Theoryish

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!   Contact Us  You can get in touch with us via our email: theoryishpodcast@gmail.com  Socials  We are on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok at theoryish_pod and Facebook at theoryishpod  Music  Outro: Lori Beauty, Coma Studios  

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. Sources  You can find all of the sources mentioned in the episode here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RDBeuhhcvWKB64XWhOCA3I1_c_XTrZlwLFovTgX_vTY/edit?usp=sharing Contact Us  You can get in touch with us via our email: theoryishpodcast@gmail.com  Socials  We are on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok at theoryish_pod and Facebook at theoryishpod   Music  Outro: Lori Beauty, Coma Studios  

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. Sources  You can find our full list of sources here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PX2QdG1oob9fHnL3qwoiL_qDVrokA_lWufrA_saM9eg/edit?usp=sharing Contact Us  You can get in touch with us via our email: theoryishpodcast@gmail.com  Socials  We are on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok at theoryish_pod and Facebook at theoryishpod  Music  Outro: Lori Beauty, Coma Studios  

In this episode, me and Paola talk about Sara Ahmed's 2018 blog post titled Queer Use. Join us as we chat about queerness, Ahmed's conceptualisation of 'use' and institutional diversity. Please note that we lightly discuss sexual harassment in this episode. Sources  You can find our list of sources here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11Gg-nWmeiUDCtTHzJPxrqcWJMahB0-O_dcKm1H6Z4yk/edit?usp=sharing Contact Us  You can get in touch with us via our email: theoryishpodcast@gmail.com  Socials  We are on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok at theoryish_pod and Facebook at theoryishpod  Music  Outro: Lori Beauty, Coma Studios  

In this special episode of Theoryish, we are joined by Jennifer V. Evans to discuss her latest book The Queer Art of History: Queer Kinship After Fascism (2023). Jennifer is Professor of History at Carleton University and author of Life among the Ruins: Cityscape and Sexuality in Cold War Berlin (2011). In this episode we discuss how history gets written, kinship, memorials, photography, and how historians can connect with the present. Sources  You can find all of the sources we spoke about listed here. Contact Us  You can get in touch with us via our email: theoryishpodcast@gmail.com  Socials  We are on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok at theoryish_pod and Facebook at theoryishpod  Music  Outro: Lori Beauty, Coma Studios  

For this episode we looked at bell hooks' text All About Love: New Visions and we were joined by two incredible guests: Sue Lemos and Adebayo Quadry-Adekanbi. To concentrate our discussion, we looked at four chapters within the book: Chapter One Clarity - Give Love Words; Chapter Four Commitment - Let Love be Love in Me; Chapter Eight Community - Loving Communion and Chapter Thirteen Destiny - When Angels Speak of Love. Join us as we discuss love, gender, therapy, self-help, community and spirituality. We hope you enjoy! Sources  You can find the sources discussed in this episode here.   Contact Us  You can get in touch with us via our email: theoryishpodcast@gmail.com  Socials  We are on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok at theoryish_pod and Facebook at theoryishpod  Music  Outro: Lori Beauty, Coma Studios  

We are trying something new for this episode of Theoryish. We wanted some of our episodes to be a little shorter and settled on providing an 'Intro to...' various theoretical fields. We decided to start with queer theory as this is something we are both familiar with, and because we have mentioned it lot this season. So, whether you are a queer theory novice or more familiar with it, we hope you enjoy!  Sources  You can find a complete list of sources ⁠here⁠.  Contact Us  You can get in touch with us via our email: ⁠theoryishpodcast@gmail.com⁠  Socials  We are on ⁠Twitter⁠, ⁠Instagram⁠ and ⁠TikTok⁠ at theoryish_pod and ⁠Facebook⁠ at theoryishpod  Music  Outro: ⁠Lori Beauty, Coma Studios⁠  

Content warning: SCUM Manifesto contains discussion of transphobia, violence, murder, misogyny, ableism, domestic abuse, sexual violence and suicide.   In this episode we discuss Valerie Solanas' controversial 1967 text, the SCUM Manifesto. We use this text as a jumping off point to chat about masculinity, transphobia, biological essentialism, and female fury. Mental health links:  https://www.mind.org.uk  https://mhanational.org  Sources  Valerie Solanas (2015) SCUM Manifesto. Verso. – Free Olympia Press version available here.   Physical: 100 (2023) (TV Show) Up Your Ass (2000) (play) written by Valerie Solanas  I, a Man (1967) (film) directed by Andy Warhol  Bike Boy (1967) (film) directed by Andy Warhol  Riot grrrl   Ruth Pearce, Sonja Erikainen & Ben Vincent (2020) TERF Wars: An Introduction, The Sociological Review, 68 (4). 677-698.  Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (2017) Let’s Generalize about Men (song)  Book Club from Hell Podcast – Episode #9 The SCUM Manifesto  Audition (1999) (film)   M3GAN (2022) (film)  SNL (2023) M3GAN 2.0 (sketch)  SZA (2022) SOS (album)   Ethel Cain (2022) Preacher’s Daughter (album)   Lorde (2017) Green Light (song)  Feminist sex wars  Spotify Playlist You can listen to our SCUM Manifesto inspired Spotify playlist here. Contact Us  You can get in touch with us via our email: theoryishpodcast@gmail.com  Socials  We are on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok at theoryish_pod and Facebook at theoryishpod  Music  Outro: Lori Beauty, Coma Studios  

The main source for this episode is Félix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze's 1980 book A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. The chapters we discussed were Chapter 1: Rhizome and Chapter 5: 587 BC-AD 70: On Several Regimes of Signs. We were joined by Veronika Epple, a PhD student at Humboldt University and Junior Curator at C/O Berlin. Join us as we discuss plateaus, French academia, assemblage, rhizomes, and psychoanalysis. Sources & Fan Fiction You can find all the sources and fan fictions discussed in the episode here. Contact Us  You can get in touch with us via our email: theoryishpodcast@gmail.com  Socials  We are on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok at theoryish_pod and Facebook at theoryishpod  Music  Outro: Lori Beauty, Coma Studios  

The focus of this episode is Jack Halberstam's The Queer Art of Failure (2011) and we were joined by our wonderful guest, Gabriel/le du Plessis. In this episode we discussed the chapters 'Introduction: Low Theory' and Chapter 5 '"The Killer in Me is the Killer in You": Homosexuality and Fascism". Some of the topics we chatted about include failure, low theory, memory, queer history and fascism.  Sources There were a lot of sources mentioned in this episode and you can find the full list here.  Note: In the episode Paola mentions Archive Fever by Jacques Derrida but she is actually referring to Specters of Marx. Fan Fiction Note: we have not always read the fan fictions all the way through, and so often rely on tags and summaries to find pieces. We will usually state if we have read the fan fictions in the episode, and so please approach these with your own discretion. eaglesflying - The Disorder of Desire meowclops – ghost (of a good time) Contact Us You can get in touch with us via our email: theoryishpodcast@gmail.com Socials We are on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok at theoryish_pod and Facebook at theoryishpod Music Outro: Lori Beauty, Coma Studios