64 episodes
Critical Media Studies Michael Repici
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- Society & Culture
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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#66 Sonny Bunch - The Future of Media is Passive
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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#65: Andrew Milne - Tourists In Our Own Reality: Susan Sontag's Photography at 50
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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#64: Jonathan Crary - Scorched Earth, pt. 2
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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#63: Jonathan Crary - Scorched Earth
Barry and Mike discuss Jonathan Crary’s critique of the “internet complex” and what it means.
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#62: Siegfried Kracauer - Cult of Distraction: On Berlin's Picture Palaces
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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#61: Yanis Varoufakis - Technofeudalism
Barry and Mike discuss Yanis Varoufakis' book, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, and the challenge it presents to Marxist theories about global capital.