tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82222029583347292172024-03-05T15:56:19.304-08:00CultureFilePodPodcasts from the RTE Lyric FM series, Culture File, the essential daily dose of arts, culture and play. Listen live, 5.40pm, weekdays, RTELyricFMUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1829125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222202958334729217.post-87587181583215490042018-02-06T01:46:00.001-08:002018-02-06T01:46:18.252-08:00Culture File: The Future of FuneralsA cortege of academics gathers in Trinity Long Room Hub to discuss evolving ideas of fond farewells.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222202958334729217.post-84713196605391780602018-02-02T12:58:00.003-08:002018-02-02T12:58:09.338-08:00Culture File "Likes": Farah ElleLibyan-Irish singer-songwriter, Farah Elle, shares some of the things she been listening to, tasting and smelling.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222202958334729217.post-57036463066518661192018-02-02T12:58:00.001-08:002018-02-02T12:58:08.414-08:00The Culture File Weekly: Spill Simmer Falter Wither...Translate?Culture File Weekly looks at Sara Baume's debut novel, Spill Simmer Falter Wither which has been translated into languages from Danish to Japanese, from Turkish to Dutch.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222202958334729217.post-2405354446523034512018-02-02T03:53:00.001-08:002018-02-02T03:53:11.261-08:00Culture File: Spill Simmer Falter Wither...Translate?Cork novelist, Sara Baume and her Czech language translator, Alice Hyrmanová McElveen, on the secrets of their collaboration<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222202958334729217.post-81142787973218955662018-02-02T03:48:00.001-08:002018-02-02T03:48:05.341-08:00Culture File: Tactical Media and the American Folk Revival (part 2)Why the image of Bob Dylan meant so much to Steve Jobs & how the Occupy movement revived the hootenanny. Sort of. Henry Adam Svec, author of American Folk Music as Tactical Media (Amsterdam University Press)decodes.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222202958334729217.post-91050412062367796002018-01-31T01:43:00.001-08:002018-01-31T01:43:16.342-08:00Culture File: Tactical Media and the Folk RevivalUncovering the US folk revival's surprising celebration of the possibilities in all sorts of media technologies.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222202958334729217.post-76497715601031666572018-01-30T01:53:00.001-08:002018-01-30T01:53:13.057-08:00Culture File: Paul Duane's Greek 101One of big pleasure of Paul Duane's While You Live, Shine is its handy Greek vocab cheatsheet for loss and longing<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222202958334729217.post-8126263430902428312018-01-29T11:53:00.001-08:002018-01-29T11:53:08.049-08:00Culture File Xtra: Paul Duane's While You Live, ShineAn extended version of RTE lyric fm's Culture File interview with documentary filmmaker, Paul Duane, on his latest, While You Live, Shine, a film which takes us up, high in the mountains of Northern Greece, to one of the world's oldest music festivals. Photo: Grigoris Kapsalis by Paddy Jordan<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222202958334729217.post-53022604435392963022018-01-27T03:43:00.001-08:002018-01-27T03:43:15.094-08:00The Culture File Weekly: January 26thThis weekly, the artist who works collaboratively with the wildlife around her Kildare studio, perfume critic, Chandler Burr, on decoding "arthouse" perfumer, Etat Libre D'Orange, singer-songwriter, Farah Elle, on sneaking Arabic sounds into Irish pop, and Turkish literary critic, Meltem Gürle on why it's all downhill once we reach the age of 5.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222202958334729217.post-50958593779644250082018-01-27T03:13:00.001-08:002018-01-27T03:13:14.862-08:00Culture File "Likes": Niall NaessensArtist Niall Naessens shares some of the films, music and foods he's been enjoying.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222202958334729217.post-25573573119572476472018-01-26T02:33:00.001-08:002018-01-26T02:33:03.141-08:00Culture File: The Art of Etat Libre D'OrangePerfume pioneer, Etienne de Swardt and perfume critic, Chandler Burr, on the importance of storytelling in scent<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222202958334729217.post-33508201196603380212018-01-25T02:08:00.001-08:002018-01-25T02:08:36.358-08:00Culture File: Eileen Hutton's Non-Human CollabsWorking collaboratively with honeybees and songbirds is central to Eileen Hutton environmental art.