Tony Walker
speaker
14,389 appearances
25 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 3d ago
Tony Walker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 25 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 12.
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It's I think it's porcelain, is it?
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Is it?
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I don't know.
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Yeah, anyway, so um it is an object in itself, but it's
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Meaning
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Is constructed by societies.
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For somebody from Bronze Age, um they might know what it was actually, but there are some cultures we might imagine, and my dog looks at it and goes has no idea what that is.
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You know, um even you know, so m you get the point.
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So Sir was the first guy in his uh he uh he lingu structuralist and linguistic he did a book called nineteen sixteen called uh um a
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In general, linguistics, uh, the basic model, the signifier, and the signified language is a system of differences, that's the foundation.
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And then you have uh Levi Strauss, who applies structural analysis to myth and kinship from the 1940s.
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Then we have Roland Barth, who starts decoding popular culture.
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Um, so he has the mythologies, his essays from 54 to 56, everyday things, wrestling, ad.
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Steak and chips are shown as myths, signs inside a cultural code.
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Um and then we have uh interestingly, I was thinking Baudrillard, and he comes along a bit later in the sixties and seventies, and he's sort of thought, I think he's a post-structuralist, postmodernist.
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So a lot of people who hate postmodernism h don't like him at all.
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Um what
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Struck me, he famously talked about war, how real war will become merely an entertainment for most people.
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So as time goes on, I think he was talking about the watching the Vietnam War and things like that.
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Um to us we're sitting thousands of miles away.
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