in collections throughout the world including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The National Portrait Gallery in London, Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, and The Smithsonian Institute. His work has appeared in nearly every major publication in the United States, Europe, and […]

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Podcast: Urban Political Podcast (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Film-Making as Urban Research
Pub date: 2021-01-29

with Nitin Bathla, Sandra Jasper, and Tino Buchholz Emerging film-makers and urban researchers Nitin Bathla, Sandra Jasper, and Tino Buchholz speak about their avenues into film-production, why film amounts to a vital medium for urban research, and what it would mean to enhance its role in urban studies. This episode is also full of urban film inspirations and recommendations!

Guests:

Nitin Bathla is an architect, artist, and educator currently pursuing Doctoral Studies at ETH Zurich. His work focuses on labor, political ecology, and housing in the extended urbanization of Delhi. Aside from academic writing, Nitin works on films, socially engaged art and design projects. www.nitinbathla.com

Nitin's debut film with Klearjos Eduardo Papanicoloau, Not Just Roads (2020) is an ethnographic documentary film that narrates the story of a massive urban transformation underway in India. You can find the trailers, synopsis, posters and stills of the film at - www.notjustroadsfilm.com

Sandra Jasper is Junior Professor for the Geography of Gender in Human-Environment-Systems at the Department of Geography, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. In 2015, she received her PhD in Geography from University College London. Before joining HU Berlin in 2020, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge. She is co-editor of The Botanical City (2020, with Matthew Gandy) and co-author and co-producer of the documentary film Natura Urbana: The Brachen of Berlin (2017, UK/Germany, 72 mins). She is currently completing her first monograph on the experimental spaces of West Berlin for which she received a Graham Foundation grant. Natura Urbana was funded under the European Research Council Advanced Grant entitled Rethinking Urban Nature. Webpage: https://www.rethinkingurbannature.org/

University website: https://www.geographie.hu-berlin.de/de/abteilungen/geographie-der-geschlechterverhaeltnisse-in-mensch-umwelt-systemen-j/team/current-people/jasper

Tino Buchholz holds a Master in Urban Planning from the University of Dortmund (Germany) and a PhD from the University of Groningen (The Netherlands). Focused on the sociology of urban conflict & urban movements he looks at forms of life as forms of housing: with respect to property-led urbanization, political justice, community formation and migration. His publications target the legitimacy of legal housing standards in Western & Eastern Europe; social housing, squatting, property guardianship and critical urban theory. Expanding the scope of urban sociology he works as producer and director at TUNi productions, urban research & documentary film.

http://www.tuniproductions.com/ https://vimeo.com/ondemand/298212 https://rug.academia.edu/tinobuchholz

Recommendations:

UCL Urban film recommendations: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/urban-lab/news/2020/mar/watch-urban-lab-films-available-stream-home

UrbanEye Film Festival in Bucharest: https://urbaneye.ro/en/

from Nitin:

The Seven Sisters Indoor Market (2016) by Kleajos Eduardo Papanicolaou and Marios Kleftakis. https://www.sevensistersmarketfilm.com/ Eeb Allay Ooo (2019) Prateek Vats. https://thewire.in/film/eeb-allay-ooo-film-review Behemoth (2015) Zhao Liang. https://grasshopperfilm.com/film/behemoth/ Alpi (2011) Armin Linke. http://www.arminlinke.com/alpi/ Petropolis (2009) Peter Mettler. https://www.petermettler.com/petropolis

Bonus classic recommendation - Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles (1972). https://vimeo.com/22488225

from Sandra:

Terence Davies, Of Time and the City (2008) Slátan Dudow, Kuhle Wampe oder Wem gehört die Welt? (1932) Agnès Varda, The Gleaners and I (2000) Shaunak Sen, Cities of Sleep (2015) Pedro Ruiz, Havana, from on high (2018)

from Tino:

Mark Saunders http://www.spectacle.co.uk/projects.php

Lorenzo Tripodi http://oginoknauss.org/about

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Podcast: Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: 18/01/2021: Lee Walters on the Linguistic Approach to Ontology
Pub date: 2021-01-25

Lee Walters is an Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Southampton. Prior to joining Southampton, Lee studied philosophy at UCL and taught at Oxford. Lee’s main interests are in metaphysics, the philosophy of language, and philosophical Logic, with a particular emphasis on the philosophy of fiction. Lee has been an Associate Editor of Analysis; a trustee of the British Society of Aesthetics; has held a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship; and has been a junior fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, CEU, Budapest.

This podcast is an audio recording of Dr. Walters' talk - 'The Linguistic Approach to Ontology' - at the Aristotelian Society on 18 January 2021. The recording was produced by the Backdoor Broadcasting Company.

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Podcast: Ufahamu Africa (LS 35 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Ep. 105: Repatriation of Museum Objects, Part 1
Pub date: 2021-01-23

This week, we are sharing expertise from Souleymane Bachir Diagne who spoke on a panel last October as part of "Repatriation of Museum Objects" for Cornell University's Institute for European Studies. Next week, we will be sharing the expertise of Cécile Fromont, another of the event's panelists, as part 2 of this episode.In the news, Kim and Rachel talk about recent events in Ethiopia and Niger, how food security affects us all, and the recent transfer of power in the United States.

Books, Links, & Articles

Female Monarchs and Merchant Queens in Africa by Nwando Acheb

Women and the War on Boko Haram: Wives, Weapons, Witnesses by Hilary Matfess

Restituer le Patrimoine Africain by Felwine Sarr and Bénédicte Savoy

"Bobi Wine and the Fraught Elections in Uganda" by Global Dispatches podcast hosted by Mark Leon Goldberg

"Crisis in Mozambique" by Global Dispatches podcast hosted by Mark Leon Goldberg

"What to Watch in Sub-Saharan Africa in 2021" by Judd Devermont, Marielle Harris, Yemi Adamolekun, Lina Benabdallah, Will Brown, Maria E. Burnett, Emilia Columbo, Mvemba Phezo Dizolele, Hilary Matfess, Kyle Murphy, Rafiq Raji, Jon Temin, and Laird Treiber

"Risk of Famine in Four Countries, Warns UN Agencies’ Report" by World Food Programme

"Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman's Inaugural Poem" by CNN

"The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage. Toward a New Relational Ethics" by Felwine Sarr and Bénédicte Savoy

"A Regional Action Plan for the Return of African Cultural Property to Their Countries of Origin" by ECOWAS

"Open Society Pledges Support for African Cultural Heritage Restitution" by Open Society Foundations

"How African Body Markings Were Used to Construct the Idea of Race in Colonial Brazil" by Aldair Rodrigues

"Martin Luther King Jnr., Pan-African" by&

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Podcast: The Art Angle (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Artist Daniel Arsham on How He Built a Creative Empire
Pub date: 2021-01-21

When he was just 12 years old, Daniel Arsham had a near-death experience. Living in Florida with his parents, Hurricane Andrew struck in 1992, careening across the coastal state and taking with it Arsham's family house—ripping the roof off, tearing the walls apart at the seams, and sending pink fluffy insulation flying. The house was rebuilt soon after, but the traumatic experience and ensuing weeks of living in a "pre-civilization" state left an indelible imprint on Arsham.
The idea of collapsing the past and present, and the formative role architecture played in his understanding of the world, has helped shape Arsham's creative practice, which he describes as fictional archaeology. In his most celebrated series, "Future Relics," Arsham casts objects of commercialism and contemporary society as fragments of an already obsolete time.
Along with Alex Mustonen, Arsham founded the irreverently titled group Snarkitechture, and began collaborating with fashion brands like Dior (working with both Hedi Slimane and Kim Jones), KITH, and Adidas, as well as Merce Cunningham and illustrator Hajime Sorayama.
Having successfully skated across the boundaries that define genres of art, Arsham's newest gig as creative director of his hometown basketball team, the Cleveland Cavaliers, signaled his supremacy in pop culture. On this week's episode of the Art Angle, Arsham called in from his New York studio to discuss his unlikely story, and what comes next.

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Podcast: The TLS Podcast (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Epiphanies and Kidneys
Pub date: 2021-01-14

This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by the TLS's Classics editor Mary Beard, who, via an old exam paper, emphasizes the importance of teaching Classics in context (Q1: "Dryads, Hyads, Naiads, Oreads, Pleiads … Does 'Classical influence' in modern poetry always come down to snobbery and elitism?”); Zachary Leader reports on the latest offerings from the Joyce Industry; and Jane O'Grady considers how the Enlightenment undid itself.

James Joyce and the Matter Of Paris, by Catherine Flynn

James Joyce and the Jesuits, by Michael Mayo

Panepiphanal World: James Joyce’s epiphanies, by Sangam Macduff

The Enlightenment: The pursuit of happiness 1680–1790, by Ritchie Robertson

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Podcast: New Books in Literary Studies (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: L. Ferlier and B. Miyamoto, "Forms, Formats and the Circulation of Knowledge: British Printscape’s Innovations, 1688-1832" (Brill, 2020)
Pub date: 2021-01-19

Forms, Formats and the Circulation of Knowledge: British Printscape’s Innovations, 1688-1832(Brill, 2020) explores the printscape – the mental mapping of knowledge in all its printed shapes – to chart the British networks of publishers, printers, copyright-holders, readers and authors. This transdisciplinary volume skilfully recovers innovations and practices in the book trade between 1688 and 1832. It investigates how print circulated information in a multitude of sizes and media, through an evolving framework of transactions. The authority of print is demonstrated by studies of prospectuses, blank forms, periodicals, pamphlets, globes, games and ephemera, uniquely gathered in eleven essays engaging in legal, economic, literary, and historical methodologies. The tight focus on material format reappraises a disorderly market accommodating a widening audience consumption.

Louisiane Ferlier, Ph.D. (2012, Université Paris Diderot), is the Digital Resources Manager at Centre for the History of Science at the Royal Society. She has published articles on John Wallis, the Bodleian Library and cross-Atlantic circulation of books.

Bénédicte Miyamoto, Ph.D. (2011, Université Paris Diderot), is Associate Professor of British History at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3. She has published on eighteenth-century drawing manuals, sales catalogues and art markets.

Alexandra Ortolja-Baird is Lecturer in Early Modern European History at King’s College London. She tweets at @timetravelallie.

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Podcast: History Extra podcast (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: When British pop invaded America
Pub date: 2021-01-13

David Hepworth tells the story of the British rock bands – from the Beatles and Rolling Stones to Led Zeppelin – who took the United States by storm in the 1960s

Author and broadcaster David Hepworth tells us about his latest book, Overpaid, Oversexed and Over There, which documents how a wave of skinny, pale, long-haired musicians from Blighty became the toast of 1960s America, heralding in a cultural revolution.

Podcast: UCD Humanities Institute Podcast
Episode: Katy Milligan - launch of 'Painting Dublin, 1886 – 1949'.
Pub date: 2020-12-22

Podcast of the launch of Katy Milligan's book: 'Painting Dublin, 1886 – 1949'.

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Podcast: KPFA - Against the Grain (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Radical Critique, Utopian Aspirations
Pub date: 2020-12-28

The failed German Revolution, in which he was a participant, marked the Marxist philosopher Herbert Marcuse for life. But unlike some of his more pessimistic colleagues in the Frankfurt School, particularly after the rise of fascism, Marcuse did not give up on liberatory possibilities. In the 1960s, Marcuse became one of the key philosophers of the New Left, in which he found a mass audience. Author and illustrator Nick Thorkelson has written a graphic biography of Marcuse and he discusses his life, ideas, and continuing relevance. (Encore presentation.)

Resources:

Nick Thorkelson, Herbert Marcuse, Philosopher of Utopia: A Graphic Biography [1] City Lights Books, 2019

[1] http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100761510

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Podcast: LA Opera Podcasts: Behind the Curtain (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Opera's Romantic Nationalism: Wagner's Tannhäuser and Masculinity
Pub date: 2020-12-29

Dr. Mitchell Morris, UCLA's Chair and Professor of Musicology, explores the intersections of Romantic Opera and nationalism in the context of Wagner's operas, as well as their resonances for today. This presentation was recorded live as a part of LA Opera Connects' professional development series for teachers, Opera for Educators, on Saturday, October 10, 2020.

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Podcast: Arts & Ideas (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Hegel's Philosophy of Right
Pub date: 2020-12-15

What links Beethoven & Hegel's philosophy of freedom? Anne McElvoy talks to New Generation Thinker Seán Williams, Christoph Schuringa, Gary Browning, and Alison Stone about Hegel's discussion of freedom, law, family, markets and the state in his Principles of the Philosophy of Right 1820.

Dr Christoph Schuringa is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the New College of the Humanities in London Gary Browning is Professor in Political Thought at Oxford Brookes University Alison Stone is Professor of European Philosophy in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University Seán Williams is Senior Lecturer in German and European Cultural History at the University of Sheffield

You can find a playlist of programmes examining various philosophical themes on the Free Thinking website https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07x0twx

Producer: Luke Mulhall

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Podcast: Race and Democracy (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Ep. 64 – Struggle for Justice: Civil Rights Photography with Don Carleton
Pub date: 2020-12-15

Dr. Don Carleton is the founding director of The University of Texas at Austin’s Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, which was organized in 1991. Prior to the creation of the Briscoe Center, he served from October 1975 through November 1979 as founding director of the Houston Metropolitan Research Center (HMRC), an urban history archives […]

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Podcast: Ipse Dixit (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Virginia Postrel on the History of Textiles
Pub date: 2020-12-08

In this episode, Virginia Postrel, an award-winning journalist and independent scholar, discusses her new book "The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World," which is published by Basic Books. Postrel begins by explaining why fabric, a product we now take for granted, used to be very costly. She discusses the different technologies that enabled the mass-production of fiber, thread, fabric, and dyes. And she describes the social technologies that facilitated the distribution of fabric. She also reflects on the social meaning of fabric, and potential future developments in the area. Postrel is on Twitter at @vpostrel.

This episode was hosted by Brian L. Frye, Spears-Gilbert Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Frye is on Twitter at @brianlfrye.

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The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World

Podcast: Ipse Dixit (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Lori Johnson & Melissa Love Koenig on Aristotle & the Ethics of Narrative
Pub date: 2020-12-05

In this episode, Lori D. Johnson, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Nevada Las Vegas William S. Boyd School of Law, and Melissa Love Koenig, Associate Professor of Legal Writing at Marquette University Law School, discuss their article "Walk the Line: Aristotle & The Ethics of Narrative," which is published in the Nevada Law Journal. They observe that the power of narrative can conflict with the duty of zealous representation and the attorney's duties as an office of the court. And they explain how attorneys can draw on wisdom from Aristotle's Ethics to avoid this problem. Johnson is on Twitter at @LoriDelandeyJ.

This episode was hosted by Brian L. Frye, Spears-Gilbert Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Frye is on Twitter at @brianlfrye.

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Podcast: The TLS Podcast (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Stalin, little and large
Pub date: 2020-12-10

This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Toby Lichtig are joined by Stephen Lovell, Professor of Modern History at King’s College London, to discuss two important biographies of Joseph Stalin, covering the opposite ends of the dictator’s life; the debate around the official Home Office history of Britain, a document full of omissions and riddled with errors, rolls on; and can a book make you a better person? Can even the high modernists be mined for lessons in life? Joanna Scutts considers the relationship between 'serious' literature and self-help.

Stalin: Passage to revolution by Ronald Grigor Suny

Late Stalinism: The aesthetics of politics by Evgeny Dobrenko, translated by Jesse M. Savage

The Self-Help Compulsion: Searching for advice in modern literature, by Beth Blum

Reading for Life by Philip Davis

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Podcast: GSAPP Conversations (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Natural Materials: Bamboo
Pub date: 2020-11-27

Elora Hardy in Conversation with Lola Ben-Alon. This week as part of the Natural Materials mini-series, Lola Ben-Alon speaks with architect, artist, and designer, Elora Hardy (IBUKU), about designing and building with bamboo in Indonesia. Hardy’s work, from her time as a designer at DKNY to her time as an architectural designer in Bali today, has garnered international attention. Her complex designs utilize natural materials, namely bamboo. The structures seem to defy nature, while at the same time following the natural properties of the materials used. The Natural Materials mini-series consists of conversations with designers, builders, and product developers of clay, bamboo, fibers, and bacterial concrete. Natural materials are defined as minimally processed, readily available, nontoxic, healthy, and engaging materials. They are critically needed to reduce carbon emissions and extractive harmful impact associated with conventional building materials. (This conversation was recorded remotely in November 2020.)

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Podcast: Dan Snow's History Hit (LS 75 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Rebel Anthropologists Who Challenged Everything
Pub date: 2020-12-01

Charles King joined me on the podcast to talk about a group of cultural anthropologist who fundamentally transformed conceptions of 'normality' in the early twentieth century. We talked in particular about the work of Margaret Mead.

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Podcast: HKW Podcast
Episode: Politics of the Dance Floor: Reset
Pub date: 2020-12-01

The music industry is dominated by neoliberal structures; large corporations hold the monopoly. How can the gatekeepers’ power be redistributed? Is it possible to collectivize mainstream digital platforms? And what role do class, privilege and representation play? The third episode of the Politics of the Dance Floor podcast explores the economic aspects of club culture. The producer, performer and astrophysicist houaïda speaks with the founder of an independent communications agency Melissa Taylor, the label manager Nicky Böhm and the DJ and musicologist He Zhao about social change and the responsibility of the dance community.

Tracks: Caspa: Rubber Chicken Umm Kulthum: Al Atlal Exercise One vs Mathew Jonson: Lost Forever in a Happy Crowd - Exone Ayinla Omowura & his Apala Group + J Kenzo feat. DJ Zhao: Fuji Dub

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Podcast: Culture & Inequality Podcast
Episode: Elite cultures in St Barths, Milan social clubs and 'the VIP'
Pub date: 2020-11-19

In this episode, Giselinde speaks with Bruno Cousin (assistant professor at SciencesPo Paris) and Sébastien Chauvin (associate prof at University of Lausanne) about the elite culture of what is popularly called 'the top 1 percent'. Based on their research on the French Caribbean luxury destination of St Barths, social clubs in Milan, and Ashley Mears' ethnographic work on 'party girls' and promoters in VIP nightclubs, they discuss questions about elite culture in a time of globalization. What do we learn from ethnographic work on the top 1 percent? How do elites manage to exploit others' capital? How are elite distinction patterns changing in a time of globalization? And what are the theoretical implications for Bourdieusian approaches?

