What does celebrity gossip have in common with academic cultural theory? Anne Helen Petersen thinks everything β and she'll convince you.
Former BuzzFeed cultural writer and PhD-holding media studies scholar Anne Helen Petersen built Culture Study on a deceptively simple premise: if people find meaning or pleasure in something, it's worth taking seriously. The result is a podcast and newsletter that moves effortlessly between celebrity analysis, work culture, feminism, tourism, consumerism, and politics β treating all of it with equal intellectual rigor and genuine curiosity. Petersen has a rare gift for making you feel like you've been thinking about something wrong your whole life, then sending you away with a sharper framework for it. Episodes vary in format β deep reported pieces, reader Q&As, conversations with other cultural thinkers β which keeps the feed genuinely surprising.
For anyone who loves thinking about why culture works the way it does, this is essential. Find it on Substack or wherever you listen to podcasts.
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