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Episode 57: Freude

Matthew Wrather — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:43:10 +0000

Ryan Sheely, Jordan Stokes, and Matthew Wrather discuss Friday Night Lights, with topics including the multiple meanings of Nirvana, Graph Theory, and Christian Hardcore Punk. What do you think?

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Episode 57: Freude originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Episode 56: Spoilers for The Princess Bride

Matthew Wrather — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:12:42 +0000

Ryan Sheely and Matthew Wrather discuss the revelation of Gossip Girl’s identity and whether this actually portends a change for the show. Digressions into the essential conservatism of the world of Gossip Girl, the gratifying reappearance of Wallace Shawn, and competing views of romantic love.

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References

Milgrom, et al., “The Role of Institutions in The Revival of Trade”
Sanjek, ed., Fieldnotes: The Makings of Anthropology
Emerson, et al. Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes (2 ed.)

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Episode 56: Spoilers for The Princess Bride originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Episode 55: Salient Cleavage

Matthew Wrather — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:30:25 +0000

Ryan Sheely and Matthew Wrather return to Friday Night Lights, discussing season 1 episodes 9 and 10, covering edited volumes, the perks of organizing conferences, what lies east of Dillon, and why it’s different for girls.

References

The Political Salience of Cultural Difference by Daniel A. Posner

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Episode 55: Salient Cleavage originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Episode 54: Pascal’s Wager

Matthew Wrather — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 08:54:47 +0000

Ryan Sheely and Matthew Wrather resume watching Gossip Girl after the hiatus of that show (and this one). Topics include Engaged and Underage, religion, melodrama, and thermodynamics.

References

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Episode 54: Pascal’s Wager originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Episode 53: Chekhov’s Bag Of Peas

Matthew Wrather — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 04:40:13 +0000

Ryan Sheely and Matthew Wrather return to Friday Night Lights, discussing season 1 episodes 8 and 9 and focusing on the thematic unity of FNL episodes—with reference to The Wire (drink), Gossip Girl and Glee—problems of group membership, and the creation of class difference.

References

Mancur Olson, “Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development“: Stationary Banditry
Charles Tilly, War Making and State Making as Organized Crime in Bringing the State Back In, ed. Peter Evans et al.

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Episode 53: Chekhov’s Bag Of Peas originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Episode 52: Closed Pep Economy

Matthew Wrather — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 02:16:26 +0000

Ryan Sheely and Matthew Wrather return to Friday Night Lights, discussing season 1 episodes 5 through 7 and focusing on conflicts between the social and the moral and normative order, the extreme variability of social capital, the tension between authenticity and artifice in the visual style of the show, the ethnography of the pep rally, drilling Tyra for oil, access to capital, and competing social orders and uses of violence.

References

Laura Mulvey and the Male Gaze
No Country for Old Men the film
No Country for Old Men the book
There Will Be Blood
The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else by Hernando De Soto
Max Weber
Vicent Ostrom and the compound republic

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Episode 52: Closed Pep Economy originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Episode 51: Felt Goatees for Everybody

Matthew Wrather — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:55:54 +0000

Ryan Sheely, Jordan Stokes, and Matthew Wrather consider Community’s Christmas episode as a parody of Glee, as well as the other musical numbers in the show.

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Episode 51: Felt Goatees for Everybody originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Episode 50: Chivy League

Matthew Wrather — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 03:30:12 +0000

Ryan Sheely and Matthew Wrather take Gossip Girl through the Season 5 winter finale, focusing on the ChIvy intruder plot as well as the revelation of (the) Gossip Girl’s sources.

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Episode 50: Chivy League originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Episode 49: Voodoo Smash

Matthew Wrather — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 01:19:49 +0000

Ryan Sheely and Matthew Wrather consider Friday Night Lights Season 1 Episodes 3–4, focusing on ritual actions and social expectations, the difference between narrative and thematic spoilers, violence as the continuation of sex by other means (homosociality and the ookie convertible), the nature of power (individual vs. discursive, Voodoo vs. Smash).

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Episode 49: Voodoo Smash originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Episode 48: The Futility Condition

Matthew Wrather — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:46:22 +0000

Ryan Sheely and Matthew Wrather consider the latest episode of Gossip Girl, expressive utility, taking the robots apart, and the New York Media Landscape.

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Episode 48: The Futility Condition originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

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