Theoryish

Welcome to the second season of Theoryish! This episode offers brief introduction to this season, as well as a reflection on the first season. Contact Us  You can get in touch with us via our email: theoryishpodcast@gmail.com  Socials  We are on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok at theoryish_pod and Facebook at theoryishpod  Music  Outro: Lori Beauty, Coma Studios  

This special bonus episode was filmed live on the 6th December 2023 at 1 Mill Street Leamington Spa, UK. In this episode, we connect Season 1 and Season 2 by talking about one of our favourite thinkers, Walter Benjamin. How has our relationship to the camera changed in the age of new technology? Artificial intelligence, digital filters, and voice changers can impact upon the way we understand ours...

Welcome to the final episode of Theoryish Season One! We've had a really wonderful time with you all and will be back January 2024. Until then, please continue to listen, share, like, and follow - see you soon!   Contact Us  You can get in touch with us via our email: theoryishpodcast@gmail.com   Socials   We are on Twitter , Instagram and TikTok at theoryish_pod and Facebook at theoryishpod ...

In this episode, Hannah is joined once again by dipbuk Panchal to discuss Stuart Hall's 2017 text The Fateful Triangle: Race, Ethnicity, Nation . We go through the first chapter of the book titled Race - The Sliding Signifier. This is a chapter with a lot of theoretical depth and so we take you through some of the key terms of the text such as 'signified', 'discourse' and '...

This episode contains discussions of 19th and early 20th century American history, slavery, racism and race. In this episode we are joined by dipbuk Panchal to discuss W. E. B. Du Bois seminal 1903 text The Souls of Black Folk. We take you through Du Bois' life, as well contextualise why this book was so important for the time. We cover some of Du Bois' main theories including the colour-l...

In this episode, me and Paola talk about Sara Ahmed's 2018 blog post titled Queer Use . Join us as we chat about queerness, Ahmed's conceptualisation of 'use' and institutional diversity. Please note that we lightly discuss sexual harassment in this episode. Sources   You can find our list of sources here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11Gg-nWmeiUDCtTHzJPxrqcWJMahB0-O_dcKm1H6Z...

In this special episode of Theoryish, we are joined by Jennifer V. Evans to discuss her latest book The Queer Art of History: Queer Kinship After Fascism (2023). Jennifer is Professor of History at Carleton University and author of Life among the Ruins: Cityscape and Sexuality in Cold War Berlin (2011). In this episode we discuss how history gets written, kinship, memorials, photography, and how h...

For this episode we looked at bell hooks' text All About Love: New Visions and we were joined by two incredible guests: Sue Lemos and Adebayo Quadry-Adekanbi. To concentrate our discussion, we looked at four chapters within the book: Chapter One Clarity - Give Love Words; Chapter Four Commitment - Let Love be Love in Me; Chapter Eight Community - Loving Communion and Chapter Thirteen Destiny - Whe...

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 ho...

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.min...

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, assem...

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.  S...

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...

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 Mé...

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 bir...

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 authenticit...

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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 th...