Gareth’s Whim Box

Gareth’s Whim Box - Episode 8 - Diagnoses

Gareth's Whim Box - Episode 8 - Diagnoses
Diagnoses - Blue Badge - Eva Aldea - Diagnoses and Writing - ADHD - Autism - Clinical versus Social - Keanu Reeves - Autistic-Coded Characters - Headcanoning ...
Website on Diagnosis and Writing: https://www.dxandwriting.com/
Articles and Books referenced:
Shirley Dent, 'Don't 'diagnose' fictional characters', The Guardian, Wednesday 4th April, 2007 (Online: https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2007/apr/04/dontdiagnosefictionalcharac). Accessed: 30.4.2023
Christa Mullis, 'Reflection: Autistic Coded Characters and fans in fandom (https://cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cjds/article/view/495/744) Accessed 30.4.2023
Devin Price, Unmasking Autism: The Power of Embracing our Hidden Neurodiversity (London: Monoray, 2022)
Pete Wharmby, Untypical: How the world isn't built for autistic people and what we should all do about it (London: Mudlark, 2022)

Gareth’s Whim Box - Episode 7 - Metal!

Gareth's Whim Box - Episode 7 - Metal!
A podcast all about Metal!!! Featuring Dr Sam Thomas, the Dark Lord of Metal Studies.
For more information about Sam's work, please consult: Samuel Thomas, 'The Devil's Party: Metal and Literature', in Rachel Durkin, ed, The Routledge Companion to Music and Modern Literature, (Taylor and Frances, 2022) DOI: 10.4324/9780367237288-40

Gareth’s Whim Box, Episode 6 - Disingenuous Poetics

Gareth's Whim Box, Episode 6 - Disingenuous Poetics
Disingenuousness - ingenuousness - sincerity - authenticity - autism and masking - How to Milk a Horse - Viola  - Ukraine - Poem - Wincing at Disingenuousness and Artifice

Gareth’s Whim Box, Episode 5 - Echoing Viridicality

Gareth's Whim Box, Episode 5 - Echoing Viridicality
Featuring: Shania Twain - Man I feel Like a Woman - Remembering Pitch - Levitin Effect - Absolute and Relative Pitch - Babtist Ministrations - Precociousness - Echolalia - Autism - Veridical Mapping - Normies are Disabled (joke)

Gareth’s Whim Box - Ep. 4 - Institutions as genres; genres as institutions.

Gareth's Whim Box - Episode 4 Institutions as genres; genres as institutions.
The BBC - Fredric Jameson - Science Fiction - Contumacious - Exogenous

Gareth’s Whim Box Ep. 3 - ANC, ASD Yeah You Know Me!

Gareth's Whim Box - Episode 3.
Sussex Chairs - Noise Cancelling - Hyperacusis - Sensitivities - Autistic Spectrum Disorder - Woodworking & Craft - Non-ironic Woodworking Terminology

Gareth’s Whim Box Ep. 2 The Aura of Rational Linearity

Gareth's Whim Box - Episode 2 The Aura of Rational Linearity
Reflections on episode 1 - Selfies/Self-ins - Hipsters - Benjamin (again) - Paul Klee's 'Angelus Novus' - The Aura - A Theory about Benjamin's Theses - 'So' - Crip-time - Pathology of Laterality.
Enjoy.

Gareth’s Whim Box Ep. 1

Gareth's Whim Box Ep. 1
Introduction - Why 'Whim Box'? - Other podcasts: 'Radio Afterwards'; 'Talking Poetics' - Rude words - Critically evaluating prejudice - Why I love radio: Pirate Radio; Hitchhiker's Guide; Walter Benjamin; Dylan Thomas - Welsh culture - Reading from my poetry book, Kerf.