Cousin, Bruno and Sébastien Chauvin (2017). Old Money, Networks and Distinction: The Social and Service Clubs of Milan’s Upper Classes. Pp. 147-165 in Cities and the Super-Rich. Real Estate, Elite Practic-es, and Urban Political Economies, edited by Ray Forrest, Sin Yee Koh and Bart Wissink. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. http://sebastienchauvin.org/wp-content/uploads/Chapter_8_Cousin_Chauvin_Old_Money_Networks_Distinction-2017-PUB.pdf Cousin, Bruno and Sébastien Chauvin (2013). Islanders, immigrants and millionaires: the dynamics of upper-class segregation in St Barts, French West Indies. Pp. 186-200 in Geographies of the Super-Rich, edited by Iain Hay. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. http://sebastienchauvin.org/wp-content/uploads/Cousin-Chauvin2013-Islanders-immigrants-millionnaires.pdf Mears, Ashley (2015). “Working for Free in the VIP: Relational Work and the Production of Con-sent.” American Sociological Review 80(6): 1099–1122

Background reading: Cousin, Bruno, Shamus Khan and Ashley Mears. 2018. “Theoretical and methodological pathways for research on elites.” Socio-Economic Review 16(2): 225-249. Mears, A. (2020) Very Important people: status and beauty in the global party circuit. Princeton: Princeton UP https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691168654/very-important-people

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Podcast: Bioethics for the People (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Bioethics, Social Science & Homelessness
Pub date: 2020-11-19

Bioethicists are sometimes difficult to categorize…

Are they Scientists? Are they Philosophers? Are the Clinicians? Are they Social Scientists?

The quick answer, like a lot of other bioethics questions, is that it depends.

In this episode, Tyler and Devan catch up with a real social scientist, Jason Wasserman. They discuss his path into bioethics and how his training as a medical sociologist impacts his teaching and his work with people experiencing homelessness.

Check out more of Jason’s work below:

“Rasing the Ivory Tower: The Production of Knowledge and Distrust of Medicine Among African Americans” (Journal of Medical Ethics)
“The Medicalization of Homelessness and the Sociology of the Self: A Grounded Fractal Analysis”
“Racial Differences in Attitudes towards Euthanasia”

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Podcast: The Slavic Connexion (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: "Writing Resistance": An Inside Look at Russian Carceral Literature with Sarah J. Young
Pub date: 2020-11-24

In this episode, Matt talks with Dr. Sarah Young of University College London about her upcoming book "Writing Resistance: Revolutionary Memoirs of Shlissel’burg Prison, 1884-1906" and the genre of carceral literature. Where do Russian literary titans like Dostoevsky and Shalamov fit in and how are they perceived in the Russian imagination? Dr. Young also speaks about the uses and importance of spatially mapping historic and literary events and why she undertook such mapping projects in the course of her research. We hope you enjoy!

Some extras for those viewing this episode on our website are found below.

1) The Interior of Shlissel'burg Prison as found in the memoir by Ivan Iuvachev (image provided by Dr. Sarah Young)

2) Exterior view of Shlissel'burg Prison (image source: Wikimedia)

ABOUT THE GUEST

Dr. Sarah J. Young is an Associate Professor at University College London. Her main areas of research are nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian literature, thought, and culture. She began studying Russian at school, and got hooked on Russian literature after an early encounter with Gogol's Nose. A degree in Russian and French at Trinity College, Cambridge, including a year studying in Moscow and Minsk, was followed by a brief period translating books on chess theory from Russian. After studying for her Masters in European Languages and Culture at the University of Manchester, she was supervised for her PhD by Malcolm Jones at the University of Nottingham, resulting in a thesis on the role of character in the structuring of the narrative of Dostoevsky's The Idiot. This later became her first book, Dostoevsky's 'The Idiot' and the Ethical Foundations of Narrative.

She is currently finishing up a book on narratives of prison, hard labour and exile, and on a new digital project on the geography of the Petersburg text in the nineteenth century. She writes a blog about her research and teaching at www.sarahjyoung.com.

Visit her on the web and follow her on Twitter @russianist

A blurb about Dr. Young's forthcoming book Writing Resistance: Revolutionary Memoirs of Shlissel’burg Prison, 1884-1906 (to be released in 2021 by UCL Press): In 1884, the first of 68 prisoners convicted of terrorist offences and membership of the revolutionary organization the People’s Will, were transferred to a new maximum security prison at Shlissel´burg Fortress near St Petersburg, the Russian Empire’s most notorious penal institution. The regime of indeterminate sentences in total isolation, complete inactivity and constant surveillance, caused severe mental and physical deterioration among the prisoners, over half of whom died. But the survivors fought back to reform the prison, ultimately overcoming the system of solitary confinement and improving the inmates’ living conditions. The memoirs many survivors wrote enshrined their story in revolutionary mythology, and acted as an indictment of the Tsarist autocracy’s loss of moral authority. Writing Resistance features three of these memoirs, all translated into English for the first time. They show the process of transforming the regime as a collaborative endeavour that resulted in flourishing allotments, workshops and intellectual culture – and in the inmates running many of the prison’s everyday functions. Sarah J. Young’s introductory essay analyses the Shlissel´burg memoirs’ construction of a collective narrative of resilience, resistance and renewal. It uses distant reading techniques to explore the communal values they inscribe, their adoption of a powerful group identity, and emphasis on overcoming the physical and psychological barriers of the prison. The first extended study of Shlissel´burg’s revolutionary inmates in English, and the first in any language to assess their experience and memoirs as a collective, Writing Resistance uncovers an episode in the history of political imprisonment that bears comparison with the inmates of Robben Island in South Africa’s apartheid regime, and the Maze Prison in Belfast during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. It will be of interest to scholars and students of the Russian revolution, carceral history, penal practice and behaviours, and prison and life writing.

NOTE: This episode was recorded on October 26th, 2020 via Zoom.

CREDITS

Host/Co-Producer: Matthew Orr (Connect: facebook.com/orrrmatthew)

Co-Producer: Tom Rehnquist (Connect: Twitter @RehnquistTom)

Associate Producer: Lera Toropin

Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig

Assistant Producer: Samantha Farmer

Assistant Producer: Katherine Birch

Assistant Producer: Zach Johnson

Assistant Producer/Administrator: Kathryn Yegorov-Crate

Recording, Editing, and Sound Design: Michelle Daniel, Charlie Harper

Music Producer: Charlie Harper (Connect: facebook.com/charlie.harper.1485 Instagram: @charlieharpermusic) www.charlieharpermusic.com (Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Charlie Harper, Ketsa, and Jazzafari)

Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (Connect: facebook.com/mdanielgeraci Instagram: @michelledaniel86) www.msdaniel.com

DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this episode do not necessarily reflect those of the show or the University of Texas at Austin.

Special Guest: Sarah J. Young.

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Podcast: New Books in Art (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Ara H. Merjian, "Against the Avant-Garde: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Contemporary Art, and Neocapitalism" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Pub date: 2020-11-18

On this episode of New Books in History, Jana Byars talks with Ara Marjian, Professor of Italian and affiliate of the Institute of Fine Arts and the Department of Art History at New York University about his newest book Against the Avant-Garde: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Contemporary Art, and Neocapitalism(University of Chicago Press, 2020). Paosolini, a filmmaker who created art in a variety of media, has something approaching a cult following. Merjian explores, “Pasolini’s fraught relationship to the aesthetic experiments of his own age… [and] demonstrates how Pasolini's campaign against neocapitalist culture fueled his hostility to the avant-garde. An atheist indebted to Catholic ritual; a revolutionary communist inimical to the creed of 1968; a homosexual hostile to the project of gay liberation: Pasolini refused the politics of identity in favor of a scandalously paradoxical practice, one vital to any understanding of his legacy. Against the Avant-Garde examines these paradoxes through case studies from the 1960s and 1970s, concluding with a reflection on Pasolini's far-reaching influence on post-1970s art. Merjian not only reconsiders the multifaceted work of Italy's most prominent postwar intellectual, but also the fraught politics of a European neo-avant-garde grappling with a new capitalist hegemony.”

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Podcast: Acid Horizon (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Is Metal Radical? A Conversation with Metal Philosopher David Burke
Pub date: 2020-11-17

Is metal (heavy, black, death, etc.) radical? is there something about metal that sets it apart from other genres as being potentially revolutionary? More broadly, can there exist an aesthetics capable of instigating a struggle against capital which resists recuperation? David Burke is a PhD candidate and music writer who has contributed to The Quietus and Astral Noize. We also discuss existentialism, revolution, death, Deleuze and Guattari, Hegel, Camus, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Zizek, and more.

Relevant links

“Metal is Radical”: https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:32413/

[Quarantine Papers] Lines of Flight from Hyperborea: A Commentary on Hunter Hunt-Hendrix’s Transcendental Black Metal: A Vision of Apocalyptic Humanism: https://happyhourathippels.wordpress.com/2020/03/29/lines-of-flight-from-hyperborea-a-commentary-on-hunter-hunt-hendrixs-transcendental-black-metal-a-vision-of-apocalyptic-humanism/

Hyperstition Arrays: Antagonism, Class, and the Real Movement: https://hyperstitionarrays.com/2020/11/15/antagonism-class-and-the-real-movement/

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Podcast: Suite (212) (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Cultural Capital: The Greater London Council's arts policies, 1981-86
Pub date: 2020-11-17

Established in 1965, the Greater London Council hosted one of the United Kingdom’s most radical experiments in cultural policy after Ken Livingstone and the Labour left took control of it in 1981. This month, Juliet talks to academic Hazel Atashroo and Red Metropolis author Owen Hatherley about the entrance of the “post-1968 generation” into the GLC, and their approach to the arts: their interest in cultural democracy and challenging the Arts Council’s model of centralised funding; the Ethnic Arts and Community Arts sub-committees, and their critics; their use of post-punk aesthetics and their hip hop festival; their engagement with the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and other radical movements. They discuss the reasons for the GLC’s abolition in 1986, the media campaign against “the Loony Left” and Thatcher’s assault on local authorities; its influence on New Labour’s cultural policies and foundation of the Greater London Assembly in 2000; and what can be learned from the GLC’s approach to the arts in the 21st century.

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Podcast: US Modernist Radio - Architecture You Love (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: #169/Black Architects Matter: Danita Brown + Janna Ireland
Pub date: 2020-11-09

Architecture in America has been a white-dominated profession and that has been changing slowly. Very slowly. Guess what year the first Black woman got an architecture license in our fine state of North Carolina. 1950? 1970? It was 1990. Today we welcome author and photographer Janna Ireland with a new book out on the most famous Black architect of the 20th century, Paul Williams, plus that pioneering architect from 1990, Danita Brown.

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Podcast: LA Opera Podcasts: Behind the Curtain (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: History vs. Opera: The Anonymous Lover
Pub date: 2020-11-11

In anticipation of LA Opera's production of The Anonymous Lover by Joseph Bologne, LA Opera is happy to present this conversation on History vs. Opera. This conversation was recorded on November 7, 2020, and features Muriel McClendon, Jennifer Palmer and Jeremy Frank.

Muriel McClendon is Associate Professor of History at UCLA, where she teaches courses on medieval and early modern European History. Dr. McClendon is joined by Jennifer Palmer, a historian of early modern France and the Francophone world, teaching courses at the University of Georgia about Europe, the Atlantic world, women and gender, race, slavery and pirates. And they are joined by Jeremy Frank, Associate Chorus Master of LA Opera. Jeremy has worked on over 60 productions with the company and is also a part-time lecturer in opera and the vocal arts at USC.

Please note: this conversation includes discussion of the historic slave trade between Europe and the Americas.

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Podcast: TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
Episode: Book at Lunchtime: Iconoclasm as Child's Play
Pub date: 2020-11-09

Dr Joseph Moshenska, Associate Professor and Tutorial Fellow at University College, discusses his new book, Iconoclasm as Child's Play. Drawing on a range of sixteenth-century artifacts, artworks, and texts, as well as on ancient and modern theories of iconoclasm and of play, Iconoclasm As Child's Play argues that the desire to shape and interpret the playing of children is an important cultural force. Formerly holy objects may have been handed over with an intent to debase them, but play has a tendency to create new meanings and stories that take on a life of their own.

Joe Moshenska shows that this form of iconoclasm is not only a fascinating phenomenon in its own right; it has the potential to alter our understandings of the threshold between the religious and the secular, the forms and functions of play, and the nature of historical transformation and continuity.

Panel includes: Dr Joseph Moshenska is Associate Professor and Tutorial Fellow at University College. Joe grew up in Brighton, and as an undergraduate he read English at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. After graduating he went to Princeton, initially for a year as the Eliza Jane Procter Visiting Fellow, and stayed there to complete his PhD. From 2010 to 2018 he was a Fellow and Director of Studies in English at Trinity College, Cambridge. Joe joined the Oxford Faculty in 2018. In 2019 he was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize. Professor Lorna Hutson is the Merton Professor of English Literature and Director of the Centre for Early Modern Studies. She was educated in San Francisco, Edinburgh and Oxford and has repeated that pattern in her career, having taught at Berkeley, St Andrews and now Oxford. Professor Hutson is a Fellow of the British Academy and works on English Renaissance literature. She has written on usury and literature, on women’s writing and the representation of women, on poetics and forensic rhetoric and, most recently, on the geopolitics of England’s ‘insular imagining’ in the sixteenth century.” Professor Alexandra Walsham is Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge. She currently serves as Chair of the Faculty of History. She was an undergraduate and Masters student at the University of Melbourne before coming to Trinity College, Cambridge, for her PhD. After a Research Fellowship at Emmanuel College, she taught at the University of Exeter for fourteen years before returning to Cambridge in 2010. She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2009 and of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2013. She was appointed a CBE for services to History in the Queen's Birthday Honours 2017. Professor Kenneth Gross is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Rochester. His critical writing ranges from Renaissance literature, especially Shakespeare, to modern poetry, theater, and the visual arts. His books include The Dream of the Moving Statue, Shakespeare’s Noise, Shylock is Shakespeare, and most recently Puppet: An Essay on Uncanny Life, winner of the 2012 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism. He’s also the editor of John Hollander’s 1999 Clark Lectures at Cambridge, The Substance of Shadow: A Darkening Trope in Poetic History. Gross has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Bellagio Study Center, the Princeton Humanities Center, and the American Academy in Berlin. Gross has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Bellagio Study Center, the Princeton Humanities Center, and the American Academy in Berlin.

Professor Matthew Bevis is Professor of English Literature and Tutorial Fellow at Keble College. He is the author of The Art of Eloquence, Comedy: A Very Short Introduction, and, most recently, Wordsworth’s Fun (Chicago University Press, 2019). His recent essays have appeared in the London Review of Books, Harper's, Poetry, and The New York Review of Books. He’s currently working on Knowing Edward Lear for Oxford University Press, and a book On Wonder for Harvard University Press.

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Podcast: The Art Show (LS 41 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Griselda Pollock: 'It's a delusion to think you make any progress'
Pub date: 2020-11-03

Griselda Pollock, Holberg Prize winner and professor of art history at the University of Leeds, discusses the absence of women in Western art history and how she believes it's delusional to think society is making any progress on the issue of women's rights.

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Podcast: Art Matters (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Art at the Olympics ft. Margaret Timmers – Episode 68
Pub date: 2020-10-27

Author and curator Margaret Timmers offers a brief history of art in the modern Olympics, from art events to poster designs.

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Podcast: This Is Not A Pipe (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Robert K. Elder: Hemingway in Comics
Pub date: 2020-10-01

Robert K Elder discusses his book Hemingway in Comics with Chris Richardson. Elder is the Chief Digital Officer at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, an award-winning author of 12 books and founder of Odd Hours Media. He also serves as a mentor at TechStars, 1871 Chicago and Northwestern University’s The Garage. Elder specializes in launching new products, expanding brands and developing corporate innovation strategies. Elder is also the founder of Odd Hours Media LLC, which consults and creates branding campaigns and TV production. In 2018, he also became a founding partner of Token. Agency, a consulting firm focused on emerging technology and blockchain projects. Elder is also the author or editor of several books, including 2018’s The Mixtape of My Life, a journal that guides users to write their autobiography through their music collection. His 2016 book, Hidden Hemingway: Inside the Ernest Hemingway Archives of Oak Park, won a Gold Medal at the Independent Publisher Book Awards.

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Hidden Hemingway: Inside the Ernest Hemingway Archives of Oak Park

Podcast: Arts & Ideas (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: New Thinking about Museums
Pub date: 2020-10-13

From a VR version of Viking life and what you can learn from gaming, to describing collections in military museums, to the range of independent museums and the passions of their founders for everything from old engines to bakelite, witchcraft to shells. Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough looks at new research into a range of collections, why more are opening and what is missing.

Fiona Candlin is Professor of Museology at Birkbeck, University of London. She leads the MAPPING MUSEUMS research project and has so far documented over 4,200 of the UKs independent museums, all opened in the last 60 years. She gives us a glimpse into the rich variety of topics covered by small museums around the UK, and discusses how they chart social change. http://museweb.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/home

Henrietta Lidchi is Chief Curator at the National Museum of World Cultures in the Netherlands and principal investigator on the AHRC-funded project Baggage and Belonging: Military Collections and the British Empire, 1750 – 1900 with National Museums Scotland. She tells us what makes the collections of Military museums unique. https://www.nms.ac.uk/collections-research/our-research/featured-projects/collecting-practices-of-the-british-army/

And Sarah Maltby is Director of Attractions at the York Archaeological Trust. She’s leading research aimed at taking the JORVIK VIKING CENTRE online. How does a museum famed for recreating the physical realities of the Viking world using smells and re-enactment re-imagine itself virtually? https://www.jorvikvikingcentre.co.uk/

Edward Harcourt talks about the project to create a virtual museum of objects and ideas suggested by the public. The Museum of Boundless Creativity will launch fully later this Autumn. https://ahrc.ukri.org/innovation/boundless-creativity/museum-of-boundless-creativity/

This episode of Free Thinking is put together in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council, part of UKRI as one of a series of discussions focusing on new academic research also available to download as New Thinking episodes on the BBC Arts & Ideas podcast feed. You can find the whole collection here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03zws90

Producer: Helen Fitzhenry.

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Podcast: Ipse Dixit (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Kathryn Brown on Art, Money & Aesthetic Atheism
Pub date: 2020-10-23

In this episode, Kathryn Brown, Lecturer in Art History and Visual Culture at Loughborough University, discusses her article "Disappearing acts: Fictitious capital, aesthetic atheism, and the artworld," which is published in the Journal of Visual Art Practice. Brown begins by briefly describing the history of the relationship between art and markets. She argues that "aesthetic atheism" has turned art objects into financial instruments. And she asks how that shift has affected the way museums collect and display art. Brown is on Twitter at @arthistory_kjb.

This episode was hosted by Brian L. Frye, Spears-Gilbert Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Frye is on Twitter at @brianlfrye.

