This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Cal Revely-Calder, who finds that, in Samuel Beckett Studies, jargon and certainty too often crowd out impressions of the work and the importance of ‘knowing what you don’t know’; Alice Wadsworth brings snippets of interest from this week’s TLS, including ‘women who wouldn’t wait’ and Borges in Inverness; and Ruth Scurr on the history of the secretive, ritual-loving Freemasons.
Beckett’s Political Imagination by Emilie Morin
Samuel Beckett and the Visual Arts by Conor Carville
The Craft: How the Freemasons made the modern world, by John Dickie
Producer: Ben Mitchell
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Jeremy Bentham’s Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation is a definitive early statement of the basis of utilitarianism: how do we achieve the greatest happiness of the greatest number? David looks at Bentham’s rationale for this approach and the many criticisms it has faced. Bentham has often been accused of reducing politics to mechanical calculation and missing what really matters. But given the time in which he was writing, wasn’t the prioritisation of pleasure the most radical idea of all?
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Rafael Mafei e Conrado Hübner Mendes, pesquisadores do Laut - Centro de Análise da Liberdade e do Autoritarismo, discutem os crimes de responsabilidade do presidente Jair Bolsonaro e as condições jurídicas e políticas para o avanço dos pedidos de impeachment.
This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Avril Horner, author of a biography of Barbara Comyns whose quirky, menace-laced novels, long championed by Graham Greene, are finding their way back to us; a new poem by John Kinsella, 'Villanelle of Star-Picket-Hopping Red-Capped Robin'; and En Liang Khong describes the powerful pull – particularly difficult to resist during lockdown – of the fantasy urban landscapes portrayed in video games and anime
Several novels by Barbara Comyns, including: 'Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead', 'Mr Fox', 'Sisters by a River', 'The House of Dolls' and 'The Vet's Daughter'
Virtual Cities: An atlas and exploration of video game cities, by Konstantinos Dimopoulos
Anime Architecture: Imagined worlds and endless megacities, by Stefan Riekeles
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Estudos recentes sugerem que a nossa temperatura corporal média está baixando rapidamente. Entre homens americanos saudáveis há indícios de que ela não seja mais de 37 graus.
Mas você já pensou por que a gente tem essa temperatura de 37 graus? A resposta para essa pergunta é uma viagem pela evolução e pela seleção natural, que inclui meteoros, dinossauros e fungos.
– Mergulhe mais fundo
Breve História de Quase tudo, por Bill Bryson
Estudo da Universidade de Stanford sobre a queda da temperatura humana (em inglês)
Estudo sobre os fungos e a ascensão dos mamíferos (em inglês)
– Entrevistados do episódio
Coordenadora do Laboratório de Estudos Evolutivos Humanos e professora de bioarqueologia e evolução humana no Instituto de Biociências (Universidade de São Paulo).
Possui graduação em Biologia pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (1983), Mestrado em Microbiologia pela Universidade de São Paulo (1988), Doutorado em Biologia Molecular – University of Gent, Bélgica (1993) e Pós-Doutorado em Biologia Celular pela University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, EUA (1993-1994). Atualmente é Professor Titular da Universidade de São Paulo.
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Concepção, produção, roteiro, apresentação, sonorização e edição: Tomás Chiaverini
Trilha sonora tema: Paulo Gama
Mixagem: Vitor Coroa
Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality (also known as the Second Discourse) tells the story of all human history to answer one simple question: how did we end up in such an unequal world? David explores the steps Rousseau traces in the fall of humankind and asks whether this is a radical alternative to the vision offered by Hobbes or just a variant on it. Is Rousseau really such a nice philosopher?
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The writer and comedian David Baddiel has written a book called 'Jews Don't Count', which explores the insidious, pervasive, exclusionary nature of ‘progressive’ antisemitism. Here, he talks to Toby Lichtig about how and why one of the most persecuted minorities in history continues to be overlooked
'Jews Don't Count' by David Baddiel
Producer: Ben Mitchell
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This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by David Gallagher to discuss two new books about Jorge Luis Borges – one a collection of essays and remembrances by the great Latin American writer Mario Vargas Llosa, the other a more curious offering by the American writer and critic Jay Parini; David Baddiel on the insidious, pervasive, exclusionary nature of ‘progressive’ antisemitism; Alice Wadsworth and Lucy Dallas on food podcasts and the French comedy-drama Call My Agent!
Medio siglo con Borges, by Mario Vargas Llosa (published in Spain by Alfaguara)
Borges and Me: An encounter, by Jay Parini
Jews Don't Count by David Baddiel
'The Sporkful' and 'Off Menu' available on podcast platforms
Call My Agent!, Netflix
Producer: Ben Mitchell
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Itamar Vieira Junior conversa com o apresentador e com a jornalista Paula Carvalho sobre o premiado romance Torto arado, religiosidade, antropologia, o trabalho como geógrafo do Incra, a Chapada Diamantina, o romance regional e suas preferências literárias. Participação especial: Josyara
This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Clifford Thompson to discuss One Night in Miami, a film by Regina King, which sees Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, Jim Brown and Cassius Clay gather for heated debate; from exclusivity and luxury in imperial China to cheap ubiquity in modern day Europe, Norma Clarke considers the rise and fall of porcelain; plus, a new poem by Anne Carson, “Sure, I Was Loved”
One Night in Miami, dir. Regina King
The City of Blue and White: Chinese porcelain and the early modern world by Anne Gerritsen
Porcelain: A history from the heart of Europe by Suzanne L . Marchand
“Sure, I Was Loved” by Anne Carson, in this week’s TLS
Producer: Ben Mitchell
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