Jaques Ellul and Bob Lefsetz - Technique in the Age of Digital Streaming
Barry and Mike discuss a recent blog post by the music industry critic Bob Lefsetz regarding the failures of streaming platforms to release content en masse, forcing us to consume in bite size chunks ...
18 Maalis 202235min
E.M. Forster - The Machine Stops
Barry and Mike discuss the E.M. Forester short story "The Machine Stops" and marvel at how timely it is, over 100 years after it was written. Using the story as a contextual springboard, they discuss...
4 Maalis 202237min
Marshall McLuhan and Spotify
What does Marshall Mcluhan's mean by the medium is the message? What does that look like when we hold it up to something like Spotify, and what does that mean in terms of how we consume and then proc...
18 Helmi 202245min
Raymond Williams - Culture, the Mass, the Mob, and Education
Barry and Mike discuss sections of Raymond Williams' Culture and Society with an emphasis on how his concept of culture works in our time. We talk about what makes a mass a mob, the role of technolog...
4 Helmi 20221h 5min
Response to Ted Gioia - Is Old Music Killing New Music?
This episode comes on what is usually a week off because, well, we got pretty fired up about Gioia's article!Barry and Mike agree (and disagree) about what's happening with the music industry right no...
28 Tammi 202236min
Bernard Steigler and The Automatic Society, pt. 2
Barry and Mike continue with their conversation of Bernard Steigler's Automatic Society in the second of a two part discussion.
21 Tammi 20221h 2min
Bernard Steigler and the Automatic Society, pt. 1
Barry and Mike begin a two part discussion on Bernard Steigler and his book, The Automatic Society.
7 Tammi 202250min
Welcome to the Critical Media Studies Podcast!
Barry and Mike introduce themselves and the show. We talk about who we are, where and how we come to Critical Media Studies, and what the show is about.
7 Tammi 202212min
