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Guests: Simon Bowie, Kevin Sanders, and Emily Nunn
First broadcast February 28 2020.
“Perhaps academia could “get a free thing going.”
Lost in the Stacks, Episode 460: Open as a Process
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Monthly Archives: February 2020
Supercontext: Paper Girls
This comic book series by Brian K. Vaughan and artist Cliff Chiang started in 2015 as a story about four preteen girls coming of age in the 80s. We look into how the creators produced the comic while examining their skepticism of nostalgia in a post-Stranger-Things world.
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Additional Resources:
- Brian K. Vaughan Talks Saga, Paper Girls, and Why We’ll Never Get That Lying Cat Series
- Meet Brian K. Vaughan: The Comic Book Visionary Behind ‘Y: The Last Man’
- You all should be reading Brian K. Vaughan’s ‘Paper Girls’ comic series now
- Paper Girls Is the Perfect Comic for Your ’80s Nostalgia Trip
- ‘Paper Girls’ Graphic Novel Adaptation From Legendary TV & Plan B Gets Amazon Series Commitment
- The Paper Girls and the Alien Invaders
- Asian American Creatives Behind 3 Top-Selling Graphic Novels Of 2018
- Kids On Bikes: The Sci-Fi Nostalgia Of ‘Stranger Things’, ‘Paper Girls’ & ‘Super 8’
- Paper Girls’ Vaughan & Chiang On the Series’ Past, Present and Future
- “It’s Not A Slam-Bang-Action-So-Quiet”: An Interview with Cliff Chiang and Brian K. Vaughan
- NYCC ’19: PAPER GIRLS creators take victory lap, discuss series
Lost in the Stacks, Episode 459: From Embedded To Rooted
First broadcast February 21 2020.
“Where would we be without library jargon?”
Supercontext: I Cut The Big Five From My Life
This 2019 series of Gizmodo articles and videos by Kashmir Hill look into how difficult it actually is to stop using The Stacks: Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft. We place Hill’s research within our larger understanding of Big Tech and media literacy while listening to arguments for tech regulation or simply scaling back.
Additional Resources:
- https://muckrack.com/kashhill
- I Cut the Big Five Tech Giants From My Life. It Was Hell.
- I Tried to Block Amazon From My Life. It Was Impossible.
- I Cut Facebook Out of My Life. Surprisingly, I Missed It
- I Cut Google Out of My Life. It Screwed Up Everything.
- I Cut Microsoft Out of My Life –– Or So I Thought
- I Cut Apple Out of My Life. It Was Devastating.
- Unplugging From Big Tech is Harder Than You Think
- It’s almost impossible to function without the big five tech giants
- How to block Big Tech with Kashmir Hill: podcast and transcript
- https://www.nytimes.com/by/kashmir-hill
Lost in the Stacks, Episode 458: Multimodal Information Literacy
First broadcast February 14 2020.
Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/2020/02/playlist-for-lost-in-the-stacks-from-friday-february-14th-multimodal-information-literacy-episode-458/
“Finding that subtext inside of which way an arrow’s pointing in the graph.”
Supercontext: Lone Wolf and Cub
This epic 1970s manga series is celebrated for its influence on other stories. We look at the conditions that produced it and how the comic represents Japanese history, revenge, gender, and the irredeemable hero on the road to Hell.
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Additional Resources:
- ‘Lone Wolf and Cub’: Japan’s greatest samurai manga?
- The untold truth of Lone Wolf and Cub Read More
- Lone Wolf and Cub Part 1: History and Influences
- Lone Wolf and Cub Part 2: Revenge in the Epic Narrative Tradition
- Lone Wolf and Cub Part 3: Artwork and Swordplay
- Lone Wolf and Cub Part 4: Ogami Itto and the Rejection of Bushido
- Lone Wolf and Cub Part 6: Cloud Dragon, Wind Tiger
- If You Are Patient Like a Samurai, Kazuo Koike’s ‘Lone Wolf and Cub’ Will Reward You
- Transcultural Reinterpretation of the ‘Lone Wolf and Cub’ Narrative
- Kazuo Koike, 1936-2019
- An Expanded Look at Lone Wolf and Cub: The First arc – Meifumado
Lost in the Stacks, Episode 457: Libraries as Convivial Spaces
Guest: Oscar Gittemeier of the Fulton County Library System and Sandjar Kozubaev of Georgia Tech.
First broadcast February 7 2020.
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“I’ve recently learned from our guests that the word convivial has a different interpretation than what I thought.”
Supercontext: Fly By Night
This 1975 rock album began to define Rush’s identity after the late Neil Peart joined the band on drums and lyrics. We look at how they treated their band as a business to try to understand the particular blend of instrument solos and libertarian ideology that later defined them.
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Additional Resources:
- Rush Dedicates Newest Album To Rod Serling
- Rush: The Complete Album-by-Album Guide
- The History Of Rush by Geddy Lee & Alex Lifeson: The Early Years
- Men At Work By Paul Elliott
- Rush-BTO’s Heavy Metal Challengers
- Success Under Pressure
- https://rush.fandom.com/wiki/Fly_by_Night_(Album)
- Rush: ‘You have no freedom. You do what you’re told to do. By the socialists’
- Flohil, R. (1975.) Rush: living the rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle. The Canadian Composer (97).