Guest: Amber Billey of Bard College.
First broadcast July 27 2018.
“You make a choice, and you make a change.”
Guest: Amber Billey of Bard College.
First broadcast July 27 2018.
“You make a choice, and you make a change.”
This comic about archaeologists uncovering the secret history of pop culture took Warren Ellis and John Cassaday 10 years to complete. We discuss its interrogation of genre, intellectual property and history, in light of the cyclical nature of the comics industry some 20 years after the project started.
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First broadcast July 20 2018.
“What’s up, McLuhan?”
This Amazon television show is about comedian Tig Notaro dealing with tragedy in her Mississippi hometown. But we discuss how its theme of demystifying the South was partially derailed by the corporate pivoting of its distributor and the sexual misconduct of some of its producers.
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Guests: Dr. Sarah Higinbotham and Bill Taft of The Common Good, and Karen Viars of Georgia Tech.
First broadcast July 13 2018.
“Why a librarian? Why prison?”
This first part in the Jerry Cornelius saga is literary science-fiction that challenges the politics of its time through transgression. But we find eerie parallels to our current zeitgeist and wonder if Cornelius is the perfect device to question our thoughts about subversion and morality.
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“I have a really good shoebox.”
Guest: Todd Wemmer of Endicott College.
First broadcast June 5 2015.
Playlist at http://www.wrek.org/?p=12173
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