#92: Kyle Chayka - How to Cultivate Taste in the Age of Algorithms/The New Generation of Online Culture Curators.

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How to Cultivate Taste in the Age of Algorithms

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In this episode Barry and Mike discuss Kyle Chayka’s essays and offer a primer on the new online “Taste Economy.”

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#92: Kyle Chayka - How to Cultivate Taste in the Age of Algorithms/The New Generation of Online Culture Curators.

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In this episode Barry and Mike discuss Kyle Chayka’s essays and offer a primer on the new online “Taste Economy.”

How to Cultivate Taste in the Age of Algorithms

The New Generation of Online Culture Curators

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#94: Jenny Odell - How to Do Nothing 41:00

11 days ago41:00

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This is the first of two episodes on Jenny Odell’s book (and talk) “How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy.” Barry and Mike discuss the broad outlines of Odell’s project and attempt to connect it to Daisy Alioto’s understanding of the Taste Economy. In/Visible Talks 2018: Jenny Odell - How To Do Nothing…

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#93: Daisy Alioto - The Taste Economy 41:54

25 days ago41:54

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In this episode Barry and Mike continue their discussion on the “Taste Economy” and the evolution of the internet from 2.0 to 3.0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUnYbLoyplo https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/11/style/dirt-newsletter-daisy-alioto.html

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#92: Kyle Chayka - How to Cultivate Taste in the Age of Algorithms/The New Generation of Online Culture Curators. 40:33

6 weeks ago40:33

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In this episode Barry and Mike discuss Kyle Chayka’s essays and offer a primer on the new online “Taste Economy.” How to Cultivate Taste in the Age of Algorithms The New Generation of Online Culture Curators

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#91: The Episode That is Not on Heidegger or His Letter on Humanism (but sort of is). 1:19:42

8 weeks ago1:19:42

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In this episode Barry and Mike talk about Heidegger and what comes after philosophy and how that helps us to think about the role of the contemporary university.

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#90: Heidegger - The Question Concerning Technology 45:02

10 weeks ago45:02

45:02

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, they look at the essay with a specific eye towards understanding what Heidegger can teach us about our current digital media culture and the essay's relevance for our interactions in the age of the internet and near total interconnection.…

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#89: Harold Innis - Minerva’s Owl 58:23

12 weeks ago58:23

58:23

This episode focuses on Harold Innis’ 1947 presidential address to the Royal Society of Canada, “Minerva’s Owl” and his appendix to the address. Barry and Mike discuss how Innis charts the relationships among power, knowledge, and technologies and their relations to the durability of imperial systems.…

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#88: Revisiting Deleuze's "Postscript on the Society of Control" 50:42

14 weeks ago50:42

50:42

In this episode Barry and Mike revisit Gilles Deleuze’s essay “Postscript on the Society of Control.” They attempt to reframe the central arguments of the essay in terms of our current digital culture.

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#87: Alan Turing - Computer Machinery and Intelligence 1:07:24

16 weeks ago1:07:24

1:07:24

In this episode Barry and Mike discuss Alan Turing’s 1950 essay, “Computer Machinery and Intelligence” and discuss whether or not Turing’s concept of machine intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

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#86: Freddie deBoer - The Indoor Plumbing Test 49:20

18 weeks ago49:20

49:20

In this episode Barry and Mike discuss “The Indoor Plumbing Test” by cultural critic Freddie deBoer and ponder the question: Is AI only hype?

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#85: Derek Thompson - The Anti-Social Century 1:01:53

20 weeks ago1:01:53

1:01:53

In this episode Barry and Mike discuss Derek Thompson’s Atlantic essay, “The Anti-Social Century.” They discuss how the evolution of media technologies over the last 50 years, culminating in the development of AI have produced our current state of technologically enhanced solitude. The Anti-Social Century I'm In Love With Chat GPT…

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#84: Wai Chee Dimock – AI and the Humanities 47:08

22 weeks ago47:08

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In this episode Barry and Mike discuss Wai Chee Dimock’s PMLA editor’s column, AI in the Humanities. After a brief summary of her argument they focus on the practicality of a humanistic approach to designing AI and its possible impacts.

