Critical Media Studies
By Michael Repici
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Episodes: 118
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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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#119: Mark Fisher - Exiting the Vampire Castle
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May 15, 2026 |
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#118: Althusser - Idelology and Ideological State Apparatuses
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May 01, 2026 |
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#117: Althusser - Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses, pt. 1
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Apr 17, 2026 |
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#116: Weil - On The Abolition of all Political Parties, pt, 2
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Apr 03, 2026 |
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#115: Simone Weil - On The Abolition of All Political Parties
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Mar 20, 2026 |
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Guy Debord - The Society of the Spectacle
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Mar 06, 2026 |
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#113: Merenda - Reading Arendt to Rethink Truth, Science, and Politics in the Era of Fake News
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Feb 20, 2026 |
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#112: Kracauer - Photography
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Feb 06, 2026 |
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#111: Siegfried Kracauer - Cult of Distraction: On Berlin's Picture Palaces
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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#110: Yudkowski and Soares - If Anyone Builds it, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All
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Jan 09, 2026 |
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#109: Rachel Bitecofer -The Whole World Is Getting Dumber (And The Smartphone Did It.)
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Dec 26, 2025 |
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#108: Alberto Romero - AI Video Should Be Illegal
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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Alberto Romero - The Most Important Skill in the 21st Century
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Nov 28, 2025 |
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#106: Bernard Steigler - Elements of Pharmacology, pt. 2
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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#105: Bernard Steigler - Elements of Pharmacology
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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#104: Juan Fontcuberta and the “paper-hankie picture”
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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#103: Fontcuberta - Pandora's Camera
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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Andre Bazin - Ontology of the Photographic Image
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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#101: Heidegger - The Thing, pt. 2
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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#100: Heidegger - The Thing, pt. 1
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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#99: On Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Artificial Intimacy
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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#98: The Re-enchanted World - Karl Knausgaard
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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#97: AI in Art. A follow up to the Rob Horning discussion.
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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#96: Rob Horning - No One's Version
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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#95: Jenny Odell - How To Do Nothing, pt. 2
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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#94: Jenny Odell - How to Do Nothing
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May 30, 2025 |
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#93: Daisy Alioto - The Taste Economy
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May 16, 2025 |
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#92: Kyle Chayka - How to Cultivate Taste in the Age of Algorithms/The New Generation of Online Culture Curators.
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May 02, 2025 |
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#91: The Episode That is Not on Heidegger or His Letter on Humanism (but sort of is).
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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#90: Heidegger - The Question Concerning Technology
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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#89: Harold Innis - Minerva’s Owl
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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#88: Revisiting Deleuze's "Postscript on the Society of Control"
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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#87: Alan Turing - Computer Machinery and Intelligence
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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#86: Freddie deBoer - The Indoor Plumbing Test
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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#85: Derek Thompson - The Anti-Social Century
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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#84: Wai Chee Dimock – AI and the Humanities
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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#83: Matteo Wong - The GPT Era Is Already Ending
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Dec 27, 2024 |
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#82: Benjamin Labatut - The Gods of Logic: Before and After Artificial Intelligence
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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#81: Jodi Dean - Blog Theory
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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#80: Bolter and Grusin, pt. 2
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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#79: Bolter and Grusin - Remediation pt. 1
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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#78: Kember and Zylinska pt.2
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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#77: Kember and Zylinska - Mediation and the Vitality of Media pt. 1
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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#76: Bruno Latour - "On Actor-Network Theory: A few clarifications"
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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#75: Distant Early Warning: a reflection on media environments and art after McLuhan
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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#74: Burroughs - The Cut-Up
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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#73: Evgeny Morozov - Can AI Break Out of Panglossian Neoliberalism?
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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#72: Simone Weil -- Attention
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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#71: Bernard Steigler - What Makes Life Worth Living, pt. 2
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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#70: Bernard Steigler - What Makes Life Worth Living
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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#69: On Life’s Terrifying Vacuity: Chayka, Han, and Benjamin.
