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In this episode Barry and Mike discuss Derek Thompson’s Atlantic essay, “The Anti-Social Century.” They discuss how the evolution of media technologies over the last 50 years, culminating in the development of AI have produced our current state of technologically enhanced solitude.

In this episode Barry and Mike discuss Wai Chee Dimock’s PMLA editor’s column, AI in the Humanities. After a brief summary of her argument they focus on the practicality of a humanistic approach to designing AI and its possible impacts.

In this episode Barry and Mike discuss Matteo Wong’s Dec. 9th article in The Atlantic, “The GPT Era Is Already Ending.” They trace the algorithmic shift from Chat GPT to 01 and discuss whether this transition gets any closer to genuine intelligence. We encourage you to listen to the previous episode on Benjamin Labatut’s “The Gods of Reason” as a primer for this one.

In this episode Barry and Mike discuss Benjamin Labatut’s essay, “The Gods of Logic: Before and After Artificial Intelligence. In tracing his historical approach to the development of AI, Barry and Mike highlight the unpredictability of language as opposed to the certainty of mathematics.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 t...

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.

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.

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

This is a look back at our 3/3/23 episode about Simone Weil and her essay on attention.

Steigler Life Worth Living pt 2 SD 480p

#70: Bernard Steigler - What Makes Life Worth Living? SD 480p

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

Benjamin The Storytellerr SD 480p

Chayka Han SD 480p

Sonny Bunch The Future of Media is Passive SD 480p

#65: Andrew Milne - Tourists in our own Reality: Susan Sontag's Photography at 50 SD 480p

Jonathan Crary: Scorched Earth pt. 2 SD 480p

Crary Scorched Earth SD 480p

Kracauer Cult of Distraction SD 480p

#61: Yanis Varoufakis - Technofeudalism SD 480p

Morozov Only Disconnect SD 480p

Romero The Most Important Skill in the 21st Century SD 480p

Philip K. Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep SD 480p

Sherry Turkle Alone Together SD 480p