Time Sensitive

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Time Sensitive

A podcast featuring candid, revealing long-form interviews with curious and courageous people about their life and work through the lens of time. Host Spencer Bailey speaks with leading minds on how they think about time broadly and how specific moments in time have shaped who they are today. Explore more at timesensitive.fm

  1. Marcia Bjornerud on the Profound Wisdom of Rocks

    HACE 2 DÍAS

    Marcia Bjornerud on the Profound Wisdom of Rocks

    The geologist Marcia Bjornerud, author of the new book “Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks,” discusses the power of looking at the world through a Deep Time lens, why we’re currently in what she considers a “golden age” of geoscience, and what a “time literate” society would mean for humanity and the planet.

    59 min
  2. Nachson Mimran on Leveraging Privilege for Good and in Service of Others

    13 NOV

    Nachson Mimran on Leveraging Privilege for Good and in Service of Others

    Nachson Mimran, the co-founder of The Alpina Gstaad hotel in the Swiss Alps as well as the co-founder of the decarbonization, refugee empowerment, and “human optimization” organization to.org, discusses his big-picture view of the word hospitality; how a family tragedy led him and his brother to create to.org; and his bold vision for building transformative spaces for culture, art, and well-being in refugee settlements.

    54 min
  3. Jonathan Lethem on Novel Writing as a Memory Art

    30 OCT

    Jonathan Lethem on Novel Writing as a Memory Art

    The novelist, essayist, and cultural critic Jonathan Lethem, author of the new book “Cellophane Bricks: A Life in Visual Culture” (ZE Books), discusses his passion for book dedications; the time he spent with James Brown and Bob Dylan, respectively, when profiling them for Rolling Stone in the mid-aughts; how his writing is, in part, a way of dealing with and healing from his mother’s death in 1978, at age 36; and why he views his work as “fundamentally commemorative.”

    1 h y 12 min
  4. Lindsey Adelman on the Transformative Nature of Light

    23 OCT

    Lindsey Adelman on the Transformative Nature of Light

    The lighting designer Lindsey Adelman discusses her recent decision to shift her company away from a large-scale production operation and toward a smaller, more intimate “studio” model; the great surprise of having one of her designs installed in Vice President Kamala Harris’s Washington, D.C., home; her love of hosting; and the various writers and artists who have helped shape her conceptions of light over the years.

    1 h
  5. Paul Goldberger on Architecture as an Act of Optimism

    9 OCT

    Paul Goldberger on Architecture as an Act of Optimism

    The Pulitzer Prize–winning architecture critic Paul Goldberger discusses the staying power of Philip Johnson’s Glass House as it turns 75, the evolution of architecture over the past century, what he’s learned from writing architects’ obituaries, and the Oreo cookie from a design perspective.

    1 h y 12 min
  6. Francesco Clemente on Painting as Poetry and Performance

    25 SEPT

    Francesco Clemente on Painting as Poetry and Performance

    The artist Francesco Clemente discusses collaborating with the chef Daniel Humm on the soon-to-open Clemente Bar at Eleven Madison Park, frescoes as the most luminous artistic medium, the lifelong influence of the artists Cy Twombly and Joseph Beuys on his work, his deep affinity with India, and the certain timeworn quality to his art.

    59 min
  7. Sarah Lewis on “Aesthetic Force” as a Path Toward Justice

    18 SEPT

    Sarah Lewis on “Aesthetic Force” as a Path Toward Justice

    Historian and author Sarah Lewis, the founder of the Vision & Justice initiative and an associate professor of the humanities and African and African-American studies at Harvard, discusses the tension between pedagogy and propaganda; the deep influence of Frederick Douglass’s 1861 “Pictures and Progress” lecture on her work; how a near-death car crash altered the course of her life and her new book, “The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America”; and the special ability of certain photographs to stop time.

    1 h y 4 min
  8. Rita Sodi on Food as a Reflection of Home

    4 SEPT

    Rita Sodi on Food as a Reflection of Home

    Rita Sodi, the chef-owner of I Sodi and co-owner (with her life and work partner, Jody Williams) of Via Carota, The Commerce Inn, and Bar Pisellino, discusses learning to cook from her mother, her atypical journey from fashion to food, and some of the stringent rules she follows in the kitchen and in life.

    58 min
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A podcast featuring candid, revealing long-form interviews with curious and courageous people about their life and work through the lens of time. Host Spencer Bailey speaks with leading minds on how they think about time broadly and how specific moments in time have shaped who they are today. Explore more at timesensitive.fm

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  • Creador
    The Slowdown
  • Años de actividad
    2019 - 2024
  • Episodios
    127
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