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Episode Notes In this week's (much delayed) episode we chat with Dr Sean O'Brien and Dr Madeline Lane-McKinley about their upcoming book: The Return of the 90s: A Cultural History of the Present and ask - did we ever really leave? We discuss the ontological correlation between the Spice Girls and 9/11, question what Francis Fukuyama would think of Cher, consider the surprising indexical correlates of beanie babies and the long economic downturn, and get into 90s feminist theory by way of the American Girl Doll and the erotic thriller. We ask a series of questions about our favourite figures of the 90s and learn that North Americans have a very different archive of this iconic shiny, grungy decade. We close with a debate on periodicity and discuss the various 'crashes' that define the decade: the burst of the dot.com bubble, hijacked planes, Diana's car crash and the death of Aaliyah. You can buy a copy of the book here: [https://www.plutobooks.com/product/the-return-of-the-90s/ ](

Episode Notes This week we're speaking with Dr Lloyd Meadhbh Houston, a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Cambridge, Trinity College. In this episode we chat with Lloyd about the sordid relationships between sectarianism and sexuality, find out what the most Irish STD is, and consider whether Irish Modernism was the original edging movement. We also consider the relationship between trans egg theory and autism, ask 'how might one f**k autistically?', and trace the connections between capitalist exhaustion and the contemporary top crisis. Take a deep, syphilitic breath and dive with us into the auto-ethnographic splash zone. You can stay up to date with all of Lloyd's work on her very professional website: https://lmhouston.co.uk  and buy her very professional book here: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/irish-modernism-and-the-politics-of-sexual-health-9780192889492?cc=gb\&lang=en&

Episode Notes This week we're speaking with Praxis Enemy No. 1, Dr Marianna Dudley, senior lecturer in Environmental Humanities at the University of Bristol and ‘certified wet weirdo’. We first spoke with Marianna back in 2022 before the untimely, unplanned hiatus of the pod. The episode never aired. COINCIDENCE?? We think not. We invited her back to talk about her book, Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain, which she has now published all thanks to us! In this episode we ask: can we think of Mary Poppins and her magical umbrella as an early renewable energy icon? Why is solar energy sexier than wind power? What exactly makes a river alive and why don't we care what Robert Macfarlane thinks? We also discuss how the industrial imaginary of BIG WIND™ is muscling in on Britain's favourite past time - complaining proudly about our shit weather. You can buy Marianna's fabulous book here: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182968/ You can apply to study all about torpedos, rivers and BIG WIND here: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/taught/ma-environmental-humanities/

Episode Notes We're SO back. Did you miss us? In our first episode of this brand new season we chat with Dr Colin Sterling, Assistant Professor of Heritage, Museums and the Environment at the University of Amsterdam, about the difference between culture and strategy, debate whether heritage can ever be anything other than fascist, and consider what makes dusty museum storerooms so sinfully seductive. We also discuss precisely what "belongs in a museum", and what exactly SpaceX Starships have in common with Noah's Ark. Tune in for an EXCLUSIVE sneak peek at Colin's BIllion-dollar book project, Museum Planet™. You can keep up to date with all of Colin's strategic projects and infinite book proposals here: https://colinsterling.com. To play with states of matter and decolonising museum studies go to: https://ghostsofsolidair.com.

Episode Notes With more fans than Grumpy Cat (RIP), we're joined by the chronically online Dr Idil Galip, queen of memes and founder of the Meme Studies Research Network. Here to sort the evergreen content from the cancelled - repilcate to disseminate xoxo

Episode Notes THIS IS NOT A DRILL. WE ARE BACK. WE HAVEN'T FOSSILISED. YET. But our guest, Professor David Farrier, is about to tell us about our bleak, trashy, fossilised futures via the temporalities of Cher, chicken-sized horses and horse-sized chickens and doing deep time in different voices. David is the author of 'Footprints' (2020) and 'Anthropocene Poetics' (2019), a publication timeline that makes us feel deeply inadequate. Shantih shantih shantih.

Episode Notes Did you miss us? We were observing the UCU industrial action. This is the only reason for our lateness. Promise. This week we're joined by New Generation Flake, Dr Joan Passey (or is it Passé?) and her creepy haunted cavern...Joan is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Bristol, the editor of the British Library short story collection 'Cornish Horrors' and is a 2022 New Generation Thinker. She is salty AF.

Episode Notes We’re back and this week we're getting spooky and ECTOGASMIC with Dr Emma Merkling. Emma is an Art Historian at the Courtauld specialising in in late C19th history of art, science and occultism. Emma is “Just a creepy weirdo who lik es creepy weird stuff”. In this episode we chat about racist ghosts, squirting spiritualists, and what it’s like to be a Spooky Terrifying Ect oplasm Mama (aka a woman in STEM). We consider the production of ectoplasm and/as the female orgasm, discuss the pros and cons of automatic writing for REF submissions, and question whether or not x-rays can be used for upskirting? Also as women in SHAPE we consider why orbs are so important for mediums. You can check out the podcast Emma co-hosts with LOL My Praxis superfan, Dr Christine Slobogin, here https://drawingbloodpod.wordpress.com/ or follow her @EmmaMerkling. If you fancy playing with stereographs you can come along to Emma’s event at the Courtauld on November 14th https://courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/science-in-the-seance-room-stereographs-medical-men-and-the-testing-of-margery-crandons-extraordinary-body-c-1925/

This episode we're talking about shiny dead things. Not Edward Cullen the Sparkle Vamp, but the intersections of jewellery and death with the world's first forensic jeweller Dr Maria Maclennan. Maria is the most tattooed academic we know and can often be found on BBC Crimewatch. We'll leave that one there. You can follow her @ForensicJewelery.

