All Episodes
The American Vandal — 111 episodes
After OpenAI (Vandal Live at Wake Forest Humanities Institute)
Muskism with Quinn Slobodian & Ben Tarnoff
The Secret History of Canvas LMS, Corporate Raiders, & The Chatbot Bubble (Vandal Live at UVU)
Close Reading Is Not A Luxury (Vandal Live at Emory)
Close Reading Is A Conversation (Vandal Live at Emory University)
Close Reading For The 21st Century Symposium (Vandal Live at Emory)
Theory At The Bargaining Table with Dominique Baker & Anna Kornbluh (Vandal Live at UIC)
Everyday Ecofascism with April Anson & Alexander Menrisky (Vandal Live at 2025 Quarry Farm Symposium)
Criticism & The Chatbot Bubble with Christopher Newfield & Whitney Trettien (Vandal Live at UPenn English)
Inside Slow Civil War with Jeff Sharlet
Cruel Futurism
"Ideology: Marx & Lukacs" by Fredric Jameson (1977 Institute On Culture & Society)
The Jameson Tapes, Side B
"Models of Ideological Analysis" by Fredric Jameson (1977 Institute On Culture & Society)
The Jameson Tapes, Side A
Spitesgiving in Flyover Country
Literary Sociology a.k.a. The Institutional Turn a.k.a The Spreadsheet School of Literary Criticism
The Mutational Romances of Silicon Valley Speculation
Vandal Live: Affordances of Enclosure & The Ends of Empires
Solidarity & Speculation
From Technostructure To Technofeudalism
Newspapers Worse Than Dead (But Print Is A Rent Strike)
The Facebook Files & The Gutenberg Parenthesis
The Gilded Network
A Journey of Curiosity
The First Curriculum Is Work Without Wages
Fake Work, Fucking Models, & The Archive of Empire
Half Castle 'Gainst The Scott Walkers
The Education Gospel, Enshittify.edu, & The Expansion of Lower Ed
Philanthrocapitalism U
The Black University Concept & The Second Curriculum
BONUS EPISODE: "First at Farce: Structures of Feeling in The Gilded Age" by Nathan Wolff (2024 Quarry Farm Symposium Keynote)
The Historical Novel
Always Historicize?
Strategic Presentism & Resistance History
Fredric Jameson R.I.P
Cruel Optimism & The Enclosure of the Commons
The Age of Insecurity
Criticism LTD: Continuing The Dialogue (A Project Narrative Event)
Close Reading Feudalism(s) in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn with James Phelan (A Project Narrative Crossover Episode)
2024 with Anna Kornbluh & J.D. Connor
iLiberalism, The Morning Show, & The Sheeny Blandness of AppleTV+ with Anna Shechtman & Michael Szalay
Close Reading, Conglomerate Authorship, & Qween Danielle Steel with Dan Sinykin & Johanna Winant
Netflix Necrocapitalism & The House of Usher with Jane Hu & Phillip Maciak
The Empire of Criticism (Finale)
The Empire of Criticism (Part Two)
The Empire of Criticism (Part One)
Ed Tech, AI, & The Unbundling of Research & Teaching
Podcasting Criticism
Criticism in The Conglomerate Era
BookTube, BookTok, Wattpad, & The Audible Creation Exchange
Brittle Paper & The Blogossance
Politics & The Paracademy
The Chicago Fight & Economics Imperialism
The Chicago Fight & "Criticism Inc."
