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Back to SearchNostalgia Trap - Livestream 2.17.23: Broken Motor w/ Justin Rogers-Cooper (PREVIEW)
This week Justin and I talk about the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. Are we entering an accelerated era of industrial mass poisonings, or …
3 years, 1 month ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 351: The Sympathetic Consumer w/ Tad Skotnicki
Tad Skotnicki is a professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and the author of The Sympathetic Consumer: Moral Critiqu…
3 years, 1 month ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 350: Gateway to the Shadow World w/ Carl Freedman
Carl Freedman is a writer and professor of English literature at Louisiana State University who has written a number of important books on science fi…
3 years, 2 months ago
Mr. Trap Ep 1 - Where Do I Go Now?
What happens when three old pals get together to talk about the 90s sketch comedy program Mr. Show with Bob and David? This podcast answers that very…
3 years, 2 months ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 349: I Need Your Love w/ Justin Rogers-Cooper (PREVIEW)
This week Justin and I go all in on Baz Luhrmann's camp masterpiece Elvis (2022), as we consider the life, work, and legacy of an iconic 20th century…
3 years, 2 months ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 348: Going Underground w/ Lara Langer Cohen
What does it mean to "go underground"? Lara Langer Cohen is an associate professor of English at Swarthmore College. Her latest book, Going Undergrou…
3 years, 2 months ago
Gender Trap - Ep 11 : Forget It, Jake, You're Canceled (PREVIEW)
This week Yasmin and I watch Chinatown (1974) and have a conversation about the film's infamously elegant screenplay, shocking plot twist, insanely …
3 years, 2 months ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 347: Fit Nation w/ Natalia Mehlman Petrzela
How do shifting ideas about physical fitness, health, and the body reflect larger ideological structures like nation, race, gender, and capitalism? N…
3 years, 2 months ago
Housing Trap - The Way of Water w/ Andrew Schustek and Zach Paganini
On this episode of Housing Trap, Andrew is joined by Zach Paganini, a Ph.D. student in the Earth and Environmental Sciences program at the CUNY Grad…
3 years, 2 months ago
Nostalgia Trap - Livestream 1.13.23: Rats in a Maze w/ Justin Rogers-Cooper (PREVIEW)
This week Justin and I watched the HBO Max documentary This Place Rules, which gives us a chance to talk about the weird undercurrents of rape, sexua…
3 years, 2 months ago