Podcast appearances and mentions of stephen best

Ophthalmologist Stephen Best can work modern-day miracles. For the past 25 years, the glaucoma specialist has removed cataracts, prevented blindness, and restored sight to hundreds, if not thousands of people. 

Mary Catherine Kinniburgh is the co-director of Granary Books, an independent publisher and archives/rare book dealer. As a scholar of postwar American poetry and an archives broker, her activities occur at the intersection of research and praxis, and her writing often focuses on the poetics of archival work. In particular, her research explores making sense of high volume in literary collections. In this talk, Kinniburgh discusses her ongoing series "Messy Archivist," which explores the interstitial qualities of working on archives through prose, poetry, and images. Published by her experimental imprint TKS Books, each "Messy Archivist" is a handmade chapbook that is often organized around a keyword, such as messy, or need. For the fourth volume and this talk, the premise is surface: what might be interpreted as an archival surface, and how does our attentiveness to the relationship between surface and depth inform our understanding of archives, especially at scale? Drawing on Sharon Marcus and Stephen Best's concept of “surface reading” in literary texts, the physics of surfing, what puts the “relief” in relief printing, and Kinniburgh's experiences working on specific archives at Granary Books, this talk will contextualize the concept of surface as a lens for the information overload that necessarily comes with archival work, and a critical approach for the toolkits of fellow scholars and archivists of twentieth century American poetry and beyond.

Recorded on May 1, 2023, this episode of the Matrix Podcast features a lecture by Orlando Patterson, John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, entitled “Slavery and Genocide: The U.S, Jamaica and the Historical Sociology of Evil.” Presented as the Matrix Distinguished Lecture, the lecture was presented at Social Science Matrix, an interdisciplinary center at the University of California, Berkeley. Stephen Best, Professor of English at UC Berkeley and Director of the Townsend Center for the Humanities, was the discussant. The lecture was co-sponsored by the Townsend Center for the Humanities. Orlando Patterson, a historical and cultural sociologist, is John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. He previously held faculty appointments at the University of the West Indies, his alma mater, and the London School of Economics where he received his Ph.D. His academic interests include the culture and practices of freedom; the comparative study of slavery and ethno-racial relations; and the cultural sociology of poverty and underdevelopment with special reference to the Caribbean and African American youth. He has also written on the cultural sociology of sports, especially the game of cricket. Professor Patterson is the author of numerous academic papers and six major academic books including, Slavery and Social Death (1982); Freedom in the Making of Western Culture (1991); The Ordeal of Integration (1997); and The Cultural Matrix: Understanding Black Youth (2015). A public intellectual, Professor Patterson was, for eight years, Special Advisor for Social policy and development to Prime Minister Michael Manley of Jamaica. He was a founding member of Cultural Survival, one of the leading advocacy groups for the rights of indigenous peoples, and was for several years a board member of Freedom House, a major civic organization for the promotion of freedom and democracy around the world. The author of three novels, he has published widely in journals of opinion and the national press, especially the New York Times, where he was a guest columnist for several weeks. His columns have also appeared in Time Magazine, Newsweek, The Public Interest, The New Republic, and The Washington Post. Stephen Best's scholarship encompasses a variety of fields and materials: American and African-American literature and culture, cinema and technology, rhetoric and the law, and critical theory. His research pursuits in the fields of American and African American criticism have been rather closely aligned with a broader interrogation of recent literary critical practice. To be specific, his interest in the critical nexus between slavery and historiography, in the varying scholarly and political preoccupations with establishing the authority of the slave past in black life, quadrates with an exploration of where the limits of historicism as a mode of literary study may lay, especially where that search manifests as an interest in alternatives to suspicious reading in the text-based disciplines. To this end, Professor Best has edited a number of special issues of the journal Representations (on whose board he sits) – “Redress” (with Saidiya Hartman), on theoretical and political projects to undo the slave past, “The Way We Read Now” (with Sharon Marcus), on the limits of symptomatic reading, and “Description Across Disciplines” (with Sharon Marcus and Heather Love), on disciplinary valuations of description as critical practice. Best is the author of two books: The Fugitive's Properties: Law and the Poetics of Possession (University of Chicago, 2004), a study of property, poetics, and legal hermeneutics in nineteenth-century American literary and legal culture; and, most recently, None Like Us: Blackness, Belonging, Aesthetic Life (Duke University Press, 2018). His work has been supported by the Mellon Foundation, the Hellman Foundation, the Humanities Research Institute (University of California), and the Ford Foundation. In 2015-2016, he was the Mary Bundy Scott Professor at Williams College, and in spring 2020 he was the Whitney J. Oates Fellow in the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University.

