Best Aesthetic Resistance Podcasts (2024)

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PODCAST #119 1:37:15

1d ago1:37:15

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Participants: John Steppling, Shaenah Batterson, Max Parry, Hiroyuki Hamada & Dennis Riches. Topics covered: revelations about who did the killing on October 7th, 2023, French elections, Sweden and Norway ascend to NATO, the "trad wife" phenomenon, late stage capitalism as a con in which everyone is the mark being cooled out, a mark who must con ot…

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Kevin Loughran, "Parks for Profit: Selling Nature in the City" (Columbia UP, 2022) 1:03:56

2h ago1:03:56

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A new kind of city park has emerged in the early twenty-first century. Postindustrial parks transform the derelict remnants of an urban past into distinctive public spaces that meld repurposed infrastructure, wild-looking green space, and landscape architecture. For their proponents, they present an opportunity to turn disused areas into neighborho…

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Episode 89: Fat - The most hated on Essential Human Nutrient 27:13

2h ago27:13

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Todays show we go in depth on the healthy nutrition use of Fats. Health and Fitness doesn't have to complicated. And let's face it that the Fat topic has gotten very jaded. In Todays show We answer the following questions: 1. Does Fat make you fat? 2. Does fat Cause Heart Disease? 3. Why is fat essential for Humans to have ? 4. What are good and ba…

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Ying Qian, "Revolutionary Becomings: Documentary Media in Twentieth-Century China" (Columbia UP, 2023) 1:16:51

6h ago1:16:51

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Welcome to another episode of New Books in Chinese Studies. Today, I will be talking to Columbia University professor Ying Qian about her new book, Revolutionary Becomings: Documentary Media in Twentieth-Century China (Columbia UP, 2023). The volume enriches our understanding of media’s role in China’s revolutionary history by turning to documentar…

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Jason Allen-Paisant on Engagements with Aimé Césaire: Thinking with Spirits 1:14:18

3d ago1:14:18

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You’re listening to Conversations in Atlantic Theory, a podcast dedicated to books and ideas generated from and about the Atlantic world. In collaboration with the Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, these conversations explore the cultural, political, and philosophical traditions of the Atlantic world, ranging from European critical theo…

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Anri Yasuda, "Beauty Matters: Modern Japanese Literature and the Question of Aesthetics, 1890-1930" (Columbia UP, 2024) 39:44

1d ago39:44

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The notion of beauty is inherently elusive: aesthetic judgments are at once subjective and felt to be universally valid. In Beauty Matters: Modern Japanese Literature and the Question of Aesthetics, 1890-1930 (Columbia UP, 2024), Anri Yasuda demonstrates that by exploring the often conflicting yet powerful pull of aesthetic sentiments, major author…

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Kathleen Spanos and Sinclair Emoghene on Dancing in the World: Revealing Cultural Confluences 1:10:22

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You’re listening to Conversations in Atlantic Theory, a podcast dedicated to books and ideas generated from and about the Atlantic world. In collaboration with the Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, these conversations explore the cultural, political, and philosophical traditions of the Atlantic world, ranging from European critical theo…

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Episode 88: MacroNutrients for Aesthetics + MicroNutrients for Health and Energy 28:55

5d ago28:55

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Today's weekly coaching session focuses on the crucial importance of watching both your macronutrient intake and your micronutrient intake. When it comes to looking good and feeling great nutrients play such a vital role. Eliminating inflammation and super charging your nutrients is the best way to completely own your health and fitness goals. Toda…

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Catherine Tan, "Spaces on the Spectrum: How Autism Movements Resist Experts and Create Knowledge" (Columbia UP, 2024) 45:41

8d ago45:41

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Movements that take issue with conventional understandings of autism spectrum disorder, a developmental disability, have become increasingly visible. Drawing on more than three years of ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with participants, Dr. Catherine Tan investigates two autism-focused movements, shedding new light on how members contest expe…

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Natasha L. Mikles, "Shattered Grief: How the Pandemic Transformed the Spirituality of Death in America" (Columbia UP, 2024) 56:06

