Nichole and Drew discuss Audre Lorde's paper "Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefined Difference" delivered at Amherst College in 1980.  ..read more

In this episode, Nichole and Drew literally tackle the last part of Benjamin's art essay.  ..read more

In this episode, Nichole and Drew continue with their discussion of Benjamin's essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction."  Adorno's response to Benjamin's essay in the New Left Review Benjamin's Author as Producer Patricia Leighton's The White Peril and L'art Nègre: Picasso, Primitivism, and Anticolonialism  ..read more

In this episode, Nichole and Drew tackle the first half of Walter Benjamin's infamous essay-- "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (1935). Be prepared to inhale some Marxism! Modernism Lab -- introduction to the essay ..read more

In this episode, Nichole and Drew join Molly in discussing a paper she wrote way back in 2019 about social media and revolutions.  ..read more

In this episode, Nichole and Drew conclude discussing the life and times of Susan Sontag, meeting, along the way, some very controversial topics.  Sontag's comments regarding 9/11 to the New Yorker Sontag: Her Life and Work (2019) by Benjamin Moser  Reborn, Early Diaries 1947-1963 by Susan Sontag ..read more

In this episode (the first of two about Susan Sontag), Nichole and Drew discuss Sontag's early years, college life, and her rise to popularity--as well as all the troubles she experienced along the way.  Reborn, Early Diaries 1947-1963 (first of a trilogy of her diary entries) Sontag: Her Life and Work (2019) by Benjamin Moser ..read more

In this episode, Nichole and Drew recount the tragic fate of Oscar Wilde brought upon by scandalous criminal accusations and resultant legal proceedings.  Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde  Famous Trials, Professor Douglas O. Linder  Oscar Wilde, a biography by Richard Ellmann ..read more

In this episode, Nichole and Drew talk about the life of Oscar Wilde leading up to his trials for gross indecency.  You can email us at: liberalartsthepodcast@gmail.com  Links to things referenced in the episode: Magdalen College, Oxford University (Oscar's hard to spell and pronounce alma mater)  The Portrait of Mr. W. H. (Oscar's story about a theory that Shakespeare's romantically charged sonnets are actually about a young man) Cyril Holland (Oscar's son, whose name Drew forgot)  Willie Wilde (Oscar's brother, whose name Drew forgot)  ..read more

Nichole and Drew discuss the history of art with their friend Mack, who reads an excerpt from an essay she wrote about Julie Mehretu's works and their relation to technology and politics.  Links to mentioned art by Mehretu:  Stadia II Conjured Parts Mural (Goldman Sachs)  ..read more