Episode Notes WERE BACK, BABY! Did you miss us? We’re celebrating our emergence from hot burn-out summer by speaking with Dr Arin Keeble about the literature of Terror and collective trauma. Arin is Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Culture at Edinburgh Napier University, he has written on everything from hurricanes and punk rock to Stranger Things and contemporary literary TV studies. In this episode we talk about counternarratives to the War on Terror, what objects we would throw at War Criminal George W. Bush Jr., and conditions of radicalisation in relation to White Nationalism. We ask whether or not jet fuel can melt steel beams, if a Hurricane can be a terrorist, and whether or not narratives of Terror can, or should, be funny? You can follow Arin @KeebleArin and check out his work on New Literary Television here https://post45.org/sections/contemporaries-essays/new-literary-tv/

Episode Notes WE'RE BACK!!! DID YOU MISS US?! This episode we're joined by Dr Anna Arabindan-Kesson to discuss visual art, visual culture, lenses, ways of seeing, the gaze, the critical eye, and Specsavers...in an entirely oral medium. Oooh, I get the shivers. Anna is an Assistant Professor of African American and Black Diasporic Art at Princeton University; she is the author of Black Bodies, White Gold Art, Cotton, and Commerce in the Atlantic World (2021) and the director of Art Hx, a digital humanities project and object database that addresses the intersections of art, race and medicine in the British empire.

Episode Notes We're back and we're getting institutionally promiscuous with SUPER KEENO Rachel (Bynoth) Smith. Rachel is a PhD student based between all of the Universities in the South West and specialises in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century social, gender, and emotions history, particularly in relation to letter writing with a special focus on the Canning Family Network. Rachel BEGGED to come on the podcast and we finally gave in. In this episode we discuss overlaps between C18th anxieties and the life of contemporary academia, that the Canning family Letters were as spicy as Bridgerton Season 1, and whether or not writing over 1000 letters to your mother is normal. We play a quick round of Georgian Familial Anxiety Bingo and somehow end up speaking about spunk. A lot. Also, Louise and Alex record in the same place for the first time ever. Set phasers to CRUDE. You can follow Rachel @RachelBynoth and get involved in the IHR History Lab seminars here https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/history-lab

Episode Notes HI THEORY!! Are you psyched for some high theory? We're joined by Dr Anna Kornbluh of many many books, Victorians, and critical theory to establish why good Marxists don't skip leg day and what WAP has to say about social reproduction. We also reveal what happens when you read 'Of Grammatology' backwards. Truly radical discourse. You can follow Anna @V21collective xoxo

Episode Notes We're here and we're getting ShakesQUEER. This week we're speaking with the notorious SGB, otherwise known as Professor Stephen Guy-Bray. Stephen is currently Professor of English Literature at the University of British Columbia where he is a specialist in Renaissance poetry, queer studies, and poetic insemination. In this episode we discuss whether Shakespeare was a top or a bottom, find out which play is the gayest play ever, and we figure out what the relationship is between sonnet sequences and incel culture. Stephen also bestows upon us wisdom about poetry cakes, the signature scent of a monograph, and what literary tattoos we should get. Stephen's most recent book, 'Shakespeare and Queer Representation' was published in 2020 and he's already gone and finished ANOTHER monograph on Line Endings in Renaissance poetry (out in May 2022). To find out more about Stephen's research into hot man-on-man action you can follow him @SGUYBRAY. To ensure we keep producing world-leading totally NON-REFable content you can support us for the price of an oat flat white by signing up to our patreon at www.patreon.com/LolMyPraxis. If you want to get in touch drop us a line at [email protected] or follow us @LOLMyPraxis

Episode Notes Welcome back! This week we're chatting with Jane Austen and K-pop superfan, Dr Rita Dashwood. Rita is currently a postdoctoral research fellow on the Romantic Ridiculous project at Edge Hill University. When not reading books, Rita likes to write them and is currently working on her first novel - a YA fantasy about queer witches. In this week's episode shots are fired at our guest from episode 13, Dr Andy McInnes who suggested Austen would have voted for Brexit. We get to the bottom of her Brexit-voting ways, find out what her position would be on the housing crisis, and that she was into sodomy and pearl necklaces. We also dive into the world of adaptation and discuss the relationship between Disney villains, Austen baddies and...incest? You can find out about Rita's work on the Romantic Ridiculous project here https://romanticridiculous.wordpress.com/, follow her on twitter @rjdashwood, and check out her youtube channel here https://www.youtube.com/c/DrRitaJDashwood?app=desktop