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Podcast: Bow Down: Women in Art (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Lianne La Havas on Frida Kahlo
Pub date: 2020-10-26

For this special episode of Bow Down, Jennifer Higgie talks to the brilliant singer and songwriter Lianne La Havas about the influence of art – and in particular, Frida Kahlo – on her life and work.

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Podcast: Tourist Information (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 37: Todd Snyder
Pub date: 2020-10-17

Todd Snyder is associate professor of rhetoric and writing at Siena College and author of the new book 'Bundini: Don't Believe The Hype'

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Podcast: Arts & Ideas (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Post Truth & Derrida
Pub date: 2020-10-15

Jacques Derrida was the superstar philosopher of the 1980s and 90s. Often associated with the philosophical movement known as 'poststructualism', he made the enigmatic statement that 'There is nothing outside the text'. Today, one conspiracy theorist has commented that he studied poststructualism in college and learned from it that everything is narrative. Is Derrida and his style of thought a pathway to the 'post-truth' age? Or is that a crude distortion of an important body of philosophical work? Matthew Sweet discusses Derrida and his legacies with biographer Peter Salmon, philosopher Stella Sandford, and translator and friend of Derrida Nicholas Royle.

You can find other discussions of philosophy on the Free Thinking playlist which includes discussions about Boethius, Aristotle, panpsychism, marxism, Mary Midgley https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07x0twx This includes Stella Sandford, Professor at Kingston University, in conversation with Bernard-Henri Lévy and Homi K Bhabha looking at the impact of Covid https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000jq87

Producer: Luke Mulhall

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Podcast: In the Foreground: Conversations on Art & Writing (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: “Looking as Knowing”: Svetlana Alpers on Critical Thinking and Photography
Pub date: 2020-10-20

In this episode of In the Foreground, Caro Fowler (Starr Director of the Research and Academic Program at the Clark Art Institute) speaks with Svetlana Alpers, a specialist of Dutch Golden Age painting and Professor Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley. In this conversation, Svetlana shares how literary criticism influenced her early encounters with art and reflects on her intellectual formation at Harvard in the 1960s, and her role forming the art history department at Berkeley. She reflects on the altered state of the discipline today, and levels a critique of the turn towards global art history. Finally, they discuss the relation between painting and photography in light of her new book on Walker Evans, and Svetlana draws out parallels between this new project and her seminal book The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century.

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Podcast: The AD Aesthete (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Ep:406 The Politics of Architecture in Nazi Germany
Pub date: 2020-10-06

Historian Despina Stratigakos startled the academic world with her book Hitler at Home (Yale University Press), a powerful and unsettling examination of the ruler's homes. Beyond showcasing Germany's finest design, the dark premise also suggests the interiors served as propaganda intended to normalize the dictator to a global stage, as a man of culture and refinement. In her latest book, Hitler's Northern Utopia (Princeton University Press), Stratigakos turns her critical eye to the little-known story of the Third Reich's intent to reconstruct Norway as a means to bind the country closer to Germany. Join us.

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Podcast: The Art Angle (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Could TikTok Save a Broken Art World?
Pub date: 2020-10-09

For many emerging artists, social media platforms have become an indispensable platform for jumpstarting their careers. But years after Instagram sparked its first zeitgeist-shaping visual trends, a different set of creatives has begun finding their rhythm outside the bounds of traditional institutions thanks to a newer app: TikTok. Owned by a Chinese company called ByteDance and powered by an uncannily perceptive content-discovery algorithm, the video-sharing platform now counts nearly a billion active users around the globe and seems to be transforming a growing list of teens and twenty-somethings into millionaire influencers.

For contemporary artists like Colette Bernard and Kelsy Landin, TikTok has also proven to be the most effective app yet for building a sizable audience of loyal—and often paying—fans. Now, though, with the Trump administration threatening bans of TikTok and WeChat in the US over security concerns, Bernard, Landin, and countless other artists are facing the prospect of losing their newfound livelihoods only months after finding a true creative home on the platform.

On this week's episode of the Art Angle, journalist Zachary Small joins the show to discuss what has made TikTok such a revelation to artists across a variety of age groups, which kinds of artworks are attracting the most attention there, and how a TikTok ban would only worsen the devastating "brain drain" vacuuming young, diverse talent away from the increasingly troubled art industry.

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Podcast: Southpaw (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: 82 – If the World Hated Nazis, Why Did We Do Their Olympics? w/ Gabriel Kuhn
Pub date: 2020-10-04

Gabriel Kuhn is a historian, writer, philosopher, activist, and former professional athlete. He joins us to talk about the rise of fascism and antisemitism, sports history and the Left, the idealism of sports and socialism, David Graeber and third wave anarchism, post-modernism and its role in deconstructing reactionary biases, counterculture/DIY culture and antifascism, and the West's rewriting of history. This is one of those must-listen episodes that might completely change your understanding of history, the US, as well as the rest of the world.

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Playing as if the World Mattered: An Illustrated History of Activism in Sports

Antifascism, Sports, Sobriety: Forging a Militant Working-Class Culture

Sober Living for the Revolution: Hardcore Punk, Straight Edge, and Radical Politics

Soccer vs. the State: Tackling Football and Radical Politics

Podcast: History Lessons (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: 5: Alexander Lee on Machiavelli
Pub date: 2020-09-28

In this episode of History Lessons, Mattias Hesserus is joined by Alexander Lee discuss Machiavelli’s life and works. Was he always an adept politician? Was he as immoral as is often claimed?

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Podcast: The Week in Art (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Artemisia and Frida: great art, turbulent lives
Pub date: 2020-10-02

This week, we look at two great women artists: at last, we visit the postponed Artemisia exhibition at the National Gallery in London, taking a tour with its curator Letizia Treves, and picking out some of the extraordinary highlights of the show. And we also explore a new biography of Frida Kahlo with its author, Hettie Judah.

Podcast: Bookworm (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Jay Parini: “Borges and Me: An Encounter”
Pub date: 2020-09-24

Seventy-one-year-old Jorge Luis Borges as seen through the eyes of twenty-one-year-old Jay Parini in “Borges and Me: An Encounter.”

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Podcast: Into the Zone (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Never Mind the Stasi
Pub date: 2020-09-24

East Berlin, 1983. A teenage punk rocker finds himself in a Stasi interrogation cell. The choice is simple: inform on his friends, or go to prison. Hari travels to Berlin to meet the punks and spies whose cat and mouse game in the last years of the GDR predicted the privacy wars of today.

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Podcast: Open Source with Christopher Lydon (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Wagner and Wagnerism
Pub date: 2021-03-18

This show originally aired on September 17, 2020.

Richard Wagner, man and musician, was the embodiment of excess—too much of a good thing if you loved him, something worse if you didn’t. Those weren’t just operas he was writing, but total works of art: multi-media folklore festivals, orgies of mind-bending sound, frenzied and addictive. It took him 25 years to compose his Ring cycle, and it takes a long weekend of late nights to perform it. For the World War II generations, it ruined Wagner for a while that Hitler loved his music. Still, Wagner’s presence is palpable everywhere, not for his musical genius alone but for his imprint on culture for a century now, up to and including Star Wars, Game of Thrones, and the sound of Hollywood.

Brünnhilde, by Arthur Rackham. One of the signature sounds of Richard Wagner is the battle hymn of the mythical winged warrior sisters, the Valkyries, and we know that it’s something more than music. But what? It’s a clue to what Alex Ross of the New Yorker magazine calls “Wagnerism,” meaning the bizarre visions and irresistible influence, the spell that one musical genius cast on the world, maybe forever.

Wagner’s musical mega-shows in the 1860s were a far cry from the old Mozart and Verdi operas. His were longer, deeper, spell-binding fantasies of forbidden love and longing, wounded gods out of a jumble of world religions, German romanticism and ethno-nationalism all mixed up, naked river maidens in the Rhine and swooning beauty facing death in Tristan and Isolde.

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Podcast: e-flux podcast (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Luis Camnitzer on One Number Is Worth One Word
Pub date: 2020-09-17

Luis Camnitzer and editor Ben Eastham have a conversation following the June 2020 publication of One Number Is Worth One Word, the latest in the e-flux journal book series with Sternberg Press.

For nearly 60 years, Luis Camnitzer has been obsessing about the same things. As an art student in Uruguay in 1960, Camnitzer was part of a collective of artists, students, and educators who reformed the School of Fine Arts in Montevideo. Today, he is still an “ethical anarchist” preoccupied with the role of education in redistributing power in society. “If we keep digging,” he writes, “it becomes clear that these ideas existed way before us, will persist long after we are gone, and will do so regardless of who speaks or writes of them... The important question is whether they will ever be absorbed.”

At the vanguard of 1960s Conceptualism, Camnitzer has worked primarily in printmaking, sculpture, and installations. His humorous, biting, and often politically charged use of language as an art medium has distinguished his practice, influencing generations of socially engaged artists. Though based in New York since 1964, his practice remains intrinsically connected to Uruguay and Latin America, and he represented Uruguay in the 43rd Venice Biennale in 1988. As well as many solo exhibitions, his work has featured in biennials including the Bienal de la Habana, Cuba; Whitney Biennial, New York; and documenta 11, Kassel. His work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Tate, London; the Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo; and the Museo de Arte Latino Americano de Buenos Aires, among others.

Edited by Ben Eastham, One Number Is Worth One Word spans over half a century of the artist’s radical engagement with art education and its institutions, and includes many texts published for the first time. This is a singularly authoritative, antiauthoritarian gathering of a life’s work in art, education, and activism. With mischievous wit and wisdom, Camnitzer’s writings summon an inherent utopianism in egalitarian, participatory models of art education to identify how meaning is made.

Available from Sternberg Press (distributed by MIT Press).

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Podcast: Ipse Dixit (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Alfred Steiner on the Practice of Law & the Practice of Art
Pub date: 2020-09-17

In this episode, Alfred Steiner, a lawyer at Mauriel Kapouytian Woods and an artist, discusses the relationship between his legal and artistic practices, especially his work in conceptual art. Steiner begins by describing his background as an artist and how he became a lawyer. He reflects how his legal practice informs his artistic practice, and vice versa. And he describes some of his works of conceptual art that reflect on and illuminate legal doctrine and practice, including copyright and economics of the art market. Steiner is on Twitter at @alfredsteiner.

This episode was hosted by Brian L. Frye, Spears-Gilbert Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Frye is on Twitter at @brianlfrye.

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Podcast: The Week in Art (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Grayson Perry on race and class in the US
Pub date: 2020-09-18

This week: the artist Grayson Perry has a new exhibition and documentary series about the United States. What can a British artist and broadcaster tell us about the faultlines in American culture? Louisa Buck talks to him in his show at Victoria Miro in London. Ben Luke talks to the curator and art historian Robert Storr, the author of a huge new book about the painter Philip Guston. And in this episode’s Work of the Week, Margaret Carrigan talks to the artist Jacolby Satterwhite about Édouard Manet’s masterpiece Le déjeuner sur l’herbe (Luncheon on the grass).

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Podcast: Bungacast (LS 50 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: /147/ The Past Doesn't Go Away ft. Benjamin Moser
Pub date: 2020-09-15

On modernism and its end.

We're joined by 2020 Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Moser to discuss the tensions between hating your national culture and wanting to leave it behind, and the effacement of national culture by postmodern homogenisation.

We talk about his biography of Susan Sontag, plus a range of other questions: Brazil, USA, literature, architecture, sex, imperialism, Freud, the image and representation, and contemporary wokeness.

Moser's Books:

Sontag: Her Life and Work
Autoimperialismo
Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector

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Podcast: The New Yorker Radio Hour (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The Composer Richard Wagner and the Birth of the Movies
Pub date: 2020-09-15

The German composer Richard Wagner had an enormous influence not only on modern music but on artists of all stripes, and on political culture as well. His use of folkloric material to create modern epics won him the admiration of thinkers like W. E. B. Du Bois, and made him popular in Hollywood since the birth of film. Alex Ross, whose new book is called “Wagnerism,” tells David Remnick that Du Bois “might have seen ‘Black Panther’ as a kind of Wagnerian project.” And yet Wagner’s music was used to heroically represent the Ku Klux Klan in “The Birth of a Nation.” In fact, the composer’s strident anti-Semitism fed into the rise of Nazism in Germany. The many aspects of Wagner’s influence were often contradictory. “So much baggage arrives with him,” Ross says, but “we aren’t necessarily imprisoned by what the man himself thought.” The composer himself “starts to disappear” as his influence diffuses through society. “He becomes a mirror for what other people are thinking and feeling. And we have that right, we have that power with art. If there’s something about it we reject, we can—without forgetting or overlooking that darker aspect—remake it in our own image.”

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Podcast: ad Astra
Episode: Astrology in New Spain: manuscripts and art with Vanessa Portugal
Pub date: 2020-09-11

Vanessa Portugal is an historian and art historian and an associate researcher of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Her work has focused on the use of astrological images in seventeenth and eighteenth-century New Spain, which was also the topic of her book, Las imágenes astrológicas en la Nueva España (2018). In this episode she shares some highlights of her work.

For more details on her research see: https://unam1.academia.edu/TaniaVanessaAlvarezPortugal

Las imágenes astrológicas en la Nueva España, Córdoba: UCOPress. Editorial Universidad de Córdoba, 2018 – http://www.uco.es/ucopress/index.php/es/2018-07-26-11-32-47/e-books/product/754-ebook-las-imagenes-astrologicas-en-la-nueva-espana

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Podcast: The Art Angle (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Secret Art History of Burning Man
Pub date: 2020-08-28

Today, practically everyone on earth knows about Burning Man, the countercultural extravaganza that draws tens of thousands of true believers to a barren landscape in Nevada's Black Rock Desert every August to create a temporary city full of monumental art installations and mind-expanding experiences. But far fewer people know that this zeitgeist-shaping powerhouse was created by a small group of artists in the California Bay Area as an ad hoc beach party with a few big ideas under the surface—and one very important cobbled-together sculpture going up in flames at its end.

One person who knows the story intimately is Will Roger, a photographer and professor who long ago left the East Coast in search of more creative freedom out West. Roger was introduced to the earliest champions of Burning Man in the early 1990s, and a life-changing trip to the desert convinced him to join their ranks. His role became to grow the annual celebration by managing the design, construction, and demolition of its increasingly complex infrastructure year after year.

In 2019, Roger published an impressive book titled Compass of the Ephemeral featuring his aerial photographs of the surreal city plans he oversaw and essays about Burning Man's surprising connections to art history. On this week's episode of the Art Angle, Roger joins Andrew Goldstein to discuss the festival's stunning evolution, its impact on the fine-art establishment, and its future at a time when mass gatherings seem as fantastical as the towering marionettes and desert-roving pirate ships that enlivened some of its past editions.

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Podcast: CBRL Sound
Episode: Palestinian Theatre in the West Bank
Pub date: 2020-08-28

Since the 1990s, Palestinian theatrical activities in the West Bank have expanded exponentially. In addition to local productions, Palestinian theatre-makers have presented their work to international audiences on a scale unprecedented in Palestinian history. Author Gabriel Varghese’s Palestinian Theatre in the West Bank explores the histories of the five major theatre companies currently working in the West Bank: Al-Kasaba Theatre, Ashtar Theatre, Al-Harah Theatre, The Freedom Theatre and Al-Rowwad. The book explores how theatre-makers contest Zionist discourse and Israeli state practices in this first major account of Palestinian theatre covering the last three decades. Varghese will discuss his book with theatre scholar Kristin Flade.

About the speaker: Gabriel Varghese is a former CBRL postdoctoral fellow whose research engages with anti-/post-/de-colonial theatre, performance and literature, and the questions they raise about social movements, dramaturgies of urban life, and regimes of gender, sexuality and race. He is also a playwright, theatre director, and co-artistic director of Sandpit Arts, an award-winning platform for producing film, music and performance events. He holds a PhD from the University of Exeter.

About the discussant: Kristin Flade is a performance scholar and author. The focus of her ethnographic and artistic work lies in the representation of violence, political conflict and the potential of negotiating the struggle for human rights in performance, theatre and the arts. She is the author of The Good Pain?: Applied Theatre and Social Circus in Palestine (2018). Kristin holds a PhD from Freie Universität Berlin. She lives and works in Berlin.

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Podcast: The Young Architect Podcast (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 124 - The Other Side of the Architecture Industry with Brent Williams
Pub date: 2020-08-26

In today’s episode, architect Brent Williams talks about architecture, product distribution, cycling, and more.

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Podcast: Michael and Us (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: UNLOCKED - Movies as Politics w/ Jonathan Rosenbaum
Pub date: 2020-08-14

No less than Jean-Luc Godard called Jonathan Rosenbaum the best living American film critic, and for decades his hugely influential writing has been political, internationally conscious, skeptical of received wisdom, and enormously curious about forms of cinema beyond mainstream. Our own Will Sloan talks to Rosenbaum to discuss his career, his politics, and how the cinematic landscape has changed since the ‘90s.

A Rosenbaum Reading List:

List-o-Mania - https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/list-o-mania/Content?oid=896619

Stupidity as Redemption (Forest Gump) - https://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/2019/03/stupidity-as-redemption/

Cutting Heroes Down to Size (Small Soldiers and Saving Private Ryan) - https://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/2018/12/cutting-heroes-down-to-size/

In Dreams Begin Responsibilities (Eyes Wide Shut) - https://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/2020/02/in-dreams-begin-responsibilities/

The World According to Harvey and Bob - https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/the-world-according-to-harvey-and-bob/Content?oid=887735

Declaration of Independents: Hardly Working - https://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/2020/05/hardly-working-2/

Good Morning: Structures and Strictures in Suburbia - https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/4543-good-morning-structures-and-strictures-in-suburbia

His 20th Century (Godard's Histoire[s] du Cinema) - https://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/2018/07/his-20th-century/

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Podcast: Acid Horizon (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Understanding Foucault and the Feminist Philosophy of Disability with Shelley Tremain
Pub date: 2020-08-16

How do we centered disabled voices in academia and at large? How is the the notion of impairment socially constructed? Shelley Tremain joins Craig, WIll, and Adam to discuss her essay "This Is What a Historicist and Relativist Feminist Philosophy of Disability Looks Like". We use the essay to unpack Shelley's feminist philosophy of disability. Moreover, we delve into the work of Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, Tobin Siebers, and Ian Hacking. Check Shelley's website: biopoliticalphilosophy.com

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Podcast: Psychoanalysis On and Off the Couch (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 062: History and Psychoanalysis: Reflections with Peter Loewenberg, PhD
Pub date: 2020-08-16

"Historians have had to learn to explore their own subjectivity in dealing with the past. They can only see what they are prepared to see and they have frequently blocked out, scotomized, what they really don’t want to see. This is part of the current struggle in the history profession"

Description: Dr. Harvey Schwartz welcomes Dr. Peter Loewenberg, who is a retired professor of History and Political Psychology at UCLA where he received numerous awards including from the Guggenheim, Rockefeller and Fulbright Foundations. He is a training and supervising analyst and former Dean of the New Center for Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles. He chaired the committee that passed the California Research Psychoanalysis Law in 1977, enabling academics to be trained in and practice psychoanalysis. He Chaired the IPA China Committee, and he served on the IPA Board representing North America. He is the author of many publications, including Decoding the Past: The Psychohistorical Approach and Fantasy and Reality in History. He is Editor of 100 Years of the IPA.

