Theory For Turntables (TFT) Podcast

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Episode 24: Vengeance Is Mine! Jul 15, 2010

Show notes

Stokes and Wrather finish out Skins Series 1, beginning with listener feedback and continuing through the Michelle, Effy, and finale episodes, touching on the nature of Tony’s advances toward Maxxie, the gendered aspects of American swearing, Tony as artist, the limits of his artistry and control, the horrifying spectre of sexual violence, some good reasons to get religion, and the many meanings of the truck.

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References

Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

Episode 24: Vengeance Is Mine! originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Episode 23: Heaven is Other People Jul 03, 2010

Show notes

Ryan Sheely and Matthew Wrather, on hiatus from Gossip Girl and Glee, discuss Skins Series 1, episodes 5 and 6, focusing on the 20th century social history of coming of age stories, E4 and Sixth Form, false autonomy, Soviet and post-Soviet Russia, the social institutions of liberal democracies, realist and transnational views of the international system, and child brides.

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References

Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison

The Gossip, Standing in the Way of Control

Lucy Walker (dir.), Devil’s Playground

Steven Mazie, Consenting Adults? Amish Rumspringa and the Quandry of Exit in Liberalism

The Hold Steady, Heaven Is Whenever

Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers

John Gerard Ruggie, Constructing the World Polity: Essays on International Institutionalisation

Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

Christopher Morris, Four Lions

Episode 23: Heaven is Other People originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Episode 22: Thin Crust Pizza Jun 24, 2010

Show notes

Ryan Sheely, Jordan Stokes, and Matthew Wrather continue TFT Summer School, discussing Skins series 1 episodes 3 and 4, focusing on sex, drugs, and hip-hop, with occasional digressions back into Glee and Gossip Girl.

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References

Jean-Luc Godard, Cahiers du Cinéma: The 1950s: Neo-Realism, Hollywood, New Wave and Breathless and Everything Else

“Postmodernism is like a thin-crust pizza.” from Semiotic Development of Youth Anti-Litter Campaigns

Jean Renoir, Grand Illusion and The Rules of the Game

Jacques Derrida, “Structure Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences” in Writing and Difference

Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction, Vol. 2: The Use of Pleasure, and Vol. 3: The Care of the Self

Yung Joc, Hustlenomics

John Coltrane, Giant Steps (Though it doesn’t have the cover I remember, it’s a fantastic album and you should buy it.)

Episode 22: Thin Crust Pizza originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Episode 21: After School Commons Jun 18, 2010

Show notes

Ryan Sheely, Jordan Stokes, and Matthew Wrather begin TFT Summer School by starting on British TV series Skins, covering Series 1, episodes 1 and 2, including: race, class, Britain and America; accents; Tony’s political style; art and audience; the moral responsibility of art; and (shock!) The Wire.

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References

Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

Chester I. Barnard, The Functions of the Executive

Neil LaBute, The Shape of Things: The Play and The Movie

Zadie Smith, White Teeth: A Novel

Slate Magazine, My Dad Lives in a Downtown Hotel: The Subtle Brilliance of After School Specials

Harmony Korine: Kids, Gummo, and The Trash Humpers

Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs Du Mal

Aristotle, Poetics

Karl Marx and Frederich Engels, The Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx, Das Kapital: Volume 1 and Volume 2

Episode 21: After School Commons originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Episode 20: Pointillist Causality Jun 10, 2010

Show notes

Ryan Sheely (skyping live from Nanyuki, Kenya 0°01′N 37°04′E) is joined by Jordan Stokes and Matthew Wrather to overthink the season finale of Glee, touching on Kenyan politics, nostalgia and repetition, virginity and sexual initiation, Marx Lite, love as a battlefield, Bohemian Rhapsody, and pointillist causality.

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References

KTN Kenya

Nakumatt

Jeff Koinage

Heraclitus of Ephesus

Nick Clegg

Marx Lite

Chariman Mao, Quotations

Queen, Bohemian Rhapsody

Queen Music Videos, Part 1 & Part 2

Elliot Fratkin, When Nomads Settle

James Scott, The Art of Not Being Governed

Episode 20: Pointillist Causality originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Episode 19: Ought White Boy to Play That Funky Music? Jun 05, 2010

Show notes

Matthew Wrather is joined by Jordan Stokes to overthink the funk episode of Glee. Topics covered including the re-Africanization of popular music, music as a mark of group membership, otherness and identity, the unwed mothership connection, territory, class and crappy jobs, and the instrumental value of sexual agression.

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Recommended Reading

Arthur Bartow, Training of the American Actor

Parliament, Chocolate City

Slavoj Zizek, “The depraved heroes of 24 are the Himmlers of Hollywood” (The Guardian, Jan 10 2006)

Episode 19: Ought White Boy to Play That Funky Music? originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Episode 18: Shatter May 28, 2010

Show notes

Sheely and Wrather discuss Gossip Girl and Glee, touching on listener feedback, shipperdom, set theory, technology, the meaning of Gaga, and Rachel’s mama drama.

(We’re still figuring out what to do when Glee goes on hiatus. Email us your thoughts about what we should do with the show over the summer.)

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Recommended Reading

Samuel Beckett, Krapp’s Last Tape

Overthinking It Podcast, Lost Supplement: Unplugging the Island

David Simon, et al., The Wire, Season 2

Urban Dictionary, “Shipper”

Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste

Wikipedia, “Set Theory”

Kid Cudi, Kanye West and Common: Make Her Say (Poke Her Face)

Episode 18: Shatter originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Episode 17: The Cremaster Field (or, Chuck Dies) May 20, 2010

Show notes

Ryan Sheely and Matthew Wrather overthink the season finale of Gossip Girl and the Joss Whedon/Neil Patrick Harris episode of Glee, focusing on self-overhearing, homosociality, intersubjectivitiy, projective identification, the Cremaster cycle, an Empire State Building of Mind, cell phones, virtual social gestures, the Wire Season 5, Dr. Dunbar and his number, and what you’re going to do on your summer vacation.

(Email us your thoughts about what we should do with the show over the summer.)

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Recommended Reading

Harold Bloom, Shakespeare: The Reinvention of the Human

Melanie Klein, Envy and Gratitude

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire

Matthew Barney, The Cremaster Cycle

David Simon, et al., The Wire, Season 5

R. I. M. Dunbar, Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language

“New David Simon Project To Investigate Happy, Upper-Middle-Class Streets Of Wilmette, IL”, The Onion, 46.19 (May 15, 2010)

Episode 17: The Cremaster Field (or, Chuck Dies) originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Episode 16: Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out May 14, 2010

Show notes

Ryan Sheely and Matthew Wrather consider the latest episodes of Gossip Girl and Glee, focusing on the obligations of rulership, the selectorate, opting out of the social order, the wheel of fortune, and inter- vs. intra-subjective conceptions of the self.

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Recommended Reading

On the Selectorate Theory: Bueno de Mesquita et al., The Logic of Political Survival

On Social Constraints on Rulers: Chester Barnard, The Functions of the Executive

On Opting Out: Albert Hirschman, Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States

On Misreading: Harold Bloom, The Anxiety of Influence and A Map of Misreading: With a New Preface

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Episode 16: Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Episode 15: Santorum Apr 30, 2010

Show notes

Ryan Sheely returns with Matthew Wrather to overthink Glee and Gossip Girl, including Glee’s Parent Trap plot, Santorum, lack of thematic unity, the difference between explanation and rationalization, and what can and can’t break up a happy couple. Bonus coinage of jargon: “Doin’ it on the deuce!”

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Episode 15: Santorum originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

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