Critical Media Studies

Nov 29 2024 80 ep. 53 mins
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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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#81: Jodi Dean - Blog Theory

Nov 29 2024 56 mins  
In this episode Barry and Mike discuss Jodi Dean’s book, “Blog Theory.” They focus on her notion of “communicative capitalism,” treating the book as a time capsule of sorts.  They take her arguments from 2010 and suggest their relevance to our current situation in 2024. 

#80: Bolter and Grusin, pt. 2

Nov 15 2024 53 mins  
In this episode Barry and Mike discuss chapter one of Bolter and Grusin’s book and attempt to define their foundational term, remediation.

#79: Bolter and Grusin - Remediation pt. 1

Nov 01 2024 51 mins  
In this episode Barry and Mike discuss Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin’s introduction to their 1999 Media Studies book, Remediation.  In particular, they discuss the four key concepts that Bolter and Grusin introduce: mediation, remediation, immediacy, and hypermediacy. 

#78: Kember and Zylinska pt.2

Oct 18 2024 62 mins  
In the follow up to their previous episode, Barry and Mike discuss how Kember and Zylinska use Steigler’s notion of an “originary technicity” to articulate a third position between the philosophy Raymond Williams and Marshall McLuhan. 

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

Oct 04 2024 56 mins  
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 “n

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

Sep 20 2024 69 mins  
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. 

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

Sep 06 2024 55 mins  
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. 

#74: Burroughs - The Cut-Up

Aug 23 2024 53 mins  
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.

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

Aug 09 2024 58 mins  
#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

#72: Simone Weil -- Attention

Jul 26 2024 51 mins  
This is a look back at our 3/3/23 episode on Simone Weil.