Words and Wax is a podcast that attempts to blend storytelling and musical composition, based in Minneapolis, MN, USA. Produced by Graham O'Brien, Adam Svec, and John Burgess. Recorded and engineered by Graham O'Brien. Hosted by Adam Svec.
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Adult Friends is a show exploring ways in which people make and keep friends after the safety net of a school structure has gone away. Modern adult life involves prioritizing certain things, such as marriage, children, careers, and jet-setting across the world. These are all important considerations as we hurdle towards the grave; however, in my opinion, adult friendship gets under-valued, and I'd like to hear some stories about it.
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The Voltaire Foundation is a world leader for eighteenth-century scholarship, publishing the definitive edition of the Complete Works of Voltaire (Œuvres complètes de Voltaire), as well as Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment (previously SVEC), the foremost series devoted to Enlightenment studies, and the correspondences of several key French thinkers.
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The Poetics of Text Reuse
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The Poetics of Text Reuse: Digital Intertextuality in the Eighteenth-century Archive First Annual Voltaire Foundation Lecture on Digital Enlightenment StudiesGlenn Roe (Sorbonne University & University of Oxford)The Poetics of Text Reuse: Digital Intertextuality in the Eighteenth-century ArchiveGlenn Roe tarafından oluşturuldu
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Professor Richard Bourke delivers the 2023 Annual Besterman Lecture. Hegel described philosophy as its own time comprehended in thought. For him, that meant understanding the Enlightenment and its aftermath. Examining what the Enlightenment meant for Hegel involves separating its generic meaning as an historical process from its specific sense as a…
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Rule-Mania in Enlightenment Paris
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Professor Lorraine Daston delivers the 2019 Besterman Lecture By the late seventeenth century, Western Europe’s metropolises were in competition with each other to straighten, illuminate, sanitize, broaden, and above all order their thoroughfares, granting the police enormous power. After the creation of the office of the Paris Lieutenant de Police…
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2019 Halloween Part 2: Feat Ben Thietje and Amanda White
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Happy Halloween, and so long for now. Season 3 may be delayed into 2020 because I'm working on another project. Thanks for listening!Adam Svec tarafından oluşturuldu
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I had so many ghost stories from guests this year, I had to split up the Halloween episode in to TWO parts! How sweet is that?! Part 1 features contributions from Leah Ottman, Sarah Bizek, Ted Held, Regan Smith, Taylor Baldry, and Tim Lovett. Stay tuned for Part 2 in the coming weeks.Adam Svec tarafından oluşturuldu
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Luke is an author, artist, songwriter, and musician. The two of us met a number of years ago, likely at the 400 Bar. We spend a bit of time talking about the late Tom Sullivan. Peace be with you, Tom. Books: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/15314834.Luke_Adam Music: https://store.cdbaby.com/artist/LukeZimmerman **This is the final episode of S…
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This week, we're back to the traditional format of Adult Friends. My good friend Ted and I had a chat about all things under the sun (which explains the run time). Ted is in one of my favorite local bands, Wizards Are Real: https://wizardsarereal.bandcamp.com/.Adam Svec tarafından oluşturuldu
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Adopted Friends 6: Aric McKeown
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Long before Aric and I met, I was a fan of his improv troupe, The Mustache Rangers. This Friday (June 7, 2019) at 7:30pm at Strike Theater in Minneapolis, go see the Mustache Rangers perform during the fundraiser for Huge Theater. Aric is also a contributor to another of my favorite improv teams in town, ShowX (Monday nights at Huge Theater). Aric …
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Adopted Friends 5: Kate Murray
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Kate and I have run in the same music circles for a number of years (big surprise). Now, Kate and I have both chosen career paths in and around the world of healthcare. Kate's story involves small joys embedded in a web of complicated connections.Adam Svec tarafından oluşturuldu
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Adopted Friends 4: Jon Allen
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Jon and I met more than 10 years ago through Willie's American Guitars, but we just recently connected the dots between our respective adoption stories.Adam Svec tarafından oluşturuldu
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Adopted Friends 3: Leah Ottman
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Leah is a fantastic musician, hilarious, and a great person to have over to your house for a podcast. She also happens to be adopted. http://www.thehomesteadrecords.com/lottAdam Svec tarafından oluşturuldu
