Podcasts by This Is Not A Pipe
Interviewing authors of Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, and Philosophy. See what they're reading at www.tinapp.org
Further podcasts by Chris Richardson, PhD
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Stephen J. A. Ward: Objectively Engaged Journalism from 2021-02-08T13:00
Stephen J. A. Ward discusses his book Objectively Engaged Journalism: An Ethic with Chris Richardson. Ward is an internationally recognized author...
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Scott Newstok: How to think like Shakespeare from 2021-01-07T13:00
Scott Newstok discusses his book How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from A Renaissance Education with Chris Richardson. Listen
Anna F. Peppard: Supersex from 2020-12-24T13:00
Anna F. Peppard discusses her book Supersex: Sexuality, Fantasy and the Superhero with Chris Richardson. Peppard is a Social Sciences and Humanit...
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Jonathan Cohn: The Burden of Choice from 2020-12-10T13:00
Jonathan Cohn discusses his book The Burden of Choice: Recommendations, Subversion, and Algorithmic Culture with Chris Richardson. Cohn is an ass...
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Sorcha Ní Fhlainn: Postmodern Vampires from 2020-11-26T13:00
Sorcha Ní Fhlainn discusses her book Postmodern Vampires: Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture with Chris Richardson. Ní Fhlainn is Senior Lecturer ...
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Aurelien Mondon and Aaron Winter: Reactionary Democracy from 2020-11-12T13:00
Aurelien Mondon and Aaron Winter discuss their book Reactionary Democracy: How Racism and the Populist Far Right Became Mainstream with Chris Rich...
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Chris Richardson: Batman and the Joker from 2020-10-29T12:00
Chris Richardson discusses his book Batman and the Joker: Contested Sexuality in Popular Culture with Diana Richards. Richardson is (usually) the host of This Is Not A Pipe pod...
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Hadar Aviram: Yesterday’s Monsters from 2020-10-15T12:00
Hadar Aviram discusses her book Yesterday’s Monsters: The Manson Family Cases and the Illusion of Parole with Chris Richardson. Aviram is the Thomas Miller Professor at UC Hast...
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Robert K. Elder: Hemingway in Comics from 2020-10-01T12:00
Robert K Elder discusses his book Hemingway in Comics with Chris Richardson. Elder is the Chief Digital Officer at the Bulletin of the Atomic...
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Jo Littler: Against Meritocracy from 2020-09-17T12:00
Jo Littler discusses her book Against Meritocracy: Culture, Power, and Myths of Mobility with Chris Richardson. Jo Littler is a Professor in the Department of Sociology and Dir...
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Brian Jefferson: Digitize and Punish from 2020-09-03T12:00
Brian Jefferson discusses his book Digitize and Punish: Racial Criminalization in the Digital Age with Chris Richardson. Jefferson is Associate Professor of Geography and Geogr...
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Kevin M Gannon: Radical Hope from 2020-06-25T12:00
Kevin M Gannon discusses his book Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto with Chris Richardson. Gannon is Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, and Profes...
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas: The Dark Fantastic from 2020-06-11T12:00
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas discusses her book The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games with Chris Richardson. Thomas is Associate Professo...
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Luke Fernandez and Susan J Matt: Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid from 2020-05-28T12:00
Luke Fernandez and Susan Matt discuss their book Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid: Changing Feelings about Technology, from the Telegraph to Twitter with Chris Richardson. Luke Fer...
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Marc Singer: Breaking the Frames from 2020-05-14T12:00
Marc Singer discusses his book Breaking the Frames: Populism and Prestige in Comics Studies with Chris Richardson. Singer is Associate Professor of English at Howard University...
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Catherine A Sanderson: Why We Act from 2020-04-30T12:00
Catherine A Sanderson discusses her book Why We Act: Turning Bystanders into Moral Rebels with Chris Richardson. Sanderson is the Manwell Family Professor of Life Sciences (Psy...
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Arthur I Miller: The Artist in the Machine from 2020-04-16T12:00
Arthur I. Miller discusses his book The Artist in the Machine: The World of AI-Powered Creativity with Chris Richardson. Miller is fascinated by the nature of creative thinking...
