The Theory of Everything
Produced by PRX. Podcast
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Not All Propaganda is Art 2: Outsider Influence
In 1956, New Yorker writer Dwight Macdonald joined Encounter, a magazine secretly backed by American and British security agencies. He arrived in London just as British Influencers tu... Jan 30, 2024
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Not All Propaganda is Art 1: Operation Younger Brother
In the 1950s the CIA weaponized culture to capture hearts and minds in Europe and Africa. We meet three writers (Richard Wright, Kenneth Tynan, and Dwight Macdonald) who got caught up... Jan 23, 2024
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Not All Propaganda is Art BONUS CONTENT TRAILER: Propaganda Notes and Sources
The new ToE series Propaganda is Art has a companion podcast called Propaganda Notes & Sources, think audio footnotes! Each episode in Not All Propaganda is Art gets its own correspo... Jan 23, 2024
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Wrong Way with Joanne McNeil
One of my favorite technology critics has just published a novel about Self Driving Cars (or fake Self Driving Cars). We talk about her new book, and the hidden human worker nestled i... Dec 13, 2023
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The Hank Show (when computers are right)
Today we live inside data systems that contain, surveil, and judge us. In his new book, the Hank Show, author and journalist McKenzie Funk provides us with a totally unique origin sto... Nov 7, 2023
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Too good to be true remix
Two very different tales about making stuff up about the CIA. Your host shares the story of Sylvia Press, who in the 1950s, wrote a revenge novel after she was fired during the McCart... Aug 15, 2023
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Second time as forced (500daysplus)
Citizens armed only with Molotov cocktails battle with Russian tanks on the streets of… Budapest. In November of 1956 Russian troops invaded Hungary. The revolution was crushed and t... Jul 11, 2023
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Outsider Studies: Connie Converse
The life of musician Connie Converse easily reduces down to one of those Hemingway length sad stories: Before Dylan there was Connie Converse and then she disappeared. In his new boo... Jun 20, 2023
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How to look at America
We hear from two photographers who are masters at showing us what is hard to see, and always has been hard to see, in America. May 31, 2023
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Venice (Ukraine redux)
The war/invasion/fighting is still going. We revisit our program on NFTs, art and war. Your host visits the 59th International Art Biennale in Venice, the world’s most important art ... May 16, 2023
