Outsider Theory
Theory on the outside, theory of the outside, outside of the theory
Displaying all 6 Episode of Outsider Theory with the tag “literature”.
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Lockdown Literature with Tim Abrahams
May 10th, 2023 | 1 hr 52 secs
confinement, covid, domesticity, fiction, incarceration, isolation, literature, lockdown
Architecture writer and publisher Tim Abrahams joins me to discuss his anthology of lockdown literature, "The Machine Book of Weird."
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The Great Debasement with Alice Gribbin
June 10th, 2022 | 2 hrs 5 mins
art, censorship, culture, institutions, john berger, literature, museums, poetry, propaganda
Alice Gribbin joins me to discuss her recent essay in Tablet, "The Great Debasement," on the recent ideological transformation of our major cultural institutions.
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The Very Online Novel with Timothy Wilcox
December 8th, 2021 | 1 hr 39 mins
donald trump, hari kunzru, hyperconnectivity, internet novel, lauren oyler, literature, patricia lockwood, social media
Timothy Wilcox joins me to discuss three very online novels released in the past year: Hari Kunzru's Red Pill, Lauren Oyler's Fake Accounts, and Patricia Lockwood's No One is Talking about This.
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Poetry, Fascism, and Madness: the Fall of the House of Panero with Aaron Shulman
November 2nd, 2021 | 1 hr 9 mins
addiction, alcoholism, fascism, federico garcía lorca, felicidad blanc, juan luis panero, leopoldo maría panero, leopoldo panero, literature, madness, michi panero, poetry, roberto bolaño, schizophrenia
The Panero family were literary royalty in fascist Spain; their descent into alcoholism, madness, and debauchery was the subject of the cult 1976 documentary "El desencanto." Aaron Shulman joins me to discuss his collective biography of the Paneros, "The Age of Disenchantments."
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The Domestication of the Literary Outsider with Alex Perez
May 6th, 2021 | 1 hr 30 mins
bad boys, literature, outsiders, pascale casanova, pierre bourdieu, prestige, roberto bolaño
Fiction writer and cultural critic Alex Perez joins Outsider Theory to discuss Bolaño, the prestige economy of literature, and the prospects for literary outsiders today.
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Based and Marxpilled with Adam Lehrer
March 3rd, 2021 | 1 hr 10 mins
art, balzac, engels, houellebecq, literature, marx, nick land, nietzsche
Critic and artist Adam Lehrer joins Outsider Theory to discuss the mainstreaming of Marxism and the current prospects for dissent in the arts.