Liberal Arts the Podcast

By Nichole Almanzar and Drew Cunningham

Nichole and Drew invite guests who have studied the liberal arts to revisit written work, such as essays and lab reports, which they completed while in college. After having read excerpts of their wor... more

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The podcast currently has 15 episodes available.

Liberal Arts the Podcast episodes:

November 27, 2021 Mythical Norms and Dangerous Fantasies
Nichole and Drew discuss Audre Lorde's paper "Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefined Difference" delivered at Amherst College in 1980.
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1h 37min
August 22, 2021 WWBD... What Would Benjamin Do?
In this episode, Nichole and Drew literally tackle the last part of Benjamin's art essay.
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1h 9min
August 08, 2021Meet Me in Manhattan Court
In this episode, Nichole and Drew continue with their discussion of Benjamin's essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction."
Adorno's response to Benjamin's essay in the New Left Review

Benjamin's Author as Producer

Patricia Leighton's The White Peril and L'art Nègre: Picasso, Primitivism, and Anticolonialism
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1h 11min
June 12, 2021 The Tea Must Be Ginger Because It's Spicy
In this episode, Nichole and Drew tackle the first half of Walter Benjamin's infamous essay-- "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (1935). Be prepared to inhale some Marxism!

Modernism Lab -- introduction to the essay
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1h 45min
April 09, 2021 The Architect
In this episode, Nichole and Drew join Molly in discussing a paper she wrote way back in 2019 about social media and revolutions.
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1h 31min
March 05, 2021Is She Wrong Though?
In this episode, Nichole and Drew conclude discussing the life and times of Susan Sontag, meeting, along the way, some very controversial topics.
Sontag's comments regarding 9/11 to the New Yorker

Sontag: Her Life and Work (2019) by Benjamin Moser

Reborn, Early Diaries 1947-1963 by Susan Sontag
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1h 24min
February 24, 2021Camp... You Just Know What It Is
In this episode (the first of two about Susan Sontag), Nichole and Drew discuss Sontag's early years, college life, and her rise to popularity--as well as all the troubles she experienced along the way.
Reborn, Early Diaries 1947-1963 (first of a trilogy of her diary entries)

Sontag: Her Life and Work (2019) by Benjamin Moser
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1h 8min
February 05, 2021Each Man Kills the Thing He Loves
In this episode, Nichole and Drew recount the tragic fate of Oscar Wilde brought upon by scandalous criminal accusations and resultant legal proceedings.
Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

Famous Trials, Professor Douglas O. Linder

Oscar Wilde, a biography by Richard Ellmann
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1h 2min
January 24, 2021I Find It Harder and Harder to Live Up to My Blue China
In this episode, Nichole and Drew talk about the life of Oscar Wilde leading up to his trials for gross indecency.
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Links to things referenced in the episode:
Magdalen College, Oxford University (Oscar's hard to spell and pronounce alma mater)

The Portrait of Mr. W. H. (Oscar's story about a theory that Shakespeare's romantically charged sonnets are actually about a young man)

Cyril Holland (Oscar's son, whose name Drew forgot)

Willie Wilde (Oscar's brother, whose name Drew forgot)
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1h 2min
December 23, 2020 I Just Don't Know
Nichole and Drew discuss the history of art with their friend Mack, who reads an excerpt from an essay she wrote about Julie Mehretu's works and their relation to technology and politics.
Links to mentioned art by Mehretu:
Stadia II
Conjured Parts
Mural (Goldman Sachs)

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1h 21min

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How many episodes does Liberal Arts the Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 15 episodes available.