{"id":15149,"date":"2012-12-04T09:31:59","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T17:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?p=15149"},"modified":"2021-01-13T09:51:07","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T17:51:07","slug":"fembot-launches-books-arent-dead-a-new-monthly-podcast-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/fembot-launches-books-arent-dead-a-new-monthly-podcast-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Fembot Launches Books Aren\u2019t Dead, a New Monthly Podcast Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/?attachment_id=15150\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15150\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-15150\" title=\"BADillu1-300x180\" src=\"http:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/BADillu1-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/BADillu1-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/BADillu1-300x180-150x90.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>December 3, 2012\u2014<\/strong>The Fembot Collective today launched its new monthly podcast interview, Books Aren\u2019t Dead (BAD). BAD is Fembot\u2019s series of monthly interviews with feminist authors of recent books on media, science, and technology. Fembot\u2019s first BAD podcast is with Joan Haran (Cardiff University) who interviews Sarah Kember (Goldsmiths, University of London) on her latest book, <em>The Optical Effects of Lightning<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/?page_id=11939\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CSWS Fembot Projec<\/a>t produces the Fembot website.<\/p>\n<p>The interview can be found on Fembot\u2019s website (http:\/\/fembotcollective.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/01\/books-arent-dead-the-optical-effects-of-lightning\/) and the podcast (as well as the transcript) will be available for download in the near future. <!--more-->For those who are interested in participating on the ongoing BAD project please contact the BAD editor, Hye Jin Lee (hye-jin-lee(at)uiowa.edu), or CSWS director Carol Stabile (cstabile(at)uoregon.edu).<\/p>\n<h6>About <em>The Optical Effects of Lightning<\/em> (from the back cover)<\/h6>\n<p><em>The Optical Effects of Lightning<\/em> is a high-concept psychological thriller combining gothic traditions with modern science. In the unusual case of a missing person, a classic tale of vengeance and obsession unfolds. It has the feel of truth, but the resonance of a mad and desperate endeavour. In thrall to the transformative power of lightning, this quest, which comes to us in the form of a meticulously ordered case file, questions the divide between magic and reason, monstrosity and humanity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 3, 2012\u2014The Fembot Collective today launched its new monthly podcast interview, Books Aren\u2019t Dead (BAD). BAD is Fembot\u2019s series of monthly interviews with feminist authors of recent books on media, science, and technology. Fembot\u2019s first BAD podcast is with&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/fembot-launches-books-arent-dead-a-new-monthly-podcast-interview\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-gender-research-interest-groups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15149"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33648,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15149\/revisions\/33648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}