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**Rewired Podcast**

Rewired examines HBO’s The Wire from a literary perspective.

Latest Episodes:

The 5 Series: Season 2- Palimpsest Sep 22, 2019

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In this episode, Bailey and Kelly discuss to concept of "palimpsest" in The Wire's Season 2, ep 5.

Works cited:

https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/mediatheory/keywords/palimpsest/

https://books.google.ca/books?id=jmxFl-fbmlwC&pg=PR14&lpg=PR14&dq=palimpsest+literary+metaphor&source=bl&ots=47u3ElyM9S&sig=ACfU3U3sNMxcIcTkfsooCJO3XFFj1cHq2A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiE363g9uLkAhXFo54KHVryCZY4ChDoATACegQICBAB#v=onepage&q=palimpsest%20literary%20metaphor&f=false

https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199544486.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199544486-e-45

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dying-and-rising_deity

The 5 Series: Season 1 May 29, 2019

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In this special series, Bailey and Kelly discuss the fifth episode of each season. In this episode, we discuss Season 1, Episode 5, "The Pager," as relating to the theme of games, play, and childhood.

S2 Ep 10: Theatre of Cruelty and Theatre of the Absurd Jan 20, 2019

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We’ve compared The Wire to literature and to other television shows. Now let’s see how The Wire reflects or evolves conventions of theatre and drama. The Wire traces the evolution of the traditions of “Theatre of Cruelty” into “Theatre of the Absurd.” This is a useful way of thinking when we look at Season 5 as the bizarre outlier of the series.

References:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_of_Cruelty

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_of_the_Absurd

https://www.theatrefolk.com/blog/life-meaningless-theatre-absurd/

ReWired Podcast: Marx vs. Dickens Nov 12, 2018

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Works cited:

Key elements of a “Dickensian” poverty:

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-16184487

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/04/30/ditching-dickensian/

https://dickens.ucsc.edu/resources/faq/poor.html

https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/article/charles-dickens-and-crime

http://dickens.port.ac.uk/crime/

Key elements of a Marxist analysis:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxist_criminology

https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/sociology/crime-and-deviance/marxism-and-crime/

Marx's theory of alienation

http://dickens.port.ac.uk/crime/

https://andrewjenkin.wordpress.com/2012/05/26/to-what-extent-is-the-wire-a-marxist-television-drama/

S2 Ep8: Foucault's Discipline and Punishment in The Wire Aug 21, 2018

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In this episode, Kelly and Bailey review Foucault's theory of post-structuralism, and its relationship to discipline and punishment in The Wire.

Reference text here: https://zulfahmed.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/disciplineandpunish.pdf

S1: The Scourge of Marlo Jul 15, 2018

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This episode was brought to us by a listener request, and we discuss how Marlo imapcts the storyline in The Wire.

S1: Women of The Wire Jul 15, 2018

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In this episode, Bailey and Kelly discuss all the women as leads in The Wire and the role they play: virgin or whore?

S1 Ep 10: Technology in The Wire Jul 15, 2018

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In this episode, we discuss how techonology made it so that The Wire was able to exist in one certain time.

S1, Ep 6: What Was The Deal With Season 5? Jul 09, 2018

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Was Season 5 of The Wire the worst? We discuss.

S2, Ep 7: Pascal's Wager Jul 08, 2018

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In this episode, Kelly and Bailey discuss the theory of Pascal's Wager, and ask, which characters in The Wire choose to believe in something bigger than the systems they're in? Also, it takes Bailey a few minutes to catch on!

Show resources from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_Wager

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