本期节目的嘉宾是許景順（twitter @cj_sheu），他目前是文学研究学者与教授。不管是否身处学院，可能都会患上刨根问底和假想敌的阅读病，治愈之道，或许是停留表面。 許老师几篇论文（更全的列表可见其Academia主页）： Literature in the Anthropocene: A Hyperobject Reading of Twenty-First Century American Fiction What We Talk About When We Talk About New Media: Digital Subjectivity and Tao Lin's Taipei An Existential Ethics for a Postmodern Age Show notes: 日剧 Double （谈话前后我还提到韩剧《我的解放日志》，但节目中被剪掉了） Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 的文章 Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading, or, You're So Paranoid, You Probably Think This Essay is About You Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 文章中提出的一些概念：paranoid reading （被害妄想式的阅读）, reparative reading （修复性阅读）, strong theory（强理论） , weak theory（弱理论） Stephen Best, Sharon Marcus 的文章 Surface Reading: An Introduction Stephen Best, Sharon Marcus 文章中提出的一些概念：surface reading （表面阅读）, symptomatic reading（症候性阅读）, critical description（批判式描述）, mimetic relation（拟态关系） Georges Poulet 的文章 Phenomenology of Reading Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game （中文版：《安德的游戏》） 生态批评学者 Timothy Morton 旅德日本作家 多和田葉子：小说《献灯使》、小说《飞魂》、随笔集《和语言漫步的日子》 張惠娟《烏托邦的流變》 附录： 許老师之前课程 Readings in English Prose 所选部分篇目： Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants Ursula Le Guin, The Silence of the Asonu Zachary Mason, One Kindness（出自 The Lost Books of the Odyssey） Helen DeWitt, The Last Samurai (prologue) Alice Munro, Deep-Holes Jo Ann Beard, Werner 推荐环节： New York Times 美国内战专栏 Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone 合著小说 This Is How You Lose the Time War 电影 The Old Guard 电影 Columbus

Stephen Best's involvement in the environmental and animal protection movement began in the early 1970s after the making of Seal Song, a documentary about the Canadian seal hunt he produced for the International Fund for Animal Welfare. Stephen has developed and managed political, program, and fundraising campaigns for a number of environmental and animal protection groups. He has also written and produced communications, campaign, and fundraising materials for social development organizations, including Peaceful Parks, the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund (Canada), and the Lubicon Legal Defense Fund. Stephen has also served various organizations including the International Fund for Animal Welfare, the International Wildlife Coalition, Care for the Wild (UK), and the Toronto Humane Society as an executive and/or director. He co-founded the International Wildlife Coalition (US), Environment Voters ( Canada), and the Animal Protection Party of Canada where he is currently Chief Agent and Senior Policy Advisor. http://stephenbest.ca http://www.animalprotectionparty.ca ****************************** Thanks to Vox Vegana for the intro music. Plant Powered Radio broadcasts Tuesdays 11 am - noon PT at http://cfuv.ca Podcasts: PocketCasts, Breaker, Spotify, RadioPublic, Anchor, Overcast and Google Instagram - @plantpoweredradio Twitter - @envirovegan With gratitude for the opportunity to live, work, and create on the unceded traditional lands of the Coast Salish Peoples.

