On Air: A Venti Podcast
On Air: A Venti Podcast is a show where Venti editors discuss air, experience, and aesthetics with interdisciplinary scholars and artists of the atmospheric humanities. Join us as we delve into the metaphors about air and atmosphere that we use on a regular basis, and keep listening as our guests deepen our understanding of the materiality of the air and what it carries.
Podcast Team
Sarah Dailey
Sarah is a recent graduate of Kenyon College, where she majored in Drama and French. In addition to being a senior editor at Venti, Sarah is our podcast host. Sarah is interested in affect theory, translation studies, poetry and poetics, and theories of performance.
Zach Metzger
Zach Metzger is a PhD student and teaching fellow in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His research focuses on the relationship between science, technology, and literature in the twentieth century.
Sara Gabler Thomas
Sara Gabler Thomas is a doctoral candidate in Literary Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research spans twenty- and twenty-first century literature and culture of the archipelagic Americas.
Episodes
Episode Three
“Plein Air” with Orchid Tierney
In this episode, Sarah Dailey speaks with scholar and poet, Orchid Tierney, about disasters created by petronationalism and environmental issues that stretch from New Zealand to Ohio. They discuss the role of art in responding to environmental degradation from the bold installation art of John Gerrard’s “Western Flag” to the “quiet honesty” of Cilla McQueen’s poetry.
Episode Two
“Air Bubbles” with Esther Leslie
In this episode, Sarah Dailey speaks with Esther Leslie, Professor of Political Aesthetics at Birkbeck, University of London. They discuss contradictory uses of bubbles as metaphor and the era of Zoom reproduction in which our avatars become reproducible and useful to others.
Episode One
“Atmosphere” with
Marco Caracciolo
In this inaugural episode, Sarah Dailey speaks with Marco Caracciolo, Associate Professor of English and Literary Theory at Ghent University. They discuss weird fiction, narrative media, and uncertain atmospheres. Marco’s work asks us to consider how the temporality of literature can attune us to the slow pace of climate change and the coronavirus pandemic.