In today’s episode, Dr. Loewenberg shares his passion for the academic and psychoanalytic worlds and his ability to relate these two fields to each other. As a historian, Dr. Loewenberg informs psychoanalysis and underlines how vital it is to appreciate and listen for the past, and he brings from psychoanalysis to history the importance of listening to oneself in observing the present and the past.

Key takeaways:

[5:44] Dr. Loewenberg shares how psychoanalysis and history can understand the methods of each other to the advantage of both, and how this informed his discovery and immersion in Psychohistory.

[7:03] Dr. Loewenberg talks about how historians took the contributions of psychoanalysis to history.

[9:45] Trauma experienced by a psychoanalyst influences his practice, giving a three dimensional perspective to his understanding of his patient’s trauma.

[11:12] Dr. Loewenberg talks about psychohistory and how the past impacts the present in meaningful ways.

[13:06] How the Deutsche Mark became one of the strongest currencies in Europe.

[16:24] Dr. Loewenberg shares his beginnings as a psychoanalyst.

[21:59] Dr. Loewenberg talks about how the first cases were like for him.

[27:38] The appreciation of the exchanges between analyst and analysand.

[29:10] Historians’ appreciation for the past is often very subjective.

[31:10] Dr. Loewenberg shares how life is now for him and his family during the pandemic.

Mentioned in this episode:

IPA Off the Couch www.ipaoffthecouch.org

Recommended Readings:

100 Years of the IPA: The Centenary History of the International Psychoanalytical Association 1910 - 2010: Evolution and Change Ed. and introduced (with Nellie L. Thompson); (London: International Psychoanalytical Association, 2011).

Decoding the Past: The Psychohistorical Approach (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983); (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1985); (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1996, paperback edition with a new introduction,).

Fantasy and Reality in History (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995).

Walther Rathenau and Henry Kissinger: The Jew as Modern Statesman in Two Political Cultures (New York: Leo Baeck Institute, 1980).

"The Psychohistorical Origins of the Nazi Youth Cohort," American Historical Review 76: 5 (December 1971), 1457-1502.

"The Unsuccessful Adolescence of Heinrich Himmler," American Historical Review 76- 3 (June 1971), pp. 612-641.

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Decoding the Past: The Psychohistorical Approach

Fantasy and Reality in History

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Walther Rathenau and Henry Kissinger: The Jew as a modern statesman in two political cultures (Leo Baeck memorial lecture)

Podcast: Soul Search (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Max Weber at 100: On modernity and a disenchanted world
Pub date: 2020-08-09

It's been 100 years since the death of the great German intellectual, Max Weber. He was only fifty-six at the time, but left behind several landmark works and a whole new discipline — sociology — that still affects how we view religion now. In this episode, Meredith Lake chats with Sociology Professor Adam Possamai on Weber's legacy before speaking with Associate Professor of Sociology Anna Halafoff about her research into how Gen-Z relates to religion.

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Podcast: KPFA - Against the Grain (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: A Century of Surrealism
Pub date: 2020-07-21

A century ago, out of the carnage of World War One and the wave of revolutions that swept Europe, came an artistic movement that put personal and societal liberation at its center: surrealism. Penelope Rosemont, a later member of the movement, discusses the art and politics of surrealism — and her own personal history within and beyond it. (Encore presentation.)

Resources:

Penelope Rosemont, Surrealism: Inside the Magnetic Fields [1] City Lights Books, 2019

[1] http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100209750&fa=author&person_id=9087

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Podcast: The Modern Art Notes Podcast (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Trevor Schoonmaker, Sarah Beetham
Pub date: 2020-07-30

Episode No. 456 features museum director Trevor Schoonmaker and art historian Sarah Beetham.

Schoonmaker, the director of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, joins host Tyler Green to discuss how art museums engage America's history. The Nasher, of which Schoonmaker was the chief curator before becoming director earlier this year, is a sector-leader in addressing under-represented histories in its collecting, exhibition and programming practices.

Beetham is an assistant professor of art history at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She came onto the program in May 2019 to discuss art and its relationship to monuments and memorials in the United States. Beetham's forthcoming book on the subject is titled “Monumental Crisis: Accident, Vandalism and the Civil War Citizen Soldier.” It will examine how monuments have become central to a range of American discourses in the decades since the Civil War.

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Podcast: LARB Radio Hour (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: When Reform Isn't Enough: Afropessimism's Argument for a New Society
Pub date: 2020-07-18

Notes from The Intellectual:

Discussing the definitions of Afropessism, the ways it has been misrepresented and how it can shape our understanding of contemporary justice.

This week, co-hosts Eric and Medaya talk to professor, writer, and revolutionary, Frank B. Wilderson III, whose latest book, Afropessimism, is a work of memoir and theory. Wilderson defines Afropessism, the ways it has been misrepresented and how it can shape our understanding of contemporary justice. Wilderson also recounts his childhood and how he became an Afropessimist. Also, writer and translator Joyce Zonana returns to recommends Betty Smith's classic from the 1940s, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.

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Podcast: Bookworm (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Zadie Smith: “On Beauty”
Pub date: 2020-07-16

Notes from The Intellectual:

Obliquely about "On Beauty", this intense, abstract conversation is about what a novel is and how it represents a particular culture, and about what a culture is and how it can create the illusion of identity.

From the archives: obliquely about Zadie Smith's "On Beauty", this intense, abstract conversation is about what a novel is.

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Podcast: The Book Show (LS 44 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Music and language with David Mitchell and Tara June Winch
Pub date: 2020-07-20

Notes from The Intellectual:

David Mitchell celebrates the power of music in Utopia Avenue, Jane Austen inspired fiction and Tara June Winch, winner of the 2020 Miles Franklin Award.

David Mitchell celebrates the power of music in Utopia Avenue, Jane Austen inspired fiction and Tara June Winch, winner of the 2020 Miles Franklin Award.

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Podcast: History Extra podcast (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Museums and colonialism
Pub date: 2020-07-10

Notes from The Intellectual:

This podcast explains how modern museums often have problematic colonial histories and offers some ideas about how we should be rethinking these institutions.

Historian Alice Procter discusses her recent book The Whole Picture, whichexplains how modern museums often have problematic colonial histories and offers some ideas about how we should be rethinking these institutions. Historyextra.com/podcast

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Podcast: The Institute of Black Imagination. (LS 44 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: E6. Renee Cox, Artist and Photographer.
Pub date: 2020-07-12

Notes from The Intellectual:

Renee’s art is dedicated to the deconstruction of stereotypes and reconstitutes the identity and dignity stripped from black bodies during the Trans-Atlanic slave trade.

Today’s episode is with the provocative artist and photographer, Renee Cox. Born in Colgate, Jamaica, into a West Indian heritage that instills unwavering confidence into their youth, Renee and her family eventually settled in Scarsdale, New York while in her teens. After graduating with a degree in Film Studies from Syracuse University, Renee began a groundbreaking career in commercial photography, first cutting her creative teeth in Paris, with visionary fashion designers like Issey Miyake and Claude Montana before returning to the states to shoot for publications like Seventeen, Mademoiselle, Essence, and Cosmopolitan. “In the ’80s me being a fashion photographer that was something that I wanted to do from the time I was in high school, so one could say that was a manifestation.” (31:39)

However, the birth of her first son, along with an encounter with fine art photographer Lyle Ashton Harris, caused Renee to question her legacy and the impact of the images she was creating. “I think that all change has to come from within and in this life situation that we’re in, it's about trying to get to a higher level of consciousness (13:59). She enrolled into the Masters of Fine Arts program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and later was selected for the Whitney Independent Studies Program, the first artist to do so while pregnant. Using her own body as a template “I’m not gonna be their Hottentot Venus. I’m not going to be made a spectacle of without implicating them (39:31) . Renee’s art is dedicated to the deconstruction of stereotypes and reconstitutes the identity and dignity stripped from black bodies during the Trans-Atlanic slave trade. “It’s time for black folks to take back and to eradicate the views that have been implanted into their heads. I think we’re taught to underestimate from day 1 and that needs to change (57:55).

Her piece "It Shall Be Named", which depicts the chilling allusion of a lynched man, castrated from his manhood, debuted in the groundbreaking show, Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art at the Whitney Museum of Art, curated by Thelma Golden, now Director and chief curator at the Studio Museum in Harlem. “I always chose to deal with topics that some people might find a little difficult” (45:58). Often controversial, her work, “Yo Mama’s Last Supper,” which was shown at the Brooklyn Museum in 2001, reimagines Leonardo de Vinci’s masterpiece the Last Supper with Renee as a nude Jesus, surrounded by the 12 apostles, all Black, except for Judas, who was white. “If you got yo mama’s last supper let’s say you had it in your home in your dining room, where Russell Simons does have it. People are going to ask you about it so you have to explain my story behind it or you can bring your own story into it. It will insight some sort of reaction and conversation from your guest and I think some people just don’t wanna be bothered with that kind of thing either (45:30). Then New York City Mayor denounced the work as Anti-Catholic, and formed a panel to create decency standards for all art shown at publicly funded museums in the city.

Links we mention in the episode:

Renee's Website: www.reneecox.org

Renee's Instagram: @reneecoxstudio

Edward Bernays: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays

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Podcast: Ologies with Alie Ward (LS 80 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Agnotology (IGNORANCE) with Robert Proctor
Pub date: 2020-07-08

Notes from The Intellectual:

Discussin everything from the true evils of tobacco marketing, to the sugar lobby, to racial injustice, horse vision, the psychology of the Flat Earther movement, which countries have the highest rates of climate denial, empathy, how to navigate difficult conversations and why it's critical to dismantle the systems of willful ignorance.

Yes, there is an -ology for that. Dr. Robert Proctor is a Stanford professor of the History of Science and co-edited the book “Agnotology: The Making & Unmaking of Ignorance,” having coined the word 30 years ago. We chat about everything from the true evils of tobacco marketing, to the sugar lobby, to racial injustice, horse vision, the psychology of the Flat Earther movement, which countries have the highest rates of climate denial, empathy, how to navigate difficult conversations and why it's critical to dismantle the systems of willful ignorance, starting locally.

Dr. Robert Proctor’s book, Agnotology

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Podcast: The Week in Art (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The destruction of Australia’s Aboriginal heritage
Pub date: 2020-07-03

Notes from The Intellectual:

Talking about the recent destruction of sacred Aboriginal sites in Western Australia by a mining company and what can be done to better protect Aboriginal country and Australia’s ancient heritage.

This week, we look at the destruction on 24 May of sacred Aboriginal sites in Western Australia by a mining company. We talk to Sven Ouzman, an archeologist and activist at the University of Western Australia about the most recent events and the wider context. Can anything be done to better protect Aboriginal country and Australia’s ancient heritage?

Also, this week, as a Russian referendum approves Vladimir Putin’s new constitution—a foregone conclusion, of course—we look at the Russia's alarming crackdown on artists.

And in the latest in our series Lonely Works, in which explore art behind the doors of museums closed due to Covid-19, we look at a work that will soon be lonely no more. The artist George Shaw tells us about Thomas Jones’s A Wall in Naples, which will be seen for the first time in more than three months at the National Gallery in London when it re-opens on 8 July.

Links:

Our full guide to gallery openings in UK, Europe and the US

Thomas Jones's A Wall in Naples at the National Gallery

The University of Western Australia's Centre for Rock Art Research and Management

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Podcast: Policy Punchline (LS 35 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Restoring Social Fabric: Art Museums in the Post-Covid World
Pub date: 2020-06-28

Notes from The Intellectual:

Discuss the role of art museums in helping make us better citizens and how the responsibilities of large art institutions may even expand in the wake of the coronavirus epidemic.

Museums and galleries have been closed since March under lockdown rules, and there are growing fears among curators that many museums may never open again due to financial difficulties. James Steward is the Director of Princeton University Art Museum, where he leads a staff of 110 with an operating budget of $20 million and collections of over 110,000 works of art that span the globe and encompass 5,000 years of world history. In this interview, we discuss the role of art museums in helping make us better citizens and how the responsibilities of large art institutions may even expand in the wake of the coronavirus epidemic.

An avid museum visitor himself, Tiger also asks Director Steward how the art viewing experience has changed and will continue to evolve in light of Covid-19: - Can the art viewing experience possibly be even better after we take away the shared physical space and give people a chance to reflect in a solitary fashion? - Art museums have always said to perform effects of anti-alienation and symbolize the unification of a social sphere rendered by fragmentation by class division and other societal issues. One often argues that in a place like an art museum, we may finally have a model of utopia as people come together across those obstacles and collectively share an experience. Is this something that art museums can actually achieve, especially after Covid? - Museums often contain people with the same class, race, educational level… What major takeaways could the art museum industry derive from this Covid crisis and the ongoing #BlackLivesMatter movement that might motivate it to change its course, so that museums can in fact achieve such utopian vision – helping restitch our social fabric and transcend divisions?

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Podcast: 5x15 (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Benjamin Moser - Sontag: Her Life and Work
Pub date: 2020-06-23

Notes from The Intellectual:

What can creative citizenship, for artists in particular, mean in this moment? What did Susan Sontag do in war-torn Sarajevo?

Benjamin Moser was born in Houston. He is the author of Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector, a finalist for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award and a New York Times Notable Book of 2009. For his work bringing Clarice Lispector to international prominence, he received Brazil’s first State Prize for Cultural Diplomacy. He won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017, and his latest book, Sontag: Her Life and Work, won the Pulitzer Prize.

5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations. There are only two rules - no scripts and only 15 minutes each.

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Podcast: London Review Bookshop Podcast (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Hot Milk: Deborah Levy and Lauren Elkin
Pub date: 2020-06-25

Notes from The Intellectual:

There is a sort of chase for coherence in the current commercial market for fiction ... a sort of terror of there being any kind of mystery in a book, or even a character being confused. This episode discusses the novel Hot Milk, which explores the strange and monstrous nature of motherhood.

There is a sort of chase for coherence in the current commercial market for fiction ... a sort of terror of there being any kind of mystery in a book, or even a character being confused.

Deborah Levy, described by Lauren Elkin in the TLS as ' one of the most exciting voices in contemporary British fiction' was at the Bookshop to talk about her latest novel Hot Milk (Hamish Hamilton), which explores the strange and monstrous nature of motherhood.

“A bright broth of myth, psychology, Freudian symbolism and contemporary anxiety.” – Guardian

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Podcast: Serpentine Podcast (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Back to Earth: Tracing the Roots
Pub date: 2020-06-25

Notes from The Intellectual:

What does design look like when it begins from a position of ecological responsibility? What does designing with and for the non-human mean?

What does design look like when it begins from a position of ecological responsibility? What does designing with and for the non-human mean? Host Victoria Sin is joined by Rebecca Lewin, Curator of Exhibitions and Design, together they dive into everything from eco-design led exhibition making, to asking questions about the future of design education and ecological practices. Lewin is joined by Formafantasma, Dunne & Raby and sound works from Black Quantum Futurism. Formafantasma talk about their exhibition at the Serpentine Galleries, Cambio, and the ways in which the project will be intertwined with the Masters course they are initiating at the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2020. Dunne & Raby explore about their relationship to speculative design, the importance of teaching in their practice as designers and the role of museums to communicate radical design thinking. Black Quantum Futurism's sound work Temporal Technologies is part of a series seeking strategies for survival for marginalised peoples in a "high-tech" and oppressive, linear space-time. Image: Formafantasma, still from Quercus, 2020, Video, colour, sound, courtesy of Formafantasma. Back to Earth is supported by Outset Partners’ Grant.

This episode was produced by Katie Callin at Reduced Listening.

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Podcast: History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps (LS 64 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: HoP 351 - Quentin Skinner on Machiavelli
Pub date: 2020-06-14

Notes from The Intellectual:

This episode discusses morality, history, and religion in the Prince and the Discourses.

Leading Machiavelli scholar Quentin Skinner joins Peter to discuss morality, history, and religion in the Prince and the Discourses.

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Podcast: KPFA - Against the Grain (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Gene Sharp and Nonviolence
Pub date: 2020-06-15

Notes from The Intellectual:

Brilliant theorist of non-violent social change or Cold War defense intellectual and strategist? Gene Sharp has had a tremendous influence on progressive ideas and activism since the early 1970s.

Brilliant theorist of non-violent social change or Cold War defense intellectual and strategist? Gene Sharp has had a tremendous influence on progressive ideas and activism since the early 1970s and his ideas are so pervasive that at times they appear to be without a history, just part of the air we breath on the left. Scholar Marcie Smith aims to place Sharp back in his political context, taking his ideas seriously, and seriously questioning them.

Resources:

Marcie Smith, "Change Agent: Gene Sharp’s Neoliberal Nonviolence Part I" [1] Nonsite, #28

Marcie Smith, "Change Agent: Gene Sharp’s Neoliberal Nonviolence Part II" [2] Nonsite, #30

[1] https://nonsite.org/article/change-agent-gene-sharps-neoliberal-nonviolence-part-one [2] https://nonsite.org/feature/change-agent-gene-sharps-neoliberal-nonviolence-part-two

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Podcast: Arts & Ideas (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The future of theatre debate
Pub date: 2020-06-12

Notes from The Intellectual:

Can our theatrical landscape survive financially, and how might it need to creatively adapt to survive post pandemic?

