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The Hopeful Reader

Finola Stowe

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Yapping and reading, hopefully! Two siblings, bringing together fiction and critical theory in ways that open up the possibility of a hopeful present.

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We are so back: szn 2, let's go!

Saison 2 · Épisode 1

mardi 6 mai 2025 • Durée 20:22

We are so back: szn 2, let's go! If you've been wondering what we've been up to, and what we've got planned for this season - this episode reveals all! We also talk about how the philosophical tradition of speculative pragmatism guides our hopeful thinking and reading. :)

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Cosy counterproductivity: a silly little episode

Épisode 13

lundi 23 décembre 2024 • Durée 44:23

In a society that ascribes inherent value to productivity, it’s easy to overlook the potentially harmful structures we are actually (re)producing through our labour. In this episode we explore the cult of productivity - life under capitalism - through a neuroqueer lens. We question how the individualistic nature of self-discipline that surrounds productivity interacts with acts of solidarity and mutual aid, and how we might build futures that are more welcoming of queer community building. You can also look forward to some hot takes on mindfulness and slow living, as well as some very un/serious yapping towards the end of the episode…

References:

Choi, M.A. (2021). The power of slowness: Governmentalities of Olle walking in South Korea. Transactions of the IBG. 47 (2). Pp. 562-576.

Cook, E. (2016). (Dis)Connections and silence: experiences of family and part-time work in Japan. Japanese Studies. DOI:10.1080/10371397.2016.1215228

Gregg, M. (2018) Counterproductive: Time management in the knowledge economy. London: Duke University Press.

Kafer, A. (2013). Feminist, Queer, Crip. Indiana: Indiana University Press.

Lorde, A. (1988) A burst of light. New York: Firebrand books.

Manning, E. (2016). The Minor Gesture. London: Duke University Press.

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Poetry is cool!

Épisode 12

lundi 9 décembre 2024 • Durée 28:03

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Hear me out: Joker 2...

Épisode 11

lundi 25 novembre 2024 • Durée 28:38

Leaning into our film bro personas, in this episode we use the latest Joker movie to explore how dissociation - the cultivation of numbness, or splitting of subjectivity - might be considered a subtle form of resistance whilst inhabiting hostile environments. Is our refusal to be affected by oppressive structures a revolutionary act of self-preservation? Or does cultivated numbness prevent us from mobilising towards radical change? Ultimately…why is everyone hating on the new Joker film?

References:

Aitken, S. in Anderson et al. (2022) Encountering Berlant part one: Concepts otherwise. https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12494

Awkward-Rich, C. (2022). The Terrible We: Thinking with trans maladjustment. Durham: Duke University Press.

Berlant, L. (2022). The Inconvenience of Other People. Durham: Duke University Press.

Bissell, D. (2021). The Anaesthetic Politics of Being Unaffected: Embodying Insecure Digital Platform Labour. The Anaesthetic Politics of Being Unaffected: Embodying Insecure Digital Platform Labour - Bissell - 2022 - Antipode - Wiley Online Library

Malatino, H. (2022). Side Affects: On being trans and feeling bad. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.

Turner, C. (2024). The transgender space invader: Out of time and out of affect. European Journal of Cultural Studies.

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Becoming beautiful, online

Épisode 10

lundi 11 novembre 2024 • Durée 39:33

In the age of the algorithm, social media platforms and machine learning technologies are now defining, and perpetually updating, aesthetic ideals and beauty standards. In this episode, we discuss how beauty culture is entangled with the digital technologies that have become so pervasive in everyday life. How does ‘algorithmic oppression’ play into the creation and maintenance of beauty standards, and how does it feel to exist as cyborg, changeling bodies within all of this? Inspired by various works of fiction and drawing upon critical theory, we explore how we might hack and resist the affordances of these technologies through embodying and embracing glitches, and in ways that gesture towards queer and non-binary becoming.

Atlanta, E. (2024) Pixel Flesh: How toxic beauty culture harms women. London: Headline Publishing Group.

Awad, M. (2023) Rouge. New York: Scribner Publishing.

Noble, S. U. (2018). Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism. New York: New York University Press

Russell, L. (2020) Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto. London: Verso Books.

