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Autotheory
Episode 42
In this episode Kim speaks with Lauren Fournier about autotheory.
Lauren has recently published a book on the subject, titled Autotheory as Feminist P…
4 years, 5 months ago
Elizabeth Oyler and Katherine Saltzman-Li, "Cultural Imprints: War and Memory in the Samurai Age" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Episode 78
Elizabeth Oyler and Katherine Saltzman-Li's book Cultural Imprints: War and Memory in the Samurai Age (Cornell UP, 2022) draws on literary works, art…
4 years, 5 months ago
Mike Watson, "The Memeing of Mark Fisher: How the Frankfurt School Foresaw Capitalist Realism and What to Do about It" (Zero Books, 2021)
Episode 99
Through his blog K-Punk, Mark Fisher become one of the cult figures of cultural theory after the economic crash of 2008. One of Fisher’s insights, wi…
4 years, 5 months ago
Paddy Docherty, "Blood and Bronze: The British Empire and the Sack of Benin" (Hurst, 2022)
Episode 1202
The Benin Bronzes are among the British Museum’s most prized possessions. Celebrated for their great beauty, they embody the history, myth and artist…
4 years, 5 months ago
Sandra Johnston, et al., "Actional Poetics-Ash She He: The Performance Actuations of Alastair MacLennan, 1971-2020" (Intellect, 2022)
Episode 98
A retrospective monograph of Alastair MacLennan’s performance art practice, its influence on the Belfast art scene, and its relationships with wider …
4 years, 5 months ago
Samuel J. Redman, "Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Episode 163
Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology (Harvard UP, 2021) is a searching account of nineteenth-century salvage anthropology, an effor…
4 years, 5 months ago
Glenda E. Gilmore, "Romare Bearden in the Homeland of His Imagination: An Artist's Reckoning with the South" (UNC Press, 2022)
Episode 296
In Romare Bearden in the Homeland of His Imagination: An Artist's Reckoning with the South (UNC Press, 2022), Glenda Gilmore meticulously documents a…
4 years, 5 months ago
The Problem with Museums: A Conversation with Georgina Adam and Nizan Shaked
Episode 97
In the past few years, museums of contemporary art have come under a fair deal of scrutiny. Pressures from groups such as Decoloinise This Space or t…
4 years, 5 months ago
Computational Creativity
Episode 31
Saronik talks to Tuhin Chakrabarty about the creative processes of Artificial Intelligence, what we can expect from it, and how to keep the results f…
4 years, 5 months ago
Mimesis
Episode 29
Kim interviews Alliya Dagman about mimesis.
Alliya references Plato’s Republic and various internet memes, including a John Oliver meme about how Xi J…
4 years, 5 months ago