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Thesiswhisperer Pod Thesis Whisperer
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4.8 • 17 Ratings
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The podcast feed for Thesiswhisperer.com: tune in for audio projects produced by Professor Inger Mewburn from The Australian National University. Scroll down in the feed for past projects, including 'Academics Talk about The Chair' and 'Your brain on Writing'... Coming soon: 'Academic workers talk about Severance'
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Episode Nine: The We, we are
It's the final episode of Severance, and it's really fucking tense! For our final show this season, it's just us: Outie Anitra and Innie Inger, talking about episode 9.
So much happened this episode! So many big reveals, and new plot lines opened. Helly has the most Dystopian Cinderella moment, Mark is Ricken's fanboy, Dylan is taking one for the workers collective and Irv only says a single word (but he makes it count).
We still live in hope for season two - hopefully we won't be in the break room waiting too long!
Our office door is always open so please leave your comments in the suggestion box (well, the review section of whatever platform you are on right now).
Send us an email at inger@thesiswhisperer.com or record a speak pipe message at www.speakpipe.com/thesiswhisperer. You might want to tell us about this episode, your theories about what is actually being done at Lumon or speculate on plot points for season two. We'll read them all out in the last show!
For more information about us, visit the (Academic) Workers talk about Severance website.
You can find Anitra on BlueSky and Mastodon as @anitranot
You can find Inger on all the social channels as @thesiswhisperer -
Episode Eight: What's for dinner?
Worker solidarity is the theme of this episode, and in celebration, we invited Anitra's current boss, Geoff Stringer. Don't worry though - he's not going to rat us out to the higher ups.
The team dissect episode: What's for Dinner. This is the episode where Inger had to text Anitra all the way through because it was so damn tense. Plans are made, dreams are broken - most importantly, certain people are at the 'find out' stage of the Fuck Around journey. And we are here for every delicious moment!
Our office door is always open so please leave your comments in the suggestion box (well, the review section of whatever platform you are on right now).
Send us an email at inger@thesiswhisperer.com or record a speak pipe message at www.speakpipe.com/thesiswhisperer. You might want to tell us about this episode, your theories about what is actually being done at Lumon or speculate on plot points for season two. We'll read them all out in the last show!
For more information about us, visit the (Academic) Workers talk about Severance website.
You can find Anitra on BlueSky and Mastodon as @anitranot
You can find Inger on all the social channels as @thesiswhisperer -
Episode Seven: Defiant Jazz
You'll never look at mandated company fun the same way after this episode, especially when it becomes clear that inter-departmental politics can get its own body count.
Prof Narelle Lemon, who is now at Edith Cowan University, joins us again to dissect episode seven of Severance. There's so much in this episode - the action is really heating up. Milcheck tries his best to keep a lid on the simmering tensions, and only earns himself a bite from Dylan. There is no Ricken in this episode, but he is till present in his absence.
Everything seems to be heading in a bad direction - but will worker solidarity win out over corporate oppression? We can't wait to find out.
Our office door is always open so please leave your comments in the suggestion box (well, the review section of whatever platform you are on right now).
Send us an email at inger@thesiswhisperer.com or record a speak pipe message at www.speakpipe.com/thesiswhisperer. You might want to tell us about this episode, your theories about what is actually being done at Lumon or speculate on plot points for season two. We'll read them all out in the last show!
For more information about us, visit the (Academic) Workers talk about Severance website.
You can find Anitra on BlueSky and Mastodon as @anitranot
You can find Inger on all the social channels as @thesiswhisperer -
Episode Five: The grim barbarity of optics and design
We saved this one for Anitra's co-worker and Director of Digital Experience, Joyce Seitzinger, because it is the infamous "bring-your-baby-goat-to-work" day episode.
There is also a lot of Ricken in this ep, which gives us an excuse to talk about our favourite academic. Anitra compares Ricken to Yoda while Joyce points out that the comparison works only if Yoda were really really self-involved. Plus, mysterious baby goats.
Our office door is always open so please leave your comments in the suggestion box (well, the review section of whatever platform you are on right now).
Send us an email at inger@thesiswhisperer.com or record a speak pipe message at www.speakpipe.com/thesiswhisperer. You might want to tell us about this episode, your theories about what is actually being done at Lumon or speculate on plot points for season two. We'll read them all out in the last show!
For more information about us, visit the (Academic) Workers talk about Severance website.
You can find Anitra on BlueSky and Mastodon as @anitranot
You can find Inger on all the social channels as @thesiswhisperer -
Episode Six: Hide and Seek
Love is in the air in episode six of Severance, where inter-departmental politics is platonic. Sort of. Maybe. Bert and Irv grow closer, Mark and Helly take the work flirt to the next level and Devon has a mysterious encounter in the local park...
Anitra's work colleague and future novel co-writer Chris joins us this week to dissect the many Kier mystery kinda-reveals. He also gives us a word to describe that spooky feeling of buildings that should be full of people, but aren't. A word we all need after lockdown for sure.
Our office door is always open so please leave your comments in the suggestion box (well, the review section of whatever platform you are on right now).
Send us an email at inger@thesiswhisperer.com or record a speak pipe message at www.speakpipe.com/thesiswhisperer. You might want to tell us about this episode, your theories about what is actually being done at Lumon or speculate on plot points for season two. We'll read them all out in the last show!
For more information about us, visit the (Academic) Workers talk about Severance website.
You can find Anitra on BlueSky and Mastodon as @anitranot
You can find Inger on all the social channels as @thesiswhisperer -
Episode four: The You you are
In this episode we are joined by Inger’s ANU colleague and fellow podcaster Will Grant and we are talking about how no one wants to go into the break room. Like, ever.
We dissect Cobel’s (unasked for) freelancing — ‘wet work’ at Petey’s funeral — and whether or not she is getting any stock options. Will disturbingly points out the ways humans are never very far away from choosing violence.
Our office door is always open so please leave your comments in the suggestion box (well, the review section of whatever platform you are on right now).
Send us an email at inger@thesiswhisperer.com or record a speak pipe message at www.speakpipe.com/thesiswhisperer. You might want to tell us about this episode, your theories about what is actually being done at Lumon or speculate on plot points for season two. We'll read them all out in the last show!
For more information about us, visit the (Academic) Workers talk about Severance website.
You can find Anitra on BlueSky and Mastodon as @anitranot
You can find Inger on all the social channels as @thesiswhisperer
Customer Reviews
Fantastic but could do without the long recap
I am thoroughly enjoying your new podcast. I love the banter and analysis by a bunch of academics like myself. However I feel like fast forwarding the recap. It’s too long and I’ve already seen the ep. I want to hear you wonderful bunch of women talk about it.
Very disappointing. You made me sad, The Chair didn’t.
I invite you to listen to your podcast and mine it for ageism (at least the first one, I won’t be listening to the rest). I am an academic, female, from a working class background. I’m older than all of you, so that’s a brief part of my PoV. I adored The Chair, related to it a great deal and laughed a lot. I though I’d laugh a lot at your podcast, but it made me sad that you so clearly find the older faculty members in both The Chair and real life so disposable. You talk about the ‘invisible older woman’ as though you are empathising with her, but then you generalise how all ‘people of THAT generation’ are not into online learning, resistant to student engagement, and how the fact that COVID has made a lot of us leave is not a bad thing. Wow. You made me feel terrible and that fact that this came from a group of female academics who clearly think of themselves and intellectual powerhouses was really, really disappointing.
Enjoyable
Academics are indeed divided on this! I enjoyed the commentary on the first episode.