Sender, K. & Shaw, A. (2017) Queer Technologies: Affordances, Affect, Ambivalence. London: Routledge

Ta-Wei, C. (1995 [2021]) The Membranes: a novel. Columbia: Columbia University Press.

Zuboff, S. (2019) The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The fight for a human future at the new frontier of power. London: Profile Books Ltd.

Zwick, D. & Knott, J. D. (2009) “Manufacturing Customers: The database as new means of production.” Journal of Consumer Culture, 9(2).

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Happy Hopeween, little monsters (a monster mash up)

Épisode 9

jeudi 31 octobre 2024 • Durée 29:12

Happy Halloween, hopeful readers! In this episode, we bring all the spooky vibes with a little monster mash up…From Frankenstein and witches to a jellyfish communist revolution, we explore what the figure of the ‘monster’ tells us about the exclusionary, anthropocentric category of the human, as well as how the affective circulation of fear works to maintain hierarchical boundaries and binaries. Can we be hopeful little monsters in a world that sometimes feels monstrous?

References:

Ahmed, S. (2014) The Cultural Politics of Emotion. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Chollet, M. (2022) In defence of witches: Why women are still on trial. London: Picador.

Enriquez, M. (2009). The dangers of smoking in bed. London: Granta books.

Greenaway, J. (2024) Capitalism, A Horror Story:Gothic marxism and the dark side of the imagination. London: Repeater Books.

Halberstam, J. (1995) Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monstrosity. London: Duke University Press.

Musharbash, Y. (2023) Monsters and Crises, a seminar.

Nordmarken, S. (2013) Becoming ever more monstrous: feeling transgender in-betweenness. Qualitative Inquiry, 20(1).

Preciado, P. B. (2021) Can the monster speak? London: Fitzcarraldo editions.

Rumfitt, A. (2023) Brainwyrms. Cipher Press.

Shelley, M. (1818) Frankenstein. Hertfordshire: Wordsworth editions.

Stryker, S. (1994 [2024]) My words to Victor Frankenstein above the village of Chamounix: Performing transgender rage. Durham: Duke University Press.

Tsing, A., Bubandt, N., Gan, E. & Swanson, H. (2017) Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.

Help! I don’t want to write: expanding the ‘I’ in personal narrative

Épisode 8

lundi 14 octobre 2024 • Durée 33:35

Can writing - the fixing and rendering static of our experiences - ever be queer? I mean, sure...but why is (queer) writer’s block still so all consuming?

In this episode we dip our toes into queer theory’s subjectivity debate before discussing how we might expand the ‘I’ in personal narrative in ways that problematise normative modes of writing about our ‘own’ experiences. Inspired by feminist new materialism and Deleuzian assemblage theory, this episode grapples with the possibility (or, perhaps, necessity) of queer writing as resistance.

References:

Barad, K. (2007) Meeting the universe halfway: Quantum physics and the entanglement of meaning and matter. Durham: Duke University Press.

Barker, M.J. (2020). ‘On Queer Writing’ Available at: https://www.rewriting-the-rules.com/self/on-queer-writing/

Berlant, L. (2022) On the Inconvenience of Other People. Durham: Duke University Press.

Deleuze, G. and Guattari, F. (1980) A thousand plateaus: Capitalism and schizophrenia. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Fassin, D. (2014) ‘True Life, Real Lives: Revisiting the Boundaries between ethnography and fiction’ American Ethnologist. 41(1)

Febos, M. (2022) Body Work: The radical power of personal narrative. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Lorde, A. (2007) Sister Outsider. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press. Available online: https://uk.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/11881_Chapter_5.pdf

Ruti, M. (2017) The ethics of opting out: Queer theory’s defiant subjects. Columbia: Columbia University Press.

We're back, hope you missed us!

