38 seconds PROMO for Anne is a Man:
This is my first audio promo. Jim Mowatt of the Historyzine podcast did the text and I fumbled with some podsafe music by Muzyka Dawna from Poznan (Poland). If you appreciate my blog and especially if you were happy with a review you found here, I invite you to play this promo on your podcast or place it on your website. Let me know, when you do.
You can download the promo or embed it. To embed, first click the 'SHARE' link on the player above. Then copy the code to clipboard and then paste it into the code of your web page.
I'll continue to work on the subject of audio promo's, so keep posted.
More about the blog:
About Anne is a Man,
Why don't I give ratings to podcasts?,
What to write about a podcast?,
When do I write in my blog?,
When do I listen to podcasts?,
Time to start again.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Mail from a happy reader on Anne is Man!
From: Karen RothTo: Anne Frid de Vries
Sent: Sunday, 7 September, 2008 18:39:06
Subject: your reviews are indispensable to me
Dear Anne,
I can't thank you enough for your blog. I'm lucky enough to have a job, hobbies, commute, and home life that allow me to listen to podcasts several hours a day. Until I found your site (via recommendation on the Historyzine podcast) I was running out of quality shows. I have found other podcast reviewers focus either too narrowly on a specific subject (e.g. physics for physics majors/professionals) or too broadly to a general (and, though it sounds patronizing, pedestrian and tasteless) audience. Your reviews are, for me, just right. Your taste is excellent, your reviews informative and honest, and your site setup makes it so easy for me to locate and subscribe to casts.
I am amazed by all the altruism on the web. From freeware to reviews so many people have enriched my life out of the goodness of their hearts. Thank you again for your help and all the time and effort you put in to making quality podcasts known. You're a mensch.
--
Karen Roth
Scottsdale, AZ
More Feedback:
Jan Oosthoek (Environmental History),
Dan Carlin (Hardcore History and Common Sense).
Monday, September 8, 2008
Pain in paradigm - missing link review
There is good news and bad news on the Missing Link Podcast. The bad news is that the podcast will be suspended until further notice. The feed will be maintained, but for the time being there will be no new issues. The good news is the great quality of the latest episode.
Under the title Where does it hurt? the missing link presents a guest essay by Daniel Goldberg. Goldberg talks of the medical profession and tries to analyze its problematic relation with the phenomenon of pain. His approach is (partly) a historical one. His main point seems to be that the paradigms of modern medicine sort of a priori exclude pain, or at least pains without lesion. It will not find an effective way of dealing with it - pain management - if it won't analyze this paradigm, both in its historical and its cultural, traditional sense.
There was, in my ears, a bit of a loose end in the essay which fascinated me enormously and brought some disappointment in that it was not tied to the main argument in the end - or at least not to my satisfaction. It was a remark that was made about Galen and his medicine tradition as it has dominated ours until it became scientific, reductionist and analytical. Galen, so Goldberg relates, was holistic, it pressed for a dialog between doctor and patient and it suggested that the complete person of the patient would be needed to explain (and treat) whatever he suffered from. Goldberg seems to suggest that with Galen this particular emphasis was lost and is sorely needed in understanding pain. Maybe it is what he intended to say, but it was left implicit.
Despite these shortcomings, this was a particularly thrilling installment of an otherwise already outstanding history podcast series. We hope Elizabeth Green Musselman will find the time to continue, but until then we will gladly go over the old stuff and wait.
All about The Missing Link on this blog:
Missing Link in Devon,
Curious and curiouser,
Domestic Science,
Missing Link with monotheists,
Missing Link with Popper,
An evolved controversy,
Time's Arrow,
On Time and on Counting - The Missing Link,
Strength in Numbers,
Constant Companions,
From Berlin,
History of Science.
More on old Medicine:
Four Humours (In Our Time).
Under the title Where does it hurt? the missing link presents a guest essay by Daniel Goldberg. Goldberg talks of the medical profession and tries to analyze its problematic relation with the phenomenon of pain. His approach is (partly) a historical one. His main point seems to be that the paradigms of modern medicine sort of a priori exclude pain, or at least pains without lesion. It will not find an effective way of dealing with it - pain management - if it won't analyze this paradigm, both in its historical and its cultural, traditional sense.
There was, in my ears, a bit of a loose end in the essay which fascinated me enormously and brought some disappointment in that it was not tied to the main argument in the end - or at least not to my satisfaction. It was a remark that was made about Galen and his medicine tradition as it has dominated ours until it became scientific, reductionist and analytical. Galen, so Goldberg relates, was holistic, it pressed for a dialog between doctor and patient and it suggested that the complete person of the patient would be needed to explain (and treat) whatever he suffered from. Goldberg seems to suggest that with Galen this particular emphasis was lost and is sorely needed in understanding pain. Maybe it is what he intended to say, but it was left implicit.
Despite these shortcomings, this was a particularly thrilling installment of an otherwise already outstanding history podcast series. We hope Elizabeth Green Musselman will find the time to continue, but until then we will gladly go over the old stuff and wait.
All about The Missing Link on this blog:
Missing Link in Devon,
Curious and curiouser,
Domestic Science,
Missing Link with monotheists,
Missing Link with Popper,
An evolved controversy,
Time's Arrow,
On Time and on Counting - The Missing Link,
Strength in Numbers,
Constant Companions,
From Berlin,
History of Science.
More on old Medicine:
Four Humours (In Our Time).
