Episode 5 Knitting Matters

Are you a zany knitter? After knitting over lunch, in conferences, while watching television, and in bed, are you convinced that knitting matters to the universe and to the workings of our world?

Join me today for an overview of how knitting can be at turns subversive and at turns the orthodox instrument of the Ideological and the Repressive State Apparatuses. Talk about how subversion and containment work in detective fiction and what detective fiction's main agenda is. Then question what knitting literature's significant messages might be. Brainstorm ideas for how knitting culture, knitting literature, and the act of knitting might be subversive to or used by the ruling-classes.

Finally, since none of us can get enough of knitting, I also show off my current knitting projects and knitting related acquisitions (soap!). Stay tuned near the end to find out if you won my podcast kick-off giveaway and for a little story telling.

 
Episode Notes:

Oops. I mentioned that sinister shares a root with the French word for left-handed. Actually, I was thinking of the Latin word for left-handed. The French word for left-handed is gauche, which in English connotes clumsiness or social awkwardness.

Jinki 'n Tae Handmade Soaps, etc.
Louis Althusser's Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses
Stephen Greenblatt's "Invisible Bullets" (published in 1988?)
Three Men in a Boat via Project Gutenberg and Librivox
New Simple Pleasures Hat: my project is here
Holden Shawlette: my project is here
Elfin Hat
Pinch Hat: my project is here
Jin Que needles (from China) on eBay
Super Summer Knitogether(SSK) 2014

Episode 5 is live on iTunes, Libsyn, and, in high-def, on YouTube. Also check out the knit.theory Ravelry group.