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Liberal Arts the PodcastMythical Norms and Dangerous FantasiesNichole and Drew discuss Audre Lorde's paper "Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefined Difference" delivered at Amherst College in 1980.
2021-11-271h 36
Liberal Arts the PodcastWWBD... What Would Benjamin Do?In this episode, Nichole and Drew literally tackle the last part of Benjamin's art essay.
2021-08-221h 08Liberal Arts the PodcastMeet Me in Manhattan CourtIn this episode, Nichole and Drew continue with their discussion of Benjamin's essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction."
Adorno's response to Benjamin's essay in the New Left Review
Benjamin's Author as Producer
Patricia Leighton's The White Peril and L'art Nègre: Picasso, Primitivism, and Anticolonialism
2021-08-081h 10Liberal Arts the PodcastThe Tea Must Be Ginger Because It's SpicyIn this episode, Nichole and Drew tackle the first half of Walter Benjamin's infamous essay-- "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (1935). Be prepared to inhale some Marxism!
Modernism Lab -- introduction to the essay
2021-06-121h 44Liberal Arts the PodcastThe ArchitectIn this episode, Nichole and Drew join Molly in discussing a paper she wrote way back in 2019 about social media and revolutions.
2021-04-091h 30Liberal Arts the PodcastIs She Wrong Though?In this episode, Nichole and Drew conclude discussing the life and times of Susan Sontag, meeting, along the way, some very controversial topics.
Sontag's comments regarding 9/11 to the New Yorker
Sontag: Her Life and Work (2019) by Benjamin Moser
Reborn, Early Diaries 1947-1963 by Susan Sontag
2021-03-051h 23Liberal Arts the PodcastCamp... You Just Know What It IsIn this episode (the first of two about Susan Sontag), Nichole and Drew discuss Sontag's early years, college life, and her rise to popularity--as well as all the troubles she experienced along the way.
Reborn, Early Diaries 1947-1963 (first of a trilogy of her diary entries)
Sontag: Her Life and Work (2019) by Benjamin Moser
2021-02-241h 07Liberal Arts the PodcastEach Man Kills the Thing He LovesIn this episode, Nichole and Drew recount the tragic fate of Oscar Wilde brought upon by scandalous criminal accusations and resultant legal proceedings.
Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde
Famous Trials, Professor Douglas O. Linder
Oscar Wilde, a biography by Richard Ellmann
2021-02-051h 01Liberal Arts the PodcastI Find It Harder and Harder to Live Up to My Blue ChinaIn this episode, Nichole and Drew talk about the life of Oscar Wilde leading up to his trials for gross indecency.
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Links to things referenced in the episode:
Magdalen College, Oxford University (Oscar's hard to spell and pronounce alma mater)
The Portrait of Mr. W. H. (Oscar's story about a theory that Shakespeare's romantically charged sonnets are actually about a young man)
Cyril Holland (Oscar's son, whose name Drew forgot)
Willie Wilde (Oscar's brother, whose name Drew forgot)
2021-01-241h 01Liberal Arts the PodcastI Just Don't KnowNichole and Drew discuss the history of art with their friend Mack, who reads an excerpt from an essay she wrote about Julie Mehretu's works and their relation to technology and politics.
Links to mentioned art by Mehretu:
Stadia II
Conjured Parts
Mural (Goldman Sachs)
2020-12-231h 20Liberal Arts the PodcastWe Don't Know If Warren Buffet was an English MajorHe wasn't...
Nichole and Drew discuss majors and majoring at a liberal arts college and at college in general.
2020-11-291h 36Liberal Arts the PodcastDo You Want to Go to Mars?Nichole and Drew are joined by their friend Ari, who reads excerpts from a paper she wrote for a geology class about space.
2020-11-1447 minLiberal Arts the PodcastI Did It AnywayNichole and Drew take on housing, specifically dorm life at a small liberal arts college.
2020-11-061h 08Liberal Arts the PodcastIn Order to Grow, You Need to KnowNichole and Drew invite their friend Grace to discuss a fascinating paper she wrote on achatina fulica, a.k.a. snails known for being powerhouses of mucus production.
2020-10-2024 minLiberal Arts the PodcastLet there be... Liberal ArtsNichole and Drew welcome you to Liberal Arts, the Podcast.
2020-10-0903 min