Is The Government Finally Fixing Potholes? Clive Holland and President of the AA, Edmund King
Are Britain’s pothole-plagued roads finally about to improve, or is this just another bumpy ride?On Pothole Survival Day, Clive Holland is joined by Edmund King, President of the AA, to break down the Government’s new Red, Amber, Green traffic-light system ranking councils on how well they’re fixin…
Food on the Move
Sheila Dillon heads out on the highway to investigate the world of food at motorway service stations. Historically they have been a place viewed as a functional stop-off for a "tea and a pee" and often maligned for the quality of their food. Motorway services enthusiast Dr David Lawrence from Kin…
S3. Episode 7: Making up people
For complete show notes, visit
https://jenamartin.substack.com/s/the-memory-hole-podcast
Referenced:
Philosopher Ian Hacking
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Ian-Hacking
Social constructionism definition
https://as.nyu.edu/content/dam/nyu-as/philosophy/documents/faculty-documents/boghossian/Boghos…
S3. Episode 8: Mind Body Metaphors
For complete show notes please visit
https://jenamartin.substack.com/s/the-memory-hole-podcast
Featured guests:
Gabi Jones
https://gabisvintage.substack.com/
Edmund King
https://substack.com/@paroxysms
Terri Kapsalis
https://www.terrikapsalis.net/
Jamieson Webster
https://www.newschool.edu/nssr…
A book prescription for mental health?
On the surface, bibliotherapy might sound like another personal wellness trend, but it definitely isn’t. In fact, it’s an approved form of mental health treatment in Canada. And it’s been around for at least a century. In this podcast, researchers Sara Haslam and Edmund King discuss the First World…
Out of Print: Daniel Hadas on Homer and the dawn of literacy
Is writing under threat from AI? Is reading a lost art? Did the invention of writing itself irrevocably change human nature? And are we entirely proscribed by language?
Concerns like these have a long history, and how we address them is not without consequences.
Out of Print was held at Verdurin …
Out of Print: Alison Brady on Vilém Flusser’s challenge to writing
Is writing under threat from AI? Is reading a lost art? Did the invention of writing itself irrevocably change human nature? And are we entirely proscribed by language?
Concerns like these have a long history, and how we address them is not without consequences.
Out of Print was held at Verduri…
Out of Print: Kit Wilson on the tyranny of reading
What if the problem of literacy is not its decline, but rather our hyper-literate state? The written word has become a bulwark against experience, with the reading of social media posts or Substack essays is at best a distraction.
In this, the third part of Out of Print, Kit Wilson explores the co…
Out Of Print: Nick Hostettler on the loss of value in the written word and beyond
Is the loss of value of literacy as symptomatic of a devaluing of human minds, experience, and relations. This devaluing is expressed in the dominant culture of technicist materialism.
Does the devaluing of literacy coincide with a devaluing of human minds, experience, and relations, a devaluing e…
Out of Print: Edmund King on the fantasy of reading's power
The anxieties around the decline of reading and literacy paradoxically give rise to outsized fantasies of the power of reading. As humanists feel increasingly under threat in the institutions, they attribute to reading (particularly the reading of fiction) miraculous and healing powers.
In this, t…
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