David A. Westbrook Intermittent Signal | a podcast by davidalbertwestbrook

Episodes

Sunday Jan 22, 2023

E12 Getting Through Security Part II

Sunday Jan 22, 2023

Part Two of the audiobook for Maguire & Westbrook, Getting Through Security: Counterterrorism, Bureaucracy, and a Sense of the Modern.

Wednesday Nov 23, 2022

E11 Getting Through Security Part I

Wednesday Nov 23, 2022

This is the first part of an audiobook, Maguire & Westbrook, Getting Through Security: Counterterrorism, Bureaucracy, and a Sense of the Modern. The text has been published by Routledge, and is generally available.

Saturday Sep 10, 2022

E10 Welcome to New Country Part II

Saturday Sep 10, 2022

Part II of my book, Welcome to New Country: Music for Today's America, available in print on Amazon.

Tuesday Jul 12, 2022

E9 Smith Lake Part II

Tuesday Jul 12, 2022

Part II of my book Smith Lake.

Tuesday Jul 12, 2022

E8 Welcome to New Country Part I

Tuesday Jul 12, 2022

An introduction, and the beginning, of my book Welcome to New Country: Music for Today's America. Popular music as window into meanings, personal and even constitutional, for the way so many of us live.

Wednesday Jun 01, 2022

E7 Form, Subject: Photo Essay, Globalization

Wednesday Jun 01, 2022

The limitations and excitement of the photo essay as a form, and my efforts to use it to articulate some subjectivities of the era just past, between the Global Financial Crisis and the Covid Pandemic.

Wednesday Jun 01, 2022

E6 Keeping the Feast in Lawrence Kansas

Wednesday Jun 01, 2022

Our situation in time and space, festivals, and finding something special right here, right now, wherever and whenever that might be. Impressions. History, great local food and drink. Appreciation.

Tuesday Apr 19, 2022

E5 Afghanistan, We Hardly Knew Ye

Tuesday Apr 19, 2022

Reflections on the US Withdrawal from Afghanistan, and why so little was learned from our war in Vietnam.
Music by Vince Parlato; photo Vincent Littrell.

Other Podcasts

Here are podcasts I have done in other podcast series.

In this Baldy Center podcast, John Henry Schlegel and I discuss legal history, especially Realism & CLS, American social and economic history, and what it all means for "the adventure of thinking."

https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-dbvj4-11235b4

In this Baldy Center podcast, Mark Maguire and I discuss our recent book, Getting Through Security: Counterterrorism, Bureaucracy, and a Sense of the Modern.

https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-xpq4g-f83814

In this Telos Press podcast, David Pan and I discuss "social capitalism," which summarizes much of my work in political economy since the GFC.

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-acxxk-dec7dbb

I am a writer, theorist of present dispensations, and law professor. Substantively, this podcast is about politics, economics, culture generally and what one might broadly speaking call philosophy. My preferred form, the form in which I try to move my own thinking forward, is the essay, which sometimes verges into literary not quite nonfiction. One of the things I am working with here is the translation from eye to ear, from text to sound. Sound is different. I hope you enjoy.

-- David A. Westbrook