Critical Nonsense

209! Defining Cool


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What is "cool"? 

This week, Joey and Aaron talk about kinetic energy, Obama, privilege and power, nerds, Blackness, and fish sauce. They don’t talk about Freestyle Fellowship

references 

  • The Joey Sleeps Alone Tonight while Aaron Learns 
  • Damien Rice covering Sia's "Chandelier" 
  • How do you do, fellow kids? (the not-black version) 
  • Wondrium Daily: Why The Word ‘Cool’ Has Stayed Hot For So Long 
  • "I Like to Watch": Drag Queens Trixie Mattel and Katya React to Mean Girls 
  • Hank and John Green 
  • Quartz: How Black Americans have shaped cool globally 
  • Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness 
  • Corrections Department: Big Boi, not 3 Stacks, said "cooler than a polar bear's toenails"
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