Heidegger - The Question Concerning Technology: The Digital Age
In this episode Barry and Mike take a different approach to Heidegger's The Question Concerning Technology. Rather than a traditional "what does all this mean" approach grounded in historical context...
27 Maj 202245min
On Fake news and Ross Douthat
Barry and Mike talk about a Ross Douthat article from the New York Times as a means of engaging with fake news.
13 Maj 202231min
On Online Education
In this episode Barry and Mike discuss online education as a pharmakon. They argue that while the upsides to this model of learning are clear, there is a problem in understanding the costs. This dis...
29 Apr 202234min
What have we learned about Zoom?
Barry and Mike return to their roots in the classroom and discuss Zoom through a pedagogical and critical media studies lens. Topics include how Zoom is a pharmakon, the importance of physicality, an...
15 Apr 202244min
Don't Look Up
Barry and Mike discuss the recent Adam McKay film Don't Look Up. They argue that the film plot and characters are a representation of Bernard Steigler's conceptions of algorithmic governmentally and ...
1 Apr 202248min
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 Mars 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 Mars 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 Feb 202245min
