The Sleepover Club: Kardashian Kolloquium On Why We Can't Stop Keeping Up With The Kardashians
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
From Kimye's divorce, to the new Hulu show, North's TikTok and Kourtney's emo phase, whether you love to hate them or can't help but being obsessed with them, not a week goes by where we don't hear from the Kardashian family. This week on the podcast we're joined by MJ Corey, founder of Kardashian Kolloquium, to break down why they continue to dominate celebrity culture, how she avoids unhealthy parasocial relationships with the family, and what draws her to applying academia to the very thing post people consider unintellectual.
With her work focused on studying the family through a theoretical lens via social media, MJ exists at the intersection of many things we look down on in culture: femininity, reality tv, and social media. Halima, Ione, and MJ break down why elitism is holding us back when it comes to social discourse, and why we should take online creators more seriously.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Halima. |
| 0:01.1 | Hi, Ioni. |
| 0:02.5 | And hello to the listeners. |
| 0:04.6 | Welcome to the Polyester podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Ayoni, the founding editor-in-chief of Polyester Online in print and everywhere else. |
| 0:11.3 | And I'm Halima, the community editor, Polyester Scene, and the co-host of the Polyester podcast. |
| 0:16.1 | So this week we have a very special Sleepover Club episode where we talk to our friends well mj's my friend now |
| 0:23.7 | about all the conversations you have at sleepover and as you may have cotton on we are joined by mj |
| 0:33.9 | from kadashi and colloquium today. So here she is. |
| 0:42.3 | Hi MJ. |
| 0:43.3 | Hi everyone. It's so nice to be with you. |
| 0:45.3 | Oh, we are so excited to have you. Obviously, most people who are familiar of polyester will be familiar with your work. |
| 0:52.3 | But would you like to introduce yourself just in case? |
| 0:55.0 | Yes, my name is MJ Corey, and I'm the author of Kardashian Colloquium, which is a social media presence right now on TikTok and Instagram, and I'm newly on Twitter. I'm learning Twitter, and I sometimes satirically, but more and more often |
| 1:13.3 | seriously intellectualize the Kardashian family, most often through like a classical media theory |
| 1:20.1 | lens or a postmodern lens. Those are the most interesting ways to look at them for me. |
| 1:25.8 | And how are you finding Twitter? |
| 1:36.8 | Twitter is very snappy and quick, and I'm very verbose and indulgent the way I think. |
| 1:44.8 | So I'm used to, I was on Twitter many years ago, and I was definitely got myself in the mindset of like, oh, I'm thinking in tweets now. |
| 2:05.1 | And so then I kind of deprogram that and now I'm back on and it's starting to happen, which I guess is good for success on Twitter, like thinking and tweets. I'm getting there, but it's been an adjustment. Right. Yeah. I have this like, weird relationship with Twitter where I never ever tweet, but then at least five times a day I'll be like to people, I read this tweet and I always do that on the podcast and it's so annoying for everyone else in the world. So I'm interested in yeah, kind of how you got started and why the Kardashians. Yeah, |
| 2:12.3 | so I was one of those people that was like, a reality TV, not for me. |
| 2:18.6 | I always say like I kind of thought it was like not healthy for the brain, you know, |
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