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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#68: Benjamin - The Storyteller
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May 31, 2024 |
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#67: Kyle Chayka - "The Internet's New Favorite Philosopher - Byung-Chul Han
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May 17, 2024 |
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#66 Sonny Bunch - The Future of Media is Passive
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May 10, 2024 |
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#65: Andrew Milne - Tourists In Our Own Reality: Susan Sontag's Photography at 50
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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#64: Jonathan Crary - Scorched Earth, pt. 2
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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#63: Jonathan Crary - Scorched Earth
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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#62: Siegfried Kracauer - Cult of Distraction: On Berlin's Picture Palaces
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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#61: Yanis Varoufakis - Technofeudalism
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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Evgeny Morozov - Only Disconnect
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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Alberto Romero - The Most Important Skill in the 21st Century
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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Philip K. Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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Sherry Turkle - Alone Together
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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Kazuo Ishiguro - Klara and the Sun pt. 2
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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Kazuo Ishiguro - Klara and the Sun pt. 1
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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Marshall McLuhan - The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects pt. 2
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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Marshall McLuhan - The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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John Law - Monsters, Machines, and Sociotechnical Relations
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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Denise Lu - Want to Enjoy Music More? Stop Streaming it.
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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The 50th episode- a look back.
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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John Law – Notes on the Theory of the Actor Network: Ordering, Strategy, and Heterogeneity.
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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Bruno Latour - On Actor-Network Theory: A few clarifications
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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Jacques Attali - Noise
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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Glenn Gould - The Prospects of Recording
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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Andre Bazin's New Media
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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Derrida - Signature, Event, Context
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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Adorno - Opera and the Long-Playing Record
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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Adorno - The Form of the Phonographic Record
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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Dina Litovsky - The Problem of AI Photography is Not the Medium, It's the Message
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May 26, 2023 |
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Baudrillard - The Precession of Simulacra
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May 12, 2023 |
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Andre Bazin - Ontology of the Photographic Image
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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Susan Sontag - In Plato's Cave
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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Jonathan Crary- 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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Guy Debord - The Society of the Spectacle
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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Simone Weil - Attention
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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Byung Chul Han - Boredom and Multitasking
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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Raymond Williams - Television, pt. 2
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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Raymond Williams - Television, pt. 1
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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Adorno and Horkheimer - Antisemitism and takeaways
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Jan 06, 2023 |
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Horkheimer and Adorno - The Culture Industry
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Dec 23, 2022 |
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Horkheimer and Adorno - Juliette or Enlightenment and Morality
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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Horkheimer and Adorno - Odysseus or Myth and Enlightenment
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Nov 25, 2022 |
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Horkheimer and Adorno - The Concept of Enlightenment
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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Walter Benjamin - The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducability
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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Stuart Hall - Encoding and Decoding
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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Wendy Chun - Updating to Remain the Same
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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Michael Miller- Platforms of Control: Social Media and the Limits of Theroretical Pluralism
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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Burroughs - The Limits of Control
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Sep 02, 2022 |
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Deleuze - Postcript on the Limits of Control
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Aug 19, 2022 |
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Techno-Fatalism and the Moral Alternatives (?)
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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Baudrillard - The Implosion of the Social in the Media
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Jul 22, 2022 |
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On Advertising - Barthes in the Modern Media Ecology
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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Marshall McLuhan's Culture is Our Business: A Discussion of Media Environments
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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The Top 10 Albums of All Time! Why it doesn’t matter.
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Jun 10, 2022 |
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Heidegger -- The Question Concerning Technology: History and Context
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May 27, 2022 |
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Heidegger - The Question Concerning Technology: The Digital Age
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May 27, 2022 |
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On Fake news and Ross Douthat
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May 13, 2022 |
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On Online Education
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Apr 29, 2022 |
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What have we learned about Zoom?
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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Don't Look Up
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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Jaques Ellul and Bob Lefsetz - Technique in the Age of Digital Streaming
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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E.M. Forster - The Machine Stops
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Mar 04, 2022 |
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Marshall McLuhan and Spotify
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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Raymond Williams - Culture, the Mass, the Mob, and Education
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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Response to Ted Gioia - Is Old Music Killing New Music?
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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Bernard Steigler and The Automatic Society, pt. 2
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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Bernard Steigler and the Automatic Society, pt. 1
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Jan 07, 2022 |
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Welcome to the Critical Media Studies Podcast!
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Jan 07, 2022 |