Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchStevie Suan, "Anime's Identity: Performativity and Form Beyond Japan" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
Episode 338
A formal approach to anime rethinks globalization and transnationality under neoliberalism Anime has become synonymous with Japanese culture, but its…
3 years, 10 months ago
Geert Lovink, "Sad by Design: On Platform Nihilism" (Pluto Press, 2019)
Episode 93
Why is the internet making us so unhappy? Why is it in capital’s interests to cultivate populations that are depressed and desperate rather than driv…
3 years, 10 months ago
Sam Slote et al., "Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 199
James Joyce's Ulysses is filled with all sorts of references that can get in the way of many of its readers. Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses (Ox…
3 years, 10 months ago
Pamela Karimi, "Alternative Iran: Contemporary Art and Critical Spatial Practice" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Episode 128
Alternative Iran offers a unique contribution to the field of contemporary art, investigating how Iranian artists engage with space and site amid the…
3 years, 10 months ago
Sandra Frimmel, "Art Judgements: Art on Trial in Russia After Perestroika" (Vernon Press, 2021)
Episode 215
Since the turn of the millennium, there has been an unusually large number of court cases against artists and curators in Russia. Focusing on promine…
3 years, 10 months ago
Ariana Huberman. "Keeping the Mystery Alive: Jewish Mysticism in Latin American Cultural Production" (Academic Studies Press, 2022)
Episode 65
Ariana Huberman's Keeping the Mystery Alive: Jewish Mysticism in Latin American Cultural Production (Academic Studies Press, 2022) delves into creati…
3 years, 10 months ago
Tom McLeish, "The Poetry and Music of Science: Comparing Creativity in Science and Art" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 126
What human qualities are needed to make scientific discoveries, and which to make great art? Many would point to 'imagination' and 'creativity' in th…
3 years, 10 months ago
Chokepoint Capitalism: How Chokepoint Capitalism is Strangling Creative Industries
Episode 47
Many of the creative industries look like an hourglass. On the one side, you have creators; on the other, the rest of us. In the middle, Rebecca Gibl…
3 years, 10 months ago
Sean Metzger, "The Chinese Atlantic: Seascapes and the Theatricality of Globalization" (Indiana UP, 2020)
Episode 47
In The Chinese Atlantic: Seascapes and the Theatricality of Globalization (Indiana University Press, 2020), Sean Metzger proposes a new analytical fr…
3 years, 10 months ago
Sean Metzger, "The Chinese Atlantic: Seascapes and the Theatricality of Globalization" (Indiana UP, 2020)
Episode 47
In The Chinese Atlantic: Seascapes and the Theatricality of Globalization (Indiana University Press, 2020), Sean Metzger proposes a new analytical fr…
3 years, 10 months ago