15 episodes
Liberal Arts the Podcast Nichole Almanzar and Drew Cunningham
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- Society & Culture
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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Nichole and Drew invite guests who have studied the liberal arts to revisit written work, such as essays and lab reports, which they completed while in college. After having read excerpts of their work, guests provide a bit of commentary, and, then, Nichole and Drew add their two cents. The emphasis is on questionable and hard to defend conclusions, silly subject matters, and funnily constructed sentences, though, as always, the hosts are hoping, as well, to learn something new!
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Mythical Norms and Dangerous Fantasies
Nichole and Drew discuss Audre Lorde's paper "Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefined Difference" delivered at Amherst College in 1980.
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WWBD... What Would Benjamin Do?
In this episode, Nichole and Drew literally tackle the last part of Benjamin's art essay.
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Meet Me in Manhattan Court
In this episode, Nichole and Drew continue with their discussion of Benjamin's essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction."
Adorno's response to Benjamin's essay in the New Left Review
Benjamin's Author as Producer
Patricia Leighton's The White Peril and L'art Nègre: Picasso, Primitivism, and Anticolonialism -
The Tea Must Be Ginger Because It's Spicy
In this episode, Nichole and Drew tackle the first half of Walter Benjamin's infamous essay-- "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (1935). Be prepared to inhale some Marxism!
Modernism Lab -- introduction to the essay -
The Architect
In this episode, Nichole and Drew join Molly in discussing a paper she wrote way back in 2019 about social media and revolutions.
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Is She Wrong Though?
In this episode, Nichole and Drew conclude discussing the life and times of Susan Sontag, meeting, along the way, some very controversial topics.
Sontag's comments regarding 9/11 to the New Yorker
Sontag: Her Life and Work (2019) by Benjamin Moser
Reborn, Early Diaries 1947-1963 by Susan Sontag