ArtiFact #38: Ivan Katchanovski On Russia / Ukraine Propaganda, Maidan, Donbass, & The USSR
Although Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 caught many analysts off-guard, Ukrainian-born scholar Ivan Katchanovski (University of Ottawa) predicted the growth of tensions well before the ...
24 Feb 20233h 35min
ArtiFact #37: Junichiro Tanizaki’s ”Some Prefer Nettles” | Ruslan Gallopyn, Alex Sheremet
Junichiro Tanizaki (1886 – 1965) was a Japanese novelist born to a Tokyo merchant family. His work combined some of the best elements of modernism while tapping both Japanese and Western aesthetics. I...
15 Feb 20232h 2min
ArtiFact #36: EKPHRASM – Jessica Schneider’s Ekphrastic Poetry | Alex Sheremet, Jessica Schneider
Although ekphrastic poetry (‘poetry about art’) has been around for a long time, the majority of ekphrastic writing does little more than recapitulate and describe a painting. In ArtiFact #36, Alex Sh...
25 Jan 20231h 24min
ArtiFact #35: The Life & Times Of Bruce Ario, Poet | Joel Ario, Alex Sheremet, Dan Schneider
Bruce Ario (1955 – 2022) was a great Minneapolis poet with a fascinating backstory. Although he did not have much interest in writing in the start of his adult life, a car accident and traumatic brain...
11 Jan 20231h 15min
ArtiFact #34: A Climate Activist Dissects Ted Kaczynski’s Manifesto | Arnold Schroder, Alex Sheremet
After embarking on a two-decade terrorist campaign of mail bombs, Ted Kaczynski forced the Washington Post to publish “Industrial Society And Its Future”, or, the Unabomber Manifesto, in 1995. This wa...
23 Dec 20221h 59min
ArtiFact #33: Norman Finkelstein Speaks With Palestinian Refugees On Nakba, Gaza, The First & Second Intifada, Oslo, & Their Memories Of War
Although Israelis view the events of 1948 as liberation, to Palestinians, this was “Nakba”, or “disaster”. According to Israeli historian Benny Morris, the events of those first few years were tantamo...
6 Dec 20222h 34min
ArtiFact #32: Terminator vs. Terminator 2 - Judgment Day | Ethan Pinch, J. Schneider, A. Sheremet
James Cameron's "Terminator" film series combines the best of Hollywood while remaining unburdened by its convention and cliche. In “Terminator” (1984), Cameron casts an apparently reluctant Arnold Sc...
28 Sep 20221h 34min
ArtiFact #31 – Ryusuke Hamaguchi & Orientalism | Ezekiel Yu, Alex Sheremet
Although Ryusuke Hamaguchi has been a well-known Japanese film director for some time, it was only with 2021’s Drive My Car that his name entered the West. In ArtiFact #31, Alex Sheremet and Ezekiel Y...
29 Aug 20221h 46min
