Book 2, Ep. 6 | Print Culture
Material Girls
Rehak Hannah
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Beloved bookish witches, join us for a discussion of print culture as it appears in the wizarding world. We'll unpack our own biases and beliefs about the significance of books as physical objects and how capitalism and commodification created the sentimental, coveted idea of the book many of us hold in our hearts. We will page through Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets in search of printed matter and the ways it circulates in wizarding society, how it intersects with notions of class and ideas of good and evil, and how it governs access to knowledge.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Witch Please, a fortnightly podcast about the Harry Potter world. |
| 0:09.5 | I'm Hannah McGregor, and I'm Marcel Cosmon, and today we're going to talk about a little |
| 0:15.7 | something I like to call books. |
| 0:19.1 | Okay, Marcel, this whole podcast is about books. |
| 0:23.0 | No, no, no, Hannah, not books, books, yeah, the Harry Potter books. |
| 0:29.9 | And books, like look at my arms, but they're going in their books. |
| 0:37.7 | Okay, this is a non-visual medium, but I think what you mean is like the print culture object |
| 0:43.6 | we have come to know and revere called the book, and its representation in the Harry Potter |
| 0:50.5 | novels, specifically Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, books, okay, great, but |
| 0:59.8 | maybe first we need to get our communication skills warmed up in the sorting chat. |
| 1:07.6 | What a good idea, Hannah. Oh my gosh. |
| 1:14.4 | Listen, I've been having some challenging mental health days lately. |
| 1:20.2 | So I suggest that today we talk about something lovely, our favorite colors, |
| 1:26.4 | and what it is we love about them. |
| 1:29.3 | I'll go first. I love most colors. |
| 1:32.4 | I especially love jewel tones, but my very favorite is the blue green family, |
| 1:38.9 | and specifically the like turquoise, teal, jade, aqua, seafoam family of colors. |
| 1:45.4 | Love them all. I find them so cooling and so soothing, and they always bring me joy, |
| 1:51.8 | and I never, ever, ever, ever get tired of them. |
| 1:56.8 | I love that. What about you, Hannah? |
| 1:58.8 | My favorite colors are the wide purple family, ranging from a very sort of rich deep |
| 2:06.3 | indigo on one end to like a fuchsia edging towards pink on the other end. |
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