Episode 5: Reading Lisa Ruddick's "When Nothing is Cool"
Phil and JF do their best to weird the cultural politics of the postmodern academy.
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Show Notes
Phil and JF discuss Lisa Ruddick's "When Nothing is Cool," an essay on the postmodern humanities and its allergy to essences -- especially that personal essence we call soul. Maybe the soul is a heap of miscellaneous notions and influences that I paint a face onto and then call "me." Or maybe there is something under that painted effigy of the self. If so, what? And if there's nothing under there, could it be a nothing that delivers?
WORKS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE
Lisa Ruddick, "When Nothing is Cool"
Elizabeth Gilbert, "Your Elusive Creative Genius"
Judith Halberstam, "Skinflick: Posthuman Gender in Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs"
Daniel Chua (the musicologist whose name Phil couldn't remember)
Brett Easton Ellis, American Psycho
Mary Harron, American Psycho (film)
David Lynch, Twin Peaks: The Return
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