S1 Ep5: Cosmas and Damian, The Miracle of the Black Leg, and Transplant Histories
Emma and Christy explore the story of surgeon-saints Cosmas and Damian through paintings of the ‘miracle of the black leg’ from c. 1370-1495 in Italy and Spain. These pictures bring up complicated ide...
19 Apr 202250min
S1 Ep4: Nationalism, Folk Horror, and the Ecopolitics of ‘Midsommar’
Emma and Christy look at Ari Aster’s 2019 folk horror film Midsommar and talk environmentalism, nationalism, community, grief, horror (obviously), folk art, facial transplants, whiteness, screaming, a...
18 Mars 20221h 5min
S1 Ep3: Andy Warhol’s Noses, Capitalism & Race, and the Art of Plastic Surgery
Emma and Christy discuss surgical and cultural ideas embedded in Andy Warhol’s series of Before and After paintings (1961/62) of a nose job. In this episode we talk plastic surgery and big egos, the b...
18 Feb 202252min
S1 Ep2: Ectoplasmic Touch, Margery Crandon, and Science in the Séance Room
Emma and Christy look at archival photographs from the séances of Mina 'Margery' Crandon (around 1925) and talk slimy protrusions, sex, scientific photography, the testing of mediums, and the science ...
10 Jan 202259min
S1 Ep1: Severed Breasts, Lee Miller, and Surrealist Photography
Emma and Christy look at Lee Miller’s photographs Untitled (Severed Breast from Radical Surgery in a Place Setting I) and (II) (c. 1929) and talk about double mastectomies, fragmented bodies, feminist...
1 Dec 202146min
