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Over The Wire PodcastThe Long Farewell to Majority Rule? (w/ Joshua Tait) Podcast: Know Your Enemy (LS 61 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: The Long Farewell to Majority Rule? (w/ Joshua Tait)Pub date: 2021-05-18Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:A conversation about the intellectual origins of the American Right's hostility to democracy—from John C. Calhoun's invention of the filibuster in the 19th century, to the mid-20th-century writings of conservatives like Russell Kirk, James Burnham, and Willmoore Kendall.Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn this follow-up episode to "Democracy and I...
2021-05-271h 26
Know Your EnemyThe Long Farewell to Majority Rule? (w/ Joshua Tait)In this follow-up episode to "Democracy and Its Discontents" (listen here), historian Joshua Tait joins Matt and Sam for a conversation about the intellectual origins of the American Right's hostility to democracy—from John C. Calhoun's invention of the filibuster in the nineteenth century to the writings of conservatives like Russell Kirk, James Burnham, Willmoore Kendall, and others, in the 1950s and '60s. Sources and Further Reading:Adam Jentleson, Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy (Liveright Books, January 2021)James Burnham, Congress and the American Tra...
2021-05-181h 26
The IconocastGregory UlmerDr. Gregory Ulmer is a prolific scholar whose ideas and works intriguingly look at the roles and understandings of philosophy and pedagogy alongside our technological developments. His concept of electracy entails significant consideration as a framework, and the production exercises established with his theories look to fruitfully apply his notions. He is currently Professor Emeritus with the Department of English at University of Florida, and his multiple publications include Internet Invention: From Literacy to Electracy (2003), Avatar Emergency (2012), and Konsult: Theopraxesis (2019).
2021-04-261h 26
The IconocastDr. Barbara ForrestDr. Barbara Forrest is a scholar whose intellectual encounters have morally and rhetorically responded to some of the most challenging humanist opponents in the past few decades. Principally known for her arguments against teaching Intelligent Design in public schools with her book Creationism’s Trojan Horse, Dr. Forrest’s works and presentations have been featured across many publications and mediums. She is currently a retired Professor of Philosophy from the Department of History and Political Science at Southeastern Louisiana University.
2021-03-271h 12The IconocastJ. Edward OsborneDr. Jonathan Edward Osborne is a scholar of rhetoric whose work explores the nuances of argument and propaganda and persuasion within the U.S. social/political arena. With publications on composition and rhetoric, many of his projects uniquely focus on African American Rhetoric. Dr. Osborne is currently an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric with the Louisiana State University English Department.
2021-03-221h 05
The IconocastRoopika RisamDr. Roopika Risam is a scholar and advocate in the digital humanities, challenging the current inclinations of the cultural record and its production and access. Her latest published book, New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy, has become a catalyst for social and academic reflection, and in all of her work, she passionately and analytically encourages a discussion of the origin of the humanities, where we currently reside within the record, and how we can move forward with it as earnest stewards. Directing many critical studies and digital production projects, Dr. Risam is currently an...
2021-03-101h 00
The IconocastMarianna KunowDr. Marianna Kunow is an ethnographer/ethnobotanist who has studied the culture and traditions of the modern Maya people and their medicinal uses of nature in the surrounding area. Her work in Yucatan, Mexico, produced the published book Maya Medicine: Traditional Healing in Yucatan, which intimately details a sample of curers, plants and herbs, and social structures through expertly conscious text and rendered sketches. Dr. Kunow teaches Spanish and mythology with the Department of World Languages and Cultures at Southeastern Louisiana University.
2021-03-1057 min
The IconocastNicole SimekDr. Nicole Simek is a francophone and French Caribbean literary scholar whose work has examined the shared relationship of the political and artistic identities of those writers and peoples alike. She has further explored and challenged the ideas of those identities and how they are situated and interpreted, with a notable familiarity with Maryse Conde that even features Dr. Simek interpreting one of Conde’s novels, The Belle Creole. Her other published works include Hunger and Irony in the French Caribbean: Literature, Theory, and Public Life and Eating Well, Reading Well: Maryse Condé and the Ethics of Interpretation.
2021-02-231h 05
The IconocastDavid ArmandA novelist and poet whose narratives come from the shape of his personal experiences in an impressionistic Deep South where the trappings of tradition and an intrinsic yearning for more meet each other at every corner, David Armand’s works include The Pugilist's Wife (2010 George Garrett Fiction Prize), My Mother's House, a memoir, and his latest release The Lord's Acre. He is from and resides in Louisiana where he is the Undergraduate Coordinator and fiction workshop instructor at Southeastern Louisiana University.
2021-02-121h 10
The IconocastLinda WoolvertonKnown for her work with Walt Disney Studios which include Beauty and the Beast (1991), The Lion King (1994), Alice in Wonderland (2010), Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016), Maleficent (2014), and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019), acclaimed screenwriter/playwright/novelist Linda Woolverton shares her artistic and professional perspective on writing within multiple genres for multiple audiences.
2021-01-3150 min