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Nov 18 2024 20 ep. 70 mins 2
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A discursive cultural criticism podcast from Post45: Contemporaries, responding to and exploring the clusters of writing we publish at https://post45.org/contemporaries/. Find Contemporaries on Twitter @AtPost45.

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Episode 20: Suspicion

Nov 18 2024 86 mins  
Pod45's 20th episode spectacular! To discuss our recent cluster on Suspicion, Contemporaries co-editor Francisco Robles is joined by cluster editor Eleanor Russell and cluster contributors Olivia Stowell, Sheera Talpaz, and Samuel Catlin. You can read all the essays in the Suspicion cluster now at: https://post45.org/sections/contemporaries-essays/suspicion/ Hosted and produced by

Episode 19: American Bimbo

Oct 17 2024 69 mins  
Welcome back to another episode of Pod45, the podcast companion to Post45: Contemporaries, with your host Michael Docherty. Today’s discussion responds to our recent cluster American Bimbo. Joining Michael in a conversation about the enduring potency and complexity of the bimbo as an American cultural figure, celebrity and media in the 2000s, and more recent hyperonline reclamat

Episode 18: Reading Disco Elysium

Jun 24 2024 55 mins  
Today on Pod45 we turn our attention to our recent cluster Reading Disco Elysium, edited by Jess Anderson and Carl White. Disco Elysium is a critically acclaimed videogame first released in 2019. It has been widely recognized for the richness of its storytelling, its political, moral, and ethical complexity, and how it plays with questions of choice, agency, and narrative structure

Episode 17: Contemporary Literature from the Classroom

May 27 2024 102 mins  
Pod45 returns after a hiatus with a bumper episode responding to Contemporary Literature from the Classroom, a recent cluster edited by Rebecca Roach - available now at post45.org/contemporaries. Today's episode is a departure from our usual format. We begin as we always do, with a rich and wide-ranging roundtable discussion building on the cluster at hand: Contemporaries co-ed

Episode 16: The Bachelor

Jan 29 2024 87 mins  
Welcome back to another year of Pod45! In today's episode, Post45: Contemporaries co-editor Francisco Robles sits down to discuss our recent cluster on The Bachelor with the cluster's editors, Rhya Moffitt and Annie Bares, and two of its contributors, Robin Hershkowitz and Emily Edwards. You can read The Bachelor at https://post45.org/sections/contemporaries-essays/the-bac

Episode 15: Heteropessimism

Nov 09 2023 40 mins  
Contemporaries co-editor Michael Docherty discusses our recent Heteropessimism cluster with two of its co-editors, Annabel Barry and Caroline Godard. The cluster's third co-editor was Jane Ward. You can read all the essays in the Heteropessimism cluster now at https://post45.org/sections/contemporaries-essays/heteropessimism/

Episode 14: Abortion Now, Abortion Forever

Sep 25 2023 59 mins  
After a short summer hiatus, Pod45 is back! We're delighted to bring you an episode discussing our recent 16-piece marathon cluster Abortion Now, Abortion Forever, which was published to mark the anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision in the case of Dobbs vs. Jackson Women's Health Organization. This urgently important cluster can be found at https://post45.org/sec

Episode 13: Little Magazines

Jul 17 2023 70 mins  
Contemporaries co-editor Francisco Robles discusses our recent cluster Little Magazines with its editor Nick Sturm, and two of its contributors - Danny Snelson and Stephanie Anderson. Nick's introduction to the cluster: https://post45.org/2023/06/introduction-deep-immersion-in-the-little-mags/ Danny's essay, "An Elegy for Jimmy & Lucy’s House of 'K' (198

Episode 12: Minimalisms Now

May 17 2023 61 mins  
The cluster up for discussion today is Minimalisms Now: Race, Affect, Aesthetics, edited by Connor Bennett and Michael Dango. This is somewhat ironically a rather maximalist cluster on minimalism, comprising eleven fantastic essays, including Connor and Michael’s introduction, plus a great interview with Mark McGurl. Contemporaries co-editor Michael Docherty sat down with Connor

Episode 11: The Hallyu Project

Mar 14 2023 68 mins  
This episode of Pod45 discusses our recent The Hallyu Project cluster, which was edited and introduced by Yin Yuan. Contemporaries co-editor Francisco Robles sat down to chat about the cluster and the Hallyu phenomenon in some of its manifold dimensions with editor Yin Yuan (@yinyuanx) and three of the cluster's contributors: Eunjin Choi (@echoi_24), Rita Raley (@ritaraley), and An