This episode’s main focus continues the conversation of media narrative analysis, focusing on the internal negotiation of subjectivity and the process of reading and engaging with subjects. Primarily I confront narrative simplifications. Narrative simplifications of subjects are the mediated frameworks that can enforce hegemonic, linear, and binary presumptions of existence as subjective points of reference. Queering subjectivities dismantles these presumptions.

Also today, I highlight a band from Seattle, NAVVI, who released an EP and album this past August, and I briefly introduce #QueerCinemaForPalestine, the group spearheading the boycott of this year’s TLVFest.

Sources and recommended readings

Transcript

Today’s retrospect: “#QueerCinemaForPalestine”

Queer Cinema for Palestine

“10 Queer Arab films to watch during pride month”

“The Palestinian Exception to Free Speech”

Today’s Highlight: “NAVVI from Seattle”

NAVVI on bandcamp

NAVVI on Soundcloud

NAVVI on Twitter

Today’s main focus: “Queering Subjectivities”

Randall Amster. 2012. Anarchism Today

Walter Benjamin. 1936. “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.”

Jonathan Ned Katz. 1997. “The Invention of Heterosexuality.”

Eli Manning. 2009. “A Queer Disruption to Methodology.”

Philip K. Dick. 1978. “How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart in Two Days.”

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About the podcast

The ethnomedialogue podcast is a bi-weekly audio presentation dedicated to the critical exploration of media narratives in the digital age. Our primary goal is to investigate power and representation in media--specifically the structure, scope, and the ideology of media narratives. I am interested in the gap between where culture is performed and where it is defined, and I think in our present world, media sits in the middle of that gap where it represents the primary mode of control over the articulation of “Culture,” broadly interpreted, and subsequently our (various communities’) connection to it. Research, writing, editing, music, and narration by me, Bret Woods (pronouns: they/them/their). If you like what I'm doing, please consider supporting this work on Patreon.

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