Love & Its Discontents is a podcast on the topic of LOVE and LOVE STORIES.
Starting with Jeffrey Eugenides's claim, in My Mistress Sparrow is Dead, “Love stories, nearly without exception, give love a bad name,” the podcast will take you on a journey through literature from antiquity to contemporary stories, wrestling with notions such as romantic love and altruism, deep diving into ecstatic love and solidarity. It asks, Can love be examined like an object? What on earth is love? Where in the world is love? Are we born to love, born with a natural sense of certain things like goodness, and beauty? Is love, like Rumi said, perfect thirst? But most importantly it will follow the question: can there be love without love stories?
The host, Adnan Mahmutović is a Bosnian-Swedish writer and lecturer in English literature and creative writing at Stockholm University.
If you have a particular story you want to talk about send us your pitch to: lovediscontents@gmail.com.
"i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)"
– e.e. cummings
Welcome to this episode with the historian Prof. Dr. Sarah Cramsey where we talk about love as that invisible work that constitutes the bulk of human history.
Prof. Dr. Sarah Cramsey is the Special Chair for Central European Studies at Leiden University, an Assistant Professor of Judaism & Diaspora Studies, and Director of the Austria Centre Leiden.
From 2025-2030, she will be the Principal Investigator of “A Century of Care: Invisible Work and Early Childcare in Central and Eastern Europe, 1905–2004,” or CARECENTURY, a project funded by a European Research Council Starting Grant.
She is a historian of central and eastern Europe, the global Jewish experience throughout historical time, and the significant Jewish diasporas unleased from the lands between Berlin and Moscow as a result of the Holocaust, World War II, and postwar events.
Her second book is forthcoming with Indiana University Press and is called The Other Holocaust: Care, Children and the Jewish Catastrophe.
16 Aug 2024
Love & AI with Yusuf Jones
Today I'm joined by Yusuf Jones. We're digging into the way Artificial Intelligence is changing the way we love.
Yusuf Jones is a visionary AI Prompt Engineer/Architect and Technology Integrationist at the forefront of the AI revolution in mental health, community development, and spiritual technology.
Facebook: @yusuf.journeyman.jones Instagram: @yusuf.is (http://yusuf.is).just.dust
21 May 2024
Love in Shōgun
In this episode, we explore love in the new adaptation of James Clavell's Shōgun with John Austin.
John Austin is an interactive designer, independent researcher, author, filmmaker, cultural critic, and entrepreneur.
For over fifteen years, he has worked in augmented reality/virtual reality. Between 2007 and 2009 he divided his time living between the US and Japan where he helped found Autism Family Network. Austin founded Fresh Pulp Magazine, dedicated to "theoretical" science fiction from marginalized communities.
He leads Dark Matters, a weekly podcast discussing the latest Sci-fi series through a critical race lens. Among other things, Austin has written "How to be Black and Muslim in America” on Muslim futurism, and "Practical approaches to space travel for Muslims" Austin won the Comcast Award for short films in 2008 for the film, "The Jersey Devil."
Twitter: @austinyoshino
Instagram: @austinyoshino
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