Can our theatrical landscape survive financially, and how might it need to creatively adapt to survive post pandemic? As part of the Lockdown Theatre Festival, Anne McElvoy's panel features: Bertie Carvel - actor and executive producer of Lockdown Theatre Festival, whose roles include Rupert Murdoch in Ink, Miss Trunchbull in Matilda The Musical, and Simon in BBC One drama Doctor Foster. Amit Lahav – founder of Gecko, the internationally-touring physical theatre company based in Ipswich. Eleanor Lloyd – theatre producer, whose West End hits include Emilia, Nell Gwynn, and 1984. Roy Alexander Weise – Joint Artistic Director of Manchester Royal Exchange, awarded an MBE for services to drama. The discussion also include playful, thoughtful contributions from theatre makers including Inua Ellams, Tamara Harvey, Emma Rice, Dominic Cavendish, Bertrand Lesca, Tim Etchells, David Lockwood and Selina Thompson and an interview with Caroline Dinenage MP

Production: Jack Howson and Robyn Read

Lockdown Theatre will feature four plays that had their runs cut short: The Mikvah Project by Josh Azouz and originally showing at the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond, Love Love Love by Mike Bartlett recently revived for Lyric, Hammersmith Theatre, Rockets And Blue Lights by Winsome Pinnock - sadly suspended before its world premiere planned at Manchester’s Royal Exchange, and Shoe Lady by E.V. Crowe - cut short into its run at the Royal Court Theatre - Produced by Jeremy Mortimer, a Reduced Listening production for Radio 3 and Radio 4 and available on BBC Sounds https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08fw06m

In the Free Thinking archives you can find discussions including Dramatising Democracy with James Graham, Paula Milne Michael Dobbs and Trudi-Ann Tierney https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04yb7k6 Meera Syal and Tanika Gupta on dramatising Anita and Me https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06gt257 Is British Culture Getting Weirder? https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000346m

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Podcast: Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast (LS 61 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Stephen Hough on Practicing Through the Pandemic, Composing, and Classical Music as Entertainment.
Pub date: 2020-06-08

Notes from The Intellectual:

A thoughtful and deeply entertaining conversation with the great pianist, composer, and writer about classical music of yesterday and today.

First, I want to let my listeners know that Thursday will begin a new commitment to exploring the works of minority composers. It's long past time to begin doing that.

For today, please enjoy this thoughtful and deeply entertaining conversation with the great pianist, composer, and writer Stephen Hough. Hough is one of the great pianists of our time and is also a deep thinker about classical music of yesterday and today. I had so much fun with this conversation, recorded about three weeks ago. Enjoy!

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Podcast: The Week in Art (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Let’s talk about race: museums and the battle against white privilege
Pub date: 2020-06-05

Notes from The Intellectual:

In the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd, this episode talks about the history of black resistance in the US and how the art world can respond to this latest tragedy.

This week, in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd, we talk about the history of black resistance in the US and how the art world can respond to this latest tragedy. As protests grow throughout the country, Margaret Carrigan, one of The Art Newspaper’s senior editors in New York, speaks to Spencer Crew, the interim director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, about the museum’s Talking About Race online portal.

Also this week, we pay tribute to Christo, who died earlier this week. With his collaborator and wife Jeanne-Claude, Christo most famously wrapped the Pont Neuf in Paris and the Reichstag in Berlin in coloured fabric.

And in the latest in our series of Lonely Works behind the doors of closed museums, Caro Howell, the director of the Foundling Museum in London, explores William Hogarth’s portrait of Thomas Coram, the painting that is the cornerstone of the Foundling’s collection—which she now hasn’t seen for months because of the coronavirus lockdown.

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Podcast: Discovery & Inspiration
Episode: Marsha Gordon, “Narrating Modern Women’s Experiences: The Complex Legacy of Ursula Parrott”
Pub date: 2020-06-05

Notes from The Intellectual:

Parrott’s independence and professional success existed in a complex relationship to her rather conservative views on gender. Understanding her as a woman out of sync with her own time allows us to understand how she was influenced by the limitations of her society even while she envisioned a more progressive future.

In the 1930s, the writer Ursula Parrott used her novels, short stories, and screenwriting ventures to portray independent women during a period of immense social change in America. Despite this, like many women writers, Parrott’s legacy has been all but erased from the popular imagination.

In this podcast, Marsha Gordon, professor of film studies at North Carolina State University, delves into the way that Parrott’s independence and professional success existed in a complex relationship to her rather conservative views on gender. Understanding Parrott as a woman out of sync with her own time allows us to understand how she was influenced by the limitations of her society even while she envisioned a more progressive future.

https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/marsha-gordon-complex-legacy-ursula-parrott/

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Podcast: The Podcast for Social Research (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Podcast for Social Research, Ep. 41: Escapism
Pub date: 2020-05-29

Notes from The Intellectual:

Contemplating the character, varieties, and uses of escapism by studying the cases of Xavier de Maistre, Animal Crossing, classic Hollywood, sourdough baking, mixology, cooking, walking, The Voice, and Elizabeth Bishop.

In episode 41 of the Podcast for Social Research, Raphaële Chappe, Ajay Singh Chaudhary, Rebecca Ariel Porte, Michael Stevenson, and Cora Walters contemplate the character, varieties, and uses of escapism right now. Among the case studies are Xavier de Maistre, Animal Crossing, classic Hollywood, sourdough baking, mixology, cooking, walking, The Voice, Elizabeth Bishop, serial television, species of quarantine, and what it means to travel while staying in your room.

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Podcast: Museum Archipelago (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: 81. Living History in a Pandemic at Old Sturbridge Village
Pub date: 2020-06-01

Notes from The Intellectual:

The guest describes the difference between first and third person interpretation, and how visitors might react to seeing 19th century costumed interpreters with modern facemasks.

Old Sturbridge Village is a living history museum in Massachusetts depicting life in rural New England during the early 19th century. But the early 19th century isn’t specific enough for the site’s historical interpreters—to immerse visitors in the world they’re recreating, knowing exactly what year it “is” matters.

Tom Kelleher, Historian and Curator of Mechanical Arts at Old Sturbridge Village was tasked with choosing that “default” date. He chose 1838 in part because the social and political change of that time period would resonate with today’s visitors. But there’s another aspect of the year that will resonate with visitors today once the museum reopens after closing due to Covid-19: how people in New England responded to the Cholera Pandemic of the 1830s.

In this episode, Kelleher describes the difference between first and third person interpretation, and how visitors might react to seeing 19th century costumed interpreters with modern facemasks.

Topics and Notes * 00:00 Intro * 00:15 What does the word interpreter mean? * 00:56 Tom Kelleher, Historian and Curator of Mechanical Arts at Old Sturbridge Village * 01:34 Old Sturbridge Village * 02:30 First-Person Interpretation * 03:30 Third-Person Interpretation * 05:35 “Who’s the president?” * 06:50 Picking a default year * 07:40 How people in New England responded to the Cholera Pandemic of the 1830s * 09:30 Living History Museums Interpreting Pandemics * 10:00 Interpreters in facemasks * 10:44 Archipelago at the Movies 🍿 * 11:56 Outro

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[Intro] Tom Kelleher first learned what the word “interpreter” meant when he applied for a job at Old Sturbridge Village, a living history museum in Massachusetts.

Tom Kelleher: They posted a job for a research historian and being young and firstly minted as a historian. I thought I knew everything and I applied and they called back a few weeks later and said, I'm. Sorry, you didn't get a job. Tom. Um, and I went to hang up saying, thank you because it was nice of them to tell me. And they said, would you be interested in being an interpreter? And I thought for a minute and said, well, my Spanish isn't that good. I don't think I could do that. And they said no you don't understand. The people who explain the past are called interpreters. They interpret the past for the present.

Today, over thirty years later, Kelleher is Historian and Curator of Mechanical Arts at Old Sturbridge Village and one of the museum’s longest-serving employees.

Tom Kelleher: Hello, my name is Tom Kelleher. I’ve been working in the living history field, which is wearing the clothing of people of the past and trying to have the past make sense for the present.

I work at a living history outdoor museum in Massachusetts called Old Sturbridge village. And I literally and figuratively wear a lot of hats. And one of them is, I'm the one in charge of initially training all our new costumed historians or historical interpreters depending on what term you like.

A living history museum recreates historical settings to simulate a past time, providing visitors with an experiential interpretation of history. Old Sturbridge Village is a living history depicting life in Rural New England, set on a couple of hundred acres. The museum features over 40 historical buildings -- most are antique buildings that have been moved and restored to the site. There’s also three water-powered mills and a working farm with animals.

Tom Kelleher: It's not a recreation of the town of Sturbridge or anywhere else. It's more like a slice of life, a historical sampler. So in a couple hours of walking around, a day of walking around, you can get an idea of what life was like in early 19th century New England.

And one of the ways the museum gives visitors an idea of what life was like in early 19th century New England is historical interpreters. In the business of historical interpretation, it turns out, there are two broad categories: first person interpretation and third person interpretation.

Tom Kelleher: What's called first, first in a role, playing, pretending you're a person from the past explaining how the past worked over a particular time and place. You, me as the historian pretends that I don't know anything past whatever year I'm portraying. For example, Plymouth Plantation, in Plymouth, Massachusetts, there are costumed staff that pretend it's 1627. They have this confusion thing, which then I think puts a burden on the public because then instead of being an interpreter, you're not making things clearer, which is what an interpreter should do, but just confusing the situation. An example, I give my new staff all the time of bad roleplaying interpretation is people ask, where's the bathroom? And you get this at some sites, you know, you say, excuse me, where's the bathroom?

And they go, “Bath? Why I haven’t had a bath! You'll catch your death of cold bathing. I wash my face, I wash my hands with water, but oh my, why would anyone immerse themselves?”

So you know, the kid there, he got a kid who needs to go to the bathroom, for heaven's sake, just point right over there!

The historical interpreters at Old Sturbridge Village interact with visitors in third person.

Tom Kelleher: When you're in third person, you're wearing the costumes, the clothing of an earlier time and place. And you're doing the work of an earlier time in place, but you are not pretending that the people you're talking to are wearing strange clothes and our magic inventors with all their electronic technology. You just try to have conversations with them to try to relate to how the past in present, interact, or as I like to say, you don't know where you are until you know where you've been. And so I think while I do a lot of role playing at Old Sturbridge village, most of us are not in character at any one point in time, but we're just portraying the past to try to make it make more sense to the present.

In a museum without historical interpreters, the date and place don’t necessarily have to be specific.

But a historical interpreter exists in a specific date and place. Whether they are first person or third person interpreters, the visitor experience depends on that anchor in time and space.

Tom Kelleher: One of the drawbacks if you will of living history of portraying clothes is, is that you do have to narrow down your time period. And truthfully, we as an institution at Old Sturbridge Village, wrestled with that for a number of years. When the museum was founded, we opened to the public in 1946.

It was kind of like, well, you know, about 200 years ago, about 1800. About, about, about, it was hazy. But they weren't doing a lot of costumed interpretation at the time.

But in the early 1970s, Old Sturbridge Village and a number of other sites in the United States and Canada especially started getting serious about making sure our clothing was more accurate. And the tools and techniques we were using, the recipes the ladies would cook in the houses, that kind of thing, were more authentic. And it started dawning on us that you couldn't just show a 50 year old span. I mean, if you're trying to show a 50 year time span from 1970 to 2020. How should people dress? How should they act? What kind of devices should they be using? And so it gets confusing.

An example is a visitor asking an interpreter: who’s the president?

For first-person interpreters at Plymouth plantation, that’s a difficult question to answer: in 1627, not only was there no United States or heads-of-state who used that term, organizations that might have used the word president were few and far between.

But even for a third person interpreter at Old Sturbridge Village, answering that question requires a specific date.

Tom Kelleher: Well, it depends. Andrew Jackson was president from 1829 to 1837 Martin van Buren was president from 1837 until 1841. So what specific year are you in? And so they might go into the shoe shop and ask the Shoemaker, “who's the president?” And it'll say, Andrew Jackson, and he'll be right.

And the same people might be in the printing office later in the day. And the printer says, Martin van Buren. And the guy said, well, wait a minute. The guy in the shoe shop thinks it's Andrew Jackson. So we decided that you have to pick a year. And frankly, about 10 years ago, the administration told me, “Tom pick a year.”

I agonized and justified it. And I arbitrarily, not arbitrarily, but with a lot of reasons that nobody needs to know about, picked 1838. And so that's our default year. We don't really make a big deal of that to the public, but our staff knows that when push comes to shove, when somebody asks, what year is it, who's the president? We’re 1838.

Picking a specific date also allows the museum to go back in time. People in 1838 would be using objects and recalling events from earlier decades.Kelleher points to more rapid means of communication, widespread substance abuse, a widening disparity of wealth, rapid technological development, rising consumerism, and growing political divisions as aspects of the 1830s that resonate with visitors today.

But there’s another aspect of 1830’s that resonates with visitors today -- or at least it will once the museum opens up again after its closure due to Covid-19: how people in New England responded to the Cholera Pandemic of the 1830s, also known as second cholera pandemic.

Tom Kelleher: At Old Sturbridge Village, we interpret health and healing a lot of ways. Cholera is an infectious, uh, bacterial disease, usually from poor sanitation. Is that still fairly prevalent on the planet.

In the 19th century, people didn't understand until the late 19th century, didn't understand bacteriology didn't understand what caused diseases, how diseases are spread.

Even more so than Covid-19, it was very scary because even though there's a lot that's unknown.

The second cholera pandemic would have been in recent memory to people in 1838. And even before the current pandemic, Old Sturbridge Village portrayed 19th-century diseases and medicine as part of its presentation of the lifestyles of the time.

Tom Kelleher: We do sometimes talk about the cholera epidemic and we talk a lot about a lot of diseases. I mean, the early 19th century was a time when people didn't really have a germ theory. So there was especially in the popular mind, there's very little separation between the spiritual and the physical world. There were ideas then. There was a health reformer in the 1830s named Sylvester Graham who had made a name for himself as a temperance preacher, preaching on the evils of alcohol. And he took advantage of the cholera epidemic when it came to the United States in 1832 and basically started advocating a vegetarian diet, very regular meals, no snacking, whole grain breads. So he guaranteed that if you followed his regime that you would not get cholera.

A lot of people then, in the 1830s, blamed immigrants for the cholera.Softentimes, people do point fingers and scapegoat. It's “them” making “us” sick.

Kelleher sees living history museums as uniquely suited to interpret public health, historical pandemics, and medicine.

Tom Kelleher: Some sites actually have special event weekends that focus on epidemics. There's a place in Georgia called Westville that used to have, I think, yellow fever days, and they'd have a weekend about the panic when a yellow fever epidemic would sweep through the American South.

Old Sturbridge Village, like most museums, is currently closed to the public. The farm animals and gardens are being tended to. As Kelleher and his team plan for the reopening, they know that the costumed interpreters will sport a new item of clothing when the museum opens: an anachronistic face mask.

Tom Kelleher: Our museum, when we reopen, we, the costume historians are going to be wearing face masks. I mean, we're not necessarily in roll, but it is the 21st century, and that's going to be a constant reminder to the public that, you know, we're in a different time and place: not so much in the 1830s, a different time in place, but during the Covid-19 world. So yeah, I think it will be a constant reminder and perhaps even a minor shock to people that is going to be a necessity because we are, we're where we are. And how people are gonna react to it and deal with it. I don’t know.

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Podcast: Radicals in Conversation (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: The New Intellectuals: The Death and Life of Safdar Hashmi
Pub date: 2020-06-01

Notes from The Intellectual:

For a generation that grew up without knowing Safdar Hashmi, the guest renders his passion, humour and humanism into an intimate portrait.

This month Jordan T. Camp talks to actor and director Sudhanva Deshpande about his new book, Halla Bol: The Death and Life of Safdar Hashmi (LeftWord Books).

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Podcast: Economics & Beyond with Rob Johnson (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Alan Light: The Changing Youth Culture of Music
Pub date: 2020-05-21

Notes from The Intellectual:

A discussion about the social and political role of music and its relationship to youth culture over time.

Alan Light, veteran music journalist and host of “In The Light” on SiriusXM, talks to Rob Johnson about the social and political role of music and its relationship to youth culture over time. Light and Rob discuss how the silo-ization of music subcultures has faded in the streaming era, and how social media influencers are challenging musicians for the central place in youth culture.

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Podcast: New Books in Communications (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Diana Senechal, "Mind over Memes: Passive Listening, Toxic Talk, and Other Modern Language Follies" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2018)
Pub date: 2020-05-25

Notes from The Intellectual:

The episode examines words, concepts, and phrases that demand reappraisal and delivers a takedown of the adjective “toxic”.

In Mind over Memes: Passive Listening, Toxic Talk, and Other Modern Language Follies (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018), Diana Senechal examines words, concepts, and phrases that demand reappraisal. Targeting a variety of terms, the author contends that a “good fit” may not always be desirable; delivers a takedown of the adjective “toxic”; and argues that “social justice” must take its place among other justices. This book also includes a critique of our modern emphasis on quick answers and immediate utility.

By scrutinizing words and phrases that serve contemporary fads and follies, this book stands up against the excesses of language and offers engaging alternatives. Drawing on literature, philosophy, social sciences, music, and technology, Senechal offers a rich framework to make fresh connections between topics. Combining sharp criticism, lyricism, and wit, Mind over Memes argues for judicious and imaginative speech.

Marci Mazzarotto is an Assistant Professor of Digital Communication at Georgian Court University in New Jersey. Her research interests center on the interdisciplinary intersection of academic theory and artistic practice with a focus on film and television studies.

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Mind over Memes: Passive Listening, Toxic Talk, and Other Modern Language Follies

Podcast: CrowdScience (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How does a language begin?
Pub date: 2020-05-22

Notes from The Intellectual:

There are over 7000 living languages on earth today. These mutually unintelligible means of communication are closely associated with different groups' identities. But how does a new language start out?

There are over 7000 living languages on earth today. These mutually unintelligible means of communication are closely associated with different groups' identities. But how does a new language start out? That’s what listener BK wants to know. BK lives on one of the islands of the Philippines, where he speaks three languages fluently and has noticed there is a different language on almost every island. Presenter Anand Jagatia finds language experts from around the world who tell him about the many different ways that languages can form. Professor Dan Everett explains that languages naturally change over centuries to the point they are mutually unintelligible, and Quentin Everett describes how his research has identified striking similarities between biological, and linguistic evolution. Sally Thomason, Professor of linguistics in the USA tells us about the more unusual ways that languages can form through contact, or purposeful distancing measures, and Anand speaks with a producer of the BBC’s Pidgin service, about how the contact language nigerian pidgin may be developing into an official language West Africa. Finally, the inventor of a constructed language from the movie Avatar, tells CrowdScience what he has learned about language by creating the fully functional Na’vi language from scratch, and what Na’vi’s adoption by speakers around the world can tell us about the importance of language for creating community. Hearing from different languages from around the world through the programme, CrowdScience get to grips with the many ways new languages can form.

Presented by Anand Jagatia, Produced by Rory Galloway

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Podcast: The Week in Art (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Is the future of the art market online?
Pub date: 2020-05-15

Notes from The Intellectual:

This week would have been so-called gigaweek, with the major auctions of Impressionist, Modern and contemporary art in New York. The events have, of course, been postponed. But are collectors buying art online instead?

This week would have been so-called "gigaweek", with the major auctions of Impressionist, Modern and contemporary art in New York. The events have, of course, been postponed. But are collectors buying art online instead? An explosion of digital initiatives and online galleries or viewing rooms followed the cancellation of fairs and the closure of auction houses and galleries over recent months due to the coronavirus. So this week, we’re looking at the implications of going digital for the art market.

