Guest: Deanna Sirlin
First broadcast April 8 2022.
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“It’s about color more than abstraction.”
Read the transcript in Georgia Tech’s digital repository, SMARTech.
Lost in the Stacks, Episode 516: Artist-In-Residence II
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Episode 464: Data Murmuration
image by Tony Armstrong-Sly
Guest: Ben Fino-Radin of Small Data Industries
First broadcast May 29 2020.
Playlist at https://www.wrek.org/?p=34584
“Through the magic of physics and biology, the bird cloud maintains consensus.”
Lost in the Stacks, Episode 461: Artist in Residence
Guest: Kevin Titzer, Artist
First broadcast March 13, 2020
“I”m more interested in other people’s interpretations, and other people’s stories.”
Supercontext: Absolute Planetary, Volume 1
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.
Interested in the media we discussed this episode? Please support the show by purchasing it through our affiliate store:
- Planetary
- League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Nemo Trilogy
- StormWatch
- Black Summer
- All-Star Superman
- New X-Men
- RED
- Transmetropolitan
- Castlevania
Additional Resources:
- WHY PLANETARY RULES THE WORLD
- The cynical superheroics (and hopeful humanity) of Warren Ellis’ Planetary
- Beautiful and Unique Snowflakes: Warren Ellis’ ‘Planetary’
- ‘PLANETARY’: DIGGING UP THE BONES OF THE GENRE COMIC
- Telling Stories About Storytelling: The Metacomics of Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, and Warren Ellis
Supercontext: Girl In A Band, by Kim Gordon
This memoir by a music icon was expected to be a tell-all about scandal and betrayal. But we discuss how it’s actually about defense mechanisms that give the illusion of cool confidence.
Interested in the media we discussed this episode? Please support the show by purchasing it through our affiliate store:
- Girl in a Band
- 1991: The Year Punk Broke
- Sonic Youth
- The Messthetics
- Motherfucker
- The Purkinje Shift (live)
- Rap Damage
Additional Resources:
- Kim Gordon’s ‘Girl in a Band’
- Mooallem, S. (2015). 60s KIM GORDON. Harper’s Bazaar, 304-307.
- Unconventional Idol: Kim Gordon’s Girl in a Band
- FELSENTHAL, J. (2015). ONE-WOMAN SHOW. Marie Claire (US Edition), 22(3), 226.
- Even Kim Gordon Doesn’t Have It All
- Weiner, J. (2015). Kim Gordon’s New Noise. Rolling Stone, (1230), 18.
- Why Do Women’s Music Memoirs Sell So Erratically?
- Kim Gordon: Girl in a Band
Lost in the Stacks, Episode 313: Data as Packet-Switching Glitch Art
Part 5 of DATA RULES
Guest: Joelle Dietrick of Davidson College.
First broadcast August 5 2016.
“Sometimes I find the most interesting moment in my research is when I have a chance encounter with something I wasn’t expecting.”