Content warning: SCUM Manifesto contains discussion of transphobia, violence, murder, misogyny, ableism, domestic abuse, sexual violence and suicide.  

In this episode we discuss Valerie Solanas' controversial 1967 text, the SCUM Manifesto. We use this text as a jumping off point to chat about masculinity, transphobia, biological essentialism, and female fury.

Mental health links: 

https://www.mind.org.uk 

https://mhanational.org 

Sources 

Valerie Solanas (2015) SCUM Manifesto. Verso. – Free Olympia Press version available here.  

Physical: 100 (2023) (TV Show)

Up Your Ass (2000) (play) written by Valerie Solanas 

I, a Man (1967) (film) directed by Andy Warhol 

Bike Boy (1967) (film) directed by Andy Warhol 

Riot grrrl  

Ruth Pearce, Sonja Erikainen & Ben Vincent (2020) TERF Wars: An Introduction, The Sociological Review, 68 (4). 677-698. 

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (2017) Let’s Generalize about Men (song) 

Book Club from Hell Podcast – Episode #9 The SCUM Manifesto 

Audition (1999) (film)  

M3GAN (2022) (film) 

SNL (2023) M3GAN 2.0 (sketch) 

SZA (2022) SOS (album)  

Ethel Cain (2022) Preacher’s Daughter (album)  

Lorde (2017) Green Light (song) 

Feminist sex wars 

Spotify Playlist

You can listen to our SCUM Manifesto inspired Spotify playlist here.

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Outro: Lori Beauty, Coma Studios

The main source for this episode is Félix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze's 1980 book A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. The chapters we discussed were Chapter 1: Rhizome and Chapter 5: 587 BC-AD 70: On Several Regimes of Signs. We were joined by Veronika Epple, a PhD student at Humboldt University and Junior Curator at C/O Berlin. Join us as we discuss plateaus, French academia, assemblage, rhizomes, and psychoanalysis.

Sources & Fan Fiction

You can find all the sources and fan fictions discussed in the episode here.

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The focus of this episode is Jack Halberstam's The Queer Art of Failure (2011) and we were joined by our wonderful guest, Gabriel/le du Plessis. In this episode we discussed the chapters 'Introduction: Low Theory' and Chapter 5 '"The Killer in Me is the Killer in You": Homosexuality and Fascism". Some of the topics we chatted about include failure, low theory, memory, queer history and fascism. 

Sources

There were a lot of sources mentioned in this episode and you can find the full list here. 

Note: In the episode Paola mentions Archive Fever by Jacques Derrida but she is actually referring to Specters of Marx.

Fan Fiction

Note: we have not always read the fan fictions all the way through, and so often rely on tags and summaries to find pieces. We will usually state if we have read the fan fictions in the episode, and so please approach these with your own discretion.

eaglesflying - The Disorder of Desire

meowclops – ghost (of a good time)

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In this episode we discuss Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's seminal 1990 text, Epistemology of the Closet. This is part one of two in which we discuss the Introduction, Chapter One: Epistemology of the Closet and Chapter Two: Some Binarisms (I): Billy Budd: After the Homosexual.

Sources

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1993) Tendencies.

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1985) Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire.

Michel Foucault (1976) The History of Sexuality: Volume 1.

Ned Ward (1709-1710) The Mollies Club.

Jennifer Evans & Elissa Mailänder (2021) Cross-dressing, Male Intimacy and the Violence of Transgression in Third Reich Photography. German History, 39 (1): 54-77

McIntosh, M. (1968) The Homosexual Role. Social Problems, 16 (2): 182-192

Weeks, J. (2012) Queer(y)ing the “Modern Homosexual”. Journal of British Studies, 51 (3): 523-539.

Queering the Map

Center for Reproductive Rights, After Roe Feel: Abortion Laws by State

Theoryish (2023) Walter Benjamin: A Short History of Photography

Fan Fiction

Note: we have not always read the fan fictions all the way through, and so often rely on tags and summaries to find pieces. We will usually state if we have read the fan fictions in the episode, and so please approach these with your own discretion.

ladygrange – Reel to Reel

Not a fan fiction but the essay Hannah discussed – Kara Hisatake (2011) “Nothing Says I Despise You Like a Blowjob”: Opening Queer Moments for Queer Spaces in Harry Potter Slash Fan Fiction

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In this episode we discuss Susan Sontag's incredible 1964 essay Notes on Camp. Join us as we cover Art Nouveau; dandyism; sexuality, gender and race; La Lupe; camp and sincerity; artistic drama; the 2019 Met Gala, memes and Karlie Kloss.

