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Multi-Verse

Multi-Verse Episode 6: CM Burroughs on Not Being Gentle

In three “Dear Liver” poems, a grieving sister demands response

October 31, 2022 • by Evangeline Riddiford Graham

In Episode 6 of Multi-Verse, poet CM Burroughs reads her trio of “Dear Liver” poems and discusses themes of grief, agency, and healing with host Evangeline Riddiford Graham....

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The Women Who Built Playboy

An interview with podcast host Amy Rose Spiegel

October 6, 2022 • by Amy Rose Spiegel and Mette Kierstein

Women who were really responsible for shaping Playboy were Hefner’s closest confidants; they worked in the clubs and interacted with the magazine in ways that changed the trajectories of their lives....

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Beyond #MeToo

Female agency as heroine in The Tale

August 22, 2018 • by Jill Gentile

This article was originally published in the Philosophical Salon of the Los Angeles Review of Books. The author served as a consultant to Jennifer Fox's film "The Tale." This piece joins other related pieces published on Public Seminar, including an interview with the filmmaker, a psychoanalytic approach to understanding childhood ...

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Sexuality and Agency

A course at the New School for Public Engagement

February 21, 2018 • by Ali Shames-Dawson

This course is an exploration of various perspectives addressing the enabling and constraining conditions for sexual agency. Beginning with the question of how we might define agency as a psychological construct, we chart a course along theoretical, empirical, ethnographic, autobiographical, and popular renderings of what it means to have -- ...

Theory & Practice

The Utopia of Art

Composition as construction of an alternate reality

July 5, 2015 • by Zachary Sunderman

[A]nd so there was, during “4’33”,” the marking down, the scribbling of pens and pencils, and the whispering of teenage ADHD cases, and the occasional cough (which cough has to have been the most consistent instrumental timbre across all the myriad performances of “4’33””), and then gradually there was consternation among the ...