In this episode of People Stuff, Dan and Michael discuss and/or are informed by:

“Unsinkable” by Daniel Mendelsohn https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/04/16/unsinkable-titanic-iceberg

“Removing Knowledge” by Peter Galison https://dash.harvard.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/7312037c-4c4a-6bd4-e053-0100007fdf3b/content

“On the Phenomenology of Giant Puppets Broken windows, imaginary jars of urine, and the cosmological role of the police in American culture” by David Graeber https://davidgraeber.org/articles/on-the-phenomenology-of-giant-puppets-broken-windows-imaginary-jars-of-urine-and-the-cosmological-role-of-the-police-in-american-culture/

“The Bridge [Broen på dansk]” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bridge_(2011_TV_series)

In this episode of People Stuff, Dan and Michael discuss and/or are informed by:

Stacy’s Mom.

Ritual and Mantras: Rules Without Meaning by Frits Staal

The Rites of Passage by Arnold van Gennep

The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Strucutre by Victor Turner

In this episode of People Stuff, Dan and Michael discuss and/or are informed by:

“30 under 30-year sentences: why so many of Forbes’ young heroes face jail” by Arwa Mahdawi https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/apr/06/forbes-30-under-30-tech-finance-prison

“Breaching Experiments” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaching_experiment

Studies in Ethnomethodology, by Harold Garfinkel (you may want to bookmark this one; Michael brings it up a lot)

In this episode, Dan and Michael discuss (and/or are informed by):

The Paranoid Style in American Politics, by Richard Hofstader (https://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics/)

Boba Fett, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boba_Fett

Dog the Bounty Hunter, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_the_Bounty_Hunter

The Rites of Passage, by Arnold Van Gennep

The Ritual Process, by Victor Turner

In this episode, Dan and Michael discuss:

Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson

Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan

Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman

Purity and Danger by Mary Douglas

“Techniques of the Body” by Marcel Mauss

Outline of a Theory of Practice by Pierre Bourdieu

Human Nature and Conduct by John Dewey

And, the “Parkerization” of Wine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Parker_(wine_critic)#Impact_on_the_supply:_the_%22Parkerization%22_of_wine

Dan and Michael discuss:

Living Right: Far Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe by Agniezska Pasieka

The Nazi Seizure of Power: The Experience of a Single German Town 1922-1945 by William Allen Sheridan:

https://archive.org/details/naziseizureofpow0000alle_m2p7

The Jersey Devil:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_Devil

The Sopranos e3 ep11, "Pine Barrens:"

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0705272/

What We Do in the Shadows:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7908628/

In season 1 of People Stuff, Dan and Michael take on CAT scans for baseball cards, stupidity, college admissions, pompous assholes, unionization, the Bakersfield restaurant scene, and much, much, much more. Season 1 of People Stuff will be available in early July.

Swedish Design by Keith Murphy can be found here: Swedish Design by Keith M. Murphy | Paperback | Cornell University Press

Rabelais and His World by Mikhail Bakhtin can be found here: Rabelais and His World by Mikhail Bakhtin | MIT Press

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