Name: Episode 6: “Wicked Problems and Starting from the Middle” with Ohad Ben Shimon and Chris Julien by NICAST
Duration: 1 h 22 min 17 s
Description: The sixth episode of NICAst features a conversation with Ohad Ben Shimon and Chris Julien about starting from the middle, alternative modalities for writing and doing research, and engaging with “wicked problems”.

This first episode of NICast features a conversation with Murat Aydemir and Aylin Kuryel about their forthcoming book (edited together with Noa Roei) titled The Future of Cultural Analysis: A Critical Inquiry.

Episode 1: “The Future of Cultural Analysis” with Murat Aydemir and Aylin Kuryel

This episode features a conversation with writer, scholar and historian Lila Lee-Morrison, postdoc fellow at Lund University (Sweden), whose research focusses on machine vision and remote sensing technologies, and the intersections of art, technology, and the environment.

Episode 2: “Visual Culture and Machine Vision” with Lila Lee-Morrison

The third episode of NICast features a conversation with Erin La Cour (VU) and Marie Beauchamps about the place and potential of practicing creative writing in an academic environment.

Episode 3: “Creative writing in academia” with Erin La Cour and Marie Beauchamps

The fourth episode of NICAst features a conversation with Jack Halberstam, Professor of Gender Studies at Colombia University. The conversation between Halberstam, Hesselberth and De Bloois touches on the following topics:

Destituting transness
Queer architecture and the aesthetics of collapse, demolition, decay and abandonment
Queerness as a politics of withdrawal and refusal
The indebtedness to Black Studies in conceptualizing queer withdrawal
Institutional crisis and the creation of anarchives
Para-academic thought and the undercommons of the university.
The rogue intellectual, or how can we learn from the sciences by thinking through entropy and quantum physics?
Cynical resignation, naive optimism, failure and its others

Episode 4: “Destitution, Queer Architecture, and the Rogue Intellectual” with Jack Halberstam

The fifth episode of NICAst features a conversation with political philosopher Yolande Janssen and decolonial thinker Rolando Vázquez Melken about the interstices between decolonial thought, inquisitive racialization, social and climate justice, scholarly activism, higher education, artistic research, and the need for healing and repair.

Episode 5: “On Decoloniality”, with Yolande Janssen and Rolando Vázquez Melken

The sixth episode of NICAst features a conversation with Ohad Ben Shimon and Chris Julien about starting from the middle, alternative modalities for writing and doing research, and engaging with “wicked problems”. 

Episode 6: “Wicked Problems and Starting from the Middle” with Ohad Ben Shimon and Chris Julien

The seventh episode of NICAst features a conversation (in unconventional form) with Federico Luisetti, about earth-beings, decolonial thought, geo-materialism and pluriversal research practices. This special episode, with a nocturnal twist, covers a wide range of topics and questions.

Episode 7: “The Politics of Earth-Beings” with Federico Luisetti

The eight episode of NICAst features a conversation between Nidesh Lawtoo and Thomas Crombez about (new)fascism, mimetic theory and our contemporary political landscape. 

Episode 8: “Fascism and Mimetic Theory” with Nidesh Lawtoo and Thomas Crombez

NICAST is de podcast channel of NICA, the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis, a Dutch national research school dedicated to the academic study of contemporary culture from an interdisciplinary, theoretical, and critical perspective.

NICA is the Dutch national research school dedicated to the academic study of contemporary culture from an interdisciplinary, theoretical, and critical perspective. The school offers graduate courses for research master and PhD students, and serves as a professional network for affiliated scholars. Presently based at the Leiden University, the school welcomes the participation of scholars and students of all Dutch universities.

Episode 6: “Wicked Problems and Starting from the Middle” with Ohad Ben Shimon and Chris Julien

NICAST

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