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Demond DoesSuperpowers, Supernatural Reads, and 6Q w/poet and activist LindoThis week, I'm diving into fresh reads and animated adventures. (1:03) I just wrapped Blood at the Root—not flawless, but compelling enough that I’m on board for the sequel later this year. I’ve also started A Blade So Black by LL McKinney, described as Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Alice in Wonderland—and yes, it’s as intriguing as it sounds.On the screen side, Iyanu is the new animated superhero series to keep an eye on. Set in the richly imagined Yorubaland, it blends Nigerian culture, mythology, and music with an Avatar: The Last Airbender...2025-04-1825 min
The Culture & Technology PodcastAlice Bucknell: Ways of WorldingThe politics and poetics of building worlds
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Alice Bucknell (she, they) is an artist and writer based in Los Angeles. Working with game engines and speculative fiction, their practice examines interconnections of architecture, ecology, magic, and nonhuman and machine intelligence. https://alicebucknell.com/
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Severin Matusek is a cultural theorist and founder of co—matter, a creative studio exploring the cultural and societal impact of new technologies.
IDEAS AND PEOPLE IN CONTEXT
E-Z Kryptobuild is a work of speculative fiction that responds to architecture’s role in producing systems of global inequity and the...2024-09-0543 min
Silent GenerationEp. 8: Silicon Valley Aesthetics w/ RafaThis week the boys are joined by their personal friend and the pod’s first ever guest, Rafa, a Palo Alto native and Chicago transplant. They begin by examining the aesthetics of individual FAANG companies (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Google) before examining the tech industry and silicon valley as a whole. Amongst other things they discuss skeuomorphism, Corporate Memphis, the Clear Craze, the Thompson Center, BART’s Silicon Valley Extension, blobitecture, and the philanthropic pursuits of billionaires.
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Corporate Memphis
Silicon Valley has a Sustainability Crisis by Alice Bucknell
Bubble Vision by Hito St...2024-01-221h 59
Second Sunday Readingsep. 0423: Rebecca Evans, Matthew Thorburn, and Sarah Ghazal Ali
Rebecca Evans is a memoirist, poet, and essayist with two MFAs: one in creative nonfiction and the other in poetry from Sierra Nevada University. She teaches creative nonfiction at Boise State University. In addition to writing, she mentors high school girls in the juvenile system and teaches poetry for those in recovery. She also co-hosts the radio program, Writer to Writer. Rebecca is a disabled and decorated war veteran, a Jew, a gardener, a mother, a worrier, and more. She carries a passion for sharing difficult stories about vulnerability, woven with mysticism. She lives in Idaho with...2023-04-1055 min
Swizz Art BizArtist Alice Bucknell on the near-future, capitalism, and NFTsAlice Bucknell is a North American digital artist based in London. She focuses her work around the topics of architecture, cryptocurrencies, the environment, and capitalism. Bucknell recently showed her piece “Swamp City” in Zurich which was also part of the Venice Biennale for Architecture this year. In this latest Swizz Art Biz podcast what motivates her work, why she went from being an art and architecture critic to becoming a digital video artist, why she boycotts the Ethereum blockchain, and how NFTs can make a difference. 2021-11-2651 min
LIVE! From City LightsChet'la Sebree in Conversation with Dantiel W. MonizChet'la Sebree in conversation with Dantiel W. Moniz, celebrating the release of Chet'la Sebree's new book, "Field Study," published by FSG Originals. This event was originally broadcast via Zoom and hosted by Josiah Luis Alderete.
You can purchase copies of "Field Study" directly from City Lights here: https://citylights.com/general-poetry/field-study/
Chet'la Sebree is the director of the Stadler Center for Poetry and Literary Arts at Bucknell University and the author of "Mistress," winner of the 2018 New Issues Poetry Prize and nominated for a 2020 NAACP Image Award. She earned an MFA in creative writing, with a focus in poetry...2021-10-2954 min
AQNB's Artist Statement podcastEpisode 30: Mystical Services with Alice Bucknell (Teaser)See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnbIn this episode Jared speaks with Alice Bucknell, an artist and writer whose video work using game engines explores topics spanning big tech mythologies and magic, ecology, architecture and AI.Raised in Florida and now based in London, Alice’s works have been exhibited by Ars Electronica with König Galerie, the Venice Architecture Biennale, and White Cube, with texts written for Flash Art, Mousse, Whitechapel’s Documents of Contemporary Art series and more.Alice also runs New Mystics, an experimental publishing platform that examines the l...2021-08-1906 min
Bubble and SqueakBlack LivesPart one: Aeryka Harvey, the host of Brown Suga Diaries.
Part two: Peterson Toscano asks 500 people to imagine a world without Fossil Fuels.
Part three: a Sound Slice from a 2014 Black Lives Matters worship service in NYC. Reading of Ephesians 6:10-13 Beautifully interpreted by Dean Yvette Wilson
Bubble&Squeak is a podcast with uncanny sounds, funny interludes, and stories—most weird, many true. Created by Peterson Toscano and for his Dr Carol Wayne White, who helps Peterson encounter all that is seen and unseen.
Our theme song is Worthless by The Jellyrox from the Bang & Whimper album. You also heard Pi...2020-07-0315 min
WRBH Reading Radio Original Programming PodcastsFigure of Speech: Dr. Nicole Cooley in Conversation with Henry GoldkampDr. Nicole Cooley reads and shares stories about her work in this episode hosted by Henry Goldkamp. Originally aired on May 11th 2019.
NICOLE COOLEY grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her most recent books are two poetry collections, Girl after Girl after Girl (Louisiana State University Press, 2017) and Of Marriage(Alice James Books, 2018). She has published four other collections of poems, Breach, Milk Dress, The Afflicted Girls and Resurrection, as well as a novel, Judy Garland, Ginger Love, a chapbook, Frozen Charlottes, A Sequence, and a collaborative artists’ book (with book artist Maureen Cummins), Salem Lessons.
Her awards include The Wa...2019-05-1426 min
Scottish Poetry Library PodcastShara McCallumIn this podcast Jennifer Williams speaks to Jamaican-born, American-based poet Shara McCallum about her new Robert Burns poetry project which brought her to Scotland for a research visit; the lyric self; female and minority voices in poetry and much more.
With thanks to James Iremonger for the music in this podcast. https://jamesiremonger.wordpress.com/tabla/
SHARA MCCALLUM http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/shara-mccallum
Originally from Jamaica, Shara McCallum is the author of five books of poetry: Madwoman (forthcoming fall 2016, Alice James Books, US; spring 2017, Peepal Tree Press, UK); The Face of Water: New and Selected Poems...2016-06-3047 min