The Whale Pod

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A podcast about a book about a man who really hates a fish. https://patreon.com/thewhalepod

🐳 EPISODE 29 🐳 Part two of our look at Herman Melville's dive into art history in Moby-Dick. We fall in love with a French painter who gets milkshake ducked pretty quickly! Listen for free on Patreon or wherever you get your podcasts.

Episode 29 - Herman Melville's Art History (Part 2) | The Whale Pod

It's part two of our look at Herman Melville's art history of whales. Thomas Beale's dwarf whales, Melville Marginalia, the whole internet l

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Have you ever wanted to stick a bike pump up a walrus? The Horniman Museum holds the specimen you need. Hunted in the 1870s and overstuffed by a bemused Victorian taxidermist, it was displayed at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition in London in 1886 where Queen Victoria fell in love with it.

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🐳 EPISODE 25 🐳 Is it possible to bomb it down the Autobahn at 100mph and take pleasure from the experience? We've reached the part where Melville deploys racism. This episode goes into depth about how, why, and if you can enjoy the racist prose in Moby-Dick.

Episode 25 - Can you enjoy racist prose? | The Whale Pod

There's a baby seagull squeaking in the background all the way through this episode, that's how good the microphones we use are these days,

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If you want to listen to an idiot who's never read a book (me) talk to an expert in postcolonialism (@pdkmitchell.bsky.social) about a paragraph of racist prose in Moby-Dick then get your lugs round this. We're not indulging in apologia (obvs), but how do you engage with a 200-year-old racist text?

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🐳 EPISODE 25 🐳 Is it possible to bomb it down the Autobahn at 100mph and take pleasure from the experience? We've reached the part where Melville deploys racism. This episode goes into depth about how, why, and if you can enjoy the racist prose in Moby-Dick.

🐳 EPISODE 25 🐳 Is it possible to bomb it down the Autobahn at 100mph and take pleasure from the experience? We've reached the part where Melville deploys racism. This episode goes into depth about how, why, and if you can enjoy the racist prose in Moby-Dick.

Episode 25 - Can you enjoy racist prose? | The Whale Pod

There's a baby seagull squeaking in the background all the way through this episode, that's how good the microphones we use are these days,

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