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Podcast: Every Single Sci-Fi Film Ever* (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Thing from Another World: Howard Hawks and the Cold War
Pub date: 2024-09-15

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We are finally in the 1950s! The Golden Era of science fiction cinema.

Although the 1950s are known for may B Movies The Thing from Another World was produced (and possibly directed) but the very famous Howard Hawks and came from RKO which was a big name studio at this time.

This film capitalised on the growing appetite for science fiction in the USA which was up until this recently largely in print but also a little on television although studios were still wary of the science fiction label. Based on the John W Campbell novella Who Goes There? from 1938 there were a few significant changes made to the story.

The Experts
Jay Telotte is Professor Emeritus of film and media studies at Georgia Tech. He has written/edited numerous books and articles about science fiction film including the 2023 Selling Science Fiction Cinema.

Marc Longenecker is an Associate Professor of the Practice of Film Studies at Wesleyan University.

Chapters
00:00 Introduction to the show and guests
02:40 The 1950s sci-fi explosion
06:34 The studio aversion to science fiction and the paramount decree
09:55 Howard Hawks, Howard Hughes and who really directed this film?
16:20 If it walks like a Hawk: Hallmarks and the Hawksian woman
21:52 The Cold War, flying saucers and “the group”
34:05 Jay’s comparison to The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
36:26 The influence on John Carpenter and The Thing (1982)
44:21 The legacy of the film
48:56 Recommendations for listeners

NEXT EPISODE!
Next episode we will be taking a closer look at The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951). You can check Just Watch to find out where it can be found in your region and is available to buy or rent at many outlets including Apple TV. 

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Podcast: Education Technology Society
Episode: What’s the problem with Google Classroom?
Pub date: 2024-09-12

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We talk with Sonia Livingstone (Digital Futures for Children, LSE) about the ways in which EdTech and data protection policies often fail to protect children’s rights at school. 

In particular we look at Google Classroom as an example of how policymakers, regulators and governments need to intervene more forcibly in the EdTech marketplace. 

Accompanying reference >>>  Livingstone, S., Pothong, K., Atabey, A., Hooper, L., & Day, E. (2024). The Googlization of the classroom: Is the UK in protecting children's data and rights? Computers and Education Open, 100195.

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Podcast: This Is Hell! (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Heat, A History / On Barak
Pub date: 2024-09-10

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Returning to This is Hell!, On Barak, author of, "Heat, a History

Lessons from the Middle East for a Warming Planet." On is a social and cultural historian of science and technology and Professor of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University.

After the interview, we hear a new "Rotten History" by Renaldo Migaldi.

Check out Barak's book here: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/heat-a-history/paper

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Podcast: Keen On America (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 2186: Branko Milanovic on the history of inequality in America from slavery to neo-liberalism
Pub date: 2024-09-09

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The Serbian-American economist Branko Milanovic is one of the world’s leading authorities on inequality. In this KEEN ON America conversation, we talked about Milanovic’s interpretation of the history of American economic inequality - from slavery to contemporary capitalism. Why has America become so much unequal over the last fifty years, I asked. And today, in what Milanovic sees as a post neo-liberal age, how does he imagine the future of economic inequality?

Branko Milanovic obtained his Ph.D. in economics (1987) from the University of Belgrade with a dissertation on income inequality in Yugoslavia. He served as lead economist in the World Bank’s Research Department for almost 20 years, leaving to write his book on global income inequality, Worlds Apart (2005). He was a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington (2003-2005) and has held teaching appointments at the University of Maryland (2007-2013) and at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University (1997- 2007). He was a visiting scholar at All Souls College in Oxford, and Universidad Carlos III in Madrid (2010-11). Professor Milanovic’s main area of work is income inequality, in individual countries and globally, including in preindustrial societies. He has published articles in Economic Journal, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Development Economics, and Journal of Political Philosophy, among others. His book The Haves and the Have-nots (2011) was selected by The Globalist as the 2011 Book of the Year. Global Inequality (2016) was awarded the Bruno Kreisky Prize for the best political book of 2016 and the Hans Matthöfer Prize in 2018, and was translated into 16 languages. It addresses economic and political effects of globalization and introduces the concept of successive “Kuznets waves” of inequality. In March 2018, Milanovic was awarded (jointly with Mariana Mazzucato) the 2018 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Knowledge. His most recent books are Capitalism, Alone, published in 2019, and Visions of Inequality, published in 2023..

Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.

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Podcast: The Colin McEnroe Show (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Osculate me, you fool! A brief history of romantic kissing
Pub date: 2024-05-15

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This hour, a look at why humans touch others with their lips (and often their tongues!).

Join us as we overthink the simple act of kissing.

GUESTS: 

• Marcel Danesi: Professor Emeritus of Linguistic Anthropology at The University of Toronto and author of The History of the Kiss! The Birth of Popular Culture
• Matthew Longcore: Director of Membership and Outreach for the Human Relations Area Files at Yale University and an Adjunct Faculty Member in Anthropology at the University of Connecticut Stamford
• Andréa Demirjian: Runs The Kissing Expertwebsite, Instagram feed, and Facebookpage. She’s the author of the book Kissing: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About One of Life’s Sweetest Pleasures

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Colin McEnroe, Jonathan McNicol, Cat Pastor, and Lily Tyson contributed to this show, which originally aired October 10, 2023.

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Podcast: Korea Deconstructed (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Neoliberalization and Psychological Ruptures in South Korea
Pub date: 2024-08-25

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Professor Moon Seungsook is a political and cultural sociologist, scholar of gender studies, and East Asianist specializing in South Korea. She grew up in Seoul, Korea and lived and worked in Boston and Cambridge, MA before moving to Vassar College. Her research evolved from feminist critiques of nationalism, militarism, democratization, and citizenship to globalization and transnationalism shaping militarism and civic agency, production and consumption of food and masculinities. She is a recipient of notable awards, including a Fulbright Scholars Award (2004-05), an inaugural endowed-chair visiting professorship at Harvard University (2014-15), and the Laboratory Program for Korean Studies Research Grant from the Academy of Korean Studies (2018-23). Her latest book is Civic Activism in South Korea: The Intertwining of Democracy and Neoliberalism (2024).

 

Civic Activism in South Korea: https://www.amazon.com/Civic-Activism-South-Korea-Neoliberalism/dp/023121149X

 

Discussion Outline 

0:00 Introduction

7:00 The real life effects of neoliberalization

15:40 Life in pre-democratic South Korea

21:00 Neoliberalism and democracy in South Korea

32:53 Citizens' Organizations in South Korea

42:05 Neoliberalization and religion

51:35 The profound irony of individualism

55:05 Multiculturalism in South Korea

1:02:45 Recommendations

 

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Podcast: Connecting the Global Ummah
Episode: IMF, World Bank, and the New Colonialism: Pakistan’s Economic Struggles- Br. Azeemuddin | Islam and the Subcontinent | Session 1 |
Pub date: 2024-09-03

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IMF, World Bank, and the New Colonialism: Pakistan’s Economic Struggles- Br. Azeemuddin  | Islam and the Subcontinent | Session 1 |   In this compelling discussion, Br. Azeemuddin sheds light on the modern form of...

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Podcast: New Books in National Security (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: David H. Price, "The American Surveillance State: How the US Spies on Dissent" (Pluto Press, 2022)
Pub date: 2024-09-04

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When the possibility of wiretapping first became known to Americans they were outraged. Now, in our post-9/11 world, it's accepted that corporations are vested with human rights, and government agencies and corporations use computers to monitor our private lives. In The American Surveillance State: How the US Spies on Dissent (Pluto Press, 2022), David H. Price pulls back the curtain to reveal how the FBI and other government agencies have always functioned as the secret police of American capitalism up to today, where they luxuriate in a near-limitless NSA surveillance of all.

Price looks through a roster of campaigns by law enforcement, intelligence agencies, and corporations to understand how we got here. Starting with J. Edgar Hoover and the early FBI's alignment with business, his access to 15,000 pages of never-before-seen FBI files shines a light on the surveillance of Edward Said, Andre Gunder Frank and Alexander Cockburn, Native American communists, and progressive factory owners.