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Robert Moses Peaslee and Robert G. Weiner: The Supervillain Reader from 2020-04-02T12:00
Robert Moses Peaslee and Robert G. Weiner discuss their book The Supervillain Reader with Chris Richardson. Peaslee is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Journa...
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Lochlann Jain: Things That Art from 2020-03-19T12:00
Lochlann Jain discusses Things That Art: A Graphic Menagerie of Enchanting Curiosity with Chris Richardson. Jain is an award-winning scholar and artist. Jain’s work in the medi...
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Liam Burke: The Superhero Symbol from 2020-03-05T13:00
Liam Burke discusses his co-edited book The Superhero Symbol: Media, Culture & Politics with Chris Richardson. Associate Professor Liam Burke is the discipline leader in Ci...
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Ian Reilly: Media Hoaxing from 2020-02-20T13:00
Ian Reilly discusses his book Media Hoaxing: The Yes Men and Utopian Politics with Chris Richardson. Reilly is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies...
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J. Hoberman: Make My Day from 2020-02-06T13:00
"My friend, Art Spiegelman, who very graciously provided the cover for the book, initially wanted to put Trump on the cover and I said, no, no, you can’t do that."
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Will Brooker: Why Bowie Matters from 2020-01-16T13:00
"It's only a taste, a fragment of what Bowie must have experienced, but I really feel my head got in a strange space during that period of time."
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Susana Vargas Cervantes: The Little Old Lady Killer from 2020-01-02T13:00
"I was feeling something that I couldn't articulate."
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Ethan Miller: Reimagining Livelihoods from 2019-12-26T13:00
"A language around livelihoods has the possibility of helping people to see their own lives differently and to appreciate who they already are in a different way."
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Suzanne Scott: Fake Geek Girls from 2019-12-12T13:00
"Those kinds of neat categories seem to be breaking down quite a bit. We see more and more industry reaching out to create transformative works."
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Domino Renee Perez and Rachel González-Martin: Race and Cultural Practice in Popular Culture from 2019-12-05T13:00
"My decision to take on that labor had everything to do with the fact that I didn't have someone like me available. I didn't have anyone to help me demystify the process of the academy."
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Marc Steinberg: The Platform Economy from 2019-11-28T13:00
"This is one of the paradigmatic examples where the 'worlds' and 'words' come together and impact each other."
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Douglas Dowland: Weak Nationalisms from 2019-11-14T13:00
"As much as they want to add up to a grand unifying reading that says, "this, exactly, is America," I think that there's something that always goes astray."
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Jennifer E. Cobbina: Hands Up, Don't Shoot from 2019-11-07T13:00
"Many people are obviously aware that this nation was founded on a system of slavery, but what many people don't know is that the origins of policing in the United States can be traced to the insti...
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David Fancy and Hans Skott-Myhre: Art as Revolt from 2019-10-24T12:00
"Even if you're working against the cliff face of some of the darkest and most devastating genocidal movements in capitalism, the trick is to bring joy to your revolt."
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Marcus Gilroy-Ware: Filling the Void from 2019-10-10T12:00
"Learning conventional journalism is not a bad thing to do, but it's like learning how to restore antique furniture when the world is full of Ikeas."
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Nancy Wang Yuen: Reel Inequality (repost) from 2019-10-03T12:00
"It’s hard to deny stories. And I think that’s why stories are so important. And that’s why qualitative research is so important."
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Rachel Plotnick: Power Button from 2019-09-26T12:00
"There is a whole host of things that have to happen after that button gets pushed. And I think it's extremely desirable to hide all of that."
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Frederik Byrn Køhlert: Serial Selves from 2019-09-12T12:00
"That is an interesting tension in comics, because it is sort of self-evidently not 'the truth.'"
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Roger Koppl: Expert Failure from 2019-09-05T12:00
"If you want to fix [the media] by having 'The Bureau of Truth'...oops..that's going to make things worse."
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Lawrence Grossberg: Under the Cover of Chaos from 2019-08-29T12:00
"We treated Reagan, we treated Bush, and we treat Trump too often as if they're idiots. I have no idea whether they are or not, but I don't think that it's a good strategy to assume you...
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Ken Krimstein: The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt from 2019-08-15T12:00
"One of the quotes that Hannah Arendt said that I kept over my desk as I was writing is "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it."
