Critical Media Studies
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S3E121 #121: A repost of episode #99: On Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Artificial Intimacy
In this episode Barry and Mike discuss the idea of “frictionless” relationships in the age of artificial intimacy. ErikaHayasaki – “What Would a Real Friendship With A.I. Look Like? Maybe Like…
S3E120 #120: Mark Fisher - Exiting the Vampire's Castle, pt. 2
In this episode Barry and Mike resume their discussion of Mark Fishers’s 2013 blog post, “Exiting the Vampire’s Castle”. They discuss the five laws that govern the castle and wonder if it is possible…
S3E119 #119: Mark Fisher - Exiting the Vampire Castle
In this episode Barry and Mike discuss writer/music critic/cultural theorist Mark Fisher’s 2013 blog post, “Exiting the Vampire Castle”. They look at the essay, 13 years after its posting, and…
S3E118 #118: Althusser - Idelology and Ideological State Apparatuses
In this episode Barry and Mike conclude their discussion of Althusser’s seminal essay, “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses”. They focus on Althusser’s concept of interpellation and discuss…
S3E117 #117: Althusser - Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses, pt. 1
This is the first of a two part discussion. In this episode Barry and Mike discuss Louis Althusser’s Essay “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses” in relation to Simone Weil. Here, they…
S3E116 #116: Weil - On The Abolition of all Political Parties, pt, 2
In this episode Barry and Mike continue their discussion on Simone Weil’s essay, “On The Abolition of all Political Parties.” They discuss the opposition between the truth seeking individual and the…
S3E115 #115: Simone Weil - On The Abolition of All Political Parties
This is the first of two episodes on Simone Weil’s 1943 essay, “On the Abolition of all Political Parties. In this episode Barry and Mike discuss the distinction Weil draws between “truth” and…
S3E114 Guy Debord - The Society of the Spectacle
This is a repost of the Guy Debord episode that was originally posted on 3/15/23.In This episode of the Critical Media Studies podcast we discuss Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle. As the…
S3E113 #113: Merenda - Reading Arendt to Rethink Truth, Science, and Politics in the Era of Fake News
In this episode Barry and Mike discuss Federica Merenda’s essay, “Reading Arendt to Rethink Truth, Science, and Politics in the Era of Fake News”. They discuss Arendt’s distinction between factual…
S3E112 #112: Kracauer - Photography
In this episode Barry and Mike discuss the uncanny ways that Sigfreid Kracauer’s 1927 essay, Photography, anticipates the modern media landscape.
S3E111 #111: Siegfried Kracauer - Cult of Distraction: On Berlin's Picture Palaces
Barry and Mike discuss Siegfried Kracauer's 1926 essay "Cult of Distraction: On Berlin's Picture Palaces." Written nearly 100 years ago, the essay is strangely relevant to our current political…
S3E110 #110: Yudkowski and Soares - If Anyone Builds it, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All
In this episode Barry and Mike discuss “If Anyone Builds it, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All” by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares. They discuss the main arguments about the…
S3E109 #109: Rachel Bitecofer -The Whole World Is Getting Dumber (And The Smartphone Did It.)
In this episode Barry and Mike discuss Rachel Bitecofer’s substack article, “The Whole World is Getting Dumber (And the Smartphone Did It.)” We question whether her solution of banning smart phones…
S3E108 #108: Alberto Romero - AI Video Should Be Illegal
In this episode we discuss Alberto Romero’s Substack article on AI video. While Romero argues that perhaps we should seek legal remedies to the problems of deepfake video, Barry and Mike consider an…
S3E107 Alberto Romero - The Most Important Skill in the 21st Century
In this episode Barry and Mike discuss “The Most Important Skill in the 21st Century,” Alberto Romero’s polemical defense of boredom in the media entertainment age. They discuss whether it’s possible…
S3E106 #106: Bernard Steigler - Elements of Pharmacology, pt. 2
This is part two of our discussion of Bernard Steigler's "Elements of Pharmacology". This time, Barry and Michael focus on Stiegler's discussion of the unique challenges posed by new digital…
S3E105 #105: Bernard Steigler - Elements of Pharmacology
This week on Critical Media Studies, Barry and Michael discuss Bernard Stiegler's "Elements of Pharmacology," a transcription of an interview with the French philosopher from June 2020, just two…
S3E104 #104: Juan Fontcuberta and the “paper-hankie picture”
In this episode Barry and Mike discuss “The Eye of God”, chapter 2 of Juan Fontcuberta’s book, Pandora’s Camera. They reflect upon the impacts that the shift from analogue to digital photography and…
S3E103 #103: Fontcuberta - Pandora's Camera
In this episode Barry and Mike discuss Juan Fontcuberta’s “Pandora’s Camera” (2014). They discuss his take on Barthes and Kracauer’s theories about the relations between photography, philosophy,…
S3E102 Andre Bazin - Ontology of the Photographic Image
In the “Ontology of the Photographic Image,” Andre Bazin makes the provocative claim that the invention of photography is "clearly the most important event in the history of the plastic arts." At the…
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Critical Media Studies has published 120 episodes since January 2022, covering topics in Education, Philosophy.
Critical Media Studies is currently highly active with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 52m.