5d ago56:06

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The COVID-19 pandemic left millions grieving their loved ones without the consolation of traditional ways of mourning. Patients were admitted to hospitals and never seen again. Social distancing often meant conventional funerals could not be held. Religious communities of all kinds were disrupted at the exact moment mourners turned to them for supp…

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PODCAST #118 1:42:20

11d ago1:42:20

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Why does the right and much of the left denounce the Frankfurt School? Green capitalism and climate anxiety vs. genuine concern for environmental protection. Closing music track Take the Wind by Jack Littman, used with permission.By John Steppling

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Jonathan Judaken, "Critical Theories of Anti-Semitism" (Columbia UP, 2024) 1:16:29

6d ago1:16:29

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Despite its persistence and viciousness, anti-Semitism remains undertheorized in comparison with other forms of racism and discrimination. How should anti-Semitism be defined? What are its underlying causes? Why do anti-Semites target Jews? In what ways has Judeophobia changed over time? What are the continuities and disconnects between mediaeval a…

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Neena Mahadev, "Karma and Grace: Religious Difference in Millennial Sri Lanka" (Columbia UP, 2023) 1:24:28

8d ago1:24:28

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Around the turn of the millennium, Pentecostal churches began to pepper majority-Buddhist Sri Lanka, setting off a sense of alarm among Buddhists who saw Christianity as a neocolonial threat to the nation. Rumors of foul play in the death of a Buddhist monk, as well as allegations of proselytizing in the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami and during the…

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Pierre Sokolsky, "Clock in the Sun: How We Came to Understand Our Nearest Star" (Columbia UP, 2024) 29:03

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On the surface of the Sun, spots appear and fade in a predictable cycle, like a great clock in the sky. In medieval Russia, China, and Korea, monks and court astronomers recorded the appearance of these dark shapes, interpreting them as omens of things to come. In Western Europe, by contrast, where a cosmology originating with Aristotle prevailed, …

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Amanda McMillan Lequieu, "Who We Are Is Where We Are: Making Home in the American Rust Belt" (Columbia UP, 2024) 41:40

9d ago41:40

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Half a century ago, deindustrialization gutted blue-collar jobs in the American Midwest. But today, these places are not ghost towns. People still call these communities home, even as they struggle with unemployment, poverty, and other social and economic crises. Why do people remain in declining areas through difficult circumstances? What do their…

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Housing for All with Chris Martin 1:35:18

12d ago1:35:18

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Money on the Left is joined by Dr. Chris Martin to discuss Modern Monetary Theory’s vital importance for the struggle to provide adequate housing for all. A Senior Research Fellow at the City Futures Research Centre at the University of New South Wales, Martin is a long-time tenant’s rights advocate in Australia with scholarly training in law and h…

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Sonja Mejcher-Atassi, "An Impossible Friendship: Group Portrait, Jerusalem Before and After 1948" (Columbia UP, 2024) 53:34

18d ago53:34

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In Jerusalem, as World War II was coming to an end, an extraordinary circle of friends began to meet at the bar of the King David Hotel. This group of aspiring artists, writers, and intellectuals—among them Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Sally Kassab, Walid Khalidi, and Rasha Salam, some of whom would go on to become acclaimed authors,…

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PODCAST #117 1:38:20

18d ago1:38:20

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Participants: John Steppling, Dennis Riches, Shaenah Batterson, Max Parry, Lex Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, & Johan Eddebo. Discussed in this edition: Escalation of war in Ukraine, the genocide in Palestine continues, was Joe Biden ever a “good, kind man”? protests in L.A. against the sale of Palestinian land reported as “antisemitism,” organizing, …

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Trish Kahle on the Labor History of Energy Systems 1:01:21

21d ago1:01:21

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Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks to Trish Kahle, Assistant Professor of History at Georgetown University-Qatar, about Kahle's new project, "Power Up: A Social History of American Electricity," which focuses especially on the labor history of both constructing and maintaining the electricity grid. They also talk about Kahle's forthcoming boo…

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Lecture 3: Theatre & Death (or introducing cinema) 1:22:27

