#70: Bernard Steigler - What Makes Life Worth Living
In this episode Barry and Mike discuss Bernard Steigler’s 2010 book, What Makes Life Worth Living: On Pharmacology. They reconsider their understanding of the pharmakon from Steigler’s other work and...
28 Jun 202447min
#69: On Life’s Terrifying Vacuity: Chayka, Han, and Benjamin.
In this episode, Barry and Mike finish their discussion of Chayka on Han and Benjamin’s essay, “The Storyteller.” In teasing out Han and Benjamin’s ideas about the distinction between narration and i...
14 Jun 202457min
#68: Benjamin - The Storyteller
In this episode, Barry and Mike focus exclusively on the distinction between the storyteller and the novelist as explained in Walter Benjamin’s 1936 essay, “The Storyteller.”
31 Mai 202449min
#67: Kyle Chayka - "The Internet's New Favorite Philosopher - Byung-Chul Han
In this episode Barry and Mike discuss Kyle Chayka’s assessment of the “Internet’s New Favorite Philosopher,” Byung-Chul Han. For those unfamiliar with Han's media theory, we encourage you to click t...
17 Mai 202438min
#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 abo...
10 Mai 202449min
#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 ...
26 Apr 20241h 9min
#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.
12 Apr 202442min
#63: Jonathan Crary - Scorched Earth
Barry and Mike discuss Jonathan Crary’s critique of the “internet complex” and what it means.
29 Mar 20241h 8min