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222202958334729217.post-91307042850939911592018-01-24T07:31:00.001-08:002018-01-24T07:31:48.040-08:00Culture File: Coming of Age in Dublin and IstanbulDublin-based, Istanbul-born, Meltem Gürle, on surprise connections between the Irish and Turkish bildungsroman<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222202958334729217.post-63635796840532415582018-01-23T03:31:00.001-08:002018-01-23T03:31:15.881-08:00Culture File: Farah Elle's Phrygian ModeFarah Elle on blending a pop sensibility with the traditional sounds, poetry and modes of her Libyan heritage.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222202958334729217.post-88364221438086159552018-01-22T01:56:00.001-08:002018-01-22T01:56:14.131-08:00Culture File "Likes": Aphra KerrGames and technology researcher, Aphra Kerr, shares some of the things on which she's been clicking "like"<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222202958334729217.post-42807811458078588542018-01-22T01:41:00.001-08:002018-01-22T01:41:14.576-08:00The Culture File Weekly 190118: Slow Computing SpecialDo you use your phone or does it use you? We explore our internet-connected technologies and the world of "datafication", with guests including UCSF's Robert Lustig, a neuroendocrinologist and expert in addiction and Lindsay Ems, who studies the Amish often highly nuanced attitudes technology.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222202958334729217.post-75395860954802406222018-01-19T08:03:00.001-08:002018-01-19T08:03:15.040-08:00Culture File: Slow Computing Week - Aphra Kerr's Ethics of the Algorithm.We know the deal: we trade intimate information -- what we say in emails, where we go in taxis, our BMI -- and in return we get a lovely, convenient, smooth journey though the world. But do we really know the deal? Do we have any idea where our information ends up? Or why? Isn't it time we did? Yup, says Maynooth University Aphra Kerr.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222202958334729217.post-43412971915263227772018-01-19T03:18:00.001-08:002018-01-19T03:18:14.778-08:00Culture File: Slow Computing - What We Can Learn from the AmishLindsay Ems studies of US Amish communities uncover a surprisingly nuanced attitude to technological change.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222202958334729217.post-26684457265110270262018-01-18T04:11:00.001-08:002018-01-18T04:11:35.574-08:00Culture File: Slow Computing Week - What We Can Learn from the AmishLindsay Ems studies of US Amish communities uncover a surprisingly nuanced attitude to technological change.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222202958334729217.post-51151484739319631312018-01-18T02:51:00.001-08:002018-01-18T02:51:08.566-08:00Culture File: Slow Computing - Prof Stefania MilanAcademics around Europe are researching resistance to what they sees as the increasing datafication of our world<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222202958334729217.post-44441001741759435352018-01-17T01:56:00.001-08:002018-01-17T01:56:11.543-08:00Culture File: Slow Computing Week - Prof Robert Lustig'sHow the tech industry has helped us to confuse happiness and pleasure - and made a killing in the process, with Prof Robert Lustig.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222202958334729217.post-17599847476829210742018-01-16T10:26:00.001-08:002018-01-16T10:26:29.231-08:00Culture File Xtra: Prof Robert Lustig Xtended InterviewThe longform version of our interview with Prof Rob Lustig, author of The Hacking of the American Mind, in which we discuss corporate users of dopamine and serotonin, happiness v pleasure, and some strategies for digital resistance.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222202958334729217.post-73747572096874504592018-01-16T02:46:00.001-08:002018-01-16T02:46:16.929-08:00Culture File: What is Slow Computing?Slow Computing Week kicks off with the organisers of a recent Slow Computing event at Maynooth University.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222202958334729217.post-13452273705438406312018-01-14T15:33:00.001-08:002018-01-14T15:33:10.217-08:00Culture File's Slow Computing WeekComing up on Culture File this week...how the science of addiction helps make technology you just can't put down -- and some strategies to resist its lure and find a new balance, with Drs Robert Lustig, Aphra Kerr, Rob Kitchin & Alistair Fraser, Stephanie Milan, Adi Kuntsman & Esperanza Miyake, Lindsay Ems and other contributors to Maynooth University's Workshop on Resistance in the Algorithmic Age. That's every evening from Monday 15th to Friday 19th January, 2018, at 6.05pm GMT; with a special edition of The Culture File Weekly, Friday 19th at 7pm, on RTE lyric fm in Ireland, and here on Soundcloud after broadcast.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222202958334729217.post-67860530887430815052018-01-13T04:28:00.003-08:002018-01-13T04:28:22.543-08:00Culture File "Likes": Sean McKeonUilleann piper, Sean McKeon, shares some of the tv, books, podcasts and music he's been clicking like on recently.<br />
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