Cultural Technologies

Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan
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Cultural Technologies features conversations with scholars, artists and scientists on current topics in media, art, science and technology. It is hosted by Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan, a researcher in media and cultural studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin. For more information visit www.bernardg.com.

  1. 11/26/2014

    Speculative Futures: Steven Shaviro and Alexander Galloway

    Download: Cult_Tech_015_Shaviro_Galloway.mp3 It's a speculative accelerated realist bootleg throwdown! This episode features Steven Shaviro and Alexander Galloway discussing their recently published books The Universe of Things: On Speculative Realism and Laruelle: Against the Digital.

  2. 11/22/2014

    Tom Gunning on the Moving Image

    Download: Cult_Tech_014_Gunning_Moving_Image.mp3 This episode features a bootleg recording of film historian Thomas Gunning delivering the lecture "Inventing the Moving Image (and then Forgetting It)" in June 2010 at the workshop On the Periphery of Cinema: Practices, Materials, Objects organized by Katja Müller-Helle and Alena J.

  3. 10/21/2014

    Petra Loeffler on Distraction

    Download: Cult_Tech_013_Loeffler_Distraction.mp3 Cigarettes, cycling, gawking, gandering, and imbibing. These are a few of the forms of distraction or "distributed attention" that Petra Loeffler--a film and media scholar currently teaching media philosophy at Bauahus University -- discusses with us in this episode. Drawing examples from her recent book Distributed Attention: A Media History of Distraction, Dr.

  4. 12/11/2013

    What is Postcinema? Interview with Steven Shaviro (Episode 12)

    Download: Cult_Tech_012_Shaviro_What_is_Postcinema.mp3 Film and media theorist Steven Shaviro discusses postcinema, the meaning of the affective turn in the humanities, non-continuity in contemporary film cultures, digital technologies, neoliberalism, the place of politics in the academy, Harmony Korine's SPRING BREAKERS, and the aesthetics of Disney Stars gone bad. This discussion elaborates on Dr. Shaviro's lecture available as episode 11 of the CULTURAL TECHNOLOGIES podcast. ....................

  5. 12/11/2013

    Steven Shaviro on SPRING BREAKERS by Harmony Korine (Episode 11)

    Download: Cult_Tech_011_Shaviro_Spring_Breakers.mp3 This episode features film theorist Steven Shaviro's lecture "'Every time I try to Fly': Hamony Korine's Spring Breakers," held on Nov 22, 2013 at the Post-Cinematic Perspectives conference (organized by Dr. Lisa Åkervall and Dr.

  6. 07/29/2013

    DJ Ripley (aka Dr. Larisa Mann) on the Jamaican street dance (Episode 10)

    Download: Cult_Tech_010_Ripley_Street_Music.mp3 In this podcast DJ Ripley (aka Dr. Larisa Mann) draws on her experience as a DJ, ethnographer, and student of public policy to examine how the history and present-day cultures of Jamaican street dance challenge familiar conceptions of artistic control and cultural appropriation. Tracing out political, economic, and technological itineraries that traverse US-American and Jamaican music cultures, DJ Ripley offers a genealogy of distinct (and intertwined) remix cultures as they develop at the margins of liberal jurisprudence and outside corporate control.

  7. 11/22/2012

    Juergen Habermas on the concept of "the Political" (Episode 9)

    Download: Habermas on the Political www.cultural-technologies.com_.mp3 Another Cultural Technologies Bootleg: This episode features German philosopher and social theorist Juergen Habermas's 2010 lecture on "'The Political': The Rational Meaning of a Questionable Inheritance of Political Theology" held at NYU. Habermas unpacks the merits and shortcomings of Carl Schmitt's concept of the political and flaws in Schmitt's account of the relation between European secularization and the rise of political liberalism.

  8. 06/04/2012

    Carl Schmitt and Technology: An Interview with John McCormick (Episode 8)

    Download: CultTech_Ep008_McCormick_Schmitt_Tech.mp3 John P. McCormick, author of Carl Schmitt's Critique of Liberalism: Against Politics as Technology, discusses renowned political theorist and fascist Carl Schmitt's troubling critique of liberal politics. We also discuss technology, Martin Heidegger, the Weimar Republic, Catholicism, Marxism, and why climate change can't be solved by a czar.

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Cultural Technologies features conversations with scholars, artists and scientists on current topics in media, art, science and technology. It is hosted by Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan, a researcher in media and cultural studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin. For more information visit www.bernardg.com.

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  • Creator
    Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan
  • Years Active
    2011 - 2014
  • Episodes
    15
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Culutral Technologies: Conversations on Media, Art and Science by Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
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