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A daily podcast covering the new Arts and Letters.
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Signup to Generate a PitchThe Independent Scholar is a general podcast hosted by Julia Murphy, with 42 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.
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The Independent Scholar
In today's issue: Project Panama's industrial book scanning, spines sliced off in the service of training data. Hob Broun's lost novel, recovered decades after the fact. Newly identified sermons of Augustine, surfacing from the manuscript record. A dispute at Vanderbilt over the future of its anthropology department. Radek Stefanski's quantitative analysis of 23,000 Western canon texts. Onward.
The Independent Scholar
In today's issue: Author advances shrinking while retained rights become the real currency of a book deal. Alexander B. Joy going back to "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" and finding a different city than he remembered. Geoffrey Mak on remake literature and what happens when novels start behaving like reboots. An AI system guided by Randall Collins's theory of intellectual networks. The odd split between UFO stories about hardware and UFO stories about consciousness. Let's begin.
The Independent Scholar
In today's issue: McKenzie-McHarg on how "conspiracy theory" went from neutral forensic language to an argument-ending verdict Catherine Liu on trauma as the professional class's preferred substitute for the word "exploitation" Morgan Meis, who spent a lifetime on Benjamin's angel of history, finally seeing it and wishing he hadn't Clara Mattei going viral for saying capitalism was built through force and enclosure Musa al-Gharbi on inequality studies quietly eating the rest of sociology Plenty to chew on today.
The Independent Scholar
In today's issue: Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm writing a genealogy of genealogy and turning the humanities' favorite method on itself Christine Abigail L Tan using Zhuangzi to dismantle the self that thinks it deserves its success Theo Baker's Stanford portrayed as a campus run like a giant app Isaac Butler on how the culture wars were manufactured at the NEA, not born inevitable Ray Brassier's Fatelessness finally dated for April 2027, nearly twenty years after Nihil Unbound Worth your time. Dig in.
The Independent Scholar
In today's issue: Zena Hitz on why 1,600 people per semester are reading great books for free online, outside any university Jean-Baptiste Fressoz's case that there has never been an energy transition, and that the nuclear lobby coined the idea The Harper's Bazaar short story readers suspect a machine wrote Amy Kind's argument that imagination is a cognitive skill, and what happens when we outsource it Brady's reading of Elena Greco as the moral villain of Ferrante's Neapolitan novels Let's get into it.
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