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Adopted Friend 2: Sarah Bizek
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Sarah and I met during the Minneapolis Fringe Festival in 2006, but we haven't seen much of each other since then. Sarah has a great story... take a listen.Adam Svec tarafından oluşturuldu
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Adopted Friends 1: Pat Tracy
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Pat and I were having a discussion among friends at the CC Club a couple months ago, when it came to our attention that both of us are/were/continue-to-be adopted. I've only hung out with Pat on one other occasion, but we had a lovely chat. http://www.itspattracy.com/Adam Svec tarafından oluşturuldu
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Nathan is one of the coolest guys on the planet. http://nathanhanson.com/Adam Svec tarafından oluşturuldu
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Kayleen Jacobson and Scott Stafford
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Kayleen and Scott became friends by way of first becoming unlikely roommates. They built a support system for each other that has lasted a long time, powerful enough that you can actually hear the connection in this conversation.Adam Svec tarafından oluşturuldu
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Sam and I met a long time ago, but we hadn't spent any one-on-one time together until this conversation. You may recognize Sam from "The Choo Choo Bob Show," but we mostly stick to the topics of friendship, moving, and dating.Adam Svec tarafından oluşturuldu
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Regan Smith, Taylor Baldry, and Tim Lovett
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The government might still be shut down, but Adult Friends is back for Season 2! Episodes will be released every two weeks this season, as the previous arrangement (every week) almost killed me. I met Regan, Taylor, and Tim a number of years ago through Common Roots connections. In 2013, they started an organization called, "Grown Up Club," which f…
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Keith M Baker, professor of Early Modern European History at Stanford University, explains a Digital Humanities project mapping the debates on the constituent articles of the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. What happened to rights in 1789? I plan to present in this lecture some results of a collaborative research project e…
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Featuring appearances by John Burgess, Jacob Taintor, Ashley Camper, Lauren Kebschull, Lucy Michell, and Julie Bauch. If you live in Minneapolis, join me at Icehouse on Saturday October 20th for a release show: https://www.icehousempls.com/events/2018/10/20/adamsvec. The show is celebrating the release of a new album called "Sun Because" which you …
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Methusela and the unity of mankind: late Renaissance and early Enlightenment conceptions of time
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Martin van Gelderen delivers a talk for the Besterman Lecture 2018Martin van Gelderen tarafından oluşturuldu
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Barbara moved to Minnesota three years ago, and we talked about her experiences in Massachusetts, New York, Indiana, and Minnesota. This will be the final episode of Season 1. Watch out for a special Halloween episode in October. Season 2 will likely commence in January, 2019.Adam Svec tarafından oluşturuldu
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Yezih and I have been colleagues in multiples settings for a number of years, and in that time, it's become clear that Yezih is a fan of friendship. So, I asked him to have a chat with me about it.Adam Svec tarafından oluşturuldu
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Cole Pulice and Noah Ophoven-Baldwin
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Cole speaks of his early dreams to join Reel Big Fish, and then actually joined Godspeed You! Black Emperor on stage (not to mention, toured with Bon Iver). Noah is part of my favorite band in Minneapolis right now, Trombone Band. Also, Noah saw a ghost.Adam Svec tarafından oluşturuldu
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Plug for a show next week including this week's guest and I: 6/19 - Kitty Cat Klub (Minneapolis, MN) https://www.kittycatklub.net/music/ dVRG & PCP (deVon Russell Gray, Patrick Pegg) Ghost Exploder (Christ Cunningham, John Keston, Greg Schutte, Adam Svec)Adam Svec tarafından oluşturuldu
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Lucy Michell, Ashley Camper, Lauren Kebschull, and Julie Bauch
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Lucy, Ashley, Lauren, and Julie brought the noise, I just provided beverages. You will enjoy the fervor with which these folks are friends. http://lucymichelle.com/ http://www.ashleycamper.com/Adam Svec tarafından oluşturuldu
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Michael Murphy and Peter Nagell
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When I had the idea to start this podcast, I tricked Michael and Peter into recording a conversation in my living room after a night of playing music and drinking beer. This late February evening was the night I captured Michael playing a descending line on the trumpet and synthesizer, simultaneously. It was so amazing, I knew I wanted to use it fo…
