The MIT Press Podcast

Huw Lemmey and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore: The Gentrification of Queer Desire

Writer Huw Lemmey (Chubz, Red Tory, Unknown Language) speaks with  Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore about her most recent book The Freezer Door and searching for connection in a world that enforces bland norms of gender, sexuality, and friendship.   Produced by Sam Kelly Mixed by Samantha Doyle  Soundtrack by Kristen Gallerneaux

Thomas Weaver and Victoria Hindley: Art, Architecture and Visual Culture

This episode features discussions with Thomas Weaver (Senior Acquisitions Editor for Art and Architecture) and Victoria Hindley (Acquisitions Editor in Visual Culture and Design) about publishing in the fields of art, architecture, and visual culture, as part of our virtual attendance of the 2021 College Art Association Conference.    Hosted and produced by Sam Kelly Mixed by Samantha Doyle  Soundtrack by Kristen Gallerneaux

Clive Nwonka and Anamik Saha: Black Film, British Cinema

Clive Nwonka and Anamik Saha discuss their forthcoming book Black Film, British Cinema II (publishing in March with Goldsmiths Press), a book which brings together scholars, thinkers and practitioners to consider the politics of blackness in contemporary British cinema and visual practice.    Hosted and produced by Sam Kelly Mixed by Samantha Doyle  Soundtrack by Kristen Gallerneaux

Nick Aikens and Elizabeth Robles: Black Artists in 1980s Britain

Nick Aikens and Elizabeth Robles discuss The Place Is Here (Sternberg Press, 2019) and the range of perspectives on black art in Thatcherite Britain offered by the collection of artworks, essays, and conversations found in the book.   Hosted and produced by Sam Kelly Mixed by Samantha Doyle  Soundtrack by Kristen Gallerneaux

Cathi Unsworth and Jenny Hval: Horror, Murder, and Music

Cathi Unsworth, journalist and author of Bad Penny Blues, as well as numerous other novels, speaks with artists and author Jenny Hval about her recent book Girls Against God.    Hosted and produced by Sam Kelly Mixed by Samantha Doyle  Soundtrack by Kristen Gallerneaux

Rose Simpson and Damon Krukowski: On Life in the Incredible String Band

Damon Kruskowski, author of Ways of Hearing and The New Analog, previously member of Galaxie 500 and currently a member of Damon & Naomi interviews Rose Simpson, about her book Muse, Odalisque, Handmaiden.  Rose is an English former musician. Between 1968 and 1971, she was a member of the Incredible String Band, with whom she sang and played bass guitar, violin, and percussion.   Hosted and produced by Sam Kelly Mixed by Samantha Doyle  Soundtrack by Kristen Gallerneaux

Eugene Richardson and Bruno Latour: The Science and Politics of Landing on Earth

The philosopher Bruno Latour (We Have Never Been Modern, Laboratory Life, Science in Action) and Eugene Richardson, physician, anthropologist, and author of Epidemic Illusions discuss COVID, colonialism and Critical Zones.   Hosted and produced by Sam Kelly Mixed by Samantha Doyle  Soundtrack by Kristen Gallerneaux

Michael Truscello: On the Necropolitics of Infrastructure

Michael Truscello, author of Infrastructural Brutalism: Art and the Necropolitics of Infrastructure, discusses the ways in which infrastructure determines who may live and who must die under contemporary capitalism.    Hosted and produced by Sam Kelly Mixed by Samantha Doyle  Soundtrack by Kristen Gallerneaux

Tai Shani and Amy Hale: On the Occult Feminism of Ithell Colquhoun

Tai Shani (Turner Prize winning artist, educator and author of Our Fatal Magic) and Amy Hale (anthropologist, folklorist, and writer) discuss the work of artist, occultist and writer Ithell Colquhoun to celebrate the publication of Amy’s book Ithell Colquhoun: Genius of The Fern Loved Gully   Hosted and produced by Sam Kelly Mixed by Samantha Doyle  Soundtrack by Kristen Gallerneaux

Full Version: Lauren Fournier and McKenzie Wark on Autotheory

An extended conversation between Lauren Fournier, writer, independent curator, artist, and author of Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism and writer, educator and philosopher McKenzie Wark (A Hacker Manifesto, Gamer Theory, Capital Is Dead, Reverse Cowgirl.)    Hosted and produced by Sam Kelly Mixed by Samantha Doyle  Soundtrack by Kristen Gallerneaux