We talk to Scott Reyburn, who writes on the art market for The New York Times as well as The Art Newspaper, and our art market editors Anna Brady and Margaret Carrigan take us through some of the initiatives including their experience of the viewing room for Frieze New York. Also this week, in the latest in our Lonely Work series, exploring art behind closed doors in museums… Rebecca Salter, the president of the Royal Academy in London, tells us about Cemetery (1900-02) by the Belgian artist Léon Spilliaert, and gives us an update on the RAs exhibition programme.

UPDATE: A new version of this episode was uploaded on 21 May to rectify an incorrect statement made by Scott Reyburn that the Frieze Viewing Rooms were only accessible to VIPs. After the initial VIP days, the Viewing Rooms were in fact open to all from 8-15 May.

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Podcast: 13 (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: The Story of the Stars with Prof. Emeritus Anthony Aveni
Pub date: 2020-05-17

Notes from The Intellectual:

An episode about how different cultures developed their own lore for the constellations we see in the night sky, the history of time as we know it, and how magic relates to science.

Take a journey through time and space with Russell Colgate Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Astronomy, Anthropology, and Native American Studies Anthony Aveni. Learn about how different cultures developed their own lore for the constellations we see in the night sky, the history of time as we know it, and how magic relates to science in this all new episode of 13.

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Podcast: The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast (LS 65 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Pretty Much Pop #43: The Korean Wave w/ Suzie Oh
Pub date: 2020-05-12

Notes from The Intellectual:

Parasite, K-Pop, and K-Dramas have reached the U.S. as part of Hallyu, an official Korean effort to expand cultural influence. This episode tries to decode the zeitgeist in hopes of understanding films like Snowpiercer, A Train to Busan, The Burning, A Taxi Driver, etc.

Parasite, K-Pop, and K-Dramas have reached the U.S. as part of Hallyu, an official Korean effort to expand cultural influence. Suzie Hyun-jung Oh joins Mark, Erica, and Brian to decode the zeitgeist in hopes of understanding films like Snowpiercer, A Train to Busan, The Burning, A Taxi Driver, etc.

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Podcast: Dan Snow's History Hit (LS 75 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Pandemics: Science and History
Pub date: 2020-05-12

Notes from The Intellectual:

A discussion about the current crisis in a wider historical context and how scientific evidence from disciplines such as biology and chemistry can be integrated into historical accounts.

I was thrilled to be joined by the legendary Peter Frankopan, Professor of Global History at Oxford University and bestselling author of 'The Silk Roads: A New History of the World'. In this podcast we discussed the current crisis in a wider historical context, and Peter gave some fascinating insights. This podcast was the first of our live Zoom discussions between Dan, Peter and History Hit subscribers, who were invited to join the discussion at the end.

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Podcast: Spectacular Vernacular (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Our Indigenous Languages
Pub date: 2020-05-12

Notes from The Intellectual:

"A luxuriance of long words, baroque case endings and irregular everything-the Native American tongues.

A luxuriance of long words, baroque case endings and irregular everything—the Native American tongues!

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Podcast: The LRB Podcast (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Theory Truce
Pub date: 2020-05-12

Notes from The Intellectual:

A discussion about critical theory, its origins, developments and various diversions, and where it stands today.

Michael Wood talks to Adam Shatz about critical theory, its origins, developments and various diversions, and where it stands today. The conversation marks the publication of the eighth volume in the LRB Collections series, The Meaninglessness of Meaning: Writing about the theory wars from the ‘London Review of Books’ by contributors including Pierre Bourdieau, Judith Butler, Richard Rorty, Lorna Sage, John Sturrock and Michael Wood.

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Podcast: Being Human
Episode: Denial as a Way of Life: An Interview with Allen MacDuffie
Pub date: 2020-05-01

Notes from The Intellectual:

The episode discusses how Victorian writers were aware of the limits to energy in the natural world but they also strongly believed in the power of human ingenuity to overcome these barriers..

An interview with Allen MacDuffie, professor of English at the University of Texas, Austin. The interview focuses on Professor MacDuffie's work as a scholar of Victorian literature and the environment. The essay we discuss, "Charles Darwin and the Victorian Pre-History of Climate Denial," is currently available on Jstor, here: www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/vic…_info_tab_contents. Professor MacDuffie also mentions Rob Nixon's work during the conversation. A Being Human interview with Professor Nixon is available here: Humanities-pitt – Slow-violence-and-a-repertoire-of-selves-an-interview-with-rob-nixon.

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Podcast: Bloomsbury Academic Podcast (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Beatles' Let It Be with Steve Matteo
Pub date: 2020-05-05

Notes from The Intellectual:

...this episode gives a behind-the-scenes look into the Beatles themselves and the story of Let It Be.

May 8th 2020 marks the 50th anniversary of the Beatles’ Let It Be album—the recording sessions for which might be the most dramatic, creative, and chaotic of their career. In celebration, author Steve Matteo gives a behind-the-scenes look into the Beatles themselves, the story of Let It Be, and the many interviews he had with people close to the band. If you’re a Beatles or music fan, this is the episode for you.

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Podcast: History of the Netherlands (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: BONUS: Jan van Eyck: The Man and the Myth
Pub date: 2020-05-04

Notes from The Intellectual:

The few known details about his life provide tantalising glimpses into an artistic and technical talent, who was both socially and politically capable enough to be able to ingratiate himself within the highest ranks of power in his time.

Jan van Eyck, one of the Low Countries' most famous artists, lived through an extraordinary period in history, between the 1390s and the 1440s. Although much about the early Netherlandish painter’s life is completely unknown, the details which do remain provide tantalising glimpses into an artistic and technical talent, who was both socially and politically capable enough to be able to ingratiate himself within the highest ranks of power in his time. Van Eyck’s cultural influence has continued in the five and a half centuries since his death. In Flanders, the year 2020 is being celebrated as the Year of Van Eyck. So to pay homage, in this episode we will explore the life and works of Jan van Eyck and the mystery surrounding the theft of part of his most famous work, the Ghent altarpiece.

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Podcast: A Correction Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Ilaria Cozzaglio on Populism, Rousseau and Realism
Pub date: 2020-04-25

Notes from The Intellectual:

In the context of the Five star movement, can political realism and Rousseau remedy the populist drift?..

We speak with Ilaria Cozzaglio about populism. Ilaria Cozzaglio is a Research Associate at the Research Centre 'Normative Orders', Goethe University Frankfurt.

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Podcast: Nostalgia Trap (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Nostalgia Trap - Episode 192: Cinema in Transition w/ Drew Morton
Pub date: 2020-04-28

Notes from The Intellectual:

This epiosde explores how the central questions, ideas, and methodologies of the discipline are evolving in a hyper-accelerated media landscape. .

Drew Morton is an Assistant Professor of Mass Communication at Texas A&M University-Texarkana. He is the co-editor and co-founder of [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies, the first peer-reviewed academic journal focused on the visual essay, drawn from a wide range of scholars (including Drew himself). In this conversation he describes his education in film, both as a casual viewer and fan and later as a graduate student in Cinema and Media Studies at UCLA, as we explore how the central questions, ideas, and methodologies of the discipline are evolving in a hyper-accelerated media landscape.

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Podcast: Social Science Bites (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Hetan Shah on Social Science and the Pandemic
Pub date: 2020-04-28

Notes from The Intellectual:

The current pandemic has and will continue to mutate the social landscape of the world, but amid the lost lives and spoiled economies in its wake has come a new appreciation of what science and scientists contribute.

The current pandemic has and will continue to mutate the social landscape of the world, but amid the lost lives and spoiled economies in its wake has come a new appreciation of what science and scientists contribute.

“You don’t have to go back many months,” says Hetan Shah, the chief executive of the British Academy, “for a period when politicians were relatively dismissive of experts – and then suddenly we’ve seen a shift now to where they’ve moved very close to scientists.

“And generally that’s a very good thing.”

In this Social Science Bites podcast, Shah details how science, and social science in particular, has come to be deployed, how it’s been a force for good throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, and how it can help policymakers understand and shape a better tomorrow.

Arguably, even before coronavirus the British Academy, a national body of humanities and social science scholars, has served in similar roles. In addition to its well-known body of fellows, the academy funds new research and serves as a forum to discuss humanities’ and social science’s role and impact beyond academe. Shah took the reins of the academy in February, having headed the Royal Statistical Association for the eight years previous.

Given that his time at the academy roughly mirrors COVID’s arrival on the world stage, he’s had to hit the ground running. “It’s also been very interesting to see the government using the term, ‘We are following the science.’”

This has been a prime opportunity for social science to show its importance for the public, but also a chance for the public to consider what science is and isn’t.

“There isn’t a single monolithic thing called ‘The Science,’” Shah explains, adding, “I think governments have recognized that the pandemic is not just a medical phenomenon but a social and economic one.”

But even within the subcommunities of science there’s no single ‘Answer’ to any given challenge. “It does feel to me the public has seemed to cope quite well and understood the level of uncertainty of the science. It’s an argument for treating the public as grown-ups.

“We are making decisions at speed. That data are limited and being gathered as we speak. This is how science happens. There may well be settled science on these matters [someday] – but that might take really quite a lot of time.

“This is why none of us envy our decisionmakers. They’re having to make decisions on imperfect knowledge.”

Even without those capital-A answers, established social science has been deployed to good effect already, Shah says.

“Anthropologists who wouldn’t have been surprised at all by the panic buying of toilet paper. They have known for a long, long time, rooted in the work of people like Mary Douglas, the cultural and symbolic importance of things like cleanliness and security in times of crises. “

As other examples he offers the campaigns detailing how best to wash your hands, the crafting of the United Kingdom’s economic package along needs rather than party lines, and how to enforce social distancing. It was social science that shows that rather than shaming – in essence, promoting -- the few people who are breaking rules, compliance increases if you praise those who are keeping the rules. And social science also helps address wicked problems that predate COVID but which now have new facets, such as the unequal impact the disease has on ethnic minority communities.

There’s even a lesson in how science gets applied, he suggests. Like those anthropologists … “[A]nthropology seems like it’s for other people -- ‘Other people have strange customs; we’re normal in the West and what we do is normal’ – but I think the key is to bring an anthropological lens to our own behavior. What are the practices that we have and how can we change them?”

Arenas like critical thinking and psychology are also brought to bear tellingly on the home front: “Our leaders share our biases,” he tells Edmonds, before detailing a number of logical traps policymakers and the populace currently share.

The podcast closes out with a look to the future, both through specific initiatives Shah is part of, and in general. “I think there will be all sorts of fascinating data about how the pandemic has affected us,” including, he made clear higher education and academic research itself. Shah, meanwhile, is acting chair of the Ada Lovelace Institute, which while looking at technical solutions to COVID also draws on social science insights, i.e. in digital contact tracing, it was revealed that those most vulnerable to COVID were also least likely to have a smart phone.

And the British Academy itself, he noted, has a group of scholars assembled who will provide a rapid response to government inquiries and needs, as well as looking at some of the other implications of the future “that the government doesn’t have the bandwidth for.”

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Podcast: The Arch and Anth Podcast (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 114: What is art crime?
Pub date: 2020-04-17

Notes from The Intellectual:

How common is the problem of art crime, and what forms may these crimes take? What circumstances need to align in order for there to be a successful legal prosecution relating to the committing of art forgery, theft or destruction?

In her research, Professor Erin Thompson (John Jay College, CUNY) focuses on the legalities and ethics of art theft, curation and repatriations of heritage objects, antiquarian and archaeological foragies, the destruction of archaeological sites, and digital reproductions of cultural heritage sites.

How common is the problem of art crime, and what forms may these crimes take? What circumstances need to align in order for there to be a successful legal prosecution relating to the committing of art forgery, theft or destruction? How do issues of cultural object ownership or destruction (as a strategy in war) get further complicated in transnational cases? What would the results be if states or bodies of individuals do get held to account in a criminal court?

We also talk about what first motivated Erin to pursue this line of work, and her experience of studying antiquities, art and law in a unique career trajectory to get to the point she is at now. In Erin's journey to professorship, when and how did she realize that there was a 'myth of neutrality' in the field of classical archaeology?

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Podcast: Philosophy For Our Times (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Philosophy Vs Authority | Noam Chomsky, Deirdre McCloskey, Mark Lilla
Pub date: 2020-04-21

Notes from The Intellectual:

The know authority is dangerous yet we assume it is necessary for society to work. Should we dream of a free and flourishing world without leadership and rules?

We know authority is dangerous yet we assume it is necessary for society to work. Should we dream of a free and flourishing world without leadership and rules? Or do we want and need leaders and authority to feed our hopes and dreams?

Philosopher Noam Chomsky, political scientist Mark Lilla and professor of economics Deirdre McCloskey ask whether we need authority at all.

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Podcast: New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Karl Qualls, "Stalin’s Niños: Educating Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the Soviet Union, 1937-1951" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
Pub date: 2020-04-17

Notes from The Intellectual:

The episode examines how the Soviet Union raised and educated nearly 3,000 child refugees of the Spanish Civil War. This little-known story exemplifies the Soviet transformation of children into future builders of communism and illuminates the educational techniques shared with other modern states. .

Karl Qualls' new book Stalin’s Niños: Educating Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the Soviet Union, 1937-1951 (University of Toronto Press, 2020) examines how the Soviet Union raised and educated nearly 3,000 child refugees of the Spanish Civil War. An analysis of the archival record and numerous letters, oral histories, and memoirs reveals that this little-known story exemplifies the Soviet transformation of children into future builders of communism and illuminates the educational techniques shared with other modern states. Classroom education taught patriotism for the two homelands and the importance of emulating Spanish and Soviet heroes, scientists, soldiers, and artists. Extra-curricular clubs and activities reinforced classroom experiences and helped discipline the mind, body, and behaviors. Adult mentors, like the heroes studied in the classroom, provided models to emulate and became the tangible expression of the ideal Spaniard and Soviet. The Basque and Spanish children thus were transformed into hybrid Hispano-Soviets fully engaged with their native language, culture, and traditions while also imbued with Russian language and culture and Soviet ideals of hard work, camaraderie, internationalism, and sacrifice for ideals and others.

Even during their horrific evacuation to the Soviet interior during World War II, the twenty-two Soviet boarding schools designed specifically for the Spanish refugee children – and better provisioned than those for Soviet children – served these displaced niños for fourteen years and transformed them into Red Army heroes, award-winning Soviet athletes and artists, successful educators and workers, and aids to Fidel Castro in building Cuba after his revolution. Stalin’s Niños also sheds new light on the education of non-Russian Soviet and international students and the process of constructing a supranational Soviet identity.

Karl Qualls is Professor of History and the John B. Parsons Chair in Liberal Arts and Sciences at Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA.

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Stalin's Niños: Educating Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the Soviet Union, 1937-1951

Podcast: The Podcast for Social Research (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Podcast for Social Research, Episode 39: Practical Criticism--Threepenny Opera
Pub date: 2020-04-14

Notes from The Intellectual:

A discussion about true happy endings and false ones, operetta, satire, Brecht and Weill's avant-garde experiments, and Walter Benjamin's famous declaration that there is no document of civilization that is not also a document of barbarism.

In this episode of "Practical Criticism," Ajay Singh Chaudhary plays the finale of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera for Rebecca Ariel Porte, who, as usual, doesn't know what the object of the week will be. They discuss true happy endings and false ones, operetta, satire, Brecht and Weill's avant-garde experiments, and Walter Benjamin's famous declaration that there is no document of civilization that is not also a document of barbarism. This episode of the Podcast for Social Research was edited by Nechama Winston. If you enjoyed the podcast, please consider supporting our Patreon page.

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Podcast: ArchitectureTalk (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: 66. AITC: Probiotic Architecture with Dr. Rachel Armstrong
Pub date: 2020-04-15

Notes from The Intellectual:

What is Living Architecture? What are alternative modes of being and building in the world? What are the implications of the Coronavirus as a living system and how might that impact what architecture might be?

What is Living Architecture? What are alternative modes of being and building in the world? What are the implications of the Coronavirus as a living system and how might that impact what architecture might be?

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Podcast: Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Art in the Wake of Pandemics
Pub date: 2020-04-06

Notes from The Intellectual:

Pandemics have, throughout history, generated hopeful, helpful and life-saving artistic responses. Podcast's hosts discuss a panoply of art that has emerged from pandemics ranging from the Bubonic Plague to the Spanish influenza to the HIV/AIDS epidemic to the Ebola virus.

With the terrifying outbreak of COVID-19, we're all living in a new reality. Pandemics; however, are not new and have, throughout history, generated hopeful, helpful and life-saving artistic responses. Join our hosts as they discuss a panoply of art that has emerged from pandemics ranging from the Bubonic Plague to the Spanish influenza to the HIV/AIDS epidemic to the Ebola virus.

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Podcast: Revolutionary Left Radio (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Postmodern Conservatism: Reactionary Politics in Late Capitalism
Pub date: 2020-04-04

Notes from The Intellectual:

The episode explores the idea of how the postmodern culture has manifested itself on the political right and how the neoliberal late capitalism creates the conditions for the rise of postmodern conservatism.

Professor Matthew McManus joins Breht to discuss his work on postmodern conservatism. Find Matt on twitter @MattPolProf

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Here are two other Rev Left episodes we've done on this topic:

Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

Post-Structuralism, Postmodernism, and... Metamodernism?

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Podcast: New Books in Critical Theory (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Anna Bull, "Class, Control, and Classical Music" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Pub date: 2020-04-07

Notes from The Intellectual:

What is the relationship between inequality and classical music? The episode explores the intersections of class, race, and gender to explain the exclusive, and excluding, nature of classical music in contemporary society.

What is the relationship between inequality and classical music? In Class, Control, and Classical Music (Oxford University Press, 2019), Anna Bull, a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Portsmouth and co-director of the 1752 Group, explores the intersections of class, race, and gender to explain the exclusive, and excluding, nature of classical music in contemporary society. The book is based on a detailed study of young people’s engagement with classical music, along with a broader understanding of music education and the sociology of culture. The book is also deeply engaged with the question of what, if anything, classical can do to transform, rather than reproduce, social inequalities. It is essential reading across both music and sociology, as well as for anyone interested in contemporary culture and social inequality.

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Podcast: Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: 90 | David Kaiser on Science, Money, and Power
Pub date: 2020-03-30

Notes from The Intellectual:

Science costs money. And for a brief, glorious period between the start of the Manhattan Project in 1939 and the cancellation of the Superconducting Super Collider in 1993, physics was awash in it, largely sustained by the Cold War.

