Episode 5: Reading Lisa Ruddick's "When Nothing is Cool"
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Phil and JF discuss Lisa Ruddick\'s "When Nothing is Cool," an essay on the postmodern humanities and its allergy to essences -- especially that personal essence we call soul. Maybe the soul is a heap of miscellaneous notions and influences that I paint a face onto and then call "me." Or maybe there is something under that painted effigy of the self. If so, what? And if there\'s nothing under there, could it be a nothing that delivers?
\\n\\nWORKS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE
\\n\\nLisa Ruddick, "When Nothing is Cool"
\\n\\nElizabeth Gilbert, "Your Elusive Creative Genius"
\\n\\nJudith Halberstam, "Skinflick: Posthuman Gender in Jonathan Demme\'s The Silence of the Lambs"
\\n\\nDaniel Chua (the musicologist whose name Phil couldn\'t remember)
\\n\\nBrett Easton Ellis, American Psycho
\\n\\nMary Harron, American Psycho (film)
\\n\\nDavid Lynch, Twin Peaks: The Return
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