The Racist Interpretation Complex
Ponzi Austerity & The Monolingual University
Ponzi Austerity in The Age of Cultural Abundance
Hungover From The Bad Old Days of High Theory
The Golden Age of The Working Critic
Criticism LTD. Trailer
Working Conditions with Christopher Newfield & Anna Kornbluh (50th Episode #MLA2023 Special)
The Twitter Elegies (& Mastodon Scolds) with Rebecca Colesworthy & Jeff Jarvis
Reckless Monetization, Surveillance Kleptocracy, & Olivia Snow's Villain Origin Story
The Plausible End of Social Media, Downscaling, & The Latent Celebrity Mindset with Ian Bogost
The Collapse of Twitter, Zombie Cyberlibertarianism, & Commercial Content Moderation with Sarah T. Roberts
Dance of the Cash Dragons with Aaron Bady, Michelle Chihara, & Sarah Mesle
Industry Cringe & Reproductive Horror with Johanna Isaacson & Madeline Lane-McKinley
Rooting For Everybody Black in the Issa Rae Extended Universe with Jalylah Burrell & Danielle Fuentes Morgan
The Sopranos Revival (Remember The End of The End of History?) with Peter Coviello & Xine Yao
The Rehearsal, Reality TV, & Warner Bros Discovery with J. D. Connor & Olivia Stowell
Puzzles of Collective Intention, Corporate Authorship, Family Business Insurrection, & HBO's Succession with Lisa Siraganian & Michael Szalay
Reconsidering Mark Twain Among The Indians with Herman Fillmore & Drew Lopenzina
Talking Mark Twain Among The Indians with Kerry Driscoll
Reviewing Mark Twain Among The Indians with John Bird, Susan K. Harris, & Ann Ryan
Ministry For The Future (Worldwide Climate Teach-In Special Episode) with Sheri-Marie Harrison, Anna Kornbluh, & Min Hyoung Song
Bullshit Jobs, Fuck Work, & The Legacy of David Graeber with James Livingston & Corey McCall
Working For The New Yorker: Putting The Historicity Back In The French Dispatch with Nora Shaalan & Dan Sinykin
Decommodified Labor, Selling Out, & Other Compromises of The Great Resignation with Leigh Claire La Berge & Rachel Greenwald Smith
Bootstrapping Across Dystopia: Autofiction, Autotheory, Autoeverything with Merve Emre & Anna Kornbluh
Are We All Porn Workers Now?: Gigwork & Radical Flexibility with Heather Berg & Michelle Chihara
A Hedge Fund with A Drone Fleet: EdWork in 2022 with Annie McClanahan & Asheesh Kapur Siddique
Showtime's Billions & COVID Form with Anna Kornbluh & Devin William Daniels
Antiracism In The Contemporary University with Amanda Bailey, Tita Chico, & Emily Yoon Perez
The Shush (& The Chair) with Michelle Chihara & Kyla Wazana Tompkins
A Chair On The Chair with Karen Tongson
The Invisible Home of Frederick Douglass, John W. Jones, & Mark Twain with Jill Spivey Caddell & Shirley Samuels
Why Trust In Antitrust? with Sanjukta Paul & Marshall Steinbaum
Generation Z, Mark Twain's Poetry, & Teaching English From East Texas to Harvard with Jocelyn Chadwick
Teaching With Tension & The Illusion of Postracialism with Philathia Bolton, Cassander Smith, & Lee Bebout
Mark Twain, Journalism, & the Search for Genus Americanus with Loren Ghiglione, Alyssa Karas, & Dan Tham
Exterminate All The Brutes with Sheri-Marie Harrison, Andrew Hoberek, & Ignacio Sanchez Prado
BONUS EPISODE: Readings for Hal Bush & Hiroko Bush
The Suez Canal, #Stuckboat, & The Sinews of War & Trade with Laleh Khalili
A Music Box, Minstrel Songs, & Mark Twain's Emo Playlist with Erin Bartram & Kerry Driscoll
Unsealing the Archive of T.S. Eliot's Love Letters To Emily Hale with Frances Dickey, Megan Quigley, & John Whittier-Ferguson
Project Huckleberry (a.k.a. The Mandalorian) with Emmet Asher-Perrin & Nathaniel Williams
Robinhood, r/WallStreetBets, Who's Yellen Now, & The GameStop-ification of Finance with Anna Kornbluh, Leigh Claire La Berge, & Michelle Chihara
The Myths of Reconstruction in The Wake of Insurrection with Brook Thomas
BONUS EPISODE: Center for Mark Twain Studies 2020 Debrief From Quarry Farm with Joe Lemak & Steve Webb
BONUS EPISODE: The Gospel of Revolt: Mark Twain in Elmira with Hal Holbrook & Will Holbrook
DEEP CUTS BOOK CLUB #1: Mark Twain's "Letter From Santa Claus" with Mark Dawidziak, Penne Restad, & Jana Tigchelaar
Good Lord Bird & John Brown in Ethan Hawke's America with Jeffrey Insko & Ashley Rattner
Dave Chappelle & Killjoy Comedy with Jalylah Burrell, Bambi Haggins, & Maggie Hennefeld
Mark Twain, James Redpath, & The Vigilante Origins of American Police
The New Black Gothic & Lovecraft Country with Sheri-Marie Harrison
American Humor & Matters of Empire with Judith Yaross Lee
Elmira Correctional Facility & The Prison Fix with Andrea Morrell
Mark Twain, The World, & Susan K. Harris
The Viral Reprinting of Mark Twain's Hawaii Jokes & Mark Twain Meets Dracula
James Redpath, Bleeding Kansas, & The Networks of Disunion