Matthew Mythology · Audio essays, 2024
Stories from an
Autistic Art Historian.
This completed collection of five audio essays takes you on journeys through art history, literature, and media, exploring myths, symbols, and narratives. These stories offer insights into my Autistic experience, our shared human nature, and modern life.
The audio archive · September–October 2024
Five ways into the story.
Episode 01 · September 23, 2024
An Introduction to the Podcast
An introduction to Matthew Mahoney, the idea of Matthew Mythology, and a podcast where personal story, art history, poetry, and theory share the same room.
Episode 02 · September 24, 2024
Neurodiversity Studies
An introduction to neurodiversity studies as a field for understanding Autistic and neurodivergent lives through critical theory, cultural studies, sociology, and anti-oppression pedagogy.
Episode 03 · September 25, 2024
Art History & Psychocentrism
A critique of periodization in art history and an introduction to psychocentrism: the increasing cultural centering of psyche, subjectivity, desire, and interior experience.
Episode 04 · September 26, 2024
Labyrinths & Mazes
A journey through the labyrinth as myth, sacred architecture, literary device, psychoanalytic symbol, and metaphor for Autistic experience, told through monologue, play, poetry, and theory.
Episode 05 · October 1, 2024
A Counterhistory of Surrealism
A continuation of the modern-art series that questions the usual ‘isms’ model and asks how art historians might better describe movements defined by constant radical invention.