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Critical Media Studies

The Critical Media Studies podcast discusses the interplay of technology and culture from an academic perspective. In each episode we consider the work of a prominent thinker in the field of critical media studies and discuss the implications of their work in relation to other thinkers and in light of current social contexts.

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#77: Kember and Zylinska - Mediation and the...

Critical Media Studies ·

2024/10/04

This is the first of two episodes on Kember and Zylinska’s essay “Mediation and the Vitality of Media” from their book, Life after New Media: Mediation as a Vital Process (2012). Barry and Mike discuss the problems with and reasons for the binary divisions in media theory, particularly the way in which the field understands the relations between “old” and “new” media. Kember and Zylinska note that the contradictions in the field stem from unresolved tensions in the McLuhan/Williams debate. We

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

Critical Media Studies ·

2024/09/20

Barry and Mike discuss Bruno Latour’s essay, “On Actor-Network Theory: A few clarifications.” They work through his key terms in an attempt to better understand the new meanings he ascribes to actors and networks and what this theory allows us to do with media theory.

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55:38

#75: Distant Early Warning: a reflection on media...

Critical Media Studies ·

2024/09/06

In this episode Barry and Mike continue their discussion of William Burroughs’ cut-up method. They introduce Alex Kitnick’s arguments about the Media is the Massage from his book Distant Early Warning: Marshall McLuhan and the Transformation of the Avant-Garde in order to illuminate Burroughs’ practice.

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53:32

#74: Burroughs - The Cut-Up

Critical Media Studies ·

2024/08/23

In this episode Barry and Mike discuss William Burroughs’ 1963 manifesto “The Cut-Up Method.” We worry over some contradictions and tensions in his “new” method of writing.

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58:57

#73: Evgeny Morozov - Can AI Break Out of...

Critical Media Studies ·

2024/08/09

#73 In this episode Barry and Mike discuss “Panglossian Neoliberalism,”a term that Evgeny Morozov uses to describe the place of generative AI in thehands of venture capitalists.Can AI Break out of Panglossian Neoliberalism?The True Threat of Artificial Intelligencea sense oF rebellion podcast

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51:59

#72: Simone Weil -- Attention

Critical Media Studies ·

2024/07/26

This is a look back at our 3/3/23 episode on Simone Weil.

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55:00

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

Critical Media Studies ·

2024/07/12

In this episode Barry and Mike return to Bernard Steigler’s What Makes Life Worth Living: On Pharmakology. They tease out Steigler’s terms proletarianism and disintoxification, as well as our possible roles in resisting the poison and fostering the growth of the cure in the pharmakon.

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47:35

#70: Bernard Steigler - What Makes Life Worth Living

Critical Media Studies ·

2024/06/28

In this episode Barry and Mike discuss Bernard Steigler’s 2010 book, What Makes Life Worth Living: On Pharmacology. They reconsider their understanding of the pharmakon from Steigler’s other work and discuss the significance of care in pharmakology.

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57:27

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

Critical Media Studies ·

2024/06/14

In this episode, Barry and Mike finish their discussion of Chayka on Han and Benjamin’s essay, “The Storyteller.” In teasing out Han and Benjamin’s ideas about the distinction between narration and information, they land on the problem posed by the contemporary digital campfire.

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49:30

#68: Benjamin - The Storyteller

Critical Media Studies ·

2024/05/31

In this episode, Barry and Mike focus exclusively on the distinction between the storyteller and the novelist as explained in Walter Benjamin’s 1936 essay, “The Storyteller.”

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38:49

#67: Kyle Chayka - "The Internet's New Favorite...

Critical Media Studies ·

2024/05/17

In this episode Barry and Mike discuss Kyle Chayka’s assessment of the “Internet’s New Favorite Philosopher,” Byung-Chul Han. For those unfamiliar with Han's media theory, we encourage you to click the link above and read the Chayka article before listening to the episode.

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49:11

#66 Sonny Bunch - The Future of Media is Passive

Critical Media Studies ·

2024/05/10

In this episode Barry and Mike discuss the “Sonny Bunch Hosts the Bulwark Goes to Hollywood” episode “The Future of Media is Passive” and the notion of “linear streaming.” The ponder what it says about our distracted worlds.

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01:09:44

#65: Andrew Milne - Tourists In Our Own Reality: ...

Critical Media Studies ·

2024/04/26

In this episode Barry and Mike talk about Andrew Milne’s essay, “Tourists in our own Reality: Susan Sontag’s Photography at 50” in an attempt to update her arguments for the digital age. They puzzle over what it means to have an authentic relationship to photographs, or to be authentic ourselves.

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42:52

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

Critical Media Studies ·

2024/04/12

In this episode Barry and Mike discuss chapter 2 of of Jonathan Crary’s “Scorched Earth.” They focus on social media as a pharmacological problem within the Internet Complex.

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01:08:51

#63: Jonathan Crary - Scorched Earth

Critical Media Studies ·

2024/03/29

Barry and Mike discuss Jonathan Crary’s critique of the “internet complex” and what it means.

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47:22

#62: Siegfried Kracauer - Cult of Distraction: On...

Critical Media Studies ·

2024/03/15

Barry and Mike discuss Siegfried Kracauer's 1926 essay "Cult of Distraction: On Berlin's Picture Palaces." Written nearly 100 years ago, the essay is strangely relevant to our current political landscape. We pay special attention to Kracauer's unique notion of distraction, which contra Stiegler, Kracauer views as a stimulus to thought.

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45:01

#61: Yanis Varoufakis - Technofeudalism

Critical Media Studies ·

2024/03/01

Barry and Mike discuss Yanis Varoufakis' book, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, and the challenge it presents to Marxist theories about global capital.

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38:41

Evgeny Morozov - Only Disconnect

Critical Media Studies ·

2024/02/16

In this episode Barry and Mike relate Evgeny Morozov’s 2013 New Yorker essay, “Only Disconnect” to their previous discussion of A. Romero’s meditation on boredom and distraction and the internet.

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45:42

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

Critical Media Studies ·

2024/02/02

In this episode Barry and Mike discuss “The Most Important Skill in the 21st Century,” Alberto Romero’s polemical defense of boredom in the media entertainment age.They discuss whether it’s possible to be bored today in the way that Romero seems to require.

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01:10:11

Philip K. Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

Critical Media Studies ·

2024/01/19

In this episode Barry and Mike return to the earlier discussion of Sherry Turkle’s “Alone Together” and question her conclusion regarding the human/robotic distinction in light of PKD’s “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”

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