ArtiFact #14: Kurt Vonnegut's "Breakfast of Champions" | Alex Sheremet, Joel Parrish
Taking up Mark Twain's mantle, then expanding upon it, Kurt Vonnegut (1922 – 2007) was one of the greatest comic writers to have ever lived. His best-known work, Slaughterhouse-Five, features everythi...
13 Juli 20212h 36min
ArtiFact #13: NFTs, Kitsch, 90s Culture, Rap Music, R.W. Fassbinder, Censorship | Alex Sheremet, Ethan Pinch
Alex is joined by painter Ethan Pinch to discuss a variety of topics: growing up on the precipice of the Internet’s mainstreaming, the role that media censorship (and thus self-censorship) play in eve...
9 Juli 20213h 50min
ArtiFact #12: De-framing Steven Pinker's "Enlightenment Now" | Alex Sheremet, Joel Parrish
Steven Pinker is a cognitive scientist who’s written a number of pop science classics: The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, The Blank Slate, and more. In 2011, he waded into the culture (if not ...
27 Juni 20214h 44min
ArtiFact #11: Kurt Vonnegut's "Cat's Cradle" | Alex Sheremet, Keith Jackewicz
Taking up Mark Twain's mission, then greatly expanding upon it, Kurt Vonnegut (1922 – 2007) was one of the best comic writers to have ever lived. His best-known work, Slaughterhouse-Five, features eve...
27 Juni 20212h 35min
ArtiFact #10: Charles Johnson's "Oxherding Tale" | Alex Sheremet, Joel Parrish
Charles R. Johnson (b. 1948) is a scholar, cartoonist, and writer who approaches literature from the Buddhist tradition. His best-known novels – Middle Passage and Oxherding Tale – offer a unique phil...
27 Juni 20213h 18min
ArtiFact #9: The Epic of Gilgamesh | Alex Sheremet, Joel Parrish
The Epic of Gilgamesh (c. 1200 BCE, Standard Babylonian) is based on Gilgamesh of Uruk, a historical king subject to centuries of cult-worship and mythmaking before his exploits were written down. Alt...
27 Juni 20213h
ArtiFact #8: Also Sprach Pinch | Ethan Pinch, Joel Parrish, Alex Sheremet
Joel Parrish and I are joined by Ethan Pinch, a painter and art critic from the UK, for an interview (and debate) on his perspectives. In previous videos and comments, the 3 of us took some divergent ...
27 Juni 20213h 54min
ArtiFact #7: John Williams's "Stoner" | Joel Parrish, Alex Sheremet
John Williams (1922 – 1994) is best remembered today for his 1965 novel, STONER. Mostly ignored during his lifetime, the book has become a cult classic after being re-issued in 2006 by the New York Re...
27 Juni 20213h 31min
