Best Finds!
Recommendations by Tatyana Dimitrova In my first two years of Arts and Culture Studies, I have collected a handful of media works that have been very helpful for me to digest the information of the courses and give inspiration for writing topics, but also easy to enjoy and take your mind off of the study workload which also cover a bunch of topics. Here they are!
Podcasts
Philosophise This!
Stuff You Should Know
Philosophise This! is a free podcast dedicated to sharing the ideas that shaped our world. It is beginner friendly (if listened to in order or not)! It is perfect for anyone interested in educational podcasts about philosophy, where you don’t need to be a graduatelevel philosopher to understand it. In chronological order, the thinkers and ideas that forged the world we live in are broken down and explained, which perfectly applied to courses such as Cultural Theory in year one of ACS and later Culture Through Philosophy. And who knows! Maybe you will find it useful for other courses as well! At the beginning, these theories are hard to take a grasp of, but I believe that all education should be free and accessible and this is exactly what Philosophise This! does.
If you’ve ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks and many more topics, which normally would never cross your mind, then look no further. The hosts of Stuff You Should Know Josh and Chuck have you covered. Each episode, the podcasters have a conversation about the given topic and, by the end, the listeners have a basic working knowledge of that subject. They are on a never ending quest to explain absolutely everything there is on planet earth and beyond.
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