Science costs money. And for a brief, glorious period between the start of the Manhattan Project in 1939 and the cancellation of the Superconducting Super Collider in 1993, physics was awash in it, largely sustained by the Cold War. Things are now different, as physics — and science more broadly — has entered a funding crunch. David Kaiser, who is both a working physicist and an historian of science, talks with me about the fraught relationship between scientists and their funding sources throughout history, from Galileo and his patrons to the current rise of private foundations. It’s an interesting listen for anyone who wonders about the messy reality of how science gets done.

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David Kaiser received a Ph.D. in physics, and a separate Ph.D. in history of science, from Harvard University. He is currently Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science in MIT’s Program in Science, Technology, and Society, Professor of Physics in MIT’s Department of Physics, and also Associate Dean for Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing (SERC) in MIT’s Schwarzman College of Computing. He has been awarded the Davis Prize and Pfizer Prize from the History of Science Society, was named a Mac Vicar Faculty Fellow for undergraduate teaching at MIT, and received the Perkins Award for excellence in mentoring graduate students. His book Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain World is available April 3.

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Podcast: GSAPP Conversations (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Memories of the Resistance: A Spatial Investigation
Pub date: 2020-04-10

Notes from The Intellectual:

This episode delves into the social implications of architecture and discusses the ways in which it can be perceived as a form of radical resistance, with a focus on the history of social movements, gender studies and environmental history.

Sophie Hochhäusl in Conversation with Emmanuel Olunkwa. In episode #91, CCCP student Emmanuel Olunkwa speaks with architectural historian Sophie Hochhäusl. Hochhäusl is an Assistant Professor for Architectural History and Theory at the University of Pennsylvania. Her scholarly work centers on modern architecture and urban culture in Austria, Germany, and the United States, with a focus on the history of social movements, gender studies, and environmental history. Today, Austrian architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (1897-2000) has been widely recognized as one of the most significant female figures in modern design who worked in Austria, Germany, the Soviet Union, and Turkey in the 1920s and 1930s. These decades of professional work were marked by a drastic break between 1940 and 1945, when Schütte-Lihotzky was interned for her participation in the Communist resistance against the Nazi regime. Her recollections from the years of internment became the subject of the 1984 German-language book “Erinnerungen aus dem Widerstand (Memories of the Resistance).” In this episode, Sophie Hochhäusl discusses her book “Memories of the Resistance: Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky and the Architecture of Collective Dissidence, 1919-1989,” which explores the architect's book as a critical historical document that exemplifies the spatialization of organized dissent in the 1940s. It provides a glimpse into resistance as lived practice and how dissent became activated by solidarity and collective action. The episode was recorded following Sophie Hochhäusl’s Detlef Mertins Lecture on the Histories of Modernity at GSAPP on February 24, 2020.

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Podcast: Deep State Radio (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: What Will the Death Toll of the War on Science Be?
Pub date: 2020-03-26

Notes from The Intellectual:

In South Africa during the AIDS crisis, the government's denial of AIDS took a measurable toll. Today, the US is at risk from the misinformation, denial and deception of many current public officials.

In South Africa during the AIDS crisis, as our special guest Dr. Seema Yasmin points out, the government's denial of AIDS took a measurable toll. Today, she argues, we are at risk from the misinformation, denial and deception of many current public officials right here in the U.S. Dr. Yasmin joins Ed Luce of the Financial Times and Ryan Goodman of Just Security and NYU Law School for a discussion of where we are in this global crisis, where it is likely to go, and how to contain the spread of deadly infodemic that is swirling around and compounding the cost of the underlying COVID-19 outbreak. Don't miss it.

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Podcast: Science Friction (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Acclaimed Beasts of No Nation author Uzodinma Iweala - on science, power, and race
Pub date: 2020-03-22

Notes from The Intellectual:

At a time when the world suddenly seems united by a virus that's porous to people and borders, this episode considers the way in which science can both connect and divide; in which scientists can be blind to black bodies and to their own prejudices; and in which storytelling can shape how the world approaches biology and viruses.

The stories we construct about biology, viruses, and beyond can reshape the course of our lives. When the world suddenly feels very small, connected by a virus that’s porous to people and borders, let's consider the power and porosity of science.

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Podcast: The MIT Press Podcast (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Haunted Bauhaus with Elizabeth Otto
Pub date: 2020-03-09

Notes from The Intellectual:

This episode explores the marginalised histories of occult spirituality, gender fluidity and queer identity within the Bauhaus, offering fresh insight into one of the most canonised periods of European art history.

In this podcast we discuss visibility, haunting and fascism with art historian and theorist Elizabeth Otto. Otto's book Haunted Bauhaus explores the marginalized histories of occult spirituality, gender fluidity and queer identity within the Bauhaus; offering fresh insight into one of the most canonized periods of European art history.

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Podcast: A Correction Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Brecht: An Introduction
Pub date: 2020-03-11

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Brecht saw theatre as a way of exposing social, political and historical - rather than individual and psychological - forces. He was against Stanislavski's realism, believing that theatre should render life strange to audiences for them to realise that the reality they inhabit is not a given, but the result of long processes; and thus alterable.

We discuss the life, work and ethics of Bertolt Brecht with Markus Wessendorf. Markus Wessendorf is a Professor of Theatre and the Chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. He is currently the main editor of The Brecht Yearbook.

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Podcast: Hyperallergic (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Connecting Modern Art Museums, Colonialism, and Violence
Pub date: 2020-03-11

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Museums were not always there, waiting to be filled with objects. Rather, they reveal a vast amount of plunder that then created a need for buildings to collect all the 'artefacts'.

Ariella Azoulay's new book Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism (Verso, 2019) is an important read on the topic of museums, colonialism, and their clear relationship. In this conversation, Azoulay, who is Professor of Modern Culture & Media and Comparative Literature at Brown University, joins us at Hyperallergic HQ to explain what we need to unlearn, and how artists, collectors, critics, and other arts professionals play a role in the continuing dispossession of colonial subjects, most often people of color, around the world. This conversation is essential for anyone interested in the future of arts institutions and their role in social change.

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Podcast: Conversations with Tyler (LS 64 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: John McWhorter on Linguistics, Music, and Race (Live at Mason)
Pub date: 2020-03-11

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Linguistics can answer questions of all kinds, from why colloquial Indonesian should be the world's universal language (and Mandarin never will be), to the barbaric circumstances that gave rise to Creole languages, to the racial politics of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, to what spurred the decline of American regional accents.

Who can you ask about the Great American Songbook, the finer Jell-O flavors, and peculiar languages like Saramaccan all while expecting the same kind of fast, thoughtful, and energetic response? Listeners of Lexicon Valley might hazard a guess: John McWhorter. A prominent academic linguist, he’s also highly regarded for his podcast and popular writings across countless books and articles where often displays a deep knowledge in topics beyond his academic training.

John joined Tyler to discuss why he thinks that colloquial Indonesian should be the world's universal language, the barbaric circumstances that gave rise to Creole languages, the reason Mandarin won't overtake English as the lingua franca, how the Vikings shaped modern English, the racial politics of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, the decline of American regional accents, why Shakespeare needs an English translation, Harold Arlen vs. Andrew Lloyd Webber, whether reparations for African-Americans is a good idea, how living in Jackson Heights shapes his worldview, what he learned from his mother and father, why good linguistics students enjoy both Russian and Chinese, and more.

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Podcast: The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast (LS 65 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Ep. 237: Walter Benjamin Analyzes Violence (Part One)
Pub date: 2020-03-02

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What if the explicit goal of a strike was not to attain benefits, some particular transfer of power, but to unseat the state altogether? This kind of strike, which would likely involve both implicit and explicit violence, Benjamin imagines could be seen as comparable to divine violence. It would redeem workers. .

On "Critique of Violence" (1921). What is violence? Benjamin gives us a taxonomy: law-creating, law-preserving, mythological, and divine. Then he deconstructs his own distinctions to demonstrate that all state power is rotten through its being founded on and continually re-established by violence or the threat of it.

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Podcast: Then & Now: Philosophy, History & Politics (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Bourdieu: Cultural Capital and the Love of Art
Pub date: 2020-03-06

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Preferences in art, literature, or music are, in large part at least, determined by social positions, a family's exposure to specific cultural artefacts, economic possibilities or the interests of the faculty of a certain school. Economic capital, like money, can be exchanged for other goods. And so too can cultural capital.

The sociologist Pierre Bourdieu was interested in how the organisation of culture and the social world around us could affect our individual view of the world. How we didn’t just pick the culture we liked, but in some ways culture picked us – made us more or less likely to act in certain ways.

I look at Bourdieu’s ideas about cultural capital, social capital, and institutional capital, primarily through his book, the Love of Art.

For Bourdieu, facts about the world could be measured, collected, and recorded; but they were also instinctively absorbed by us from a young age – they became subjectified into our own behaviour. He was interested in how these cultural and social phenomena tcouldhat connect us to the wider world. Our tastes, accents, styles of speaking, mannerisms, and values can be the product of our social environment and our own minds. He sought ‘the subjective dispositions within which these structures are actualized.’

Our preferences in art, literature, or music are, in large part at least, determined by our social positions, our family’s exposure to specific cultural artefacts, our economic possibilities, or the interests of the faculty of the school we attend. In the most obvious sense, an American girl attending high school today is unlikely to enjoy 16th century Mongolian folk songs. But why is this? Why are our tastes often so uniform? Bourdieu’s answer is cultural capital.

He saw that If we are bought up in an aristocratic family who’s friends and teachers all read the Homeric epics then we too are more likely to attach a value to that cultural artefact. If everyone tells us these stories are good as a child we are of course, more likely to value them because praise for reading them is a reward as powerful as any financial reward. Economic capital, like money, can be exchanged for other goods. And so too can cultural capital.

Finally, I look at what this means for culture today, taking a Bourdieuan look at hip-hop and grime .

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Podcast: A Correction Podcast (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Adorno in America
Pub date: 2020-03-03

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This episode covers Adorno's exile in Los Angeles, how he fit into the Jewish intellectual scene of his time and what role the Frankfurt School played in its early years. .

We speak with Willi Goetschel about Theodor Adorno’s work and how his time in the U.S. shaped his thinking. Willi Goetschel is Professor of German and Philosophy at the University of Toronto. Hisresearch includes Jewish thought, German Enlightenment and idealism, critical theory, and social and political theory.

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Podcast: UCL Minds (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Living with Eugenics
Pub date: 2020-02-28

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The term 'eugenics' is often associated with the Nazis. But the story of eugenics actually started in Britain, conceived of and developed by Francis Galton, one of the most important scientist that most people have never heard of. Who was he, and how should his former university deal with this past?

Most people associate the term “eugenics” with the Nazis and the horrors of the Holocaust. But the story of eugenics actually started in Britain, conceived of and developed by Francis Galton, probably the most important scientist that most people have never heard of. Galton’s laboratory was based at University College London (UCL), where he and his successors established eugenics as a respected scientific discipline.

Now UCL are investigating its historical links with Galton and the role that it played in the development and promotion of eugenics. What legacy has this association left – and how should the university come to terms with this past? Subhadra Das, Science Curator from UCL Culture, pieces together this history, and tries to answer the question: What happens next?

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Podcast: The Security Studies Podcast (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 42 - Christine Fair on Irregular Warfare in Film
Pub date: 2020-02-29

Notes from The Intellectual:

Most Americans passively receive knowledge about conflict from film. War films, which do particularly well, should be analysed critically in order to deconstruct what they intend to impart to their audiences.

For Episode 42 I met with Professor Christine Fair to discuss her new course offering, “Irregular Warfare in Film.” We open up with an overview of the course and what inspired professor Fair to create it. We then go into how professor fair teaches students how to read film and begin developing key media literacy skills. For example, Professor Fair leverages Rodesiler’s MAPS protocol - Mode, Audience, Purpose, and Situation - to help her student view a film critically. We then take The Deer Hunter - a film featured in her course - discuss some its content and the lessons that we can gain from it. Lastly, we discuss Racism and Allegory in the 2000s film, District 9 - about aliens stranded over Johannesburg become earthly refugees.

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Podcast: The Week in Art (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Surrealism: what was Britain's role?
Pub date: 2020-02-28

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2020 marks 100 years since the birth of surrealism, which by all accounts is making a contemporary comeback. Yet the roots of the movement can be traced back as far as the 1600s.

Plus, Independent Art Fair's director on the New York's changing gallery landscape

Podcast: The Governance Podcast (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Womanhood in Tocqueville's Democracy: In Conversation with Sarah Wilford
Pub date: 2020-02-25

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Alexis de Tocqueville argued that American democracy was rooted in associational life. What role did women, and the domestic space they occupied, play in shaping free societies - and what role could they play in stemming the tide of democratic despotism?

Alexis de Tocqueville argued that American democracy was rooted in associational life. What role did women play in building this capacity for association? In this episode of the Governance Podcast, Dr Sarah Wilford (University of the Andes) sits down with Dr Irena Schneider (King's College London) to discuss how the domestic sphere shapes free societies and stems the tide of democratic despotism. Subscribe on iTunes and Spotify Subscribe to the Governance Podcast on iTunes and Spotify today and get all our latest episodes directly in your pocket.

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The Guest Dr Sarah Wilford is an assistant professor of politics at the University of the Andes in Santiago. Her research focuses on the political thought of Alexis de Tocqueville regarding family, women, and democratic conditions. Other research interests include the relationship between religion and liberty in Tocqueville, womanhood during the nineteenth century, and the use of Tocqueville in later twentieth and twenty-first-century political theory and political science. She received her PhD in Politics from King's College London in 2018.

Skip Ahead 00:51: Tocqueville is a very popular writer to turn to nowadays, particularly when we think about modern questions of the loss of associationalism, virtuous citizenship, and community values. But we don't often think about Tocqueville in terms of gender and the domestic sphere. That's where you have been working and I wanted to ask just to get started, how did you get interested in the gender angle on Tocqueville?

3:13: To delve into the details, what exactly is the role of womanhood and the domestic sphere in Tocqueville's work?

07:23: My first reaction is-- you talked about paternal authority and that being a prime element in democratic citizenship, and being the first school of citizenship. What about the mother and womanhood in general? How does that contribute to the raising of virtuous, democratic citizens?

9:30: To delve further into the question of authority, both maternal, paternal, and the domestic sphere, it seems almost like an oxymoron to say that respect for authority leads to more democratic norms and civil society. How does that transition play out in Tocqueville?

11:30: Tocqueville really is seen as a scholar of civil society, of associationalism. We throw around these terms but we're not often very clear by what Tocqueville meant by them. When he observed these things in American society, what was he talking about? What does governance and associationalism mean for Tocqueville in this sense?

17:21: A lot of times, when it comes to Tocqueville, we hear the term, 'the habits of the heart and mind.' A lot of the network that exist within civil society are driven by people's common acceptance or commitment to certain values or beliefs or ideas. That is a kind of glue that ties society together and is generated within the domestic sphere. Can you talk a little more about the habits of the heart and mind that a self-governing citizenry is supposed to have?

21:08: Tocqueville has been used and appropriated by many modern scholars in social science, from thinkers like Robert Putnam to Vincent Ostrom, and others. And they often use Tocqueville to address modern issues or crises of democracy. You've certainly worked a little bit on how they interpreted Tocqueville. What did they get right, and what did they get wrong?

28:04: What is your contribution on these perspectives? Are they hitting the point? Are they being accurately Tocquevillian, or are they misunderstanding parts of his argument?

37:44: I think part of the difficulty in transmitting this more 19th century perspective into the 21st is that society doesn't really look the same as when Tocqueville observed it. You talked a lot about the virtues of a self-governing society in which women take a disproportionate role in bringing up children and transmitting the virtues of citizenship, where religion plays a big role in people's lives that does constrain morality, where there is a tendency to respect authority more, where information and authority are not democratised. We live in a completely different world now. And you might say that women's empowerment is a completely positive achievement and that women shouldn't be spending the majority of their time in the domestic sphere transmitting these virtues to citizens. So there are a lot of tensions in taking the Tocquevillian example and being perfectly Tocquevillian in the 21st century. Should we be Tocquevillian nowadays given that society has completely changed?

44:44: Do you think we're in a period of democratic despotism today?

48:13: In light of this potential that we are living in a period of democratic despotism, we're more secularised, atomised, lonelier; we're lacking a lot of the social ties and mores that existed in the 19th century, especially in urban environments. We lack a lot of those central ingredients of democratic citizenship that Tocqueville was talking about. It seems like an opportune time to go back to the literature and ask, how do we replicate those mechanisms nowadays given that we've lost a lot of it in the process, and throughout history?

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Podcast: All Things Policy (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Ep. 270: The Perils of Eugenics
Pub date: 2020-02-26

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As gene-editing technology advances, the social contexts within which it will unfold must be understood and integrated into policy planning. This episode explores the dark history of eugenics, its recent resurgence and what India needs to do to ensure gene editing is used responsibly.

As gene-editing technology advances, the social contexts within which it will unfold need to be understood and integrated into policy planning. Shambhavi Naik and Anirudh Kanisetti discuss the dark history of eugenics, its recent resurgence, and what India needs to do to ensure gene editing is used responsibly.

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Podcast: The Arts of Travel (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Film Scholar Keung Yoon Bae on Parasite, Korean Cinema and the Limits of Revolutionary Art
Pub date: 2020-02-21

Notes from The Intellectual:

This episode goes into the subtle nuances in Parasite, Korean cinema and Korean politics at large, adding many new layers of understanding to the much acclaimed film. (Warning: there are spoilers!)

We spoke to Harvard Film Scholar Keung Yoon Bae (twitter: @becky_kybae) on the movie Parasite!

As a scholar who grew up in Korea during its "new wave" Cinema, Keung Yoon was able to explain many subtle nuances of Korea as it relates to Parasite, Korean Cinema and Korean Politics that added many new layers to my understanding of the film. ( Warning there are spoilers!)

For more on Keung Yoon, please check out her Twitter, Academic Journals and her essay discussing the Korean Films, Burning and Parasite.

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Podcast: Ideas (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Where Is Our Conscience? Patricia Churchland on the biological roots of morality
Pub date: 2020-08-25

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How did humans first determine what was wrong? Warm-blooded mammals had certain evolutionary disadvantages, which required them to become learning and socialising beings. These tricks brought them to the doorstep of morality.

How do we determine right from wrong? According to Patricia Churchland, the answer is through science and philosophy. The distinguished proponent of neurophilosophy explores how moral systems arise from the influences of nature and nurture in her book, Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition.

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Podcast: Art Attack w/ Lizy Dastin and Justin BUA (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Art in Nature, Nature as Art
Pub date: 2020-02-18

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In the late 1960s, artists began to expand the parameters of art in exciting ways: what it can look like, what it can be made from, where it can be located. Many took to nature - or took materials from nature - to better integrate the world, and concept of impermanence, into art.

