Technecast

Jennifer Doveton - whose lovely music you hear every time you listen to the technecast - is a postgraduate researcher in her third year at Brunel University. Her research is on middle-class subjectivity and moral value in British screen fantasy. At the moment she's looking at the Harry Potter film series and the His Dark Materials television series for markers of class in characterisation and narratives of upward mobility that reproduce neoliberal ideologies of individual aspiration. In this podcast Doveton takes a look at the role of the labour in these portal fictions and how the characters undertaking labour are presented, including their narrative function, relationship to the protagonist, and how they perceive themselves. You can follow Jennifer on twitter here: @JDHDoveton and find her video essays on youtube under JDH Doveton: www.youtube.com/channel/UCqZMVlLA0y9FHBe4unzTbHwThe previous technecast episode we produced with Jennifer can be found on Spotify here - https://open.spotify.com/episode/1aPzFQbz4IBTkBcEWxJ3Rq?si=41b0c0c99ec845a2 - or by scrolling back through your technecast podcast feed to September 2022. ---This episode was produced and presented by Felix ClutsonTechnecast is a research and practice podcast supported by Techne DTPThe music is composed and generously given by Jennifer DovetonIf you’d like to get involved or turn your work into a podcast, please get in touch with us - [email protected] or via X @technecast

In this latest episode of our Work and Labour series we hear from Julia Pond, a transdisciplinary dance artist, teacher and researcher working with political economy. She works with choreography, improvised movement and text, humour, and, sometimes, bread dough, often siting work in public space. Currently, this takes shape in her performance project and fictional company BRED. Julia is a co-initiator of the podcast DanceOutsideDance, and is supported by TECHNE funding for her practice-based PhD research. Her work has most recently been published in Documenta Journal. ------------Image: Gani Naylor Music: Jennifer Doveton------------References:Fridman, Leora. (2022) Static Place. Santa Barbara: Punctum Books.Hersey, Tricia. (2022) Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto. New York: Little, Brown Spark.Kallis, G. and Vansintjian, A.(Ed). (2017) In Defense of Degrowth: Opinions and Minifestos. Online: Open Commons.Kunst, Bojana. (2015) Artist at Work, Proximity of Art and Capitalism. London: Zero Books.Paramana, K., Gonzalez, A. (Eds.) (2021) Performance, Dance and Political Economy. London: Bloomsbury Academic.Pitts, F. H., Jean, E., & Clarke, Y. (2020). Sonifying the quantified self: Rhythmanalysis and performance research in and against the reduction of life-time to labour-time. Capital & Class, 44(2), 219-239.Rojo, Paz. (2018). To Dance in the Age of No Future. Berlin: CIRCADIAN.Soper, K. (2020) Post-Growth Living: For an Alternative Hedonism. London: Verso. Virno, Paolo (2002). Virtuosity and Revolution, The Political Theory of Exodus. Autonomedia, http://dev.autonomedia.org/node/1392.------------Technecast is a podcast series showcasing research from across the arts and humnities. It is produced by Felix Clutson, Isabel Sykes, Morag Thomas, Olivia Aarons, Chiara Muzzi, Eva Dieteren and Pragya Sharma. Fancy turning your research into a podcast episode? We’d be happy to hear from you at [email protected], on Instagram @technepodcast, or on X (formerly Twitter) @technecast.

David McEwen, a co-founder and director of Unit 38, joins Felix to continue their conversation about architecture and community. Unit 38 is an architecture practice working on community projects in east London, in particular Wards Corner in Tottenham. In this part we hear about Unit 38’s involvement with Clapton Community Football Club, as well as public commons work, situated knowledge, and community wealth in Preston.You can find out more about Clapton Community Football Club here: https://www.claptoncfc.co.uk or https://twitter.com/claptoncfcAnd info on Unit 38 is available here: https://www.unit38.org or https://www.instagram.com/stories/unit38_---This episode was produced and presented by Felix ClutsonTechnecast is a research and practice podcast supported by Techne DTPThe music is composed and generously given by Jennifer DovetonIf you’d like to get involved or turn your work into a podcast, please get in touch with us - [email protected] or via X @technecast

