EPEPodcast- a podcast about masculinity

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In this podcast, I investigate how masculinity archetypes have been created and if we might say that they today are used as a form of propaganda against equality. From five perspectives, in five ‘chapters’ I try to show how different masculinities have been cultivated for certain reasons in history, such as colonial expansion, or industrial production. I want to learn, and chare, contribute to consciousness-raising, by showing how archetypes like the ‘frontiersman’ were created and are reused time and time again...

….. I want to destabilize the belief that these archetypes are examples of old, ‘real’ or ‘genuine ’ masculinities. Contemporary reality tv-series Gold Rush, displays a frontier masculine archetype. This I think is part of a pattern of reusing masculinities that have been used and developed in very problematic correlations. What processes and structures are behind the propaganda-like reuse of these masculine archetypes today? How can I show that they are not suitable in today’s society and that they become toxic, both inward and outward?….

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07 Dorsey's unvanted masculinity part1

20 MAY. 2020 · Part_1_Reading_Booklet 07 Dorsey’s unwanted masculinity 36 pages A5, text and image collage. My third look at GOLD RUSH ALASKA. This time I study how Jimmy Dorsey’s masculinity was portrayed. He’s a white-collar, ”Hipster-hunk” dropped into a world of Blue-collar Masculinity, in the Alaskan wilderness. Dorsey was part of the show the first 6 episodes and left after a fight with another participant. A ‘close reading’ of all the scenes he appears in the show. followed by the way Dorsey and these scenes are discussed in Youtube comments This leads to questions of authenticity, real vs fake, that I try to connect back to the concept of Hyper-reality. Part_1_Reading_Booklet 07 Dorsey’s unwanted masculinity https://asjoberg.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/06doresy_compressed.pdf https://asjoberg.wordpress.com/e-p-e-pod/

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03 - Deadliest catch part2 of booklet 2 page 6-10

20 MAY. 2020 · Booklet 03 deadliest catch2. https://asjoberg.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/09catch2_compressed.pdf 32 pages, A4, black and white.Text collage. After the first booklet about ”The deadliest catch” that scratched the surface, I wanted to dive down deeper into the deadly cold depth and investigate this series and its production of contemporary masculinity. https://asjoberg.wordpress.com/e-p-e-pod/

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04 - Deadliest catch booklet 3 eng

20 MAY. 2020 · Booklet 04 deadliest catch3 https://asjoberg.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/08catch3_compressed.pdf 12 pages A5 text / image. One (short) third look at the CRAB-FISHERMEN. Texts from the book MASCULINITY IN CONTEMPORARY QUALITY TELEVIOSN: Re-masculinisation in the creation relates to Naomi Klein’s book ‘The shock doctrine’. This is one way of looking at the promotion of certain masculinities as a form of propaganda. And to act when society is in shock. And ‘the wild bunch’. This shock/propaganda is also related to Susan Faludi’s book Backlash, she lists example after example of how in conspiracy-like ways patriarchal power holders In society strike back. The waves of feminism are related to the propaganda-like Backlaches following the ‘masculinity crisis’ following economic / environmental / pandemic disasters. Watch out, people. The Neo-fascists are going to make a Covid19-crisis move, hold their ground, and blame all the consequences of their actions on the FEMINISTS.

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05 Hyperreal Gold - And maps of masculinity

20 MAY. 2020 · Booklet 05 hyperreal gold 44 pages , A5, black and white. My first look at the reality tv-show: ‘Gold Rush Alaska’. Collaging of video stills from a ‘behind-the.scenes’ episode and text about Jean Baudrillard’s concept of ‘Hyper-reality’ to try to unpack the different layers of reality and how we as viewers relate to them when we create our masculine identities._https://asjoberg.wordpress.com/e-p-e-pod/_https://asjoberg.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/07-hyper-real-gold-levels-bra_compressed.pdf

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06 Masculinity crisis vs todd and Jack Hoffman

20 MAY. 2020 · Reading from the booklet: Booklet 06 The Great Recession and masculinity crisis vs Todd and Jack Hoffman. 28 pages black and white. Text and image collage. In this booklet, I look at the very first episode of GOLD RUSH ALASKA, and how it is framed relating to the great recession in 2008. A Group of unemployed guys decides to ”ball up and go out into the frontier” and dig for gold. I specific case study of how ”real” masculinity relates to blue-collar- and rural- even frontier-masculinity. In the end, the booklet even turns itself into a cowboy and Indian comic-book to show one way how masculine archetypes are ‘given’ to young boys. https://asjoberg.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/01-masculinity-crisis-vs-hoffmans_compressed.pdf https://asjoberg.wordpress.com/e-p-e-pod/

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08 wild west masculinty

20 MAY. 2020 · Reading from the Booklet "08 wilda vestern maskulinitet" 19 pages, A5, color/black-n-white. In this booklet, I preset the project more deeply in Swedish. And we are introduced to a number of Western Legends, such as Buffalo Bill and Kit Carsen. And I try to undress these ”Avatars” as examples of old ”genuine” or ”real” men, and show them in their propaganda-like coming into being., In a way these guys, just like Todd Hoffman and Jimmi Dorsey from GOLD RUSH ALASKA are Hyper-real. In the sense that at the same time that their bodies are existing in the world they are also active in creating stories or are featuring in stories where they play semi-fictional characters, very similar to the bodies with the same name -initially- but that as time passes becomes much larger than life and spreads like a cultural imperialist virus. https://asjoberg.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/02_vestern_compressed.pdf

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07 Dorsey's unwanted masculinity part2

20 MAY. 2020 · PART 1 reading from Booklet 07 Dorsey’s unwanted masculinity 36 pages A5, text, and image collage. My third look at GOLD RUSH ALASKA. This time I study how Jimmy Dorsey’s masculinity was portrayed. He’s a white-collar, ”Hipster-hunk” dropped into a world of Blue-collar Masculinity, in the Alaskan wilderness. Dorsey was part of the show the first 6 episodes and left after a fight with another participant. A ‘close reading’ of all the scenes he appears in the show. followed by the way Dorsey and these scenes are discussed in Youtube comments This leads to questions of authenticity, real vs fake, that I try to connect back to the concept of Hyper-reality. https://asjoberg.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/06doresy_compressed.pdf https://asjoberg.wordpress.com/e-p-e-pod/

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02 - Deadliest catch - the sons of Ernest Hemingway - booklet 1

20 MAY. 2020 · Reading from the zine - Booklet 02 deadliest catch 1. 28 pages, A5, color / black and white. Collage of image and texts from many sources but all relating to the Discovery channel reality TV-series ”The deadliest catch”, and how this show relates to masculinity. https://asjoberg.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/05catch1_compressed.pdf https://asjoberg.wordpress.com/e-p-e-pod/

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