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7. Indiana Jones and the Denial of Death

You may not be able to be neutral on a moving train, but you can certainly punch Nazis on one.  Why don’t franchises know when to die? Why, in spite of our trenchant trash talk, do we keep watching these movies? Is America’s unique denial of death expressing itself through these films? Also, Nazi p…

Episode 5: Sleep-Stalking

Today we’re going a little further afield of standard science fiction by looking at the 1920 German Expressionist classic, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari! The writers of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer, who are said to have set out to write a story denouncing arbitrary autho…

Why do todays domestic interiors mimic 4 star hotels and what might Siegfried Kracauer have said about it?

Tom Wilkinson on why Kracauer’s analysis of class – specifically a spiritually homeless petty bourgeoisie - and urban spaces might provide a useful means by which to make sense of today’s domestic interiors and the economic and cultural conditions of which they are a very greige product. 

Siegfried Kracauer's analysis of class and urban spaces and garden designer Peter Donegan's favourite tree

Why do todays domestic interiors mimic 4 star hotels and what might Siegfried Kracauer have said about it? Renown garden designer Peter Donegan on why the hawthorn is his favourite tree; and Annie Smithers with a way to prepare asparagus that is sublime in its simplicity.

#62: Siegfried Kracauer - Cult of Distraction: On Berlin's Picture Palaces

Barry and Mike discuss Siegfried Kracauer's 1926 essay "Cult of Distraction: On Berlin's Picture Palaces." Written nearly 100 years ago, the essay is strangely relevant to our current political landscape. We pay special attention to Kracauer's unique notion of distraction, which contra Stiegler, K…

#111: Siegfried Kracauer - Cult of Distraction: On Berlin's Picture Palaces

Barry and Mike discuss Siegfried Kracauer's 1926 essay "Cult of Distraction: On Berlin's Picture Palaces." Written nearly 100 years ago, the essay is strangely relevant to our current political landscape. We pay special attention to Kracauer's unique notion of distraction, which contra Stiegler, Kr…

Matt Handelman, "Cultural Politics and the Legacy of the Frankfurt School"

In this episode, we explore the work of Matt Handelman, Associate Professor of German and core faculty in Digital Humanities at Michigan State University. We delve into his research on German Jewish intellectuals, particularly those linked to the Frankfurt School, and the concept of 'cultural polit…

Don’t Worry, Darling (2022) w/ Julia Gledhill | Ep. 62

Van and Lyle are joined by Julia Gledhill (of The Un-Diplomatic Podcast and Stimson Center fame) to revisit Olivia Wilde’s Don’t Worry, Darling, a film dismissed by many critics as a glossy pastiche but better understood as a deliberate medley of American ideological fantasies. Set in the manicured…

028: HOTEL MOVIES

Once again it is confirmed that a large hotel is a world unto itself and that this world is like the rest of the large world. The guests here roam about in their light-hearted, careless summer existence without suspecting anything of the strange mysteries circulating among them."   — Siegfried K…

Why Theodor Adorno's Darkest Ideas Were Right | A Bedtime History Documentary

He has a man who saw the seeds of fascism hidden in everyday life. In this episode, we trace the dramatic life of Theodor Adorno, the exile who exposed the dark side of modern civilization and permanently shifted our view of authority. For anyone seeking an engrossing bedtime history story on our w…