The Podcast for Social Research, Episode 10: On the 2012 Presidential Election
Notations
Part I: 00:00:00 – (Music: “Stillwell Ave.” by El Diablo Robotico)
00:00:25 – Introduction to Season 2
00:02:10 – On Elections, Political Participation, Political and Social Movements
Frances Fox Piven and Lorraine C. Minnite. “Movements Need Politicians– And Vice Versa”
Deepak Bhargava. “Why Obama?”
E.E. Schattschneider. The Semisovereign People
Richard Hofstadter. The Idea of a Party System
Stanley Fish. “Politics in the Academy”
Edward Said. The Question of Palestine
National Voter Turnout in Federal Elections: 1960–2010
Frances Fox Piven. Challenging Authority
Ajay Singh Chaudhary. “The Simulacra of Morality”
Hilary Busis. “How Do Movie Theaters Decide Which Trailers to Show?”
00:59:15 – Break! (Music: “On a Slow Boat to China” by Frank Loesser, performed by Kay Kyser)
01:00:46 – On The Master, Charismatic Authority, Abjection, Mastery
The Master (2012) dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
Jakob Mikanowski. “American Caliban”
Victor Hugo. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Ben Parker. “In ‘The Master’ P.T. Anderson Explores…”
Split Saber?
L. Ron Hubbard. Battlefield Earth
Herman Melville. Billy Budd
Julia Kristeva. Powers of Horror
William Shakespeare. The Tempest
Neoplatonism
It is seemingly impossible to find the “Freedom of Science Fiction” scene from Friends with Benefits (2011) anywhere online; make of that what you will.
Merkin
Theodor Adorno. The Stars Down to Earth
Roland Barthes. Camera Lucida
Immanuel Kant. Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime.
Technical Details: Recorded on a Samson CO1U into an msi PC running the beta version of the freeware program Audacity 1.3.13 while consuming enjoyable, yet moderate, amounts of Sixpoint Autumnation seasonal ale and good old-fashioned New York City tap water.