Culturally Determined

Aryeh Cohen-Wade

Aryeh Cohen-Wade speaks with a variety of guests about culture, politics, and American society in general.

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More Than Meets the Eye, with Milton Lawson

Culturally Determined

01/10/22 • 70 min

The strange history of the Transformers action figures ... Diving into Transformers: The Movie (1986) ... Unicron, the giant planet-eating robot god voiced by Orson Welles ... Why the film is more than a glorified toy commercial ... Does the movie have any sort of politics? ...

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01/10/22 • 70 min

Creating Content for the Algorithm in the Sky, with Douglas Lain

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01/03/22 • 73 min

How Doug came to run the leftwing book publisher Zer0 Books, and why he got kicked out ... Dave Chappelle, cancel culture, and the attention economy ... Doug narrates his ejection from Zer0 ... Doug's new company, Diet Soap Media ... How Bloggingheads was ahead of its time (yet failed to conquer the globe) ... How you can help shape the future of Culturally Determined ...

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01/03/22 • 73 min

Online Vibes Edition, with Max Read

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12/27/21 • 61 min

Max's new newsletter, Read Max ... The significance of Buzzfeed's underwhelming IPO ... Where are the cool kids online? ... Private equity squeezes a bit more blood from online media ... What is web3? And is it bullshit? ... Why Melania Trump is embracing NFTs but Elon Musk isn't ... Max's typology of '90s Dad Thrillers ...

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12/27/21 • 61 min

Riding the Waves of Prediction Markets, with David Rees

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12/20/21 • 54 min

David's podcast, Election Profit Makers ... Riding the waves of political prediction markets ... David: I don't think there's a limit to the depravity of the GOP ... Weighing the odds of American politics ever becoming normal again ... Can J.D. Vance out-crazy Josh Mandel in Ohio? ... Elon Musk, Time's Person of the Year and EPM's Bad Boy of the Week ... Esoteric rabbit holes into which the podcast digs deep ...

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12/20/21 • 54 min

The Many Mistakes of "Newark," with Erin Schwartz

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12/13/21 • 57 min

The many disappointments of The Many Saints of Newark ... Was any Sopranos prequel doomed from the start? ... How the opening scene undermines a key theme of the series ... Clumsy dialogue, broad acting, and flashes of the classic Sopranos wit ... Why Erin loves The Masked Singer ... An anti-narrative that rejects the meritocratic ethos of reality TV ...

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12/13/21 • 57 min

Holding Out for a Hero, with Matt K. Lewis

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12/06/21 • 63 min

Is it still possible for America to have a great leader? ... Why the pandemic sparked division instead of unity ... Why Obama was not a transformational president ... Will America just muddle through? ... Matt sees possibility on the anti-corporate right ... "Let's Go Brandon" and the return of conservative moralism ...

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12/06/21 • 63 min

Kant Stop Critiquin', with David Ottlinger

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11/29/21 • 86 min

A bizarre Washington Post column about critical theory and Immanuel Kant ... Why has Kant become a bogeyman? ... How contingent is the history of philosophy? ... Relativism vs. rationalism ... What Kant meant by the "Critique of Pure Reason" ... Steven Pinker and the problem with rationalists ... David explains what Kant actually believed ...

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11/29/21 • 86 min

Memes and the Left, with Mike Watson

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11/23/21 • 79 min

Mike's new book, The Memeing of Mark Fisher: How the Frankfurt School Foresaw Capitalist Realism and What To Do About It ... Subconscious narratives today and in interwar Germany ... Walter Benjamin and Herbert Marcuse in the digital world ... Mike wants memes that will slow people down ... How "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" has been misread ... Mike's Kafkaesque book publishing experience ...

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11/23/21 • 79 min

Live from New York, It's Class Struggle! with Seth Simons

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11/16/21 • 60 min

Seth's newsletter covering comedy from the left, Humorism ... Seth: Saturday Night Live is conservative ... Is being hired by SNL a Faustian bargain? ... Lawsuit alleges SNL ignored Horatio Sanz's sexual abuse of a minor ... The bizarre nature of SNL as a cultural institution ... How the pandemic has and hasn't changed comedy ... Is standup comedy an inherently conservative form? ...

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11/16/21 • 60 min

Debating "Biden-Cheney 2024?" with Chris Novembrino

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01/20/22 • 62 min

Culturally Determined is leaving BhTV, so here's how to keep following the show ... Tom Friedman's controversial column, "Biden-Cheney 2024?" ... Why Israel's anti-Netanyahu coalition could never happen in the US ... Aryeh's defense of Friedman's column ... A Hamilton song on Zoom, and other absurdities of centrist liberalism ... Chris: Any "grand coalition" would need to have Bernie and AOC in the lead ... Returning to the "is Trump a fascist" debate ... Has Trump moved on to other grifts?

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01/20/22 • 62 min

FAQ

How many episodes does Culturally Determined have?

Culturally Determined currently has 165 episodes available.

What topics does Culturally Determined cover?

The podcast is about Pop Culture, News, Culture, Literature, Fiction, Society & Culture, Film, Society, Comic Books, Television, Podcasts, Books, Movies and Politics.

What is the most popular episode on Culturally Determined?

The episode title 'More Than Meets the Eye, with Milton Lawson' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Culturally Determined?

The average episode length on Culturally Determined is 63 minutes.

How often are episodes of Culturally Determined released?

Episodes of Culturally Determined are typically released every 9 days, 7 hours.

When was the first episode of Culturally Determined?

The first episode of Culturally Determined was released on Jan 20, 2018.

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