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#83: Matteo Wong - The GPT Era Is Already Ending 48:55

24 weeks ago48:55

48:55

In this episode Barry and Mike discuss Matteo Wong’s Dec. 9th article in The Atlantic, “ The GPT Era Is Already Ending .” They trace the algorithmic shift from Chat GPT to 01 and discuss whether this transition gets any closer to genuine intelligence. We encourage you to listen to the previous episode on Benjamin Labatut’s “The Gods of Reason” as a primer for this one.…

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#82: Benjamin Labatut - The Gods of Logic: Before and After Artificial Intelligence 59:10

26 weeks ago59:10

59:10

In this episode Barry and Mike discuss Benjamin Labatut’s essay, “The Gods of Logic: Before and After Artificial Intelligence. In tracing his historical approach to the development of AI, Barry and Mike highlight the unpredictability of language as opposed to the certainty of mathematics. Link to article.…

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#81: Jodi Dean - Blog Theory 56:12

28 weeks ago56:12

56:12

In this episode Barry and Mike discuss Jodi Dean’s book, “Blog Theory.” They focus on her notion of “communicative capitalism,” treating the book as a time capsule of sorts. They take her arguments from 2010 and suggest their relevance to our current situation in 2024.

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#80: Bolter and Grusin, pt. 2 53:04

30 weeks ago53:04

53:04

In this episode Barry and Mike discuss chapter one of Bolter and Grusin’s book and attempt to define their foundational term, remediation.

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#79: Bolter and Grusin - Remediation pt. 1 51:30

32 weeks ago51:30

51:30

In this episode Barry and Mike discuss Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin’s introduction to their 1999 Media Studies book, Remediation. In particular, they discuss the four key concepts that Bolter and Grusin introduce: mediation, remediation, immediacy, and hypermediacy.

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#78: Kember and Zylinska pt.2 1:02:43

34 weeks ago1:02:43

1:02:43

In the follow up to their previous episode, Barry and Mike discuss how Kember and Zylinska use Steigler’s notion of an “originary technicity” to articulate a third position between the philosophy Raymond Williams and Marshall McLuhan.

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#77: Kember and Zylinska - Mediation and the Vitality of Media pt. 1 56:12

36 weeks ago56:12

56:12

This is the first of two episodes on Kember and Zylinska’s essay “Mediation and the Vitality of Media” from their book, Life after New Media: Mediation as a Vital Process (2012). Barry and Mike discuss the problems with and reasons for the binary divisions in media theory, particularly the way in which the field understands the relations between “old” and “new” media. Kember and Zylinska note that the contradictions in the field stem from unresolved tensions in the McLuhan/Williams debate. We discuss their attempts to overcome the binary.…

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#76: Bruno Latour - "On Actor-Network Theory: A few clarifications" 1:09:28

38 weeks ago1:09:28

1:09:28

Barry and Mike discuss Bruno Latour’s essay, “On Actor-Network Theory: A few clarifications.” They work through his key terms in an attempt to better understand the new meanings he ascribes to actors and networks and what this theory allows us to do with media theory.

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#75: Distant Early Warning: a reflection on media environments and art after McLuhan 55:38

40 weeks ago55:38

55:38

In this episode Barry and Mike continue their discussion of William Burroughs’ cut-up method. They introduce Alex Kitnick’s arguments about the Media is the Massage from his book Distant Early Warning: Marshall McLuhan and the Transformation of the Avant-Garde in order to illuminate Burroughs’ practice.…

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#74: Burroughs - The Cut-Up 53:32

42 weeks ago53:32

53:32

In this episode Barry and Mike discuss William Burroughs’ 1963 manifesto “The Cut-Up Method.” We worry over some contradictions and tensions in his “new” method of writing.

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#73: Evgeny Morozov - Can AI Break Out of Panglossian Neoliberalism? 58:57

44 weeks ago58:57

58:57

#73 In this episode Barry and Mike discuss “Panglossian Neoliberalism,” a term that Evgeny Morozov uses to describe the place of generative AI in the hands of venture capitalists. Can AI Break out of Panglossian Neoliberalism? The True Threat of Artificial Intelligence a sense oF rebellion podcast

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#72: Simone Weil -- Attention 51:59

46 weeks ago51:59

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This is a look back at our 3/3/23 episode on Simone Weil.

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#71: Bernard Steigler - What Makes Life Worth Living, pt. 2 55:00

48 weeks ago55:00

55:00

In this episode Barry and Mike return to Bernard Steigler’s What Makes Life Worth Living: On Pharmakology . They tease out Steigler’s terms proletarianism and disintoxification, as well as our possible roles in resisting the poison and fostering the growth of the cure in the pharmakon.

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#70: Bernard Steigler - What Makes Life Worth Living 47:35

50 weeks ago47:35

47:35

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 discuss the significance of care in pharmakology.

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#69: On Life’s Terrifying Vacuity: Chayka, Han, and Benjamin. 57:27

52 weeks ago57:27

57:27

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 information, they land on the problem posed by the contemporary digital campfire.