Sources

Susan Sontag (1964) Notes on Camp.

Walter Benjamin: A Short History of Photography (Episode 1) 

Clement Greenberg (1939) Avant-Garde and Kitsch. 

Paris Métro entrances by Hector Guimard

Karlie Kloss Instagram post: Looking camp right in the eye

Brennan Eberwine (2021) The campening of Karlie Kloss: The mastermind of camp

La Lupe Queen of Latin Soul (Full Documentary)

Oscar Wilde Epigrams

Fan Fiction

Note: we have not always read the fan fictions all the way through, and so often rely on tags and summaries to find pieces. We will usually state if we have read the fan fictions in the episode, and so please approach these with your own discretion.

St. rosa and the swallows, or, “notes on camp” by SekritOMG

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For this episode of Theoryish, we looked at Michel Foucault's The Birth of Biopolitics with our first guest of the podcast, James Whitfield. As this is a bit of a longer text, we looked at Chapter 2: 17 January 1979 and Chapter 10: 21 March 1979. 

Sources

Foucault, M. (1990). The history of sexuality: An introduction, volume I. New York: Vintage.

Foucault, M. (2007). Discipline and punish: The birth of the prison: Duke University Press.

Foucault, M. (2007). Security, territory, population: lectures at the Collège de France, 1977-78: Springer.

Foucault, M. (2008). The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the College de France, 1978-1979. Chapter 2 & 10. Palgrave Macmillan.

Foucault, M. (2013). Archaeology of knowledge. Routledge.

Rabinow, P. (1984). The Foucault Reader. Pantheon Books, New York

Garland, D. (1997). `Governmentality' and the Problem of Crime: Foucault, Criminology, Sociology. Theoretical Criminology, 1(2), 173-214. doi:10.1177/1362480697001002002

Youtube (2013) Debate Noam Chomsky & Michel Foucault - On human nature [Subtitled]. Available online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wfNl2L0Gf8&t=363s

Rose, N. (1999). Powers of freedom: Reframing political thought. Cambridge University press.

Dean, M. (2010). Governmentality: Power and rule in modern society. Sage publications.

Fan Fiction

Note: we have not always read the fan fictions all the way through, and so often rely on tags and summaries to find pieces. We will usually state if we have read the fan fictions in the episode, and so please approach these with your own discretion.

Frustrations in Late Foucault, by VersaceThong: https://archiveofourown.org/works/23900899?view_adult=true

All Foucault, No Knickers, by chaosmanor: https://archiveofourown.org/works/13021278

The Great Philosopher Bake Off, by starlightfury: https://archiveofourown.org/works/30140892

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Music

Outro: Lori Beauty, Coma Studios

For this episode we looked at the Walter Benjamin's 1931 essay 'A Short History on Photography'. This essay offers a marxist analysis of what was considered a new medium at the time, and introduced the concept of 'aura', which became very influential in the history of art circle. In this episode we discuss the crisis of capitalism; photography as art, language and expression; death and authenticity.  

Sources

Walter Benjamin (1935) The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

"Point de vue du Gras" 1826, Nicéphore Niépce

"Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2" 1912, Marcel Duchamp

"Bricklayer" 1928, August Sander

"Konditor" 1928, August Sander

"Young Farmers" 1914 August Sander

Siegfried Kracauer (1927) The Mass Ornament (original essay published in the Frankfurter Zeitung)

Fan fictions

Note: we have not always read the fan fictions all the way through, and so often rely on tags and summaries to find pieces. We will usually state if we have read the fan fictions in the episode, and so please approach these with your own discretion.   

meaculpameaculpa: (p.1) Walter Benjamin/Georg Lukács fan fic

rebiTV: Translator Battle Royale

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Join Paola Medina-Gonzalez and Hannah Ayres as they embark into the world of theory! Theory is a set of ideas, usually used to explain something - this is a very broad definition but this allows us to dive into as much theory from as many different academic disciplines as possible.

So, are you interested in theory but have no idea where to start, then have no fear, we are here to help guide you through. Sometimes we will look at theory we are already aware of, and sometimes we look at theory that we are brand new to - we hope you will join us along the way!

This is the first episode which introduces ourselves, why we are doing the podcast, the structure, and when we plan to release episodes.

 

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Outro: Lori Beauty, Coma Studios