David McEwen, a co-founder and director of Unit 38, joins Felix for a conversation about architecture and community. Unit 38 is an architecture practice working on community projects in east London, in particular Wards Corner in Tottenham. The discussion explores questions of community resources, privilege and design focused on people not materials.There is a small amount of explicit language.---This episode was produced and presented by Felix ClutsonTechnecast is a research and practice podcast supported by Techne DTPThe music is composed and generously given by Jennifer DovetonIf you’d like to get involved or turn your work into a podcast, please get in touch with us - [email protected] or via X @technecast

In this latest instalment of our 'Senses' series we hear from Emma Mitchell. Emma is an AHRC-funded Creative Writing doctoral researcher at Brunel University London whose work uses archival research and experimental literary forms and practices to reclaim the voices of marginalised women from History. Her project focusses on Georgian sex workers and works with contemporary documents, objects and ephemera to generate narratives that place women’s voices front and centre. An ex-school teacher and brand strategist, she has performed worldwide as a comedian, circus and burlesque artist, and is best known for her critically-acclaimed one-woman show, The Naked Stand Up. She’s been featured in The Times, Daily Mail, Scotsman, The Daily Record and even The Sun. She is the producer of Naked Girls Reading, London, and has appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Late Night Woman's Hour discussing nudity and her work. Her recent writing has been published by Haunted Girlfriend, Broken Sleep, Steel Incisors and Streetcake Magazine among others.------------Image: Emma Mitchell------------Technecast is a podcast series showcasing research from across the arts and humanities. It is produced by Felix Clutson, Isabel Sykes, Morag Thomas, Olivia Aarons, Chiara Muzzi, Eva Dieteren and Pragya Sharma. Fancy turning your research into a podcast episode? We’d be happy to hear from you at [email protected].

It's the final Technecast of the year! We've had some lovely new members join the Technecast team this year, so we thought we'd take this opportunity to do some introductions. In this casual epsiode, each member of the team answers some questions about themselves and their research. We also discuss our favourite epsiodes from the past year, so it's a bit of Technecast Wrapped, too. We hope you enjoy!Correction: In this epsiode we mistakenly describe Vietnamese-American author Ocean Vuong as Korean. We apologise for this mistake. If you are interested in sharing your research with us in the new year, you can get in contact via email ([email protected]) or on Instagram (@technepodcast).Have a wonderful winter break and we'll see you in the new year!Take care x

In the first episode of our 'Work, Labour and Protest' series, Isabel introduces us to her project which explores media representations and lived experiences of working-class women’s unpaid domestic labour in the UK.Isabel is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research focuses on the intersections of class, gender, and labour under neoliberal capitalism. She is currently in the second year of her PhD at Brunel University London. If you would like to get involved with the study and you meet the recruitment criteria stated in the episode, please email [email protected] and quote credits here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zN5yJKL1kuWE8D9MQ5YgqOg7oPrbnVAB/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=107808994539784012619&rtpof=true&sd=true--------------Image credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/100392997@N08/14507586254--------------Technecast is a podcast series showcasing research from across the arts and humanities. It is produced by Edwin Gilson, Felix Clutson, Izzi Sykes, Morag Thomas and Olivia Aarons. Fancy turning your research into a podcast episode? We'd be happy to hear from you at [email protected].

In our last episode on the theme 'narratives of nation', our very own Felix Clutson shares his research into football in the age of globalisation. Felix discusses the ways in which football transcends borders (for better or worse), the modern phenomenon of sportswashing, and the plight of his beloved Reading FC. After his presentation he joins Edwin for a conversation based around the question: is football eating itself?Want to turn your research into a podcast? We'd love to hear from you at [email protected].

Beth Williamson is a PhD student at Royal Holloway, University of London working collaboratively with the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). Her research explores how the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) tackled the problem of ‘orthography’ when recording and mapping place names in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, revealing how geography and linguistics, and politics and diplomacy, shaped the way the world was brought to ‘order’. In this episode of our 'Narratives of Nation' series, Beth explores the circumstances leading up to the appointment of the Orthography Committee at the RGS and the actions the committee took to achieve a uniform system of orthography.--------------Image credit: The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers)---------------Technecast is a podcast series showcasing research from across the arts and humanities. It is produced by Edwin Gilson, Felix Clutson, Izzi Sykes, Morag Thomas and Olivia Aarons. Fancy turning your research into a podcast episode? We'd be happy to hear from you at [email protected].