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Digital Salon Podcast
by UCLA Urban Humanities Initiative
The Digital Salon is a podcast series and a multi-media blog meditating on the theme of the PORTAL produced by the alumni and affiliated practitioners of UCLA’s Urban Humanities Initiative. In our pilot season, we respond to Arundhati Roy’s provocation in saying that the “pandemic is a portal.” As the pandemic fractures the cities we study, live in and love, alumni (and friends) fabulate responses that draw on the practices we call urban humanities. Through readings, soundwalks, audio-collages, interviews and more, we seek out the openings, fissures and apertures within the pandemic. digitalsalonpodcast.org
Episodes
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Linguistic Transplants: Learning Nahuatl Language and Culture in Salt Lake City, Utah
In this episode, Rebecca Smith shares about the experience of learning an indigenous Mexican language in the high deserts of Salt Lake City, Utah. For more information about each episode, visit https://digitalsalonpodcast.org
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On the Decolonizing Path with Huitlacoche
In this episode, Doğa Tekin sonically illustrates the work of People of Color Fungi Community, including Mario Ceballos, Cristina Juarez, Magdalena Ramirez, Olympia Beltran, and other organizers and participants in reintroducing huitlacoche to their community. For more information about each...
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Banality of Redevelopment
In this episode, Jason Araújo and Philip Salata explore the politics of memory and redevelopment in downtown San Diego. For more information about each episode, visit https://digitalsalonpodcast.org/
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Demon Hours at Eldo
In this episode, Dayquan Moeller explores gender dynamics in Southern California skating culture. For more information about each episode, visit https://digitalsalonpodcast.org/
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Reality(Place)Holder Pt. 2
This is Part 2 of a two-part podcast focusing on the role of postcards as propaganda in Russia and Ukraine by Lena Pozdnyakova, Eldar Tagi, and a Russian historian who preferred to remain anonymous. For more information about each episode, visit https://digitalsalonpodcast.org/
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Reality(Place)Holder Pt.1
This is Part 1 of a two-part podcast focusing on the role of postcards as propaganda in Russia and Ukraine by Lena Pozdnyakova, Eldar Tagi, and a Russian historian who preferred to remain anonymous. For more information about each episode, visit https://digitalsalonpodcast.org/
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Introduction to [dis/em/re/mis] placement - Digital Salon Season 3
After a few years of hiatus, we are back with Season 3 of the Digital Salon Podcast! Join us as we explore the theme of [dis/em/re/mis] placement across shifting places, times, subjectivities, and modalities. This season we especially engage with sonic methods, both analytically and creatively…
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"Who is the We in Diaspora?"
And for our 12th episode, Dr. Jonathan Jae-an Crisman, Assistant Professor of Public and Applied Humanities at the University of Arizona and a founding faculty of the UCLA Urban Humanities Initiative composes a sonic exploration of Asian American and diasporic collective identity through a chorus...
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Sankofa: Black Healing Matters
And for our 11th episode, UHI alumni and Urban Planning Master’s student Eliza Franklin explores the Black Matrix Collective, reimagining the ways in which Black Folx attain their higher self through internal and external healing.
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Growing Resilience
And for our 10th episode, Bangkok-based interior architect, researcher and bread baker, Marta Kwiczała casts a collective of home bread-makers that emerged in the Covid-19 pandemic, in, as she calls it, a story of bread in three acts.
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Family-ing/Familiando
And for our 9th episode, Ana Maria Alvarez, founding artistic director of CONTRA-TIEMPO Activist Dance Theater and 2020 Doris Duke Artist weaves a sonic tale about family-ing as a verb, tuning us into unrevealed practices of kinship that link us through a DNA of care.
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Imagining Spatial Collectivity within UCLA Arts
And for our 8th episode, UHI alumi and PhD student of World Arts and Cultures and Dance at UCLA Lili Flores Raygoza and Roya Chagnon, Master student in Architecture at UCLA, investigate the potential for collective knowledge production through the creation of a Knowledge Center in the UCLA School...
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My Commute is Home
For our 7th episode, UHI alum and PhD student of Urban Planning at UCLA, Gus Wendel explores the state of the UCLA student commute to and from campus.
