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Post45: Contemporaries

A discursive cultural criticism podcast from Post45: Contemporaries, responding to and exploring the clusters of writing we publish at https://post45.org/contemporaries/. Find Contemporaries on Twitter @AtPost45.

  1. 06/02/2025

    Episode 21: Samuel Delany

    Pod45 returns with a discussion on, in, and around our recent cluster Samuel R. Delany's Improbable Communities. Contemporaries co-editor Francisco Robles hosts a conversation with cluster editor Blake Stricklin, and cluster contributors Y Howard, Kirin Wachter-Grene, Rebekah Sheldon, and Christopher Breu.

    1h 28m

  2. 11/18/2024

    Episode 20: Suspicion

    Pod45's 20th episode spectacular! To discuss our recent cluster on Suspicion, Contemporaries co-editor Francisco Robles is joined by cluster editor Eleanor Russell and cluster contributors Olivia Stowell, Sheera Talpaz, and Samuel Catlin. You can read all the essays in the Suspicion cluster now at: https://post45.org/sections/contemporaries-essays/suspicion/ Hosted and produced by Michael Docherty.

    1h 27m

  3. 10/17/2024

    Episode 19: American Bimbo

    Welcome back to another episode of Pod45, the podcast companion to Post45: Contemporaries, with your host Michael Docherty. Today’s discussion responds to our recent cluster American Bimbo. Joining Michael in a conversation about the enduring potency and complexity of the bimbo as an American cultural figure, celebrity and media in the 2000s, and more recent hyperonline reclamations and revisions of bimbodom, are Emmeline Clein, who edited the cluster, and two of its fantastic contributors – Rax King and Rob Franklin. Read American Bimbo now at https://post45.org/sections/contemporaries-essays/american-bimbo, where you can also find hundreds more incisive and insightful essays on contemporary literature and culture. Emmeline Clein (emmelineclein.net; @emmelclein) is the author of Dead Weight (2024). Rax King (raxkingisdead.com; @raxkingisdead)is the author of Tacky (2021) and the forthcoming Sloppy (2025). Rob Franklin (robert-michael-franklin.com; @robfrank__) is the author of the forthcoming Great Black Hope (2025). Michael Docherty (michaeldocherty.co.uk; @maybeavalon) is the author of The Recursive Frontier: Race, Space, and the Literary Imagination of Los Angeles (2024). This episode was written, produced, and engineered by Michael Docherty for Post45.

    1h 10m

  4. 06/25/2024

    Episode 18: Reading Disco Elysium

    Today on Pod45 we turn our attention to our recent cluster Reading Disco Elysium, edited by Jess Anderson and Carl White. Disco Elysium is a critically acclaimed videogame first released in 2019. It has been widely recognized for the richness of its storytelling, its political, moral, and ethical complexity, and how it plays with questions of choice, agency, and narrative structure in ways that fundamentally destabilize the gaming experience. That is to say, Disco Elysium is an incredibly readerly text, one that we were delighted to invite Jess, Carl, and their brilliant contributors to reflect on in this cluster. One of those contributors, Hayley Toth, joined Jess, Carl, and Contemporaries co-editor Michael Docherty, for this Pod45 conversation. You can find all the wonderful essays in Reading Disco Elysium at https://post45.org/sections/contemporaries-essays/reading-disco-elysium/ now. At https://post45.org/contemporaries/ you can also find our archive of over sixty more clusters. Follow us on Twitter/X, Instagram, Threads, and Bluesky: the handle everywhere is @AtPost45. If you’re interested in pitching us an idea for a cluster, please email us at post45contemporaries@gmail.com. Further information on what we look for in a pitch can be found on our website.

    56 min

  5. 05/27/2024

    Episode 17: Contemporary Literature from the Classroom

    Pod45 returns after a hiatus with a bumper episode responding to Contemporary Literature from the Classroom, a recent cluster edited by Rebecca Roach - available now at post45.org/contemporaries. Today's episode is a departure from our usual format. We begin as we always do, with a rich and wide-ranging roundtable discussion building on the cluster at hand: Contemporaries co-editor Michael Docherty hosts; his guests are cluster editor Rebecca Roach, and cluster contributors John Roache (no relation) and Tim Lanzendörfer. But in the second half we bring you something different: a very special conversation between Rebecca and Adrienne Ghaly, co-creator of Read for Action, also known as the Humanitarian Book Club. Thanks for sticking with us at Pod45: we've got exciting plans afoot to start bringing you episodes on a more regular and reliable basis. If you're enjoying the episodes, please tell friends and colleagues, and don't forget to rate and review us on your podcast platform of choice. https://post45.org/sections/contemporaries-essays/contemporary-literature-from-the-classroom/ https://x.com/AtPost45 https://www.readforaction.org/

    1h 43m

  6. 01/29/2024

    Episode 16: The Bachelor

    Welcome back to another year of Pod45! In today's episode, Post45: Contemporaries co-editor Francisco Robles sits down to discuss our recent cluster on The Bachelor with the cluster's editors, Rhya Moffitt and Annie Bares, and two of its contributors, Robin Hershkowitz and Emily Edwards. You can read The Bachelor at https://post45.org/sections/contemporaries-essays/the-bachelor/ now. Pod45 is hosted and produced by Michael Docherty.

    1h 28m

  7. 11/10/2023

    Episode 15: Heteropessimism

    Contemporaries co-editor Michael Docherty discusses our recent Heteropessimism cluster with two of its co-editors, Annabel Barry and Caroline Godard. The cluster's third co-editor was Jane Ward. You can read all the essays in the Heteropessimism cluster now at https://post45.org/sections/contemporaries-essays/heteropessimism/

    41 min

  8. 09/25/2023

    Episode 14: Abortion Now, Abortion Forever

    After a short summer hiatus, Pod45 is back! We're delighted to bring you an episode discussing our recent 16-piece marathon cluster Abortion Now, Abortion Forever, which was published to mark the anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision in the case of Dobbs vs. Jackson Women's Health Organization. This urgently important cluster can be found at https://post45.org/sections/contemporaries-essays/abortion-now-abortion-forever/. In conversation on the cluster and the issues to which it responds are Contemporaries editor-in-chief Gloria Fisk and cluster editors Margaret Ronda, Jena DiMaggio, and Jeannette Schollaert. As Margaret, Jena, and Jeannette write in their introduction, "abortion aid funds and reproductive health collectives can always use more assistance, and we encourage everyone reading this cluster to donate if they can!" Please visit: National Network of Abortion Funds https://abortionfunds.org/ The National Network of Abortion Funds builds power with members to remove financial and logistical barriers to abortion access by centering people who have abortions and organizing at the intersections of racial, economic, and reproductive justice. Sister Song https://www.sistersong.net/  SisterSong’s mission is to strengthen and amplify the collective voices of indigenous women and women of color to achieve reproductive justice by eradicating reproductive oppression and securing human rights. Student Coalition for Reproductive Justice https://www.thescrj.org/donate Towards the end of this episode, we discuss Jena's involvement with the Student Coalition for Reproductive Justice, which is doing incredible work on college campuses across the USA. The SCRJ's mission is to educate and empower youth to take charge of their reproductive autonomy. Through intentional engagement and strategic activism, the SCRJ endeavors to break the systematic barriers that prevent equitable access for all students to reproductive health care and quality sexual education.

    59 min
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A discursive cultural criticism podcast from Post45: Contemporaries, responding to and exploring the clusters of writing we publish at https://post45.org/contemporaries/. Find Contemporaries on Twitter @AtPost45.

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  • Creator
    Post45: Contemporaries
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2025
  • Episodes
    21
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © Post45: Contemporaries
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