Summer Blockbuster 3: Avatar - Ep 200
To wrap up our inaugural Summer Blockbuster series, Amber leads us on a mission to Pandora with Avatar (2009). Rather than exploration of the culture of the indigenous Na’vi population (or maybe in addition to), we’ll examine some of the philosophical underpinnings of the franchise and discuss the book that completely changed Amber's intellectual trajectory.
Links
“Avatar” Advertising Invades “Bones” Episode “The Gamer in the Grease” (Wall Street Journal)
An interview with Paul Frommer, Alien Language Creator for Avatar (Unidentified Sound Object)
Some highlights of Na’vi (University of Pennsylvania Language Log)
Avatar: A Marxist Saga on the Far Distant Planet (Communication, Capitalism, and Critique)
An Introduction to Edward Said, Orientalism, and Postcolonial Literary Studies (Amardeep Singh)
Orientalism and power: When will we stop stereotyping people? (BBC Ideas, via YouTube)
Watching Avatar through a Postcolonial and Orientalist Lens (via Academia.edu)
Edward Said - Framed: The Politics of Stereotypes in News (Al Jazeera English, via YouTube)
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Yes We Cant: Anti-Languages and Argots - Ep 163
Come along for an exploration of anti-languages and the qualities that make them successful in building community and maintaining safety among the people that develop them. From occupational jargon to survival as a marginalized group to being hip with the kids, we tour a few of these languages, and subject everyone to a 16th century dialogue with translation.
Links
O latín dos canteiros en Cabana de Bergantiños (Madrygal, in Galician)
The secret “anti-languages” you’re not supposed to know (BBC Future)
The Book of Vagabonds and Beggars: With a Vocabulary of Their Language (via Google Books)
Uncovering Thieves’ Cant, the Elizabethan Slang of the Underworld (MentalFloss)
This Month in Linguistics History: Lavender Language/Linguistics (Linguistic Society of America)
Cants And ‘Anti-Languages’ — The Hidden World Of Secret Languages (Babbel Magazine)
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Linguistics and Endangered Languages with Dr. Chris Donlay - Ep 106
Anna and Amber finally get some much-needed linguistics help from Dr. Chris Donlay. We talk about his unconventional academic path and his work recording and studying endangered languages! Plus, he schools us on how language shapes our perception of the world, how old spoken language *might* be, and what to do with a linguistics degree.
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It's Time to Talk About the Future - Ep 100
This week, for our ONE HUNDREDTH EPISODE, Anna and Amber bend their brains around the archaeology of the future and the future of archaeology. What will excavation look like in 100, 1,000, or 5,000 years? What about human evolution? Human culture? Language? We come up with more questions than answers, and have a great time doing it. THANK YOU for getting us to Episode 100!
Links
The broiler chicken as a signal of a human reconfigured biosphere (Royal Society Open Science)
Dougal Dixon - After Man (A Zoology of the Future) 1981 (Monster Brains blog)
What will English language look like in the future? (Oxford Academic on YouTube)
What will the English language be like in 100 years? (The Conversation)
Pleistocenese: A Language of 40,000 Years Ago (Justin B. Rye)
Beyond Biohazard: Why Danger Symbols Can’t Last Forever (99% Invisible)
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Mark My Words: Linguistics! - Ep 81
In this episode, Amber and Anna talk about talking. It’s finally an episode on linguistics! We think about Neanderthal speech, wrestle with syntax and semantics, and have a whole language family reunion.
Links
What is Speech? What is Language? (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association)
Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe (Nature)
Mysterious Indo-European homeland may have been in the steppes of Ukraine and Russia (Science)
Language Isolates and Their History, or, What’s Weird, Anyway?
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