Blatant Misreading

This week we ask: who would win in a car race, Vin Diesel or James Joyce?

That’s right, in this episode we explore the implications of modernist conceptions of automobiles in the Fate of the Furious, the eighth movie in the Fast and Furious universe. To really prove our car know-how, we also offer advice to a distressed listener with car troubles.

It's Disney's socially conscious animated flick! We're analyzing Zootopia with Kimberle Crenshaw's Theory of Intersectionality.

What is this movie about? Is it really crucial dialogue, or does it make no sense at all? Why does Judy insist on being a cop? Why hasn't Shakira starred in another Disney movie yet??

In this episode we discuss Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" and Season 5 Episode 1 of Queer Eye. We first take a look at an interpretation the cave as a description of queer representation in media versus actual modern day queer spaces and dialogues. Then we discuss in more detail the episode of Queer Eye which centers around a gay evangelical christian pastor and how him and the “fab five” are represented. We eat cornbread in celebration of the pastor’s southern roots and joke about how the fab five are teaching him to be a better proselytizer.

On this episode we're looking at the anime Aggretsuko with Virginia Woolf's seminal feminist essay "A Room of One's Own."

Is Retsuko, the titular red panda, a prime example of a Woolf's ideas? Has having a room of her own helped her to succeed? What discrimination does she still face as a woman in her workplace and day to day life? Why did we forget to order soba for this episode and then day drink as a result? Answers await...

Today we're analyzing the world of Willy Wonka with Gayatri Spivak's postcolonial essay "Can the Subaltern Speak?" We'll be discussing both the 1971 and the 2005 films, as well as peppering in some mentions of the book.

What's the relationship between Willy Wonka and the Oompa Loompas? Is Wonka paying them for their labor? Can the Western and global proletariat ever understand each other? What would a podcast hosted by Oompa Loompas be like? When did Tim Burton start phoning it in and making bad movies? We discuss all this....and more!

Today we will be analyzing Season 5, Episode 22 of Seinfeld, "The Opposite", with Michael Allingham's book A Very Short Introduction to Choice Theory. Joining as a guest for this episode is Blatant Misreading's very own producer, Josie Baker.

Why is George Costanza's life so bad? Why is Elaine Benes' so good? Why is Jerry always coasting, and how does Kramer even stay alive? You'll just have to listen to find out!