Plumbing the depths of pop culture and finding out how capitalism sucks and is interesting in the process. Host Jedd Cole brings together philosophical and literary tools to tease apart the ways movies, music, stories and ideas make sense (out) of life, society and politics.
Inside the Text
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Plumbing the depths of pop culture and finding out how capitalism sucks and is interesting in the process. Host Jedd Cole brings together philosophical and literary tools to tease apart the ways movies, music, stories and ideas make sense (out) of life, society and politics.
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August 9, 2022
Moral Worlds: The Meaning(s) of Fantasy Maps
<p>BEING an inquiry into the meaning of worldbuilding and the semiotic functions of those fictional maps familiar to us through the likes of The Lord of the Rings (and its many cousins), TTRPGs and video games like Skyrim and NORCO. What do fantasy maps actually do, and what do they mean?</p> <p>Patreon: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/jeddcole">https://www.patreon.com/jeddcole </a></p> <p>Twitter: @inside_textpod </p> <p>Soundtrack: <a href="https://jeddcole.bandcamp.com/">https://jeddcole.bandcamp.com/</a> </p> <p><strong>Racism in fantasy fiction:</strong></p> <ul> <li>“Tolkien and Race”: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolkien_and_race">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolkien_and_race</a></li> <li>“Race: the Original Sin of the Fantasy Genre”: <a href="https://www.publicmedievalist.com/race-fantasy-genre/">https://www.publicmedievalist.com/race-fantasy-genre/</a> </li> </ul> <p><strong>SOURCES AND MAPS: </strong><a href="https://insidethetext.files.wordpress.com/2022/08/sources_the-meanings-of-fantasy-maps.pdf">https://insidethetext.files.wordpress.com/2022/08/sources_the-meanings-of-fantasy-maps.pdf</a></p>
March 1, 2022
Sacred Jedi Texts: Canon and the Specter of Endings
<p>BEING an account of the passing of the Star Wars Expanded Universe into Legends; how canon becomes an abyss at the hands of its undead Author; what happens when said Author is also a corporation; and why canon--and capitalism--must end.</p> <p><strong>Become a CO-THINKER on my Patreon:</strong> <a href="https://www.patreon.com/jeddcole" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/jeddcole</a></p> <p><strong>Soundtrack:</strong> <a href="https://jeddcole.bandcamp.com/album/the-specter-of-endings" target="_blank">https://jeddcole.bandcamp.com/album/the-specter-of-endings</a></p> <p><strong>MAIN SOURCES:</strong></p> <ul> <li>The Legendary Star Wars Expanded Universe Turns A New Page, <a href="http://starwars.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">starwars.com</a>, April 25, 2014 (<a href="https://www.starwars.com/news/the-legendary-star-wars-expanded-universe-turns-a-new-page?utm_source=pocket_mylist" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><u>https://www.starwars.com/news/the-legendary-star-wars-expanded-universe-turns-a-new-page</u></a>)</li> <li>Gerry Canavan, "Hokey Religions: Star Wars and Star Trek in the Age of Reboots" 2017, Extrapolation (<a href="https://epublications.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1466&context=english_fac" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://epublications.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1466&context=english_fac</a>)</li> <li>Mike Rugnetta, “Canon Is an Abyss,” January 25, 2019 (<a href="https://rugnetta.com/2019/01/25/canon-is-an-abyss/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><u>https://rugnetta.com/2019/01/25/canon-is-an-abyss/</u></a>)</li> <li>Bart D. Ehrman, Lost Christianities, Oxford University Press, 2003</li> <li>Frank Kermode, The Sense of an Ending, Oxford University Press, 2000</li> <li>Steve Baxi, “The Philosophy of Endings (or Why I Hate Endgame), April 18, 2020 (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mhjhlja3azM" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><u>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mhjhlja3azM</u></a>)</li> </ul> <p><strong>FULL SOURCES AND CLIPS:</strong></p> <p><a href="https://insidethetext.files.wordpress.com/2022/02/sources_sacred-jedi-texts.pdf" target="_blank">https://insidethetext.files.wordpress.com/2022/02/sources_sacred-jedi-texts.pdf </a></p>
November 2, 2021
Not Passed But Spent: On the Politics of Clock Time
<p>If you like the podcast, leave me a tip! <a href="https://ko-fi.com/insidethetext"><u>https://ko-fi.com/insidethetext</u></a>.</p> <p>#</p> <p>“Time is now currency. It is not passed but spent.”</p> <p>How did we get daylight saving time? How does the answer open up questions about the meaning--and the politics--of our hours, minutes and days? How does the COVID-19 pandemic change our relationship to time? And most importantly, what does any of this have to do with castrated Italian singers? Find out in this episode.</p> <ul> <li>Find all my sources and references here: <a href="https://insidethetext.files.wordpress.com/2021/10/sources_not-passed-but-spent.pdf" target="_blank">https://insidethetext.files.wordpress.com/2021/10/sources_not-passed-but-spent.pdf</a> </li> <li>Listen to the soundtrack of this episode: <a href="https://jeddcole.bandcamp.com/album/not-passed-but-spent-original-soundtrack" target="_blank">https://jeddcole.bandcamp.com/album/not-passed-but-spent-original-soundtrack</a></li> </ul>
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