Theory For Turntables (TFT) Podcast

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Episode 14: Cobra Kai Mentality Apr 25, 2010

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Matthew Wrather is joined by guest host Jordan Stokes to overthink Glee: The Power of Madonna, considering the crazy awesome sex montage, gender expectations, the many meanings of virginity, legitimate and illegitimate motives for losing it, the permeable boundary between public and private, the difference between serialization and storytelling, and the nature of identity.

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Episode 14: Cobra Kai Mentality 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 13: Non-Oriented Sexuality Apr 16, 2010

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Ryan Sheely and Matthew Wrather overthink the return of Glee and the latest episode of Gossip Girl, talking about narrative stability and serialization, authenticity and identity, cognitive agenda setting, Jessie St. James, the many meanings of Los Angeles, non-oriented sexuality, the sociology of college admissions, and the relationship of the ruling class to the help.

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Episode 13: Non-Oriented Sexuality 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 12: La Règle du Jeu Apr 08, 2010

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Ryan Sheely and Matthew Wrather review the rules of the game, talking about sublimated violence, the former Soviet Union, and the narrative, political, and sexual games and meta-games in the latest episode of Gossip Girl.

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Episode 12: La Règle du Jeu 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 11: Cattle in the Marketplace Apr 02, 2010

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Ryan Sheely and Matthew Wrather return to examine the intellectual foundations of Gossip Girl, concentrating on Vampire Weekend and mutual appropriation, Columbia as the antithesis to NYU, Blair’s social network, trust & trustworthiness, and the target audience of Gossip Girl.

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Episode 11: Cattle in the Marketplace 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 10: The End of Hipstery Mar 26, 2010

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Ryan Sheely and Matthew Wrather return to examine the intellectual foundations of Gossip Girl (Glee being still on hiatus), discussing the characters’ romantic entanglements, the dramaturgy of missed calls, discursive power, and meaning of virginity, transnationalism and the origins of diplomacy, the myth of the sovereign state, the cultural significance of Europe, and the comforts of elitism.

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Episode 10: The End of Hipstery 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 9: I Consider Concision to be One of My Principal Virtues Dec 18, 2009

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Ryan Sheely and Matthew Wrather consider what Gossip Girl is “about” (as well as the metaphor of aboutness itself) with reference, of course, to The Wire. Also: Are these teenagers really f***ing? (This is a long episode, so strap in.)

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References

The Prisoner’s Dilemma
The Prince, Machiavelli
Writing and Difference, Derrida [Erratum: The essay “Strucutre, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences” is actually collected here, not in Speech and Phenomena. The podcasters sincerely regret the error. —Ed.]
Nausea, Sartre
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, Bloom

Episode 9: I Consider Concision to be One of My Principal Virtues 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 8: Glee: Implications for Behavioral Economics Dec 04, 2009

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Ryan Sheely and Matthew Wrather return from hiatus to overthink Glee and Gossip Girl, with detours into the narratology of farce, middlebrow thinking, irrationality and behavorial economics, consequentialism, and intertextuality.

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Episode 8: Glee: Implications for Behavioral Economics 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 7: OM3 Nov 16, 2009

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Ryan Sheely and Matthew Wrather overthink Gossip Girl and Glee, focusing on Jenny’s debutante ball and Dan/Olivia/Vanessa threesome. As a bonus, you will learn why democracies are richer than dictatorships.

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Episode 7: OM3 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 6: Experimental Noise Collective Nov 05, 2009

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Ryan Sheely and Matthew Wrather alienate and confound the listenership taking their calls, mocking them, and discussing the sociological implications of Gossip Girl and Glee.

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Episode 6: Experimental Noise Collective 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 5: Gossip Girl – Implications for Public Policy Oct 31, 2009

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Ryan Sheely and Matthew Wrather consider the sociological implications of Gossip Girl and Glee, with reference to the political philosophies of Hobbes, Rosseau, and Bentham, the uses of terror, and the interplay of structural institutions and individual agency. Also The Wire.

This is the last episode of TFT that will appear on the main Overthinking It Podcast feed. Make sure you subscribe in iTunes or via RSS.

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Episode 5: Gossip Girl – Implications for Public Policy 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)]