Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBrian Brown and Virginia Kuulei Berndt, "Body Art" (Emerald Publishing, 2023)
Episode 331
Body art, especially tattoos and piercings, has enjoyed an explosion of interest in recent years. However, the response of many health professionals …
2 years, 10 months ago
Nettrice R. Gaskins, "Techno-Vernacular Creativity and Innovation: Culturally Relevant Making Inside and Outside of the Classroom" (MIT Press, 2021)
Episode 271
Today I talked to Nettrice R. Gaskins about Techno-Vernacular Creativity and Innovation: Culturally Relevant Making Inside and Outside of the Classro…
2 years, 10 months ago
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 5: Picturing Race in Colonial Mexico
Episode 5
Race is sometimes treated as a biological fact. It is actually a modern invention. But for this concept to gain power, its logic had to be spread – a…
2 years, 10 months ago
Paul Fisher Davies, "Comics as Communication: A Functional Approach" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019)
Episode 7
Dr. Paul Fisher Davies' book Comics As Communication: A Functional Approach (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019) explores how comics function to make meanings …
2 years, 10 months ago
Amy Matthewson, "Cartooning China: Punch, Power, & Politics in the Victorian Era" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 6
Dr. Amy Matthewson's Cartooning China: Punch, Power, & Politics in the Victorian Era (Routledge, 2022) explores the series of cartoons of China and t…
2 years, 10 months ago
Monica Huerta, "The Unintended: Photography, Property, and the Aesthetics of Racial Capitalism" (NYU Press, 2023)
Episode 358
The end of the nineteenth century saw massive developments and innovations in photography at a time when the forces of Western modernity—industrializ…
2 years, 11 months ago
Rachel Stephens, "Hidden in Plain Sight: Concealing Enslavement in American Visual Culture" (U Arkansas Press, 2023)
Episode 241
In the decades leading up to the Civil War, abolitionists crafted a variety of visual messages about the plight of enslaved people, portraying the vi…
2 years, 11 months ago
Vid Simoniti, "Artists Remake the World: A Contemporary Art Manifesto" (Yale UP, 2023)
Episode 152
Artists Remake the World: A Contemporary Art Manifesto (Yale UP, 2023) puts forward an account of contemporary art’s political ambitions and potentia…
2 years, 11 months ago
Tony Spawforth, "What the Greeks Did for Us" (Yale UP, 2023)
Episode 1384
Our contemporary world is inescapably Greek. Whether in a word like “pandemic,” a Freudian state of mind like the “Oedipus complex,” or a replica of …
2 years, 11 months ago
Peter Bellerby, "The Globemakers: The Curious Story of an Ancient Craft" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Episode 1383
Peter Bellerby is the founder of Bellerby & Co. Globemakers, the world's only truly bespoke makers of globes. His team of skilled craftspeople make e…
2 years, 11 months ago