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Ep. 36 – Hopepunk: A light in the dystopian darkness

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Read the article: Hopepunk, the latest storytelling trend, is all about weaponized optimism

Post-apocalyptic hopepunk — Digital collage by S. King, featuring an illustration by Petra Van Houtte

Further Reading & Listening

Wikipedia entry for Grimdark
Terry Pratchett
The Ezra Klein Show – I build a world with fantasy master N. K. Jemisin (podcast)
The Hugo Awards just made history, and defied alt-right extremists in the process
Ursula Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” Defies Genre
What we crave: Meaning, Belonging, & Self-Expression
Hygge: The Danish Art of Cosiness

Susanna art, culture, literature Leave a comment May 25, 2019June 9, 2019

Ep. 34 – Kids, Screens & Mental Health

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Read the article: Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?

smartphones — photo illustration by S. King using photos by Kal Visuals, averie woodard, Hans Eiskonen, & Whelsko

Further Reading

Have smartphones really destroyed a generation? We don’t know.
How Generation Z is Changing Technology
Facebook has been paying teens $20 a month for total access to their phone activity
How teens use fake Instagram accounts to relieve the pressure of perfection

Next week: How Driscoll’s Reinvented the Strawberry

Susanna culture, psychology, technology Leave a comment March 9, 2019March 9, 2019

Ep. 31 -The Art of Selecting Background Music

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Read the article: Inside the booming business of background music

Further Reading

The Word “Curate” No Longer Belongs to the Museum Crowds
All-too-easy listening
How video game music waltzed its way on to Classic FM

bkg-music — collage by S. King based on a photo by Kevin Curtis

Susanna business, culture, technology Leave a comment December 5, 2018

Ep. 30 – The Sport of Fashion

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Read the article: Everything You Wear Is Athleisure

Further Reading & Listening

The Sneaky Way Clothing Brands Hooked Men on Stretch Jeans
Dress Casual: How College Students Redefined American Style (Gender and American Culture)
99% Invisible podcast – Blue Jeans: Articles of Interest #5
Wikipedia: Thorstein Veblen
Champion Apparel – Looking Back on a Century of Sweats
Ocean Plastic Pollution: why our clothes are part of the problem
Teenage boys wear skirts to school to protest against ‘no shorts’ policy

athleisure — composite by S. King

Susanna culture, fashion, history Leave a comment November 25, 2018November 26, 2018

Ep. 29 – New Life for Old Towns

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Read the article: Can You Curate a Town?

Further Reading

Artfields
Amazon can’t make Crystal City worse
Walmart Reimagined
They Bought a Ghost Town for $1.4 Million. Now They Want to Revive It.

old-towns — Photo illustration by S. King based on photos by Alphacolor13 and Cole Patrick.

Susanna culture, society Leave a comment November 17, 2018November 19, 2018

Ep. 27 – Making Sense of Scents Part 2

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Read the article: The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Perfume

Further Reading

Scent Memories
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Fragrance Notes: That New Car Smell
Provenance of the “recipe” for Chanel No. 5

colognes

Susanna culture, science Leave a comment October 27, 2018October 26, 2018

Ep. 26 – Making Sense of Scents Part 1

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Read the article: The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Perfume

Further Reading

Ambergris: how to tell if you’ve struck gold with ‘whale vomit’ or stumbled upon sewage
Forgotten women in science: Tapputi-Belatekallim
James Kennedy’s chemistry charts:
Basenotes.net
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Susanna culture, history, science Leave a comment October 22, 2018

Ep. 15 – What Is Cyberpunk, Really?

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Read the article: Where Are the Radical Politics of Cyberpunk?

Further Reading

Cyberpunk 2077: Everything we learned from E3 2018 and more
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Philip K. Dick Short Stories Online
Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology
Terminal World by Alastair Reynolds
Shadowrun: Sprawl Ops Board Game

Susanna culture, literature, technology Leave a comment July 23, 2018July 24, 2018

Episode 9 – Experiential Design & Ice Cream Dreams

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Read the article: I Dream of Content-Trash

Further reading

What it’s Like to Work at the Museum of Ice Cream
Dream Machine
Museum of Ice Cream
Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirrors

Susanna art, culture, technology Leave a comment May 11, 2018

Episode 8 – The Loud Restaurant Phenomenon

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Read the article: Why restaurants became so loud — and how to fight back

Susanna culture, society Leave a comment May 4, 2018August 24, 2018

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