Seeta Chaganti's guest appearances

Seeta Chaganti

Recall This Book

Arlie Hochschild

Nir Eyal

Zadie Smith

Elizabeth Warren

Caleb Crain

Thomas Piketty

Peter Brown

Madeline Miller

Bruce Robbins

Gertrude Stein

Quinn Slobodian

Stephen McCauley

Samuel Delany

Mike Leigh

Kim Stanley Robinson

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Seeta Chaganti, medievalist extraordinaire (Strange Footing and The Medieval Poetics of the Reliquary) joins John to discuss–wait for it–data visualization in the  work of W. E. B. Du Bois, philosopher, visionary and scholar. They go on to  discuss past traditions that merge text and image in ways that foreshadow modern visualization practices, and close with beloved books that take readers “back of the tapestry” to reveal what everyday front-of-tapestry life keeps decorously hidden. Seeta teaches at UC Davis (as a bantam owner,  John has chicken envy)Mentioned in this conversation: University of California Spring 2020 graduate student strike  W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits (c. 1900; images from the book interspersed below…) A brief informative biography of Du Bois as academic, writer, activist. “Souls of Black Folk” (1903) Chaucer “Troilus and Crysede” (c. 1385) Leo Tolstoy, “Anna Karenina” (1878) C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Edith Wharton “House of Mirth” (1905; “Lily had an odd sense of being behind the social tapestry, on the side where the threads were knotted and the loose ends hung.”)  Edith Wharton “Ethan Frome” (1911) Martin Scorcese’s version (1993) of Edith Wharton’s “The Age of Innocence” (1920) Jane Campion’s 1996 version of Henry James’s Portrait of a Lady (1880-1) Sergei Eisenstein on montage Lynda Nead, “The Haunted Gallery” (2008) “The University of California Does Not Exist” (on the non-neutrality of digital instruction formats) Darrell Huff, “How to Lie with Statistics” (1954; cf also Cathy O’Neill, “Weapons of Math Destruction“)  Listen to the episode here:  Read the Transcript here: BDT5 ChagantiDownload  Upcoming: We continue our Books in Dark Times series with SF great Kim Stanley Robinson. And in an RTB first, we hope to feature a conversation with a medical ethicist who has proposed a new way to think about a controversial topic in the search for vaccines: “challenge testing.” 

<a href="https://english.ucdavis.edu/people/seetac" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Seeta Chaganti</a>, medievalist extraordinaire (<a href="https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo28179161.html" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Strange Footing</a> and <a href="https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9780230604667" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">The Medieval Poetics of the Reliquary</a>) joins John to discuss–wait for it–data visualization in the work of W. E. B. Du Bois, philosopher, visionary and scholar. They go on to discuss past traditions that merge text and image in ways that foreshadow modern visualization practices, and close with beloved books that take readers “back of the tapestry” to reveal what everyday front-of-tapestry life keeps decorously hidden. Seeta teaches at UC Davis (as a bantam owner, John has chicken envy) Mentioned in this conversation: University of California Spring 2020 <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-03-07/graduate-student-movement-at-uc-gains-momentum-with-faculty-support-demonstrations-and-pledges-to-strike" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">graduate student strike</a> <a href="https://www.papress.com/html/product.details.dna?isbn=9781616897062" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits</a> (c. 1900; images from the book interspersed below…) A <a href="https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/web-dubois" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">brief informative biography </a>of Du Bois as academic, writer, activist. “<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=5kBMZHBbmpUC&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;dq=intitle:souls+intitle:of+intitle:black+intitle:folk+inauthor:bois&amp;hl=en&amp;newbks=1&amp;newbks_redir=0&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjklc2E0MLoAhXfhXIEHRd3BLcQ6AEwAHoECAAQAg#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Souls of Black Folk</a>” (1903) Chaucer “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troilus_and_Criseyde" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Troilus and Crysede</a>” (c. 1385) Leo Tolstoy, “<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=MUsNAQAAMAAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;dq=intitle:anna+intitle:karenina+inauthor:tolstoy&amp;hl=en&amp;newbks=1&amp;newbks_redir=0&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjFg_Lq_OroAhXlRt8KHYEuBwYQ6AEwAXoECAIQAg#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Anna Karenina</a>” (1878) C.S. Lewis, <a href="https://www.narnia.com/us/books/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">The Chronicles of Narnia</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Gawain_and_the_Green_Knight" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Sir Gawain and the Green Knight</a> Edith Wharton “<a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/284/284-h/284-h.htm" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">House of Mirth</a>” (1905; “Lily had an odd sense of being behind the social tapestry, on the side where the threads were knotted and the loose ends hung.”) Edith Wharton “<a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4517/4517-h/4517-h.htm" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Ethan Frome</a>” (1911) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Innocence_(1993_film)" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Martin Scorcese’s version</a> (1993) of Edith Wharton’s “<a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/541" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">The Age of Innocence</a>” (1920) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Portrait_of_a_Lady_(film)" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Jane Campion’s 1996 version</a> of Henry James’s <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2833" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Portrait of a Lady</a> (1880-1) Sergei Eisenstein <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_montage_theory" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">on montage</a> Lynda Nead, “<a href="https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300112917/haunted-gallery" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">The Haunted Gallery</a>” (2008) “<a href="https://tropicsofmeta.com/2020/03/20/the-university-of-california-does-not-exist-conflict-cancellation-and-new-horizons-for-collective-digital-workplace-disruption/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">The University of California Does Not Exist</a>” (on the non-neutrality of digital instruction formats) Darrell Huff, “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Lie_with_Statistics" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">How to Lie with Statistics</a>” (1954; cf also Cathy O’Neill, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B019B6VCLO/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&amp;btkr=1" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Weapons of Math Destruction</a>“) Listen to the episode here: Read the Transcript here: <a href="https://recallthisbookorg.files.wordpress.com/2020/04/bdt5-chaganti.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">BDT5 Chaganti</a><a href="https://recallthisbookorg.files.wordpress.com/2020/04/bdt5-chaganti.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Download</a> Upcoming: We continue our Books in Dark Times series with SF great Kim Stanley Robinson. And in an RTB first, we hope to feature a conversation with a medical ethicist who has proposed a new way to think about a controversial topic in the search for vaccines: “challenge testing.”

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