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The VoxPopcast

By: Vox Populorum
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  • We’ve all had a discussion or an argument about popular culture. Sometimes it happens on Facebook, Tumblr or Twitter. Maybe it was in a literature, history, philosophy or psychology class in college. Perhaps it was at the local comic book shop. Or maybe it was at a bar and you ended up stabbing someone with a bottle or bludgeoning them with a pool cue. All of these discussions are exactly the same. The tenured professor at an academic conference deconstructing Batman through a Derrida lens is really doing the same thing as a bunch of teenagers passing a joint around in their mother’s basement. One just uses bigger words and the other swears more. Honestly, though, we’re not sure which. So why not bring them all together? Vox Populorum is a blog and podcast devoted to pop culture criticism. We believe that the best way to understand culture is to discuss it. Please join our weekly round table of media critics, academics and fans for engaging discussion about movies, novels, comic bo
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Episodes
  • e320. Adrenaline and Affection: Exploring the Action Romance Genre

    e320. Adrenaline and Affection: Exploring the Action Romance Genre
    May 27 2024

    What do you do if you’re in couple that was designed on an 80s sitcom so you have extremely traditional gender roles of a feminine partner who loves lovey dovey…

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    Less than 1 minute
  • e319. X-men ’97 Revisited: Superheroes, Sacrifices, & Saturday Mornings

    e319. X-men ’97 Revisited: Superheroes, Sacrifices, & Saturday Mornings
    May 20 2024

    There’s an argument that the current wave of superhero dominated content that pervades popular media doesn’t begin with the MCU but with X-men the Animated Series, a cartoon that ran…

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    Less than 1 minute
  • e318. A.I. in Academia: Balancing Technology and Traditional Learning

    e318. A.I. in Academia: Balancing Technology and Traditional Learning
    May 13 2024

    (Note from Mav. This is an episode about A.I. and Academic writing… so I decided to just let Descript‘s A.I. take a stab at writing the show notes all by…

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