This post is long overdue.
Tomek and I should have officially explained our intentions with regard to Texting before we started podcasting back in 2022—rather than waiting until we had recorded 40 episodes. As textual deviants, however, we tend to opt for the road less traveled by. Moreover, our mission, such as it is, seems to have evolved and mutated during the first two seasons of the pod. Perhaps it is only now that we are able to begin to articulate what we hope to achieve with our textually deviant enterprise.
In this special episode of Texting, we therefore attempt to clarify, among other things, the multiple meanings of the term “texting” and the various ways in which one might qualify as a “textual deviant.” We also reflect with pride on the wide variety of texts we have explored in S1 and S2—poems, films, songs, essays, paintings, a TV series, a comedy special, a religious text, a tweet, a flower, to name but a few—and we consider how these multifarious textual explorations relate to Fernando Pessoa’s notion that “all art is a form of literature.”
Our chat concludes with a call to action as we invite you—our fellow textual deviants—to involve yourselves in the Texting community in whatever way you feel most comfortable. Are there particular texts you hope we will examine in season 3? Would you like to contribute to the production of the podcast by way of audio clips, video editing, graphic design? Do you have any other ideas which might make Texting better, more engaging, more inspirational, more provocative, more “textually deviant”? Do let us know!
Thanks, as always, for your continued interest and support!
MW
P.S. If you’d rather watch than listen to this special episode, it’s been uploaded to my YouTube channel in two installments:
A Belated Introduction to "Texting: A Podcast for Textual Deviants"