In the late 1960s, artists began to expand the parameters of art in exciting ways: what it can look like, what it can be made from, where it can be located. Many took to nature--or took materials from nature--to better integrate the world, and concept of impermanence, into art. Join our hosts as they journey through their favorite land art creations.

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Podcast: This is John Galt Speaking
Episode: Happiness, Marx and Progress with Dr. Ashley Frawley
Pub date: 2019-01-25

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Is there happiness to be found in the pursuit of happiness itself? Can happiness be conceptualised? Can there be a consensus about the nature of it? Could people march under a banner with its name?Is happiness even achievable? Even then, is it a value?

Luke interviews Dr. Ashley Frawley, author of 'Semiotics of Happiness: rhetorical beginnings of a public problem'. They discuss, amongst other topics, happiness, Marx and progress.

Pre-order Dr. Frawley's upcoming book, 'Significant Emotions: Rhetoric and Social Problems in a Vulnerable Age' on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Significant-Emotions-Rhetoric-Problems-Vulnerable/dp/1350026794/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1548425797&sr=8-1&keywords=significant+emotions

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Podcast: The Magnificast (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Apost(le)ate w/ Teagan Steele-Fisher
Pub date: 2020-02-07

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A conversation with a poet who writes about Christo-fascism and how ideological conceptions of God function materially in the U.S. She discusses her own religious trauma and her psychological and material reasons for 'apostesising,' arguing that 'at some point in history, [the apostle and the apostate] have been a lot closer than some people would like to think.'

We've spent the last few weeks reading poetry, but what if we talked to an actual poet? This week, we interviewed Teagen Steele-Fisher (@barnonepoems) about her new book of poetr, Apost(le)ate. Her work is informed by Marxism, Feminism, Queer studies, black liberation, and dealing with the trauma of evangelicalism. Overall, it's some really incredible work! You can buy her book here: https://gumroad.com/l/qbDRz

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Podcast: New Books in Critical Theory (LS 44 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Chenyang Wang, "Subjectivity In-Between Times: Exploring the Notion of Time in Lacan's Work" (Palgrave, 2019)
Pub date: 2020-02-12

Notes from The Intellectual:

A Chinese psychoanalyst explores how Lacan offers a radical rethinking of the past, present, and future: going beyond a linear approach to time and a reductive focus on early childhood, and rigorously theorising the interrelation of social, bodily, egoic and unsymbolisable aspects of temporal subjectivity.

If you thought Jacques Lacan’s essay on "Logical Time" was the psychoanalyst’s final word on the subject, then this interview has a lot to teach you! In his new book Subjectivity In-Between Times: Exploring the Notion of Time in Lacan's Work (Palgrave, 2019), emerging scholar of psychoanalytic theory and continental philosophy Chenyang Wang offers the first systematic analysis of the notion of time in Lacan’s work.

Wang, based in East China Normal University, begins by telling us about the state of psychoanalysis in China, before offering a fascinating exploration of how Lacan enables us to radically rethink the past, present, and future. Wang’s approach challenges us to think beyond a linear approach to time and a reductive focus early childhood, rigorously theorising the interrelation of social, bodily, egoic, and unsymbolisable aspects of temporal subjectivity. Toward the end of the interview we focus on Wang’s innovative temporal re-reading of sexual difference, which generously responds to queer and social constructionist challenges to psychoanalysis.

This interview is the first in my new series on Psychoanalysis and Time, produced in collaboration with Waiting Times, a multidisciplinary research project on the temporalities of healthcare. Waiting Times is supported by The Wellcome Trust [205400/A/16/Z], and takes places across Birkbeck (University of London) and the University of Exeter. Learn more about the project by visiting www.whatareyouwaitingfor.org.uk, or follow us on twitter @WhatisWaiting.

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Podcast: Showcase
Episode: Virginia Woolf Fashion, Bauhaus Movement & Banksy in Gaza | Full Episode | Showcase
Pub date: 2020-02-06

Notes from The Intellectual:

This programme touches on several eclectic topics, including why Virginia Woolf has become the subject of a cultural craze, even beyond literature - entering both the fashion realm and the stage.

In this episode of Showcase;

Bauhaus Movement 00:41 Robin Schuldenfrei, Senior Lecturer in 20th Century Modernism 06:01 Hollywood Brain Drain 12:25 Shortcuts 15:06 Virginia Woolf Inspired Fashion 16:46 Maggie Humm, Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies 17:19 Slices of Time 21:07 Banksy in Gaza 24:32

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Podcast: The Portal (LS 72 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: 20: Sir Roger Penrose - Plotting the Twist of Einstein’s Legacy
Pub date: 2020-01-25

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Where are we in the history of coming to understand what this place is in which we find ourselves, what we are made out of and what we know about our own context?' How has this understanding evolved in the past decades, and where does the scientific consensus stand now?

Roger Penrose is arguably the most important living descendent of Albert Einstein’s school of geometric physics. In this episode of The Portal, we avoid the usual questions put to roger about quantum foundations and quantum consciousness. Instead we go back to ask about the current status of his thinking on what would have been called “Unified Field Theory” before it fell out of fashion a couple of generations ago. In particular, Roger is the dean of one of the only rival schools of thought to have survived the “String Theory wars” of the 1980s-2000s. We discuss his view of this Twistor Theory and its prospects for unification. Instead of spoon feeding the audience, however, the material is presented as it might occur between colleagues in neighboring fields so that the Portal audience might glimpse something closer to scientific communication rather than made for TV performance pedagogy. We hope you enjoy our conversation with Prof. Penrose.

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Podcast: 5x15 (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Billy Bragg: Can music change the world?
Pub date: 2020-02-05

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Has music lost its vanguard role? This episode talks about the role of music in shaping our world, past present and future.

Has music lost its vanguard role? Billy Bragg is here to talk about the role of music in shaping our world, past present and future.

Stephen William ‘Billy’ Bragg is an English singer-songwriter and left-wing activist. His music blends elements of folk music, punk rock and protest songs, with lyrics that span political or romantic themes. His music is heavily centred on bringing about change and getting the younger generation involved in grass-roots activist causes. His book Roots, Radicals and Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World was shortlisted for the Penderyn Music Book Prize, and was a Rough Trade, Mojo, and FT Book of the Year 2018. His latest book is the political pamphlet The Three Dimensions of Freedom published in 2019.

Recorded at The Tabernacle on 20th Jan 2020.

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Podcast: Millennials Are Killing Capitalism (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 46 - The Steroids of Orientalism with Sina Rahmani of The East Is A Podcast
Pub date: 2020-02-03

Notes from The Intellectual:

The theory of Orientalism meets Donald Trump's stand-off with Iran over his assassination of Qassim Soleimani. In other words, how Western narratives on Iran during the early January escalation say more about America than they do about Iran.

In this episode we talk to Sina Rahmani about Edward Said’s theory of orientalism and how we see it playing out in the discourse surrounding the US assassination of Qasim Soleimani, Iran’s retaliatory strikes on the largest American military base in Iraq, and the Trump's decision not to respond with further military action. Sina also challenges Western portraits of Iran as well as the dominant narratives around the events of the last month or so.

Sina Rahmani earned his PhD in Comparative Literature at UCLA. He is the creator of The East is a Podcast

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Podcast: Philosophy For Our Times (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How Maths Changed Philosophy | Silvia Jonas
Pub date: 2020-01-28

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What does mathematics have to do with the nature of human thought? This epsiode explains howmathematics has come to shape our politics, ethics and our very idea of what the world is.

What does mathematics have to do with the nature of human thought? How does it change how philosophers think of reality? Philosopher and author of 'Ineffability and its Metaphysics', Silvia Jonas explains how mathematics has come to shape our politics, ethics and our very idea of what the world is.

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Podcast: Around The Empire (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Ep 148 Low Intensity War in Northeast Asia feat Tim Shorrock
Pub date: 2020-01-29

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In recent weeks there have been cries of alarm about North Korea's missile testing all throughout the media but they've omitted some key developments like the massive military build up in South Korea and Northeast Asia over the past few years.

Guest: Tim Shorrock. In recent weeks there have been cries of alarm about North Korea’s missile testing all throughout the media but they’ve omitted some key developments like the massive military build up in South Korea and Northeast Asia over the past few years. Tim provides us with some of that omitted context including the fact that the South Korean armed forces, allied with the US, is the seventh largest in the world.

Tim grew up in Japan and Korea and he has been covering national security and other topics around Asia and the Korean peninsula since the late 1970’s . He is a correspondent at The Nation and he’s the author of the popular book “Spies for Hire: The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing”.

FOLLOW @TimothyS Find his work at The Nation and at his website http://timshorrock.com. Buy his book: Spies For Hire: The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing.

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Podcast: LIVE! From City Lights
Episode: STAFF PICK - Foucault in California
Pub date: 2020-01-28

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Bungalow parties, intense debates at a Taoist utopia in the Angeles Forest, a synesthetic acid trip inDeath Valley set to the strains of Bach and Stockhausen: a dive into Michel Foucault's exploratory visit atthe Claremont Graduate School in California-part search for higher consciousness, part bacchanal.

(From April 2019) Heather Dundas in conversation with David Wade celebrating the release of Foucault in California : A True Story—Wherein the Great French Philosopher Drops Acid in the Valley of Death by Simeon Wade, Foreword by Heather Dundas, and published by Heyday Books.

In The Lives of Michel Foucault, David Macey quotes the iconic French philosopher as speaking "nostalgically…of 'an unforgettable evening on LSD, in carefully prepared doses, in the desert night, with delicious music, [and] nice people.'" This came to pass in 1975, when Foucault spent Memorial Day weekend in Southern California at the invitation of Simeon Wade—ostensibly to guest-lecture at the Claremont Graduate School where Wade was an assistant professor, but in truth to explore what he called the Valley of Death. Led by Wade and Wade's partner Michael Stoneman, Foucault experimented with psychedelic drugs for the first time; by morning he was crying and proclaiming that he knew Truth.

Foucault in California is Wade’s firsthand account of that long weekend. Felicitous and often humorous prose vaults readers headlong into the erudite and subversive circles of the Claremont intelligentsia: parties in Wade’s bungalow, intensive dialogues between Foucault and his disciples at a Taoist utopia in the Angeles Forest (whose denizens call Foucault "Country Joe"); and, of course, the fabled synesthetic acid trip in Death Valley, set to the strains of Bach and Stockhausen. Part search for higher consciousness, part bacchanal, this book chronicles a young man’s burgeoning friendship with one of the twentieth century’s greatest thinkers.

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Podcast: Royal Academy of Arts (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Understanding space through art
Pub date: 2020-01-21

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This episode discusses how artists contribute to our understanding of the world around and the relationship between physics, cosmology and art.

Theoretical astrophysicist, Priya Natarajan, joins Semiconductor, the artist duo Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt, to discuss how artists contribute to our understanding of the world around and the relationship between physics, cosmology and art.

Part of 'Where language ends: Antony Gormley’s discourse series'.

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Podcast: LIVE! From City Lights
Episode: Joyce in Paris with Catherine Flynn
Pub date: 2020-01-24

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The guest and author recovers [in a new book] the paradigmatic city of European urban modernity as the foundational context of Joyce's imaginative consciousness.

Catherine Flynn celebrating the release of "James Joyce and the Matter of Paris," published by Cambridge University Press, in conversation with fellow UC Berkeley professor Kent Puckett.

In James Joyce and the Matter of Paris, Catherine Flynn recovers the paradigmatic city of European urban modernity as the foundational context of Joyce's imaginative consciousness. Beginning with Joyce's underexamined first exile in 1902–03, she shows the significance for his writing of the time he spent in Paris and of a range of French authors whose works inflected his experience of that city. In response to the pressures of Parisian consumer capitalism, Joyce drew on French literature to conceive a somatic aesthetic, in which the philosophically disparaged senses of taste, touch, and smell as well as the porous, digestive body resist capitalism's efforts to manage and instrumentalize desire. This book re-situates the most canonical of Irish modernists in a European avant-garde context while revealing important links between Anglophone modernism and critical theory.

Catherine Flynn works on British and Irish modernist literature in a European avant-garde context. She joined the Department of English at the University of California at Berkeley in 2012. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University's Introduction to the Humanities Program from 2009 to 2012. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Yale University in 2009 and her B.A. in English and Philosophy from University College Cork in 2000. Previously, she practiced as an architect in Ireland and in Vienna, Austria; she has a B.Arch from University College Dublin. She is an Affiliate of the Program in Critical Theory and currently also serves as Director of Berkeley Connect in English and as Associate Director of Irish Studies.

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Podcast: The Essay (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 2: The Boxer
Pub date: 2020-01-21

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Cravan went through life using multiple mysterious personas. He was the nephew of Oscar Wilde, a boxing champion, a notorious art critic, a scandalous performer, a deserter, the husband of modernist poet Mina Loy, and was pursued by the CIA.

Ross Sutherland takes us to the birth of modern art as he traces the extraordinary life of Arthur Cravan. Cravan's anarchic art heralded Dada , surrealism, situationism, punk rock and alternative comedy. His whole life was an extravagant show and his influence spreads right across the 20th century.

Cravan went through life using multiple mysterious personas. He was the nephew of Oscar Wilde, a boxing champion, a notorious art critic, a scandalous performer, a deserter, the husband of modernist poet Mina Loy, and was pursued by the CIA.

This mystery story, led by writer Ross Sutherland, tracks across twenty countries as Cravan's outlandish persona shifts between incarnations. Ross's journey leads him to Cravan's greatest riddle of all - his disappearance in the Gulf of Mexico.

In this episode Ross investigates how Cravan's career as a boxer influenced his art.

This programme contains very strong language.

Writer and Presenter: Ross Sutherland Produced for the BBC by Melvin Rickarby Music by Jeremy Warmsley

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Podcast: Unpopular Culture (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Borderline Personality for "Bees with Boots"
Pub date: 2020-01-16

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Attachment wounds and intense fear of abandonment lie at the heart of what is clinically known as Borderline Personality disorder.

Attachment wounds and intense fear of abandonment lie at the heart of what is clinically known as Borderline Personality disorder. Many of us have features of this disorder. In this episode, we explain some of the nuances for this complex, yet shockingly common disorder.

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Podcast: ArchitectureTalk (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: 59. The structure of feeling, Music and Architecture with Bright Sheng
Pub date: 2020-01-15

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How can a piece of music describe moving through an architectural space? For the guest, it's all about the structure.

How can a piece of music describe moving through an architectural space? For composer Bright Sheng, it’s all about the structure. This week, we’ll be discussing music, architecture and process with the globally renowned conductor, composer, pianist and educator!

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Podcast: Revolutionary Left Radio (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Capitalism and Desire: In Dialogue with Psychoanalysis
Pub date: 2020-01-14

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Tune in for a psychoanalytic critique of capital: what Freud and Lacan can teach us about the death drive, desire, and the fundamental sense of lack at the core of our psyches. In other words, what psychoanalysis can offer Marxism, as well as their contradictions and conflicts.

Prof. Todd McGowan, author of "Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Costs of Free Markets" and co-host of "Why Theory", returns to the show to talk with Breht about Marxism and Psychoanalysis, Freud, Lacan, Death Drive, Desire, the fundamental sense of Lack at the core of our psyches, and much more! Check out Todd's book here: http://cup.columbia.edu/book/capitalism-and-desire/9780231178723

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Podcast: Why Theory (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Psychoanalysis and Aesthetics
Pub date: 2020-01-08

In this episode, Ryan and Todd work through the possibilities for a psychoanalytic theory of aesthetics. Starting with the concept of sublimation, they discuss how psychoanalytic ideas might give us the tools for understanding and judging aesthetic value.

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Podcast: The Arch and Anth Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 94: How can experts more critically examine the prehistory and ethnography of rock art?
Pub date: 2020-01-03

Andrew Skinner (University of Witswatersrand) talks to us on this episode about the interpretation of rock art in southern Africa using critical and interdisciplinary approaches.

In his research, Andrew concentrates on the analysis of rock art on the Cape Coast of South Africa by considering the historic and geographic context of the ethnography. Today, he speaks about the limitations of previous arguments describing rock art as simply being 'ritual' or merely being a documentation of prehistoric life. He aims to reframe our studies of the oral and historic record through interviews, work in genetics, linguistics and other areas of anthropology/archaeology, and greater inclusion of contemporary communities as partners in interpretation.

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Podcast: A Correction Podcast (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: On Cinema, Literature and Neoliberalism in Tunisia and Morocco
Pub date: 2020-01-04

We speak with Mohamed Wajdi Ben Hammed about art and political economy. Mohamed Wajdi Ben Hammed is a PhD candidate in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies and the Institute of Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. He works on modern Arabic literature and thought with a focus on literary engagement with postcolonial transformations in the political economy of the region, and interactions with pre-modern Islamic concepts of time such as those found in philosophical Sufism to negotiate these transformations. His work has appeared in such journals as Middle East Critique, Arab Studies Journal, and the Journal of North African Studies (forthcoming).

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Podcast: The Prospect Podcast (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Liberalism and John Rawls, with Katrina Forrester
Pub date: 2019-12-19

Brexit, Trump, international protests, the era of the “strongman”: Is liberalism really in crisis, or will it come out of this historical era changed, but essentially unscathed? Political theorist Katrina Forrester joins the Prospect podcast to talk about liberalism past and present, and the thought of icon of 20th century liberalism, John Rawls.

Katrina’s book, In the Shadow of Justice: Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy is published by Princeton University Press.

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Podcast: ArchitectureTalk (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: 57. Modernism, Utopia, and living the catastrophe with Anthony Vidler
Pub date: 2019-12-19

This week, we investigate settlement, agency, pedagogy and architecture's tireless hope for utopia with esteemed professor of architecture history and criticism at The Cooper Union, Anthony Vidler.

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Podcast: A Correction Podcast (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: On Decolonization and Art
Pub date: 2019-12-15

We speak with Greer Valley about why decolonization needs to be more than a metaphor. Greer Valley is a South African visual artist. You can find her work here.

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Podcast: Getty Art + Ideas (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: True Grit: The American City in Early 20th-Century Prints
Pub date: 2019-12-11

At the start of the twentieth century, American printmakers portrayed the modernizing world around them, from towering skyscrapers and deserted city streets to jazzy dance halls and boisterous movie theaters. Many of these printmakers were recent immigrants to the United States, and many were women—that these groups in particular could make careers as artists is indicative of the immense social changes of this period.

In this episode, Getty curator of drawings Stephanie Schrader and the Huntington Art Museum’s Bradford and Christine Mishler Associate Curator of American Art, James Glisson, explore this topic as they walk through their exhibition True Grit: American Prints from 1900 to 1950.

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