De verdediger van Parijs - Veertien Achttien recensie
Joseph Gallieni de Franse generaal was al met pensioen toen hij in 1914 in aller ijl van zijn koloniale lauweren werd gerukt om het benarde Parijs te beschermen tegen de optrekkende Von Kluck. Tom Tacken vertelt erover in de laatste aflevering van Veertien Achttien.Deze biografie is aanleiding om de Franse, geimproviseerde verdediging te bespreken. Dit in het historisch perspectief van de eclatante nederlagen in 1870 en 1940 en het Franse sentiment dat de aanval de enige, of in ieder geval de beste verdediging was. Opnieuw een briljante aanwending van een biografie om de Grote Oorlog voor het voetlicht te brengen. Al mag het anecdotische aspect niet ontbreken.
Pikant detail is dat Gallieni alle mogelijke vervoermiddelen vorderde, onder meer de Parijse Taxi's, om de hoognodige versterkingen naar het front te brengen. Dat is een aardige illustratie, maar gelukkig blijft het daar niet bij en komt de grote lijn goed in beeld. Veertien Achttien blijft een ongewoon verdienstelijke historische podcast, die behalve geweldig informatief, ook heel onderhoudend is.
Meer Veertien Achttien:
Alexander von Kluck,
Alexander Samsonov,
Dicke Bertha; Bertha Krupp,
Veertien Achttien - recensie.
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Poverty podcasts to be reviewed
Also this year I have decided to take part in Blog Action Day. On this day, yearly on the 15th of October, bloggers from all over the world and from all walks of life will pay attention to one and the same subject. The subject this year will be poverty.I will be reposting all of the podcast reviews on relevant podcasts I have written in the past, but I would appreciate if you reader could suggest me some more. You can communicate your podcast tips by leaving a comment anywhere in the blog or send me a mail, Anne Frid de Vries (in one word) AT yahoo DOT co DOT uk.
My contribution last year: The environment in podcasts.
Philosophy 6 - Berkeley lecture series
Berkeley's Philosophy 6 or, Man, God, and Society in Western Literature is directly related to Philosophy 7 (Existentialism in Literature and Film) and I couldn't say whether the one follows up on the other or the other way round. As far as complexity is concerned, both lecture series are no easy ride, but taking number 7 first and then 6 seems the best way to go. In any case that is what I have been doing.
I have been trying to finish the courses for some time, but it takes a lot of effort. As usual philosophy is too complicated to idly take with you on the iPod to the supermarket or the highway - it takes much more concentration than that. Also the lecturer, for both courses, Hubert Dreyfus, demands an extra effort. He may seem a bit unorganized, but yet totally dedicated and very much on top of the matter, even if he is still struggling with it. He knows his quotes and is quick to pass them around, but sometimes cannot find them in time, or isn't entirely happy with what he finds. And so you are on the edge of your chair, figuratively speaking, and surely taken in into the subject - if you give it the chance.
Philosophy 6's hero is Heidegger and the subject matter seems to try to take you to a very fundamental critique of Western Society. I write that it seems to, because I have heard only so few lectures of the course, in the current, or past installments. Yet I am hell bent on trying again, for I am mesmerized by Dreyfus and his subject. The idea evolves roughly around the following. Western culture is schizophrenically based on two philosophical approaches which are the Greek Platonic and the Judeo-Christian tradition which are in some ways diametrically opposed to each other, the first so general and deductive, the second so subjective, but both so absolute. Whereas Philosophy 7 may seem to give some idea Dreyfus is mostly attracted to the subjective mood, through existentialism, Philosophy 6 reveals he also is against the absolutism. I have found him say he wants to drive to a certain pluralism or polytheism, but that remains rather vague. But it is profoundly the subject of Philosophy 6. I want to find out what it exactly is.
Previously:
Fear and Trembling - Kierkegaard,
Hiroshima mon amour,
Existentialism - Philosophy 7.
I have been trying to finish the courses for some time, but it takes a lot of effort. As usual philosophy is too complicated to idly take with you on the iPod to the supermarket or the highway - it takes much more concentration than that. Also the lecturer, for both courses, Hubert Dreyfus, demands an extra effort. He may seem a bit unorganized, but yet totally dedicated and very much on top of the matter, even if he is still struggling with it. He knows his quotes and is quick to pass them around, but sometimes cannot find them in time, or isn't entirely happy with what he finds. And so you are on the edge of your chair, figuratively speaking, and surely taken in into the subject - if you give it the chance.Philosophy 6's hero is Heidegger and the subject matter seems to try to take you to a very fundamental critique of Western Society. I write that it seems to, because I have heard only so few lectures of the course, in the current, or past installments. Yet I am hell bent on trying again, for I am mesmerized by Dreyfus and his subject. The idea evolves roughly around the following. Western culture is schizophrenically based on two philosophical approaches which are the Greek Platonic and the Judeo-Christian tradition which are in some ways diametrically opposed to each other, the first so general and deductive, the second so subjective, but both so absolute. Whereas Philosophy 7 may seem to give some idea Dreyfus is mostly attracted to the subjective mood, through existentialism, Philosophy 6 reveals he also is against the absolutism. I have found him say he wants to drive to a certain pluralism or polytheism, but that remains rather vague. But it is profoundly the subject of Philosophy 6. I want to find out what it exactly is.
Previously:
Fear and Trembling - Kierkegaard,
Hiroshima mon amour,
Existentialism - Philosophy 7.
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