Culturally Determined

By Aryeh Cohen-WadeSociety & Culture News News Commentary Politics

Culturally Determined episodes

June 20, 2018 (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Amanda Mull)
Amanda: Body positivity is a scam ... What causes women to feel badly about their bodies? ... The double-edged sword of looking at bodies on Instagram ... Why Amanda sees her critique as separate from #MeToo ... Why has the fashion world embraced ugly clothes? ... The effect of online shopping on plus-size clothing options ...
47 min
June 20, 2018 Critiquing Body Positivity (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Amanda Mull)
Amanda: Body positivity is a scam ... What causes women to feel badly about their bodies? ... The double-edged sword of looking at bodies on Instagram ... Why Amanda sees her critique as separate from #MeToo ... Why has the fashion world embraced ugly clothes? ... The effect of online shopping on plus-size clothing options ...
1 hr
June 13, 2018 Rethinking Cultural Appropriation, with Connie Wang
Why Connie has grown sick of the cultural appropriation debate ... Nicki Minaj and the flattening of Asian cultures ... How social media escalated the cultural appropriation wars ... Why are these fights so often over fashion and food? ... Appropriation, mockery, and Halloween ... The Met Gala and Catholic-inspired fashion ... Who gets to decide that a particular outfit is "okay"? ...
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40 min
June 13, 2018 Rethinking cultural appropriation (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Connie Wang)
Why Connie has grown sick of the cultural appropriation debate ... Nicki Minaj and the flattening of Asian cultures ... How social media escalated the cultural appropriation wars ... Why are these fights so often over fashion and food? ... Appropriation, mockery, and Halloween ... The Met Gala and Catholic-inspired fashion ... Who gets to decide that a particular outfit is "okay"? ...
40 min
June 13, 2018 Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Connie Wang
Why Connie has grown sick of the cultural appropriation debate ... Nicki Minaj and the flattening of Asian cultures ... How social media escalated the cultural appropriation wars ... Why are these fights so often over fashion and food? ... Appropriation, mockery, and Halloween ... The Met Gala and Catholic-inspired fashion ... Who gets to decide that a particular outfit is "okay"? ...
40 min
June 05, 2018 (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Jason Zinoman)
Jason's new book, Letterman: The Last Giant of Late Night ... Letterman's influences: Carson, Allen, and Paar ... Letterman as a postmodern figure ... Looking at Letterman and women through the lens of #MeToo ... Letterman's self-hatred and depression ... How the show changed on CBS and the war with Leno ... Late-period Late Show, a bizarre place to work ... Jason: Letterman helped normalize Donald Trump ...
1 hr 1 min
June 05, 2018 Letterman: The Last Giant of Late Night (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Jason Zinoman)
Jason's new book, Letterman: The Last Giant of Late Night ... Letterman's influences: Carson, Allen, and Paar ... Letterman as a postmodern figure ... Looking at Letterman and women through the lens of #MeToo ... Letterman's self-hatred and depression ... How the show changed on CBS and the war with Leno ... Late-period Late Show, a bizarre place to work ... Jason: Letterman helped normalize Donald Trump ...
1 hr
May 31, 2018 Remembering Philip Roth (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Phoebe Maltz Bovy)
Remembering Philip Roth ... Phoebe on Roth's depictions of Jewish women ... Where did Roth end and his characters begin? ... How Roth helped American Jews assimilate ... If you haven't read Roth, here's where to start ... Where is Jordan Peterson going? ... Order, chaos, gender, and being told to clean your room ...
1 hr
May 31, 2018 Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Phoebe Maltz Bovy
Remembering Philip Roth ... Phoebe on Roth's depictions of Jewish women ... Where did Roth end and his characters begin? ... How Roth helped American Jews assimilate ... If you haven't read Roth, here's where to start ... Where is Jordan Peterson going? ... Order, chaos, gender, and being told to clean your room ...
1 hr
May 27, 2018 Space Odyssey, with Michael Benson
Michael's new book Space Odyssey, about the film 2001 ... The quest to make the "first good science fiction film" ... The remarkable development of the Dawn of Man sequence ... The fiction and fact of HAL 9000 ... The trippy "Stargate" sequence ... Why the movie's premiere was an utter disaster ... Is the film supposed to be boring? ... 2001's legacy ...
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1 hr 4 min