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E13 Getting Through Security Part III
May 12 2023
E13 Getting Through Security Part III
Part Three of the audiobook for Maguire & Westbrook, Getting Through Security: Counterterrorism, Bureaucracy, and a Sense of the Modern.  This part discusses the political character of "security," and why "security" cannot be "solved."

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E13 Getting Through Security Part III
May 12 2023
E13 Getting Through Security Part III
Part Three of the audiobook for Maguire & Westbrook, Getting Through Security: Counterterrorism, Bureaucracy, and a Sense of the Modern.  This part discusses the political character of "security," and why "security" cannot be "solved."
E12 Getting Through Security Part II
Jan 22 2023
E12 Getting Through Security Part II
Part Two of the audiobook for Maguire & Westbrook, Getting Through Security: Counterterrorism, Bureaucracy, and a Sense of the Modern.
E11 Getting Through Security Part I
Nov 24 2022
E11 Getting Through Security Part I
This is the first part of an audiobook, Maguire & Westbrook, Getting Through Security: Counterterrorism, Bureaucracy, and a Sense of the Modern.  The text has been published by Routledge, and is generally available.
E10 Welcome to New Country Part II
Sep 10 2022
E10 Welcome to New Country Part II
Part II of my book, Welcome to New Country: Music for Today's America, available in print on Amazon.
E9 Smith Lake Part II
Jul 12 2022
E9 Smith Lake Part II
Part II of my book Smith Lake.
E8 Welcome to New Country Part I
Jul 12 2022
E8 Welcome to New Country Part I
An introduction, and the beginning, of my book Welcome to New Country: Music for Today's America.  Popular music as window into meanings, personal and even constitutional, for the way so many of us live.
E7 Form, Subject: Photo Essay, Globalization
Jun 2 2022
E7 Form, Subject: Photo Essay, Globalization
The limitations and excitement of the photo essay as a form, and my efforts to use it to articulate some subjectivities of the era just past, between the Global Financial Crisis and the Covid Pandemic.
E6 Keeping the Feast in Lawrence Kansas
Jun 2 2022
E6 Keeping the Feast in Lawrence Kansas
Our situation in time and space, festivals, and finding something special right here, right now, wherever and whenever that might be.  Impressions.  History, great local food and drink.  Appreciation.
E5 Afghanistan, We Hardly Knew Ye
Apr 19 2022
E5 Afghanistan, We Hardly Knew Ye
Reflections on the US Withdrawal from Afghanistan, and why so little was learned from our war in Vietnam. Music by Vince Parlato; photo Vincent Littrell.
E4 Assassination and Authority
Apr 19 2022
E4 Assassination and Authority
A consideration of the killing of Soleimaini, in light of (renewed?) hopes for the liberal international order.
E3 After Hours at the Pandemia Lodge II
Mar 23 2022
E3 After Hours at the Pandemia Lodge II
The pandemic, both the physical disease and in the body politic, over the last years, as engaged by a writer marooned on a mountain.   Cultural critique, existential struggle, and poetics -- with recipes.
E2 After Hours at the Pandemia Lodge I
Mar 22 2022
E2 After Hours at the Pandemia Lodge I
The pandemic, both the physical disease and in the body politic, over the last years, as engaged by a writer marooned on a mountain.   Cultural critique, existential struggle, and poetics -- with recipes.
E1 Points of Departure
Jan 31 2022
E1 Points of Departure
A reading from an unpublished book, on the (in)stability of memory, the self, family, art & so politics, and the need to carry on nonetheless.  Enjoy.