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Aerobics in the Age of Data Sprawl
For our 6th episode, UHI alumni, graduate of UCLA Architecture and Urban Design M.Arch I program, also, founder and leader of the Earth Girl Helen Brown Center for Planetary Intelligence Band, Heidi Alexander, relays the communal knowledge disseminated by the synchronized, vocalized, embodied...
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Jitney and Anarchy: A 100-Year Global History of Rideshare in Popular Music
For our 5th episode, UHI alumni Peter Chesney and PhD candidate of History at UCLA dives into the history of rideshare in Los Angeles and beyond, illuminating the collective organizing practices that bear relevance to today’s so-called ‘sharing economy.’
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Un/planned Transitions
For our 4th episode, UHI alumni and architects Martha Kriley and Hideyo Kameda reflect on a changed work environment for designers wrought by the pandemic.
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You Are What You Read: Creating Critical Intimacy in the Zoom Classroom
For our 3rd episode UHI alum and PhD student in the English Department at UCLA, Miranda Hoegberg investigates the intersections between food, literature, and sound with her undergraduate students in an English class at UCLA.
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#CancelRent: Digital Organizing and Collective Struggle in a Global Pandemic
For our second episode, UHI alum Dr. Brady Collins and professor of Political Science at Cal Poly Pomona tells a story about collective struggle during the pandemic by tuning into the ways the coalition Healthy LA navigates the bureaucratic dissonance of a call-in public comment system.
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#TalkAboutBeirut
Welcome back to Digital Salon Podcast, Season 2: The Collective. For our first episode, we take you to the scale of global memory, as a collaborative group of sound artists and architects, led by Lena Pozdnyakova and Yara Feghali, walk us through the streets of Beirut, past and present, to…
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Cruising On A Ship of Fools: Renaissance Reason, Modern Civilization, and the Covid Pandemic
A critical playlist diagnoses our present day situation as passengers aboard globalized capital’s ship of fools. Episode by Teo Wickland.
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Production in the Age of Data Sprawl
In this week's episode, members of the Center for Planetary Intelligence Band reflect on technology in the age of COVID, surveying the highs and lows in conversation, and veering way off track with no look back. For additional musing on washing machines, internal combustion, cooking, optics, dump...
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Sounds of Home: Nostalgia & Discovery
In this episode, a global sonic archiving project remixes our journeys home. Episode by Cassie Hoeprich, Akana Jayewardene & Ru’a Al-Abweh.
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A Bruin Walk: The Campus Under Pandemic
Listen to the uncommon quiet and radical emptiness that is UCLA’s campus during the shutdown. Episode by Genevieve Carpio.
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First Portal: Reading With Arundhati Roy
In our pilot, we pay tribute to the writer and activist Arundhati Roy, through a reading of the first chapter of her newest novel, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, and discuss the episodes to come. Episode by Jacqueline Barrios & Gus Wendel. digitalsalonpodcast.org/First-Portal
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Esta Tienda Me Importa Mucho
Tune into the soundscapes of LA’s ethnic supermarkets and the story of the essential work they perform in urban space. Episode by Brady Collins. digitalsalonpodcast.org/esta-tienda-me-importa-mucho
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The Digital Salon is a podcast series and a multi-media blog meditating on the theme of the PORTAL produced by the alumni and affiliated practitioners of UCLA’s Urban Humanities Initiative. In our pilot season, we respond to Arundhati Roy’s provocation in saying that the “pandemic is a portal.” As the pandemic fractures the cities we study, live in and love, alumni (and friends) fabulate responses that draw on the practices we call urban humanities. Through readings, soundwalks, audio-collages, interviews and more, we seek out the openings, fissures and apertures within the pandemic. digitalsalonpodcast.org
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UCLA Urban Humanities Initiative
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The Digital Salon is a podcast series and a multi-media blog meditating on the theme of the PORTAL produced by the alumni and affiliated practitioners of UCLA’s Urban Humanities Initiative. In our pilot season, we respond to Arundhati Roy’s provocation in saying that the “pandemic is a portal.” As...
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