CyprusScene reporting the thoughts of Michael Stephen when he was participating in an onlne meeting hosted by BTCA. This episode is also available as a blog post: https://cyprusscene.com/2021/05/05/stephen-best-way-to-solve-cyprus-problem-is-a-two-state-solution/ CyprusScene Podcasts can be found on the following apps Anchor, Google Podcasts, Spotify, RadioPublic, PocketCasts, Breaker, Castbox

After the Easter Break, the Newcastle Blue Star Podcast returns and in this episode, Dan is fortunate enough to be joined by the owner of Blue Star, Stephen Best.

“The choice today,” said Martin Luther King, Jr., “is no longer between violence and nonviolence. It is either nonviolence or nonexistence.” Our nation is rocked by protests; and on a global stage, nuclear-armed countries flirt with mutually assured destruction. What is the path forward? In conversation with Stephen Best, Judith Butler overturns common assumptions about nonviolence, offering a definition that can help us achieve a world where peace and equality arise.

This week, a conversation with poet and essayist Claudia Rankine. Rankine is the author of Citizen: An American Lyric and four previous books, including Don’t Let Me Be Lonely. Her newest book, Just Us: an American Conversation, weaves together essays, poems, and images. Some of its most memorable scenes are those where Rankine examines the moments of discomfort between herself and those around her, urging us to begin discussions that might open pathways through this divisive and seemingly stuck moment in American history. On October 1, 2020, Claudia Rankine spoke to Stephen Best, Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. She also answered questions from teachers and students, offering advice to readers and today’s young poets.

The "Winter Break" is over and Premier League Football is back as Newcastle head down to the capital to take on Mikel Arteta's Arsenal FC.  Your host Kris is joined by Mr Stephen Best as they look ahead at Sunday's 16:30 kick off.  Will United be able to secure another three points will push on to that crucial forty-point mark. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In None Like Us (Duke, 2018) Stephen Best (English Department, UC Berkeley) reappraises what he calls “melancholy historicism,” in which the imagination is directed toward the recovery of a “we” at the point of “our” violent origin. Through an examination of cultural texts including the literature of Toni Morrison and Gwendolyn Brooks and the visual art of El Anatsui and Mark Bradford, Best argues that there can be no “we” following from such a time and place, that black identity is constituted in and through negation. Best is joined by Damon Young (Film & Media and French Departments).

In Wyllis Cooper's classic tale of terror, a condemned man named Maxie is left alone in his pitch black cell. But as the night goes on, it becomes apparent that one of the cell's former tenants has decided not to vacate. Join us tonight for, The Haunted Cell! Starring Jose Aguayo (@hoesay_aguayo) and Stephen Best (@supersaltystephen) Music by Martin Emes Some sound Effects by InspectorJ Created by Tilsen Mulalley

Mark Sheppard speaks to Stephen Best from Dear Sophie about Parental Alienation, CCA’s Total Reform Campaign. CCA Radio will be bringing you debatable conversations, political discussions, advice, new artists, stories, real life situations and life changing moments as well as documentaries on subjects no other radio station is talking about, or are afraid to broadcast. Link to Dear Sophie Campaign http://www.dear-sophie.com/ #TotalReform

Eileen Myles is the author of more than twenty books of essays, fiction, and poetry including “Chelsea Girls” and “I Must Be Living Twice.”  On November eighth, 2018, Myles came to the Nourse Theater in San Francisco to read from the new poetry collection, “Evolution,”and to talk with Stephen Best about struggling to be a writer in 1970s New York, running for president, and the experimental writing movement New Narrative.

Welcome back to the podcast.  Sorry for the delay, but hey, at least we've now got a new theme song thanks to Jose Aljovin. It only took me nearly 100 episodes and over 5 years to get around to it, but hey, better late than never, right? This week we have on the podcast my pastor Stephen Best returning for another discussion.  This time, he let me just ask him questions about his thoughts on some of the stuff that goes on in some charismatic circles.  We talk about gold dust, angel feathers, 100-fold return offerings, and personal prophecy.   Join us for a light-hearted but sober discussion.  Don't foget subscribe to our new feed, or to add us on Stitcher!