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  • Introduction to Queer Theory

    We are trying something new for this episode of Theoryish. We wanted some of our episodes to be a little shorter and settled on providing an 'Intro to...' various theoretical fields. We decided to start with queer theory as this is something we are both familiar with, and because we have mentioned it lot this season. So, whether you are a queer theory novice or more familiar with it, we hope you enjoy! 

    Sources 
    You can find a complete list of sources ⁠here⁠: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cXqwiFyL5iW2rNG7J_RmfNlm84MDfoWCID5r54sZmDU/edit?usp=sharing
    Contact Us 
    You can get in touch with us via our email: ⁠[email protected]⁠ 
    Socials 
    We are on ⁠Twitter⁠, ⁠Instagram⁠ and ⁠TikTok⁠ at theoryish_pod and ⁠Facebook⁠ at theoryishpod 
    Music 
    Outro: ⁠Lori Beauty, Coma Studios⁠


    47 min
  • Valerie Solanas: SCUM Manifesto
    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.
    Contact Us 
    You can get in touch with us via our email: [email protected] 
    Socials 
    We are on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok at theoryish_pod and Facebook at theoryishpod 
    Music 
    Outro: Lori Beauty, Coma Studios
    1 hr 5 min
  • Félix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze: A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
    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.
    Contact Us 
    You can get in touch with us via our email: [email protected] 
    Socials 
    We are on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok at theoryish_pod and Facebook at theoryishpod 
    Music 
    Outro: Lori Beauty, Coma Studios
    1 hr 23 min
  • Jack Halberstam: The Queer Art of Failure
    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)
    Contact Us
    You can get in touch with us via our email: [email protected]
    Socials
    We are on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok at theoryish_pod and Facebook at theoryishpod
    Music
    Outro: Lori Beauty, Coma Studios
    1 hr 37 min
  • Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick: Epistemology of the Closet (Part 1)
    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
    Contact Us
    You can get in touch with us via our email: [email protected]
    Socials
    We are on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok at theoryish_pod and Facebook at theoryishpod
    Music
    Outro: Lori Beauty, Coma Studios
    1 hr 26 min
  • Susan Sontag: Notes on Camp
    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
    Contact Us
    You can get in touch with us via our email: [email protected]
    Socials
    We are on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok at theoryish_pod and Facebook at theoryishpod
    Music
    Outro: Lori Beauty, Coma Studios
    1 hr 4 min
  • Michel Foucault: The Birth of Biopolitics
    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
    Contact Us
    You can get in touch with us via our email: [email protected]
    Socials
    We are on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok at theoryish_pod and Facebook at theoryishpod
    James Whitfield is on Twitter @James_J_Wh
    Music
    Outro: Lori Beauty, Coma Studios
    1 hr 25 min
  • Walter Benjamin: A Short History of Photography
    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
    Contact Us
    You can get in touch with us via our email: [email protected]
    Socials
    We are on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok at theoryish_pod and Facebook at theoryishpod
    Music
    Outro: Lori Beauty, Coma Studios
    1 hr 3 min
  • Theoryish Introduction
    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.
     
    Contact Us 
    You can get in touch with us via our email: [email protected] 
    Socials 
    We are on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok at theoryish_pod and Facebook at theoryishpod 
    Music 
    Outro: Lori Beauty, Coma Studios
    14 min

About Theoryish

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Theoryish draws from a wide range of disciplines to bring theory to you in the most relevant, interesting, and accessible way. This show aims to create an inclusive community of learning and will showcase a wide variety of theory that is out there, going beyond the expected canon of theorists. This show makes a concerted effort to provide listeners with theoretical tools to hopefully enrich their day-to-day lives no matter what space they occupy.

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