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In 2007, American anthropologist Katherine Verdery found herself staring at almost 3,000 pages worth of Top Secret files… all about her. What Katherine found in that dossier turned her world upside-down and tested her most basic assumptions about trust, betrayal, friendship and power. Additional Resources: More from Katherine Verdery: More about Communism and its aftermath […]
Before he traveled to Arrakis to tell the story of Dune, and before he took on one of sci-fi’s most popular legacies with Blade Runner 2049, Denis Villeneuve tackled a genre tale that was equally epic in its ideas but far more intimate in its storytelling: 2016’s Arrival. Its striking production design incorporates spaceships, fantastical […]
It’s a basic tenet of friendship that you get to choose your friends. In this episode, we look at two institutions that experimented with taking away that choice. First, we follow two women who lived in Catholic convents in the 1960s. Then, we hear about a program for high schoolers — Telluride Association Summer Program […]
It’s one of the most common and perplexing friend mysteries out there – when friends ghost friends. In this episode, we examine a contemporary real-life ghost story to see why we’re so haunted. Also, a listener attempts to find the friend who got away. And finally, we offer a new way to think about friendship […]
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In our episode, The Great Narrative Escape, we asked: is it possible to tell a boring story that will keep people listening? Now, we put that question to the test. Invisibilia presents our version of Slow Radio: (mostly) Americans watching Norwegian Slow TV together on the radio (by which we mean podcast). We recommend wearing […]
In 2009, a couple of Norwegians pioneered a whole new genre of television: Slow TV. They debuted with the story of a train traveling from one side of the country to the other over the course of seven hours. Every once in a while, the point of view switched from a landscape shot to one […]
In Stockton, there are competing narratives: the 209 Times camp believes the city establishment and its institutions have failed the people. The other side insists they are battling a dangerous source of misinformation that makes it harder for them to serve their city. In the final installment of “The Chaos Machine” series, co-host Yowei Shaw […]
It’s one of the biggest beefs in our country these days: Who gets to own the truth? What happens when someone spots bias in the mainstream news and decides to revolt? In Part 2 of “The Chaos Machine” series, Yowei meets the man behind 209 Times, talks to Stockton’s very own “deep throat,” and encounters […]