25d ago1:22:27

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Lecture 3: Theatre & Death (or introducing cinema) by John StepplingBy John Steppling

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PODCAST #116 1:40:24

26d ago1:40:24

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Participants: John Steppling, Dennis Riches, Shaenah Batterson, Max Parry, and Hiroyuki Hamada. Topics covered: The green agenda, barriers to fossil fuel replacement, the energy footprint of artificial meat, the war on farmers, small business owners: are they the bourgeoisie or proletariat? splittism, dogmatism and purity tests of the Left, Russia …

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Allison Elias, "The Rise of Corporate Feminism: Women in the American Office, 1960-1990" (Columbia UP, 2022) 49:26

26d ago49:26

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From the 1960s through the 1990s, the most common job for women in the United States was clerical work. Even as college-educated women obtained greater opportunities for career advancement, occupational segregation by gender remained entrenched. How did feminism in corporate America come to represent the individual success of the executive woman an…

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Adrian Johnston, "Infinite Greed: The Inhuman Selfishness of Capital" (Columbia UP, 2024) 1:56:17

25d ago1:56:17

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Marxism and psychoanalysis have a rich and complicated relationship to one another, with countless figures and books written on the possible intersection of the two. Our guest today, Adrian Johnston, returns to NBN to discuss his own latest entry into the genre, Infinite Greed: The Inhuman Selfishness of Capital (Columbia UP, 2024). While the book …

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Episode 87: Tips for Spending, Saving, and making money Go further! 24:09

27d ago24:09

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2024 is more stressful than ever in human history. One way we can eliminate stress is by taking control of our finances and spending to think about money less than we currently do. So todays show is all about my financial tips to pay off debt and save more. Enjoy and let me know your questions. Leave me a Google Review here Follow me on socials her…

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Alex V. Barnard, "Conservatorship: Inside California's System of Coercion and Care for Mental Illness" (Columbia UP, 2023) 59:36

1M ago59:36

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Is involuntary psychiatric treatment the solution to the intertwined crises of untreated mental illness, homelessness, and addiction? In recent years, politicians and advocates have sought to expand the use of conservatorships, a legal tool used to force someone deemed “gravely disabled,” or unable to meet their needs for food, clothing, or shelter…

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Lisa M. P. Munoz, "Women in Science Now: Stories and Strategies for Achieving Equity" (Columbia UP, 2023) 36:44

1M ago36:44

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Women working in the sciences face obstacles at virtually every step along their career paths. From subtle slights to blatant biases, deep systemic problems block women from advancing or push them out of science and technology entirely. Women in Science Now: Stories and Strategies for Achieving Equity (Columbia UP, 2023) examines solutions to this …

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Lecture 2: Theatre and Mimesis 55:20

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Lecture 2: Theatre and Mimesis by John StepplingBy John Steppling

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PODCAST #115 1:27:42

1M ago1:27:42

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Participants: John Steppling, Dennis Riches, Shaenah Batterson, Johan Eddebo, Max Parry, and Hiroyuki Hamada.In this episode: Palestine and slave revolts. Surreal Politik: "Ukraine is winning", two mentally incompetent presidential candidates in the United Stats, a “peace conference” in Switzerland without one side in the conflict invited, provokin…

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Tessa Hill and Eric Simons, "At Every Depth: Our Growing Knowledge of the Changing Oceans" (Columbia UP, 2024) 53:01

1M ago53:01

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At Every Depth: Our Growing Knowledge of the Changing Oceans (Columbia UP, 2024) takes readers on a journey from California tidepools to Antarctic poles, showcasing myriad efforts to research and protect marine environments. Through insightful interviews, oceanographer Tessa Hill and science journalist Eric Simons offer a compelling exploration of …

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Timothy Morton, "Hell: In Search of a Christian Ecology" (Columbia UP, 2024) 1:07:01

1M ago1:07:01

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Hell on earth is real. The toxic fusion of big oil, Evangelical Christianity, and white supremacy has ignited a worldwide inferno, more phantasmagoric than anything William Blake could dream up and more cataclysmic than we can fathom. Escaping global warming hell, this revelatory book shows, requires a radical, mystical marriage of Christianity and…