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick: Generous Thinking from 2019-08-01T12:00
"We once, at least for a very brief moment, understood that the purpose of higher education was not just individual in nature but that it served a social good for us to have a broadly educated publ...
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Heather Ann Thompson: Blood in the Water from 2019-05-23T12:00
"People can do terrible things. But you don't really appreciate the impact of what they've done unless you fully understand how complicated they in fact are."
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Jeff Ferrell: Drift from 2019-05-09T12:00
"One way to know what kind of ethnographer you are is to think about how you feel when you see the police approaching."
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Catherine M. Soussloff: Foucault On Painting from 2019-04-25T12:00
"[Foucault] has something to say to almost every field in the arts, humanities, and social sciences."
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Jesper Juul: The Art of Failure from 2019-04-11T12:00
"If somebody dies in the game because of your actions, in a way, there is a sense of responsibility...even if it's just in fictional form."
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Andrew Ferguson: The Rise of Big Data Policing from 2019-03-28T12:00
"You have to take into account the history of race and surveillance when you're talking about any new predictive policing technology...Every time we have seen an innovation of surveillance, we've t...
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Aubrey Anable: Playing With Feelings from 2019-03-14T12:00
"We can't dismiss the woman on the platform playing Candy Crush Saga as simply a dupe of capitalism."
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Brian Z. Tamanaha: A Realistic Theory of Law from 2019-02-28T13:00
"This is not just a trend but one with significant implications for how law is carried out, how law is constructed. And it's going to continue with increases of computing power and the gathering of...
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John Cheney-Lippold: We Are Data from 2019-02-14T13:00
"They were training it according to US Hollywood movies. So [the bot] was talking not according to how people talk but how Hollywood script writers believe people talk."
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Richard Deming: Art of the Ordinary from 2019-01-31T13:00
"Aphorisms are interesting concepts because they don't arrive via an argument. You don't get syllogistically to an aphorism. An aphorism simply, but not merely, feels true. It feels right, which I ...
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Frances Guerin: The Truth Is Always Grey from 2019-01-17T13:00
"So much of how we see artists as interacting with each other--and their work as interacting with each other--comes from the art historian as opposed to from the work itself."
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Ryan Jenkins&Keith Abney: Robot Ethics 2.0 from 2019-01-03T13:00
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Gary Hall: Pirate Philosophy from 2018-12-20T13:00
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Jarrett Zigon: Disappointment from 2018-12-06T13:00
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Joy Lisi Rankin: A People's History of Computing in the United States from 2018-11-22T13:00
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Ulises Ali Mejias: Off The Network from 2018-11-08T13:00
"That experience of being in this country as an immigrant, both inside and outside, having to adopt certain ways of thinking and having to erase other ways of thinking, other parts of me that canno...
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Nick Sousanis: Unflattening from 2018-10-25T12:00
"It’s hard to look at pictures without saying ‘oh that’s just a picture’ and not think about all the kinds of connections that are being made...I’m using this other mode of thinking, which has diff...
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Karmen MacKendrick: Failing Desire from 2018-10-11T12:00
"If I set failure as a goal, then I put myself into a paradoxical position because either I fail to reach it--so in some sense I've succeeded at failing--or I succeed in reaching it, in which case ...
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Ed Finn: What Algorithms Want from 2018-09-27T12:00
"There are a lot of horrifying things lurking in the autocomplete field...People used to confess to their priest or some sort of trusted figure and now people spell out their secrets to the search ...
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Deborah Elizabeth Whaley: Black Women in Sequence from 2018-09-13T12:00
"I was thinking about the historical moment in which it was created and I was thinking about it as a cultural critic and cultural historian who is interested in issues of social justice, who is int...
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Laurent de Sutter: Narcocapitalism from 2018-08-30T12:00
"There's always the nostalgia of something with the concept of biopolitics. And it's even more visible with Agamben. I mean I love Agamben...but I must confess that there is something I cannot acce...
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Meredith Broussard: Artificial Unintelligence from 2018-08-16T12:00
"We were told for a very long time that tech would be democratizing. And that has not necessarily proven to be true."
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Martin Erwig: Once Upon an Algorithm from 2018-05-31T13:00
"This is a problem that cannot really be solved using a computer itself. This is something that humans have to discuss and ultimately decide on...This is a conversation that all of society has to e...
