New Podcast: Gendering Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut"

I am now doing a series of podcasts on applications of literary theory to image-based media, modern cinematography, and selected TV programming. In this first podcast I am using contemporary gender theory notions as well as Georges Bataille's work Erotism: Death and Sensuality to provide an example of a close reading of Stanley Kubrick's last oeuvre Eyes Wide Shut. The music featured on this podcast comes from the Salt Lake City-based band Calico.
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Are you Textually Active?

And here is the piece on Text Messaging.

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This is another example where I employ literary theory to read and decode various seemingly ubiquitous signs.

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Are You Homosocial?

Here is the audio piece entitled: Are You Homosocial?
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This is a piece I created for the purpose of expounding the concepts of homosociality, homoeroticism, and identity.

As always, there are many literary references, much music, and many more pop culture things.

I re-discovered Michael Chabon's The Mysteries of Pittsburgh just the other day. Let me quote from it. It goes well with my premise.

"I did not consider myself, as a rule."


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The Psychology of the Coffeeshop

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I and mine regardless of our immediate backgrounds and upbringing understand, in a similar fashion, the concept and function of the coffeeshop.
To us, the coffeeshop is a work space away from the work space.
While to many the coffeeshop might be a place of socialization over a cup of cappu, to me and many like me, the coffeeshop is a place of work, a place of creation.
Most of my work is written in such spaces and while the place is indeed public, the immediate space one's occupies is personal, not to be accessed sans the right passport.
I have often referred to the coffeeshop as a heterotopic space. I do so on purpose. The coffeeshop is a symbol of heterotopia, a place where many choose to pursue the kind of activity they choose not to pursue in every other space.
In this audio piece I do a Theory-informed reading of the concept of the coffeeshop. I single out Starbucks since it seems to be a sign readily recognized by most.
As always, I look forward to your feedback.
Tip of the hat to Liam for the photograph and story. Per Delta.