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Episode 86: The Crucial importance of Focusing on Blood Sugar + Resistance Training 17:14

1M ago17:14

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This weeks show is a personal experience of my own of how I feel totally off when my blood sugar gets out of whack from two things...... Poor Nutritional choices (aka higher carbs) and not Resistance training. Blood Sugar is most heavily utilized and controlled by these Crucial levers. Listen in on the how and why in todays weekly coaching session.…

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PODCAST #114 1:34:58

1M ago1:34:58

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Participants: John Steppling, Shaenah Batterson, Johan Eddebo, Hiroyuki Hamada, Max Parry, Dennis Riches.Theme: A vast regression in public consciousness, sleepwalking to full war in Europe.By John Steppling

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Thomas Larkin, "The China Firm: American Elites and the Making of British Colonial Society" (Columbia UP, 2024) 32:10

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What roles did Americans play in the expanding global empires of the nineteenth century? In The China Firm: American Elites and the Making of British Colonial Society (Columbia University Press, 2024), Thomas M. Larkin examines the Hong Kong–based Augustine Heard & Company, the most prominent American trading firm in treaty-port China, to explore t…

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Lecture 1: Theatre and Space 1:14:12

1M ago1:14:12

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This is the first in a series of lectures, or educational video and audio programs, that will cover art, philosophy, culture, psychology, sociology and history. The learners we have in mind for these lectures are not only the familiar readership and listeners of John’s Aesthetic Resistance blog and podcast but also they are the younger everyman and…

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Nicholas Tampio, ed., "Democracy and Education" (Columbia UP, 2024) 1:21:08

1M ago1:21:08

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John Dewey's Democracy and Education (1916) transformed how people around the world view the purposes of schooling. This new edition makes Dewey's ideas come alive for a new generation of readers. Nicholas Tampio is a professor of political science at Fordham University. He is the author of Teaching Political Theory: A Pluralistic Approach (2022) a…

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The Black University Concept with Andrew J. Douglas 1:13:54

1M ago1:13:54

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Andrew J. Douglas, political theorist and professor of political science at Morehouse College, joins Money on the Left to discuss his latest article, “Modern Money and the Black University Concept,” published April 19, 2024, in Money on the Left: History, Theory, Practice. In the article as in the interview, Andrew stages critical encounters betwee…

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PODCAST #113 1:50:30

2M ago1:50:30

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Participants: John Steppling, Lex Steppling, Varun Mather, Shaenah Batterson, Cory Morningstar, Max Parry, Hiroyuki Hamada, Johan Eddebo, Dennis Riches. Topics covered: the slave revolt in Palestine, the financialization of the economy (case study: the live concert business), the individual's alienation from consumed cultural products, alienation f…

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Nicholas Hoover Wilson and Damon Mayrl, "After Positivism: New Approaches to Comparison in Historical Sociology" (Columbia UP, 2024) 1:08:09

2M ago1:08:09

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The scientific method that aspiring social scientists are taught in graduate school seems pretty straightforward: you start with a hypothesis, figure our how you’re going to operationalize and measure your variables, pick cases that provide a tough test of your hypothesis, then collect your data, analyze it, and report your findings. However, for c…

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PODCAST #112 1:45:21

2M ago1:45:21

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Participants: John Steppling, Lex Steppling, Shaenah Batterson, Johan Eddebo, Hiroyuki Hamada, Varun Mathur, Max Parry, Dennis Riches.Topics discussed: a week of assassination attempts, coups and suspicious deaths, Wikipedia censorship, Swedish Nazi "war heroes" in Ukraine, the clown world of Western leadership, Anthony Blinken rocking Kiev, the IC…

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Episode 85: Stop overcomplicating Exercise + Resistance training 27:50

2M ago27:50

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The internet and social media is filled with influencers massively overcomplicating fitness and exercise. Why does it have to be so hard? Well, it doesn't, and that is exactly what todays show is all about. Simplifying how to get started and also how to keep it going. Leave me a google review here. Visit my website here. Follow me on Socials here. …

