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Stefan Sorgner Interview
01:18:26||Season 2This is a special episode, coming from John Cabot University in Rome, where I am joined by my colleague and friend, Stefan Lorenz Sorgner. Stefan is Associate Professor of Philosophy at JCU and central to two of today's hot button fields, namely Trans- and Post-humanism. In a turbo-charged 75 minutes, in perhaps the hottest recording studio I have ever been in - it was 40 degrees in there - I interrogate Professor Sorgner, and seek answers to these hugely problematic fields of discourse. I am enormously grateful to Stefan, and, for his time and availability, to Brian Thomson, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Communications At JCU and Coordinator of the Digital Media Lab. Enjoy the show!
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1. Season 2, Episode 1- From Essex to John Keats to The Great Gatsby, with special guest Richard Marriott
01:32:16||Season 2, Ep. 1Welcome to Season 2! We made it this far and kick off our new season with one of the loves of our lives ... literatureBack in the monastery from our late spring travels, Daniel and Hugh are delighted to have as our first AM guest Richard Marriott, who brings all his literary enthusiam to a discussion about the influence of English Romantic poet John Keats (1795-1821) on the American novelist, F Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940). With particular attention to Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' (1925) this episode is particularly helpful to anyone studying Keats or Fitzgerald for GCSE, A Level, IB, or uni undergrad. You're welcome!00.00-7.00: Our late spring travels, Essex, Oban and Rome7.01-13.32: Cindy's letter from Appalachia / The Anarchist Monastery Motto14.15-1.22.30: Richard Marriott, John Keats & F Scott Fitzgerald1.22.45-END: National Air Traffic Control Day8. From the Serbian Anarchist Monastery to talking about feelings
52:45||Season 1, Ep. 8In this the final episode of Series 1, Daniel and Hugh discuss:00.00 - The Serbian Anarchist Monastery 10.13 - John Snow, cholera and the pump handle 22.11 - Up country in Bangladesh 35.00 - Mental Health Awareness Week - an interrogation of Daniel's lifelong experiences with anxiety and depression7. From the Sussex Downs to the banks of the River Ouse ...
56:49||Season 1, Ep. 7In this episode, Daniel and Hugh discuss: Jasper's letter from the wettest place on earth / May the 4th be with you - Hugh, Star Wars, and the cooking prodigy / The poetry that is Icona Pop's 'I Love It' / Percy Bysshe Shelley in York6. From Shakespeare’s Birthday to a doll house state of mind
39:08||Season 1, Ep. 6In a special episode Hugh and Daniel discuss Shakespeare’s Richard III, which Daniel is directing for the York Shakespeare Project at the International Shakespeare Festival. Plus a stunner of a letter from Vladivostok.5. From User 423 to Chowpatty Beach vs The Bund
54:00||Season 1, Ep. 5In this episode Daniel and Hugh discuss:User 423, The Anarchist Monastery and Chat GTP / Skittles / Residentation / who are you and why? / World Art Day / Bosch! / Schiele take a bow! / Looking at people looking at people looking at Las Meninas / Wolf / pay me in Gatorade / Hugh and Anti-Art / Daniel in Bombay - a liver abscess and hospital terrorism / Crowds: Chowpatty Beach Bombay vs the Bund Shanghai4. From National Near Miss Day to the two shirts
01:09:28||Season 1, Ep. 4“It all went wrong, they didn’t want me!”“You might even have a theatre named after you in the West End.”In this episode Daniel and Hugh discuss:Daniel’s near miss - The Japanese Red Army Faction’s Mortar / Hugh’s near miss - Hugh auditions for the festival theatre / Maxi Snelling / Mary Ellen Best / Paint brushes made from her hair / York Lunatic Asylum / Mary in Nice / Daniel in Bombay / The Pearly King of Croydon / a broken heart: sedatives and lithium / a dodgy canapé / the two shirts!Further Reading:Mary Ellen Best: https://www.amazon.co.uk/World-Mary-Ellen-Best/dp/0701129050 ~ Rome Red Army Japan Incident: https://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/10/world/rome-explosions-shake-us-and-british-embassies-and-wreck-car.html ~