15 episodes
Dope Excerpts Adam R Garcia
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5.0 • 15 Ratings
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Dope Excerpts is a simple idea, a podcast where your host Adam reads selected texts to you from his bookshelves in Los Angeles. Insightful, inspiring and informative pieces of books, essays, poems and original work are delivered and briefly discussed as a way to showcase poignant ideas and share. Thanks for listening. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/adamrgarcia/support
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Dope Excerpts — Ep 14 / Neologitron Interview
It's been a hot minute, but I'm more than excited to share this one with you. Not a book excerpt (sorry), but a conversation / interview about a project I created called NEOLOGITRON. This project uses AI to generate neologisms - new words - along with their definitions and an illustration, that all focus on ideas of speculative futures. You can check the project on instagram.com/neologitron
The interview itself is an thrilling conversation between me and my AI collaborator, trying to break the black box open a bit and understand how it generates words linguistically, how it deals with bias in the data it pulls, how it understands the aesthetic function of illustrating a concept, and I even ask it to suggest some books to read. It's a pleasant convo.
Don't be mad that this ain't an actual book excerpt. I'd argue it's better. Hugs. Love, Adam
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Dope Excerpts — Ep 13 / Glossary
For this Excerpt, instead of a book or a text, I re-recorded a lecture that I gave to graduating seniors from Portland State University's School of Art+Design program in May of 2022 (where I used to teach a Senior Thesis course in Design and Collaboration). It's a Glossary of words that I use to frame my approach to life, and wanted to be able to equip the students with a bit of that thinking as they head out of academia. In the original lecture there are simple visuals of the words, and musician Elliot Ross / Moongriffin supported by playing ambient synths in the background to add a vibe. For the sake of this recording, it's just the words. Thank you to Kate Bingaman-Burt for inviting me to speak, and all the students that I had the opportunity to have conversations with. Hope y'all enjoy.
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Dope Excerpts — Ep 12 / Dialectic of Pop (Table of Contents Special)
It's been a while, and I miss the heck out of you. For episode 12 I'm playing with the structure of the pod and sharing some insight on Agnés Gayraud's "Dialectic of Pop," via its incredible table of contents.Thanks for listening.
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Dope Excerpts — Ep11 / Raised in Captivity
Today I'm reading the titular short story from Chuck Klosterman's new collection of "Fictional Nonfiction" — Raised in Captivity. Big shout out to Mr. Klosterman who so kindly responded to me sliding in his DMs to ask for permission. Oh, and sorry for the egregious mispronunciation of "taupe." It was the heat of the moment and I fumbled, okay? Enjoy.
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Dope Excerpts — Ep 10 / Bread & Circuses
In episode 10 of Dope Excerpts, I'm sharing an article from one of my favorite mags, New Philosopher, called "Bread and Circuses." It's about attention, and media, and sport, and politics and oh heck just check it out.
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Dope Excerpts — Ep 09 / A Sideways Look at Time
A one-shot super-read of Jay Griffith's book "A Sideways Look at Time." This book is a mesmerizing mix of information on our perception and experience of time, delivered poetically in Jay's whimsical writing style. A conceptual follow-up to Episode 04, and a fun one to read. Thanks for listening.
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Customer Reviews
Wonderful curation of readings
Adam does a great job of picking excerpts. I love hearing these snippets of ideas and different ways of thinking. He does a great job reading too.
Tasteful
Adam has a soothing voice which pairs nicely with his readings. He selects thought provoking topics and is able to clearly articulate his thoughts about the literature.