Slow Burn - Decoder Ring | Is Culture Stuck?

Slow Burn - Decoder Ring | Is Culture Stuck?

It’s a weird time for culture. There is more of it than ever before, it’s more accessible than ever before, but so little of it feels original. New movies are based on old stories, new songs are recycling old hooks, and fashion trends are cycling so fast that everything’s in.


Has our culture grown stagnant? The author and culture critic W. David Marx thinks so.


His new book, Blank Space, argues that there is a “blank space” in the 21st century where cultural innovation should be. In this episode, David explains to Willa how culture change worked in the 20th century, what changed after the turn of the millennium, and what we might do about it.


This episode was produced by Max Freedman. Decoder Ring is also produced by Willa Paskin, Katie Shepherd, and Evan Chung, our supervising producer. Merritt Jacob is Senior Technical Director.


If you have any cultural mysteries you want us to decode, email us at DecoderRing@slate.com or leave a message on our hotline at (347) 460-7281.


Get more of Decoder Ring with Slate Plus! Join for exclusive bonus episodes of Decoder Ring and ad-free listening on all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe from the Decoder Ring show page on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/decoderplus for access wherever you listen.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Denne episoden er hentet fra en åpen RSS-feed og er ikke publisert av Podme. Den kan derfor inneholde annonser.

Episoder(4958)

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - A Summer Survival Toolkit

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - A Summer Survival Toolkit

On this episode: Lucy Lopez, Elizabeth Newcamp, and Zak Rosen are going to be taking a summer break after the June 11 episode. But fear not, they are still here to be your guides to a great summer. Th...

8 Jun 51min

What Next - Did DOGE Cause the Ebola Outbreak?

What Next - Did DOGE Cause the Ebola Outbreak?

He’s treated Ebola; he’s had Ebola. Here’s what he thinks of the growing crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo—and how America can and should respond.Guest: Dr Craig Spencer, emergency doctor...

8 Jun 25min

Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Concrete Plans to Restore Law, after Trump

Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Concrete Plans to Restore Law, after Trump

One of the challenges of modern legal journalism is recalling that case law, doctrine, and Supreme Court decisions aren’t a complete picture, without including the lived realities of the people whose ...

6 Jun 1h 3min

Slate Money - The Index Fund Problemtunity

Slate Money - The Index Fund Problemtunity

This week: Google’s parent company announced an unexpected move to raise $80 billion for their AI ventures. Felix Salmon, Elizabeth Spiers, and guest host Mary Childs– host of the new show Mary in Ame...

6 Jun 47min

ICYMI - Beware The Boy Mom

ICYMI - Beware The Boy Mom

On today’s episode, host Kate Lindsay is joined by writer Stephanie McNeal to discuss the internet phenomenon of “boy moms.” As an internet culture expert, and recent mother of a boy herself, Stephani...

6 Jun 39min

What Next - SchadenFriday: Is the Pope Girlbossing AI?

What Next - SchadenFriday: Is the Pope Girlbossing AI?

It’s a bit of an overstatement to say “the Pope came out as anti-A.I.” with last week’s encyclical—after all, Anthropic’s cofounder was there for the release. So what did the Chicago Pope actually say...

5 Jun 7min

What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Gradu-AI-tion Day

What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Gradu-AI-tion Day

It’s an awkward time to have a Department of Education that seems so disinterested in, uh, education. It’s leaving teachers to grapple with how to integrate artificial intelligence into the classroom—...

5 Jun 26min

What Next - Do the Dems Need More Graham Platners?

What Next - Do the Dems Need More Graham Platners?

Graham Platner has a lot of things in his favor as he runs for a US Senate seat in Maine: it’s an off-election year, the president’s approval rating is slumping and dragging down the whole GOP. Should...

4 Jun 38min

Populært innen Business og økonomi

stopp-verden
lydartikler-fra-aftenposten
dine-penger-pengeradet
e24-podden
rss-borsmorgen-okonominyhetene
rss-penger-polser-og-politikk
rss-skravla-gar
pengepodden-2
finansredaksjonen
rss-pa-konto
livet-pa-veien-med-jan-erik-larssen
utbytte
tid-er-penger-en-podcast-med-peter-warren
stormkast-med-valebrokk-stordalen
morgenkaffen-med-finansavisen
lederpodden
liberal-halvtime
pengesnakk
okonomiamatorene
rss-markedspuls-2