Episode 24: An Interview with the Brilliant Camden Ostrander, Teacher, Writer, and Co-Creator of Season Seven of the Dissect Podcast-Because the Internet by Childish Gambino

2020-10-27

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Camden Ostrander teaches high school English in Maryland, and he is a writer on the Dissect Podcast, Season 7, which is about artist Childish Gambino’s 2013 album, Because the Internet. He has written about the album for years through a metamodern lens, replete with a content guide, intricate and voluminous Reddit threads, and "Internet Age" contextual analysis. SHOW NOTES: On Episode 24, Pete talks with the brilliant Camden Ostrander, a metamodern scholar and keen observer and student of Childish Gambino, about whom he writes for Dissect Pod...

Camden Ostrander teaches high school English in Maryland, and he is a writer on the Dissect Podcast, Season 7, which is about artist Childish Gambino’s 2013 album, Because the Internet. He has written about the album for years through a metamodern lens, replete with a content guide, intricate and voluminous Reddit threads, and "Internet Age" contextual analysis.

SHOW NOTES:

On Episode 24, Pete talks with the brilliant Camden Ostrander, a metamodern scholar and keen observer and student of Childish Gambino, about whom he writes for Dissect Podcast's Season Seven, which is focused on Gambino's Because the Internet.

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The intro song for The Chills at Will Podcast is “Wind Down” (Instrumental Version), and the other cool song played on this episode was “Hoops” (Instrumental Version”) by Matt Weidauer, used through Arches Audio. Matt’s artist page can be found here.

Authors Mentioned and Allusions and Songs Referenced During the Episode:

The Autobiography of Malcolm X, by Alex Haley

Malcolm X's Letter Written after Revelatory Hajj

The Screenplay for Childish Gambino's Because the Internet

Shia LaBeouf and Metamodernism

Raisin in the Sun

Kevin Abstract and Brockhampton

Noname

London O'Connor

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