About this episode
Sean Murphy discusses six things that should be better known, touching on topics like 80s movies, capitalism, and the arts.
Sean Murphy discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Sean Murphy is founder of the non-profit 1455 Lit Arts and directs the Center for Story at Shenandoah University. He has been publishing fiction, poetry, reviews (of music, movie, book, food), and essays on the technology industry for over twenty years. His latest book is red, white, and blues, his fourth poetry collection, which is available at https://www.seanmurphy.net/rwb/ . America learned all the wrong lessons from popular 80s movies America is a myth-making machine Atlantic City's disintegration tells us everything we need to know about Trump Howard Dean's scream The Assault on the Arts & Humanities Explain the Deeper Motivation of Late-Stage Capitalism AI Can't and Won't Replace Art This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm
People in this episode
Host: Ivan Wise
Guest: Sean Murphy
Topics covered
- arts
- capitalism
- 80s movies
- politics
- storytelling
- technology
Keywords
- Sean Murphy
- 1455 Lit Arts
- red white and blues
- 80s movies
- capitalism
- Howard Dean
- Atlantic City
- arts and humanities
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: 1455 Lit Arts
Books & works: red, white, and blues
Places: America, Atlantic City
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