Price uncovers patterns of FBI monitoring and harassing of activists and public figures, providing the vital means for us to understand how these new frightening surveillance operations are weaponized by powerful governmental agencies that remain largely shrouded in secrecy.

David H. Price is Professor of Anthropology at Saint Martin’s University’s Department of Society and Social Justice. He is the author of a number of books on the FBI and CIA, and has written articles for The Nation, Monthly Review, CounterPunch, Guardian and Le Monde. His work has been translated into five languages.

Deniz Yonucu is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the School of Geography, Politics, and Sociology at Newcastle University. Her work focuses on counterinsurgency, policing and security, surveillance, left-wing and anti-colonial resistance, memory, racism, and emerging digital control technologies. Her book, Police, Provocation, Politics Counterinsurgency in Istanbul (Cornell University Press, 2022), presents a counterintuitive analysis of policing, focusing particular attention on the incitement of counterviolence and perpetual conflict by state security apparatus.

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Podcast: Planet: Critical (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Rights of Nature | Mongabay Newscast
Pub date: 2024-09-05

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This week, P:C features Mongabay.

Nations across the globe are trialing “rights of nature” laws and “legal personhood” for various ecosystems and a range of reasons, from Indigenous reconciliation to biodiversity protection. While these two concepts are closely related, they have some key differences.

Viktoria Kahui discusses what distinguishes them and how they’ve been used for conservation, while stressing there’s still little evidence that legal personhood protects biodiversity. Kahui is an environmental and ecological economist at the University of Otago in Aotearoa New Zealand and joins the Mongabay Newscast to interrogate these legal frameworks.

In this conversation with co-host Rachel Donald, Kahui outlines instances where the laws have been applied and why, despite some flaws, she thinks they are worth considering and iterating upon to combat environmental degradation, despite a global debate and many critiques, based on their intent and design. Chief among these is their imposition of an anthropocentric (and primarily Western) legal viewpoint upon something as complex as nature, which transcends the confines of human liability and, therefore, cannot be subjected to it without knock-on effects that potentially harm the people these laws are intended to empower.

Kahui weighs in on this debate and where she sees such laws being applied in a promising fashion, such as in Ecuador, where courts have examined nature in the context of established constitutional law, leading to outcomes that have benefited both people and nature.

“Very slowly, as lawyers and judges are becoming more familiar with the concept, they’re able to interpret it when there is a legal case being brought, and they’re [better able to argue] the side of nature,” she says. “It’s certainly much, much more positive than what we’ve seen in the past.”

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Planet: Critical is back to regular programming next week. Stay tuned.

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Podcast: Laid Off and Looking
Episode: Pop The News Bubble
Pub date: 2024-09-06

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We're BACK!!!!

Season 2 of Laid Off and Looking

Dom and Jenna talk pop culture's essential yet dismissed role in the news ecosystem and especially politics.

This week's guest is Dr Joel Penney PhD, professor of communication and media at Montclair University in New Jersey. He's also author of 'Pop Culture, Politics and the News: Entertainment Journalism in the Polarized Media Landscape'

Pop Culture is News, Not Clickbait, University Professor Says in New Book

https://www.montclair.edu/newscenter/2023/03/03/pop-culture-is-news-not-clickbait-university-professor-says-in-new-book/

Dr Penney explains:

How political leaders use pop culture trends to connect with voters

The under appreciated role of entertainment news within journalism

And the changes in journalistic approaches to pop culture due to digital media and its importance to younger audiences

Dom and Jenna also share what they've got planned for this new season of the podcast!

Headlines: 1:23

Interview: 17:00

Headline Links:

Hollywood Reporter: Musical Acts Who’ve Called Out 2024 Trump Campaign

for Illegal Use of Their Songs

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/muscial-acts-trump-campaign-illegal-use-songs-1235988369/

USA Today: Donald Trump's campaign prohibited from using Isaac Hayes

song after lawsuit threat

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2024/09/03/isaac-hayes-lawsuit-donald-trump-campaign/75061399007/

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