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#68: Benjamin - The Storyteller 49:30

1 year ago49:30

49:30

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.”

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#67: Kyle Chayka - "The Internet's New Favorite Philosopher - Byung-Chul Han 38:49

1 year ago38:49

38:49

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 the link above and read the Chayka article before listening to the episode.

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#66 Sonny Bunch - The Future of Media is Passive 49:11

1 year ago49:11

49:11

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 about our distracted worlds.

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#65: Andrew Milne - Tourists In Our Own Reality: Susan Sontag's Photography at 50 1:09:44

1 year ago1:09:44

1:09:44

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 over what it means to have an authentic relationship to photographs, or to be authentic ourselves.

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#64: Jonathan Crary - Scorched Earth, pt. 2 42:52

1 year ago42:52

42:52

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.

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#63: Jonathan Crary - Scorched Earth 1:08:51

1 year ago1:08:51

1:08:51

Barry and Mike discuss Jonathan Crary’s critique of the “internet complex” and what it means.

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#62: Siegfried Kracauer - Cult of Distraction: On Berlin's Picture Palaces 47:22

1 year ago47:22

47:22

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 landscape. We pay special attention to Kracauer's unique notion of distraction, which contra Stiegler, Kracauer views as a stimulus to thought.…

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#61: Yanis Varoufakis - Technofeudalism 45:01

1 year ago45:01

45:01

Barry and Mike discuss Yanis Varoufakis' book, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, and the challenge it presents to Marxist theories about global capital.

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Evgeny Morozov - Only Disconnect 38:41

1 year ago38:41

38:41

In this episode Barry and Mike relate Evgeny Morozov’s 2013 New Yorker essay , “Only Disconnect” to their previous discussion of A. Romero’s meditation on boredom and distraction and the internet.

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Alberto Romero - The Most Important Skill in the 21st Century 45:42

1 year ago45:42

45:42

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 to be bored today in the way that Romero seems to require.

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Philip K. Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep 1:10:11

1 year ago1:10:11

1:10:11

In this episode Barry and Mike return to the earlier discussion of Sherry Turkle’s “Alone Together” and question her conclusion regarding the human/robotic distinction in light of PKD’s “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”

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Sherry Turkle - Alone Together 1:01:26

1 year ago1:01:26

1:01:26

In this episode Barry and Mike discuss Sherry Turkle’s “Alone Together” and her thesis, that though technology opens new possibilities for communication it simultaneously alienates us from each other, leaving us wanting for emotional connections. We wonder whether Turkle is right and whether authentic relationships are possible.…

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Kazuo Ishiguro - Klara and the Sun pt. 2 54:53

1 year ago54:53

54:53

In this episode Barry and Mike resume their discussion of Kazuo Ishiguro’s “Klara and the Sun.” They discuss how differences in class and education determine how the various characters relation to Kara as an embodiment of technology.

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Kazuo Ishiguro - Klara and the Sun pt. 1 59:04

2 years ago59:04

59:04

Change is good! Barry and Mike shift the focus of their discussions on technology to look more closely at what it means to be human in a technologically dominated world. This episode looks at Kazuo Ishiguro's novel, "Klara and the Sun" and investigates his questions about the spaces between humanity and technology.…

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Marshall McLuhan - The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects pt. 2 1:03:51

2 years ago1:03:51

1:03:51

In this episode Barry and Mike wrap up their discussion of Marshall McLuhan’s “The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects,” focusing on the question of education and media.

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Marshall McLuhan - The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects 1:19:26

2 years ago1:19:26

1:19:26

In this episode Barry and Mike discuss Marshal McLuhan’s seminal text, The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects. They discuss the form of the book and some of the key opening arguments.

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John Law - Monsters, Machines, and Sociotechnical Relations 1:05:37

2 years ago1:05:37

1:05:37

In this episode Barry and Mike discuss the three central issues raised by John Law in the introduction to his 1991 anthology, “Sociology of Monsters”: the problem of epistemology; the problem of the social; the problem of distribution. Law argues that the coming together of Sociology and STS (science, technology, society) offers an opportunity to address these issues in meaningful and ethical ways.…

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Denise Lu - Want to Enjoy Music More? Stop Streaming it. 1:01:55

2 years ago1:01:55

1:01:55

In this episode Barry and Mike discuss Denise Lu’s recent New York Times editorial, “Want to Enjoy Music More? Stop Streaming It . Build a real music collection. Reintroduce intimacy to the songs you care about.” They attempt to re-frame the article in CMS friendly terms and end up with an extended investigation of the nature of intimacy and the archive.…

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The 50th episode- a look back. 41:33

2 years ago41:33