The fifth episode of CURSED WITH GOOD IDEAS, sixty-six minutes of snappy takes on creative writing with John and Tito (Melbourne, Australia) and hosts Jonathan Burrow, Joshua Cader, Dino Chang & Gabriele de Seta.

In this episode: academic exploitation, indifference & repetition, ethnographic spy novels, and the politics of humor.

Pristine production courtesy of an institutional recording studio in a secret location.

LINKS:- Kenneth Goldsmith's "Uncreative Writing": https://www.amazon.co.uk/Uncreative-Writing-Kenneth-Goldsmith - Mark Hobart's writings: http://www.criticalia.org/bibliography---mark-hobart/ - Maurice Bloch's essays: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/essays-on-cultural-transmission-9781845202873/ - The anthropologist as stand-up comedian: http://sciencenordic.com/researcher-who-became-stand-comic

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