Wendy Chun - Updating to Remain the Same
Barry and Mike discuss Wendy Chun's book, "Updating to Remain the Same" and discuss the political and social implications of her arguments. They begin by deconstructing the terms of her argument that...
30 Sep 20221h
Michael Miller- Platforms of Control: Social Media and the Limits of Theroretical Pluralism
Barry and Mike discuss the main ideas in Michael Miller's article. They specifically hone in on three of his main arguments:1. That as it is often utilized on social media, (T)heory functions more a...
16 Sep 202252min
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 Jul 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 Jul 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 Jun 202235min
