Tony Walker

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15,273 appearances 26 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 4d ago

Tony Walker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 26 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 12.

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Classic Ghost Stories · The Mummy's Foot by Theophile Gautier · 18 Sep 2026 podcast

I'm only using it to illustrate some of the some of the things we've been talking about. podcast-host

So uh an object and culture is a sign, according to semiotics, it's made podcast-host

Meaning comes from its position in the network, not from its thinness in isolation. podcast-host

So you know, whatever we think about an object, it only has any meaning as I'm looking at the cup here, it's got um Sheila Boughtham and it's got a Van Gogh Starry Night Dude thingy on it. podcast-host

It's I think it's porcelain, is it? podcast-host

Is it? podcast-host

I don't know. podcast-host

Yeah, anyway, so um it is an object in itself, but it's podcast-host

Meaning podcast-host

Is constructed by societies. podcast-host

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. podcast-host

You know, um even you know, so m you get the point. podcast-host

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 podcast-host

In general, linguistics, uh, the basic model, the signifier, and the signified language is a system of differences, that's the foundation. podcast-host

And then you have uh Levi Strauss, who applies structural analysis to myth and kinship from the 1940s. podcast-host

Then we have Roland Barth, who starts decoding popular culture. podcast-host

Um, so he has the mythologies, his essays from 54 to 56, everyday things, wrestling, ad. podcast-host

Steak and chips are shown as myths, signs inside a cultural code. podcast-host

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. podcast-host

So a lot of people who hate postmodernism h don't like him at all. podcast-host

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