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Laura Helton, "Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History" (Columbia UP, 2024) 55:31

2M ago55:31

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During the first half of the twentieth century, a group of collectors and creators dedicated themselves to documenting the history of African American life. At a time when dominant institutions cast doubt on the value or even the idea of Black history, these bibliophiles, scrapbookers, and librarians created an enduring set of African diasporic arc…

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Timothy P. A. Cooper, "Moral Atmospheres: Islam and Media in a Pakistani Marketplace" (Columbia UP, 2024) 59:01

2M ago59:01

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Lahore's Hall Road is the largest electronics market in Pakistan. Once the center of film and media piracy in South Asia, it now specializes in smartphones and accessories. For Hall Road's traders, conflicts between the economic promises and the moral dangers of film loom large. To reconcile their secular trade with their responsibilities as devote…

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Wei Wu, "Esoteric Buddhism in China: Engaging Japanese and Tibetan Traditions, 1912–1949" (Columbia UP, 2023) 1:08:02

2M ago1:08:02

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During the Republican period (1912–1949) and after, many Chinese Buddhists sought inspiration from non-Chinese Buddhist traditions, showing a particular interest in esoteric teachings. What made these Buddhists dissatisfied with Chinese Buddhism, and what did they think other Buddhist traditions could offer? Which elements did they choose to follow…

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At Every Depth: Our Growing Knowledge of the Changing Oceans 49:35

2M ago49:35

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Today’s book is: At Every Depth: Our Growing Knowledge of the Changing Oceans (Columbia UP, 2024), by Tessa Hill and Eric Simons, which takes readers beneath the waves and along the coasts, to explore how climate change and environmental degradation have spurred the most radical transformations in human history. The world’s oceans are changing at a…

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Episode 84: Nutrition Success: Staying on Track when Traveling 15:24

2M ago15:24

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Whether it's traveling for work or fun, staying on track with nutrition can be hard if you don't plan ahead. Thats what this show is all about, how to plan ahead for nutrition success when you have an upcoming trip. I'll basically be a tour guide for you on how to think of things differently when you are planning for an upcoming trip. Leave me a go…

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EPISODE #111 1:48:45

2M ago1:48:45

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Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, Max Parry, Cory Morningstar, Dennis Riches.In this episode: Gaza, Palestine, Trump derangement syndrome (2024 version), educational decline, True Detective (season one), the environmental and cultural impact of lawns and lawn mowing, two varieties of family reunions in Canada and Thailand.…

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Courtney Thorsson, "The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture" (Columbia UP, 2023) 1:00:46

2M ago1:00:46

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The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture (Columbia University Press, 2023) explores how an incredible group of Black women writers, including Alice Walker, June Jordan, Toni Morrison, Ntozake Shange, Audre Lorde, and writers and intellectuals convened an informal group called “The Sisterhood” and how they transf…

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PODCAST #110 1:35:55

2M ago1:35:55

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Participants: John Steppling, Johan Eddebo, Dennis Riches, Cory Morningstar, Shaenah Batterson, and Max Parry. Discussed in this episode: 1. The FBI tells Americans to prepare for a “heightened threat environment.” 2. Reactionary responses to the protests on American campuses 3. Echoes of 1968 in student protests—including the Democratic convention…

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Zahra Ayubi, "Gendered Morality: Classical Islamic Ethics of the Self, Family, and Society" (Columbia UP, 2019) 1:07:55

2M ago1:07:55

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How are notions of justice and equality constructed in Islamic virtue ethics (akhlaq)? How are Islamic virtue ethics gendered, despite their venture into perennial concerns of how best to live a good and ethical life? These are the questions that Zahra Ayubi, an assistant professor of religion at Dartmouth college, examines in her new book Gendered…

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Aesthetics after Autonomy with Grant Kester 1:42:34

2M ago1:42:34

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Money on the Left is joined by Grant Kester, professor of Art History at University of California, San Diego. We speak with Kester about his multi-decade career, researching and teaching the history of socially engaged art. Kester’s scholarship underscores the limits and contradictions of the dominant modern Western tradition of aesthetics. Such ae…

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