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The American Age
By C. Travis WebbSociety & Culture
The American Age episodes
- Covid-19: Secondary Effects
121 – The hosts use their personal stories to discuss the long-term effects of the pandemic. How will people be shaped by social distancing?
32 min - Covid-19: The Precarious
120 – What does it mean to be prosperous in a precarious world? The hosts talk about what Covid-19 reveals about our social structures and our mythologies.
40 min - Covid-19: From Shook to Shock and After
119 – The hosts discuss their shock, both as a concept, and as their own personal response to the pandemic.
38 min - Covid-19: Political Actors and Social Responsibility
118 – The hosts continue their discussion of the pandemic.
37 min - 37 min
- Anger: Introductions
116 – Everyone in the United States seems to be angry about everything. What are the roots of this anger? What are its effects? Can it be used constructively? (Part 2 of 2).
31 min - Community: Wrap-up
115 – The hosts conclude their conversation on community. Are there community's you are a part of but wish you weren't? (Part 1 of 2).
37 min - Community: Touching as Ritual
114 – How do we know that we belong to a community? What is the role of touching as a ritual, and rituals in general within the community, and is it possible to maintain a community without them?
30 min - Community: Death
113 – What is the role of death in the community? How does it contribute to community formation, and how is death shaped by the community?
31 min - Community: What We Run To, What We Run From, Part II
112 – Part 2 of 2. We are shaped by the communities we escape from, and the communities we find. What does it mean for a social primate to be "an individual"?
25 min
About The American Age
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What if your favorite college professors were willing to talk about everything from philosophy and politics to pop culture and love with the same kind of consideration and enthusiasm? Each week C.…
Travis Webb, Seph Rodney, and Steven Fullwood discuss life, culture, and art, and challenge their listeners to take fewer things for granted and all things more seriously.