Épisode 7

lundi 30 septembre 2024 • Durée 29:46

The Hopeful Reader returns after a little summer hiatus! In this episode, we reflect on the place of ‘hope’ in the current socio-political epoch; drawing upon John Holloway’s ‘Hope in Hopeless Times’, we explore how relational forms of rage-hope might mobilise queer revolutionary politics…Why do we call ourselves ‘hopeful’ readers in supposedly ‘hopeless times’? If that all sounds like a lot, you can also look forward to some hot takes on worm communes, the latest J Wils novel and a whole host of other antics…

References:

Berlant, L. (2022) On the Inconvenience of Other People. Durham: Duke University Press.

Holloway, J. (2022) Hope in Hopeless Times. London: Pluto Press.

Pedwell, C. (2021) Revolutionary Routines: The habits of social transformation. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press.

Ruti, M. (2017) The Ethics of Opting Out: Queer Theory’s Defiant Subjects. New York: Columbia University Press.

Queering the Map - www.queeringthemap.com

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Episode 6: Affect and the City

Épisode 6

jeudi 25 juillet 2024 • Durée 36:55

Episode 6 : Affect and the city

In this episode we explore how space can be queered through fiction; through continuously recreating the affective dimensions of queer space, can fiction problematise the attempted containment, erasure or supposedly ‘temporary’ nature of queerness in public spaces? Inspired by works such as Call Me by Your Name, Young Mungo and Nevada, this episode considers the centrality of memories and past affective resonances to the materiality of space, as well as how existing in an affective bind between the anticipation of an ending and the promise of a (spatial) ‘otherwise’ shapes the rhythms and directions of queer mobility.

References:

Aciman, A. (2017) Call me by your name. Bloomsbury: Atlantic Books.

Ahmed, S. (2006) Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, objects, others. Durham: Duke University Press.

Anderson, B. (2022) “Forms and Scenes of Attachment: A Cultural Geography of Promises”, Dialogues in Human Geography (online early).

Azzouz, A. and Catterall, P. (2021) Queering Public Space, Arup. [online] Available at: https://www.arup.com/perspectives/publications/research/section/queering-public-space

Binnie, I. (2022) Nevada. London: Picador.

Edelman, L. (2004) No future: Queer theory and the death drive. Durham: Duke University Press.

Kelaita, P. (2022) Tracks to gay elsewheres: cultural attachment and spatial imaginaries. cultural geographies 29(4), 531-545

Middleton, J. (2022) The walkable city: Dimensions of walking and overlapping walks of life. London: Routledge.

Results Day 2024 by @sammoirsmith available at: Samuel Moir-Smith (@sammoirsmith) • Instagram photos and videos

Stuart, D. (2023) Young Mungo. London: Picador.

Episode 5: Cyborg Promises

Épisode 5

lundi 8 juillet 2024 • Durée 38:23

Cyborg promises

The possible pathways of the present digitally mediated moment are now shaped by the algorithms that govern our everyday lives - algorithms that are often imbued with oppressive technocapitalist values. If we are to broaden the potentiality of the present in radically transformative ways, do we need to relinquish digital tech entirely? Maybe…and yet, this is seemingly impossible in our cyborgian existence. In this episode we explore the promises that keep us attached to digital devices. Inspired by Jeanette Winterson’s ‘Ghost in the Machine’, we discuss how ‘hyper-relevant’ personalised online worlds enabled by intense surveillance keep us tied to the digital technologies that are both making everyday life into a crisis, and making it more bearable…

References:

Amoore, L. (2020). Cloud Ethics: Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others. Durham: Duke University Press.

Anderson, B. (2022). Forms and Scenes of Attachment: A Cultural Geography of Promises. Dialogues in Human Geography, 13 (3), pp. 392-409.

Anderson, B. (2023). Media Promises: On Attachment and Detachment with Berlant. Media Theory, 7 (2), pp. 209–224. Available at: https://journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt/article/view/580

Bucher, T. (2018). If…Then: Algorithmic Power and Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Darmody, A. & Zwick, D. (2020). Manipulate to Empower: Hyper-Relevance and the Contradictions of Marketing in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism. Big Data and Society. Available at: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2053951720904112

Drage, E. & McInerney, K. (2024). The Good Robot: Why Technology Needs Feminism. London: Bloomsbury.

Haraway, D. (1985) A cyborg manifesto.

Noble, S. U. (2018). Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism. New York: New York University Press

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