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At long last, Troy provides his rebuttal to John and Jacob, which sort of includes the Craig Finn game. We discuss ShowX, which occurs every Monday night at Huge Theater (hint: you should go). As always, I will overuse the words "capacity" and "bastion" for some reason. Note: There will be a two-week break for the podcast. The next new episode will…
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Jill and I met as she walked through my front door, but that didn't stop us from having a fairly thorough discussion about LSAT prep, marriage, and friends.Adam Svec tarafından oluşturuldu
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Andy Meyer and Haakon Nelson
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Haakon Nelson and I took a road trip down to Decorah, IA in the middle of a snowstorm to visit Andy Meyer. After a night on the town, we got to talking, so I recorded it. I've known Andy since college, but we've become quite close over the last decade. Haakon and I became friends while we were both playing in a band that was preparing for a brief W…
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Chris Cunningham and John Keston
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Chris Cunningham has built his life around making music in NY, LA, and now Minneapolis (e.g., http://fothou.com/). John Keston has, among many other things, been making music in Minneapolis for more than 20 years (https://audiocookbook.org/).Adam Svec tarafından oluşturuldu
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Lydia Liza Hoglund, Maddie Scanlan, Josiah Lemanski, and Jimmy Osterholt
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In today's episode, we cover cats, dogs, rabbits, rogue taxidermy, surfer voice, relationships with musicians, creeps, and much much more.Adam Svec tarafından oluşturuldu
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I met Elli Rader at the 318 in Excelsior, MN around 2008-2009. Our paths have crossed many times in the intervening years, but it was nice to chat about her experience making friends as a person who has moved frequently.Adam Svec tarafından oluşturuldu
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John Burgess and Jacob Taintor
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John and Jacob are two of the funniest gentlemen I know. They are also friends. This episode eventually involves the story of how they met (with a bunch of other stuff, too).Adam Svec tarafından oluşturuldu
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Travis Welk and I have been friends since 1994. Since after all these years, we still spend a lot of time together, I thought it might be fun to start this podcast with a conversation with him.Adam Svec tarafından oluşturuldu
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Digital Rhetoric, literae humaniores and Leibniz's dream
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Willard McCarty, King's College, London, gives the 2017 Besterman lecture. If the digital computer is to be a 'machine for doing thinking' in the arts and letters, rather than merely a way of automating tasks we already know how to perform, then its constraints and the powers these constraints define need to be understood. This lecture explores tho…
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Adam Smith, Poverty and Famine
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A highly critical account of Adam Smith's views on famine, which fail to recognize that you can have starvation in the midst of plenty.David Wootton tarafından oluşturuldu
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May The Cycle Melt, Part 3
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Episode 3 is the conclusion to May The Cycle Melt. Stay tuned for our next set of episodes.
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May The Cycle Melt, Part 2
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Welcome to episode 2 of Words and Wax, the continuation of May The Cycle Melt. If you haven't listened to episode 1, I recommend that you return to the site and start there. Last time, we were left inside the confines of a small apartment, with the possibility that a connection had been made to another world. Words and Wax was produced by Graham O’…
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May The Cycle Melt, Part 1
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What you’re about to hear is one of the most fascinating stories I’ve ever come across. I first heard it from my friend John Burgess back in 2012 over a beer in Northeast Minneapolis. We decided to have a conversation with the man at the source of the story, but he prefers to remain anonymous. This story, told in 3 parts, includes portions that may…
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Short podcast looking at Enlightenment philosopher Rousseau's copy of La Lettre à d'Alembert, housed in the Bodleian Library.Nathalie Ferrand tarafından oluşturuldu
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Rousseau: Archive et Invention.
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Professor Nathalie Ferrand (École Normale Supérieure Paris) gives the 2012 Besterman Lecture for the Voltaire Foundation. This lecture is in French.Nathalie Ferrand tarafından oluşturuldu
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