Blatant Misreading
Blatant Misreading is a podcast where we take academic and political theory somewhere it was never meant to go: popular culture. In each episode, hosts Margie Tang-Oxley and Aaron Posner analyse a movie or TV show with a piece of theory that is, at best, kind of misapplied. Of course we all want an analysis of class dynamics in "Parasite," but we'll leave something that makes that much sense to the pros! We'll be over here applying Noam Chomsky to "Paddington 2."
Blatant Misreading
Episode 10 - Marx Mini Series: Ratatouille
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Blatant Misreading
Welcome to Full Communism! This episode is the first in our Marx miniseries, where we spend multiple episodes diving into Marx's most famous work, The Communist Manifesto. This time around we're tackling Ratatouille, the 2007 hit from Pixar.
Is Remy the rat an individualist or a collectivist? Is French cuisine antithetical to proletarian revolution? Is almost everyone working in this kitchen having their labor majorly exploited?? Joining us in this episode is friend of the podcast extraordinaire, Alex Moses! Listen up!!