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In this week’s episode, we look at Linda Nochlin’s groundbreaking 1971 essay Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists. Join us as we investigate Nochlin’s examination of institutional and societal barriers that have prevented women’s access to artistic recognition and success. We discuss in detail who Linda Nochlin is, why this essay is so important to feminist art theory and art history and reflect on the relevance of this essay today.  

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Welcome to our first ‘Introduction To...’ of the season! In this episode we introduce you to Poststructuralism, outline what this concept is, where it came from, and who the poststructuralists are (despite their insistence to the contrary).  

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Join us for our second ever author interview, in which we are joined by J. Daniel Luther and Roshan Johri to discuss Luther’s book Queering Normativity and South Asian Public Culture: Wrong Readings Only (2023). In this episode we discuss how normativity functions, and how difficult it can be to interrogate. We discuss how to find and create a queer archive, or an archive of ‘the normal’. Daniel and Roshan also discuss publishing outside of academia, and academic practices more generally.  

J. Daniel Luther is Associate Programme Director at the Rhodes Trust, University of Oxford (UK). They are the co-founder of the international platform and network called ‘Queer’ Asia. They have previously taught at the Department of Gender Studies at LSE (UK) as a LSE fellow in Gender, Film and Media, and at the University of Warwick, and SOAS, University of London. Their doctoral research examined the production and reiteration of gender and sexual norms in South Asian public culture. They are the co-editor of ‘Queer’ Asia: Decolonising and Reimagining Gender and Sexuality (2019). 

Roshan Johri is a Masters student in English at the Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence Delhi NCR. Johri helped support with creation of the book through conceptual editing and proof reading.  

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Following on from Part 1, this episode discusses the last three chapters of Eve Kosofsky Sedwick's seminal 1990 text, Epistemology of the closet. Join us as we discuss sentimentality, homosexuality in Renaissance England, and the idea of a closet made of glass.

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Join us as we dive into Walter Benjamin's 1935 essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. In this episode we cover the history and context of this essay; the difference between mechanical production and traditional art production; Benjamin's changing relationship to Aura; film and the production of film.

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This special bonus episode was filmed live on the 6th December 2023 at 1 Mill Street Leamington Spa, UK.

In this episode, we connect Season 1 and Season 2 by talking about one of our favourite thinkers, Walter Benjamin. How has our relationship to the camera changed in the age of new technology? Artificial intelligence, digital filters, and voice changers can impact upon the way we understand ourselves through the lens of the camera. Drawing on themes raised in the first season, this discussion uses feminism, art history, and visual sociology to help unpack the question: is aura dead?

This episode formed part of the a series called Encounters, a curated series of four conversations between University of Warwick academics and guests. This event was supported by Resonate - a project by the Warwick Institute of Engagement at the University of Warwick.

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Welcome to the final episode of Theoryish Season One! We've had a really wonderful time with you all and will be back January 2024. Until then, please continue to listen, share, like, and follow - see you soon!  

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In this episode, Hannah is joined once again by dipbuk Panchal to discuss Stuart Hall's 2017 text The Fateful Triangle: Race, Ethnicity, Nation. We go through the first chapter of the book titled Race - The Sliding Signifier. This is a chapter with a lot of theoretical depth and so we take you through some of the key terms of the text such as 'signified', 'discourse' and 'power'. In addition to this, we also relate the text to other source material, and dipbuk talks about their research with the police.

dipbuk is a PhD researcher in the Sociology department at the University of Warwick. They research policing through an intersectional lens, and in particular focus on the relationship between the body and the police uniform with regards to power and identity.

Paola was away for the episode due to a visit with family, but will be back for our season finale.

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This episode contains discussions of 19th and early 20th century American history, slavery, racism and race.

In this episode we are joined by dipbuk Panchal to discuss W. E. B. Du Bois seminal 1903 text The Souls of Black Folk. We take you through Du Bois' life, as well contextualise why this book was so important for the time. We cover some of Du Bois' main theories including the colour-line, the Veil, and double-consciousness. We finish by thinking about Du Bois' relationship with religion, and tracking the threads of his work to today.

dipbuk is a PhD researcher in the Sociology department at the University of Warwick. They research policing through an intersectional lens, and in particular focus on the relationship between the body and the police uniform with regards to power and identity.

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