EPISODE · Apr 16, 2025 · 29 MIN
Higher ed's second Gilded Age with Matt Seybold
from American Campus Podcast · host Lauren Lassabe Shepherd
Matt Seybold takes us back to Knobs University, a fictional HBCU imagined by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner in their 1873 novel, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today. Drawing parallels from the novel and its HBCU, Matt helps us see how we're living through our own second Gilded Age, a post-capitalist era of technofeudalism.References mentioned this episode:The American Vandal PodcastThe American Vandal SubstackMattSeybold.comMark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner. 1873. The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today.Ron Chernow. 2025. Mark Twain. Penguin Random House. Willy Theyer. 2024. The Non-Modern Crisis of the Modern University. Translated by D. Bret Leraul. Northwestern University Press.Yanis Varoufakis. 2024. Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism. Penguin Random House.Jodi Dean. 2025. Capital's Grave: Neofeudalism and the New Class Struggle. Verso.McKenzie Wark. 2021. Capital is Dead: Is This Something Worse? Verso.Cédric Durand. 2024. How Silicon Valley Unleashed Techno-feudalism: The Making of the Digital Economy. Translated by David Broder. Verso.Text the show here!Support the showBrowse the American Campus bookshelf
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Matt Seybold takes us back to Knobs University, a fictional HBCU imagined by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner in their 1873 novel, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today. Drawing parallels from the novel and its HBCU, Matt helps us see how we're living through our own second Gilded Age, a post-capitalist era of technofeudalism. References mentioned this episode: The American Vandal PodcastThe American Vandal SubstackMattSeybold.comMark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner. 1873. The Gilded Age: ...
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