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Papyrus: The Invention of books in the ancient world
August 08, 2023 05:11 - 25 minutes - 23 MBBy Irene Vallejo
Boredom
July 28, 2023 21:25 - 2 minutes - 2.66 MBBoredom at home vs boredom in a different location
Art History After Modernism
July 05, 2023 19:11 - 45 minutes - 41.5 MBArguing that contemporary art has burst out of the frame that art history has built for it, Belting calls for an entirely new approach to thinking and writing about art.
The Big Aiiieeeeeee!
April 18, 2023 16:54 - 1 hour - 99.4 MBAn anthology of Chinese American and Japanese American Literature, 1991
Literature
April 10, 2023 19:41 - 40 minutes - 36.8 MBJournals, bits and pieces, bobs. Article by Kevin Tsai in “Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature, 2008”
The Invisible Masterpiece
March 23, 2023 17:33 - 55 minutes - 50.8 MBThe “invisible masterpiece” is an unattainable ideal, a work of art into which a dream of absolute art is incorporated but can never be realized. Using this metaphor borrowed from Balzac, Hans Belting explores how the status and meaning of the “masterpiece” have been elevated and denigrated since the early 19th century. Before 1800, works of art were either imitative (portraits and landscapes) or narrative (history painting). But under the influence of Romantic modernity, the physical object ...
Why Art Sucks
March 18, 2023 03:37 - 34 minutes - 31.6 MBA selection of my various gripes and resentments toward the art world and art in general --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
How Poetry can change your Heart
March 14, 2023 16:23 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MBA series of explorations into the emotions that poetry can conjure up in our deepest psyches.
Lenapehoking: An Anthology
March 08, 2023 01:21 - 12 minutes - 11.6 MBA collection of Lenape voices. Lenape: The Original People of the Island of Manhatta.
Air Guitar
March 07, 2023 18:59 - 2 hours - 124 MBA collection of essays by the late, great Dave Hickey!!!!!
Interesting articles in no particular order
March 06, 2023 16:54 - 32 minutes - 29.9 MBA selection of articles.
Art and the Creative Unconscious
March 05, 2023 15:25 - 21 minutes - 19.8 MBFour essays on the relation of the artist to his/her culture by Dr. Erich Neumann. The archetypes of the collective unconscious are intrinsically formless psychic components that assume form in art. The mediums of expression through which they pass, the time and place in which they occur, and above all the psychology of the individual in whom they appear mold their varying forms.
Byung Chul Han
March 05, 2023 02:03 - 23 minutes - 21.6 MBExcerpts from books by Korean philosopher Byung Chul Han
Vanishing New York: How a great city lost its Soul
February 27, 2023 15:14 - 21 minutes - 19.2 MBBook by city historian Jeremiah Moss
Readings on American Racism
February 17, 2023 04:25 - 14 minutes - 13.2 MBCollected articles and essays on American racism
Seven Taoist Masters
February 11, 2023 17:19 - 25 minutes - 23.4 MBThis tale of adventure interweaves history and legend to vibrantly present the fundamentals of Taoism. Written by an unknown author, Seven Taoist Masters is the story of six men, and one woman who overcome tremendous hardships on the journey to self-mastery. This novel brings to life the essentials of Taoist philosophy, and practice both through Wang’s instructions on such topics as the cultivation of mind and body; meditation techniques, and overcoming the four obstacles of creed, anger, lus...
Sacred and Profane Beauty
January 30, 2023 14:58 - 52 minutes - 47.7 MBThe Holy in Art. An investigation of the relationship between the holy and the beautiful. Van der Leeuw undertakes to show that the holy has never been absent from the arts and the arts have never been unresponsive to the holy. Primitive creation in the arts was always directed toward the symbolization and interpretation of the holy. Gerardus Van der Leeuw, late professor of the history of religion at the University of Groningen, is generally regarded as the most important, systematic and sci...
Dante excerpts
December 21, 2022 19:00 - 34 minutes - 31.1 MBDante’s Inferno, in no particular order
Cannibalism as Metaphor
December 14, 2022 13:21 - 52 minutes - 47.9 MB“Devouring the Other: Cannibalism, translation and the construction of cultural identity”, by Rainer Guldin, 2014
American Puritanism
December 04, 2022 13:31 - 6 minutes - 5.84 MBSome articles on the topic of Puritanism in American society
Making More Waves
December 04, 2022 12:59 - 45 minutes - 41.9 MBNew writing by Asian American women, 1997
The Expulsion of the Other
September 04, 2022 14:55 - 21 minutes - 19.6 MBBy Byung-Chul Han “The days of the other are over in this age of excessive communication information and consumption. What used to be the other as friend, as Eros, or as hell is now indistinguishable from the self and our narcissistic desire to assimilate everything and everyone until there are no boundaries left. The result is a terror of the same lives in which we no longer pursue knowledge, insight, and experience but are instead reduced to the echo chambers and illusory encounters offered...
Post-Colonial Astrology
August 16, 2022 12:40 - 44 minutes - 40.6 MBReading the planets through Capital, Power, and Labor by Alice Sparkly Kat
American Chinatown: A peoples history of five neighborhoods
August 09, 2022 15:55 - 1 hour - 99.7 MBWhere in America can you visit another country without needing a passport?Chinatown USA: a world within a world and a state of mind. In American Chinatown, acclaimed travel writer Bonnie Tsui takes an affectionate and attentive look at the neighborhood that has bewitched her since childhood. Tsui visits the country’s five most famous China towns and focuses on the intriguing characters who live in these enclaves. For anyone who has ever wandered through Chinatown and wondered what it was all ...
How to read Chinese poetry in context
August 02, 2022 21:45 - 35 minutes - 32.3 MBPoetic culture from antiquity through the Tang, by Zong-qi Cai
Against Anti-Asian Hatred
July 27, 2022 16:21 - 11 minutes - 10.7 MBArticles that unpack the harmful stereotypes of Asians in the collective Western consciousness.
Zeros and Ones
July 21, 2022 20:02 - 26 minutes - 24.6 MB“Digital women and the new technoculture: Zeros and ones is a provocative and inspiring manifesto on the relationship between women and machines not since “The Female Eunuch” has there been a book so radical in its scope so persuasive in its detail so exhilarating in its polemical energy.”
East Asia in the 21st Century
May 07, 2022 20:15 - 1 hour - 81.5 MBA selection of articles and stories concerning East Asian countries in recent times.
Religions of Ancient China
March 27, 2022 15:08 - 45 minutes - 41.8 MBA short introduction to the religions of ancient China, collected and compiled by Herbert A. Giles, Professor of Chinese at the University of Cambridge
Godzilla: Asian American Arts Network
March 07, 2022 20:21 - 13 minutes - 12.2 MBExcerpts from Godzilla: Asian American Arts Network, an anthology of archival material documenting the wide ranging activities in contemporary art and social advocacy undertaken by the art collective known as Godzilla. Over the past two decades, interest in this group of Asian American artists curators and writers has grown among a new generation contending with the politics of representation and the persistence of institutional racism in the cultural field.
Monologues from Yanyan’s life
January 21, 2022 05:36 - 21 minutes - 19.6 MBShort memoirs and accounts of my days. Welcome to banality.
Chinese Ideas in the West
January 20, 2022 20:08 - 42 minutes - 38.7 MBAsian Topics in World History at Columbia University