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10th Floor, 12 West, The Flamingo: Queering the New York Dance Floor pt.4

We conclude our mini-series on the Downtown gay scene by taking a visit to three important parties of mid-70s New York: the 10th Floor, the Flamingo and 12 West. Jeremy and Tim explore the different musics, DJ styles and demographics found in each venue, along with the issues of race, exclusivity, …

Effects of the Artwork 1, with Tim Dean

This episode starts a series of Penumbr(a)cast - The Other Scene devoted to exploring the effects of art and literature on a subject. The interview with Tim Dean, explores his work as a thinker and writer, his thoughts on the critic Leo Bersani, and his response to the poem Ozymandias, by Percy Bys…

Dr. Tim Dean Revisits His 2009 Book "Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the subculture of Barebacking" (Part 1)

Watch this and all episodes ad free by joining the ITBR Cafe for only $5 a month! ⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/ivorytowerboilerroom⁠⁠ (Content Warning) There will be a lot of discussion about gay sex and pornography...you've been warned! Andrew first saw Tim Dean's name when he was an undergrad at Kean Univer…

22: Realism and Other Romances feat. Grace Lavery

Abby and Patrick welcome writer and academic Grace Lavery to discuss her new book Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques. They discuss Grace’s relationship to psychoanalysis; her uses of Freud and Freudianism for both theoretical and pragmatic political purp…

Leo Bersani and Adam Phillips, “Intimacies” (University of Chicago Press, 2008)

In Intimacies and in this interview, Leo Bersani asks “does knowledge of the Other create a foundation for intimacy?” Troubling certain psychoanalytic models that survey the analysand’s past, gathering information about the vicissitudes of childhood, dreams, and other communications, he wonders if …

A brush with... Ed Atkins

Ed Atkins talks to Ben Luke about his influences—from writers to musicians, film-makers and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped his life and work. Atkins, born in Oxford, UK, in 1982, is best known for exploring the strange but endlessly rich space between the di…

Why Gays Love to Hate Going Out

We read Michael Musto’s 1978 Christopher Street cover story “Every Night Fever,” about the gays who go to the disco every night of the week, an example of a journalism genre that fascinates us—cultural trend stories that simultaneously report and constitute a social phenomenon. We discuss the pleas…

Butts

Bottom, rump, booty, fanny, tush, and derriere! In episode 171 of Overthink, Ellie and David talk about butts. Why do humans have bigger rear ends than other animals? Why are butts often seen as a site of aversion? And is anal sex a metaphor for the universe? They discuss the evolutionary history o…

Absence and asexuality.

We’ve seen the page that states “this page intentionally left blank” or heard an authority figure declare “nothing to see here, folks”—and yet the so-called blank page has writing on it, and folks definitely have something to see. From the entry point of these and other paradoxical declarations of …

European Queer Cinema of Lack and Excess | The Meetings of Anna | Querelle | Stranger by the Lake #186

In this second episode (of three) of this year's Pride special series, Cris, Dhruv, Ashwin, and returning guest Prakhar engage with European Queer Cinema through Chantal Akerman's 'The Meetings of Anna', Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 'Querelle', and Alain Guiraudie's 'Stranger by the Lake' and how the…