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Shannon Mattern: Code and Clay, Data and Dirt from 2018-05-17T13:00
"What if, instead, we flipped the script and start with the present day and dig further and further backwards in time...see all of these tropes and morphologies and hopes and dreams recurring and e...
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Jeff Scheible: Digital Shift from 2018-05-03T13:00
"I really enjoyed adopting this position of the medium, where I was searching for these voices that had been forgotten or erased from history...[I became] the one who would transmit these voices to...
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Claudie Massicotte: Trance Speakers from 2018-04-19T13:00
"I really enjoyed adopting this position of the medium, where I was searching for these voices that had been forgotten or erased from history...[I became] the one who would transmit these voices to...
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Heather Laine Talley: Saving Face from 2018-04-05T13:00
"The face is a real thing. It actually matters...It has this massive amount of functional importance in our lives. It's also the site of enormous amounts of status...our face becomes a representati...
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Alfie Bown: The PlayStation Dreamworld from 2018-03-22T13:00
"Whether you play video games or you don't, they are part of a cultural transformation of the way we think, the way we desire, the way we empathize, the way we work, the way we play."
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Stacy Alaimo: Exposed from 2018-03-08T14:00
"We're always immersed in the material world. It's never somewhere else and it cannot be contained in ways that we can control and predict."
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Ramzi Fawaz: The New Mutants from 2018-02-22T14:00
"A book that can show you how the distinct operations, both the form and the content of particular comics, speak to much wider structures of power, identity politics, and social reality...that, to ...
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Nick Hewlett: Blood and Progress from 2018-02-08T14:00
"In so many circumstances, violence on the part of dominant powers and dominant people is allowed to take place because inequalities are allowed to exist and persist...In order to struggle for the ...
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Trevor G. Smith: Politicizing Digital Space from 2018-01-25T14:00
"This goes back to why Arendt argued that we needed 'public' and 'private.' The 'private' is kind of a refuge from politics. Even though politics is a good thing, you don't want to be in it and doi...
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Tony D. Sampson: The Assemblage Brain from 2018-01-11T14:00
"I managed to refuse to have a mobile phone... I can sit there in a train carriage, look out the window, and, of course there's some kind of mediation going on there, but it's free from the kind of...
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Shannon Winnubst: Way Too Cool from 2017-12-28T14:00
"Until we're able to speak about this racism as something that's coming out of 'us' -- and here I'm speaking particularly as a white person -- out of our culture more broadly, then we don't have a ...
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Nancy Wang Yuen: Reel Inequality from 2017-12-07T14:00
"It’s hard to deny stories. And I think that’s why stories are so important. And that’s why qualitative research is so important."
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Todd May: A Fragile Life from 2017-11-23T14:00
"It doesn't seem to me to require any obscurity to challenge people and to put them in new positions."
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Amy Allen: The End of Progress from 2017-11-09T14:00
"My anxiety about the future of critical theory is partly that if it doesn't figure out a way to engage more with other kinds of critical traditions--postcolonial theory is one example, but also fe...
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Chuck Tryon: On-Demand Culture from 2017-10-26T13:00
"Of the Trump supporters and Clinton supporters, there were practically no television shows in each group's mutual top 25... There's almost no overlap, not just in terms of political messaging, b...
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Alexis Shotwell: Against Purity from 2017-10-12T13:00
"Something there feels important to me about...doing what we can from where we are, building our capacity to do more, and refusing to be convinced that it's hopeless for us to do anything if we can...
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Jamie Carlin Watson: Winning Votes by Abusing Reason from 2017-09-28T13:00
"We feel we’re special. We say everyone else is being duped. Everyone else is being deceived but I understand what’s going on...and it’s funny because every student has that same response."
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Hans Skott-Myhre: Youth and Subculture as Creative Force from 2017-09-12T13:00
"The definitions of youth over the last fifteen or twenty years are now frantically proliferating in order to try to keep up with the contradictions and antagonisms of what’s actually happening wit...
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Nicholas Greco: David Bowie in Darkness from 2017-09-05T13:00
"I think lots of our celebrities are ‘writerly’ texts. When we read them we rewrite them as well... Bowie died in January of last year but he’s alive because I’m listening to him and rewriting him...
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