All Episodes

#122: Louis Theroux - Into the Manosphere

#121: A repost of episode #99: On Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Artificial Intimacy

#120: Mark Fisher - Exiting the Vampire's Castle, pt. 2

#119: Mark Fisher - Exiting the Vampire Castle

#118: Althusser - Idelology and Ideological State Apparatuses

#117: Althusser - Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses, pt. 1

#116: Weil - On The Abolition of all Political Parties, pt, 2

#115: Simone Weil - On The Abolition of All Political Parties

Guy Debord - The Society of the Spectacle

#113: Merenda - Reading Arendt to Rethink Truth, Science, and Politics in the Era of Fake News

#112: Kracauer - Photography

#111: Siegfried Kracauer - Cult of Distraction: On Berlin's Picture Palaces

#110: Yudkowski and Soares - If Anyone Builds it, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All

#109: Rachel Bitecofer -The Whole World Is Getting Dumber (And The Smartphone Did It.)

#108: Alberto Romero - AI Video Should Be Illegal

Alberto Romero - The Most Important Skill in the 21st Century

#106: Bernard Steigler - Elements of Pharmacology, pt. 2

#105: Bernard Steigler - Elements of Pharmacology

#104: Juan Fontcuberta and the “paper-hankie picture”

#103: Fontcuberta - Pandora's Camera

Andre Bazin - Ontology of the Photographic Image

#101: Heidegger - The Thing, pt. 2

#100: Heidegger - The Thing, pt. 1

#99: On Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Artificial Intimacy

#98: The Re-enchanted World - Karl Knausgaard

#97: AI in Art. A follow up to the Rob Horning discussion.

#96: Rob Horning - No One's Version

#95: Jenny Odell - How To Do Nothing, pt. 2

#94: Jenny Odell - How to Do Nothing

#93: Daisy Alioto - The Taste Economy

#92: Kyle Chayka - How to Cultivate Taste in the Age of Algorithms/The New Generation of Online Culture Curators.

#91: The Episode That is Not on Heidegger or His Letter on Humanism (but sort of is).

#90: Heidegger - The Question Concerning Technology

#89: Harold Innis - Minerva’s Owl

#88: Revisiting Deleuze's "Postscript on the Society of Control"

#87: Alan Turing - Computer Machinery and Intelligence

#86: Freddie deBoer - The Indoor Plumbing Test

#85: Derek Thompson - The Anti-Social Century

#84: Wai Chee Dimock – AI and the Humanities

#83: Matteo Wong - The GPT Era Is Already Ending

#82: Benjamin Labatut - The Gods of Logic: Before and After Artificial Intelligence

#81: Jodi Dean - Blog Theory

#80: Bolter and Grusin, pt. 2

#79: Bolter and Grusin - Remediation pt. 1

#78: Kember and Zylinska pt.2

#77: Kember and Zylinska - Mediation and the Vitality of Media pt. 1

#76: Bruno Latour - "On Actor-Network Theory: A few clarifications"

#75: Distant Early Warning: a reflection on media environments and art after McLuhan

#74: Burroughs - The Cut-Up

#73: Evgeny Morozov - Can AI Break Out of Panglossian Neoliberalism?

#72: Simone Weil -- Attention

#71: Bernard Steigler - What Makes Life Worth Living, pt. 2

#70: Bernard Steigler - What Makes Life Worth Living

#69: On Life’s Terrifying Vacuity: Chayka, Han, and Benjamin.

#68: Benjamin - The Storyteller

#67: Kyle Chayka - "The Internet's New Favorite Philosopher - Byung-Chul Han

#66 Sonny Bunch - The Future of Media is Passive

#65: Andrew Milne - Tourists In Our Own Reality: Susan Sontag's Photography at 50

#64: Jonathan Crary - Scorched Earth, pt. 2

#63: Jonathan Crary - Scorched Earth

#62: Siegfried Kracauer - Cult of Distraction: On Berlin's Picture Palaces

#61: Yanis Varoufakis - Technofeudalism

Evgeny Morozov - Only Disconnect

Alberto Romero - The Most Important Skill in the 21st Century

Philip K. Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

Sherry Turkle - Alone Together

Kazuo Ishiguro - Klara and the Sun pt. 2

Kazuo Ishiguro - Klara and the Sun pt. 1

Marshall McLuhan - The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects pt. 2

Marshall McLuhan - The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects

John Law - Monsters, Machines, and Sociotechnical Relations

Denise Lu - Want to Enjoy Music More? Stop Streaming it.

The 50th episode- a look back.

John Law – Notes on the Theory of the Actor Network: Ordering, Strategy, and Heterogeneity.

Bruno Latour - On Actor-Network Theory: A few clarifications

Jacques Attali - Noise

Glenn Gould - The Prospects of Recording

Andre Bazin's New Media

Derrida - Signature, Event, Context

Adorno - Opera and the Long-Playing Record

Adorno - The Form of the Phonographic Record

Dina Litovsky - The Problem of AI Photography is Not the Medium, It's the Message

Baudrillard - The Precession of Simulacra

Andre Bazin - Ontology of the Photographic Image

Susan Sontag - In Plato's Cave

Jonathan Crary- 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep

Guy Debord - The Society of the Spectacle

Simone Weil - Attention

Byung Chul Han - Boredom and Multitasking

Raymond Williams - Television, pt. 2

Raymond Williams - Television, pt. 1

Adorno and Horkheimer - Antisemitism and takeaways

Horkheimer and Adorno - The Culture Industry

Horkheimer and Adorno - Juliette or Enlightenment and Morality

Horkheimer and Adorno - Odysseus or Myth and Enlightenment

Horkheimer and Adorno - The Concept of Enlightenment

Walter Benjamin - The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducability

Stuart Hall - Encoding and Decoding

Wendy Chun - Updating to Remain the Same

Michael Miller- Platforms of Control: Social Media and the Limits of Theroretical Pluralism

Burroughs - The Limits of Control

Deleuze - Postcript on the Limits of Control

Techno-Fatalism and the Moral Alternatives (?)

Baudrillard - The Implosion of the Social in the Media

On Advertising - Barthes in the Modern Media Ecology

Marshall McLuhan's Culture is Our Business: A Discussion of Media Environments

The Top 10 Albums of All Time! Why it doesn’t matter.

Heidegger - The Question Concerning Technology: The Digital Age

Heidegger -- The Question Concerning Technology: History and Context

On Fake news and Ross Douthat

On Online Education

What have we learned about Zoom?

Don't Look Up

Jaques Ellul and Bob Lefsetz - Technique in the Age of Digital Streaming

E.M. Forster - The Machine Stops

Marshall McLuhan and Spotify

Raymond Williams - Culture, the Mass, the Mob, and Education

Response to Ted Gioia - Is Old Music Killing New Music?

Bernard Steigler and The Automatic Society, pt. 2

Bernard Steigler and the Automatic Society, pt. 1

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