Burroughs - The Limits of Control
As a follow up to their previous discussion on Deleuze, Barry and Mike look at William Burroughs' 1975 essay, "the Limits of Control" and discuss how his arguments hold up, nearly 50 years later in a ...
2 Sep 202238min
Deleuze - Postcript on the Limits of Control
Barry and Mike discuss Deleuze's "Postscript on the Society of Control" to investigate all of the ways that he argues societies have been kept in line. As Deleuze argues that we currently inhabit two...
19 Aug 20221h 2min
Techno-Fatalism and the Moral Alternatives (?)
In this episode Barry and Mike discuss the idea of Techno-Fatalism as it pertains to Robert Christgau's response to the Ted Gioia article from The Atlantic where Gioia posited that the streaming of ol...
5 Aug 202249min
Baudrillard - The Implosion of the Social in the Media
In this episode Barry and Mike discuss Baudrillard's 1985 essay "The Implosion of the Social in the Media", in which he offers a very thought-provoking thesis. Baudrillard asks what if, rather than e...
22 Juli 202244min
On Advertising - Barthes in the Modern Media Ecology
In this episode Barry and Mike look at Roland Barthes' 1964 Essay "Rhetoric of the Image" and discuss his theories of advertising against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine. Spread across multiple f...
8 Juli 202240min
Marshall McLuhan's Culture is Our Business: A Discussion of Media Environments
In this episode Barry and Mike take on a follow up to Marshall McLuhan's famous 1967 book, The Medium is the Massage. Here, they dig into what exactly a media environment looks like and how this envi...
24 Juni 202235min
The Top 10 Albums of All Time! Why it doesn’t matter.
In this episode Barry and Mike take a look at the top 10 albums of all time according to Wikipedia. As with virtually all Top 10 lists, they take issue with what the numbers seem to say, noting some ...
10 Juni 202238min
Heidegger -- The Question Concerning Technology: History and Context
Barry and Mike look at Heidegger's "The Question Concerning Technology." They attempt to provide a little context on the work with the aim identifying his core position on technology and an explanati...
27 Maj 20221h 8min
