Critical Media Studies

The Critical Media Studies podcast discusses the interplay of technology and culture from an academic perspective. In each episode we consider the work of a prominent thinker in the field of critical media studies and discuss the implications of their work in relation to other thinkers and in light of current social contexts.

#94: Jenny Odell - How to Do Nothing
May 30, 2025 – 41:00
#93: Daisy Alioto - The Taste Economy
May 16, 2025 – 41:54
#92: Kyle Chayka - How to Cultivate Taste in the Age of Algorithms/The New Generation of Online Culture Curators.
May 2, 2025 – 40:33
#91: The Episode That is Not on Heidegger or His Letter on Humanism (but sort of is).
Apr 18, 2025 – 01:19:42
#90: Heidegger - The Question Concerning Technology
Apr 4, 2025 – 45:02
#89: Harold Innis - Minerva’s Owl
Mar 21, 2025 – 58:23
#88: Revisiting Deleuze's "Postscript on the Society of Control"
Mar 7, 2025 – 50:42
#87: Alan Turing - Computer Machinery and Intelligence
Feb 21, 2025 – 01:07:24
#86: Freddie deBoer - The Indoor Plumbing Test
Feb 7, 2025 – 49:20
#85: Derek Thompson - The Anti-Social Century
Jan 24, 2025 – 01:01:53
#84: Wai Chee Dimock – AI and the Humanities
Jan 10, 2025 – 47:08
#83: Matteo Wong - The GPT Era Is Already Ending
Dec 27, 2024 – 48:55
#82: Benjamin Labatut - The Gods of Logic: Before and After Artificial Intelligence
Dec 13, 2024 – 59:10
#81: Jodi Dean - Blog Theory
Nov 29, 2024 – 56:12
#80: Bolter and Grusin, pt. 2
Nov 15, 2024 – 53:04
#79: Bolter and Grusin - Remediation pt. 1
Nov 1, 2024 – 51:30
#78: Kember and Zylinska pt.2
Oct 18, 2024 – 01:02:43
#77: Kember and Zylinska - Mediation and the Vitality of Media pt. 1
Oct 4, 2024 – 56:12
#76: Bruno Latour - "On Actor-Network Theory: A few clarifications"
Sep 20, 2024 – 01:09:28
#75: Distant Early Warning: a reflection on media environments and art after McLuhan
Sep 6, 2024 – 55:38
#74: Burroughs - The Cut-Up
Aug 23, 2024 – 53:32
#73: Evgeny Morozov - Can AI Break Out of Panglossian Neoliberalism?
Aug 9, 2024 – 58:57
#72: Simone Weil -- Attention
Jul 26, 2024 – 51:59
#71: Bernard Steigler - What Makes Life Worth Living, pt. 2
Jul 12, 2024 – 55:00
#70: Bernard Steigler - What Makes Life Worth Living
Jun 28, 2024 – 47:35
#69: On Life’s Terrifying Vacuity: Chayka, Han, and Benjamin.
Jun 14, 2024 – 57:27
#68: Benjamin - The Storyteller
May 31, 2024 – 49:30
#67: Kyle Chayka - "The Internet's New Favorite Philosopher - Byung-Chul Han
May 17, 2024 – 38:49
#66 Sonny Bunch - The Future of Media is Passive
May 10, 2024 – 49:11
#65: Andrew Milne - Tourists In Our Own Reality: Susan Sontag's Photography at 50
Apr 26, 2024 – 01:09:44
#64: Jonathan Crary - Scorched Earth, pt. 2
Apr 12, 2024 – 42:52
#63: Jonathan Crary - Scorched Earth
Mar 29, 2024 – 01:08:51
#62: Siegfried Kracauer - Cult of Distraction: On Berlin's Picture Palaces
Mar 15, 2024 – 47:22
#61: Yanis Varoufakis - Technofeudalism
Mar 1, 2024 – 45:01
Evgeny Morozov - Only Disconnect
Feb 16, 2024 – 38:41
Alberto Romero - The Most Important Skill in the 21st Century
Feb 2, 2024 – 45:42
Philip K. Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Jan 19, 2024 – 01:10:11
Sherry Turkle - Alone Together
Jan 5, 2024 – 01:01:26
Kazuo Ishiguro - Klara and the Sun pt. 2
Dec 22, 2023 – 54:53
Kazuo Ishiguro - Klara and the Sun pt. 1
Dec 8, 2023 – 59:04
Marshall McLuhan - The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects pt. 2
Nov 24, 2023 – 01:03:51
Marshall McLuhan - The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects
Nov 10, 2023 – 01:19:26
John Law - Monsters, Machines, and Sociotechnical Relations
Oct 27, 2023 – 01:05:37
Denise Lu - Want to Enjoy Music More? Stop Streaming it.
Oct 13, 2023 – 01:01:55
The 50th episode- a look back.
Sep 29, 2023 – 41:33
John Law – Notes on the Theory of the Actor Network: Ordering, Strategy, and Heterogeneity.
Sep 15, 2023 – 01:11:18
Bruno Latour - On Actor-Network Theory: A few clarifications
Sep 1, 2023 – 01:08:03
Jacques Attali - Noise
Aug 18, 2023 – 01:08:28
Glenn Gould - The Prospects of Recording
Aug 4, 2023 – 01:05:25
Andre Bazin's New Media
Jul 21, 2023 – 01:14:54

Recent Reviews

ScottBurton

Current and lively but frustrating

This show takes on important topics and is well worth a listen to keep pace with the state of philosophy in current media. I've been introduced to thought-provoking topics and appreciate the work done here. That said, the hosts have an unnerving inability to finish a thought before moving on or getting sidetracked.
Mere Sophistry

Absolutely fantastic

Great quality and good microphones.
_dudley_DEW-wop_shaScoobypoo

Exactly what I wanted

I love reading media studies text. Said to my wife, “I need a podcast where people talk about media studies with an academic bent” and a search later I found this. And it delivered exactly on PhD style discussion around media studies. It’s great 🤟🏽 Bonus being, it introduces me to books, new and old, to check out. Good stuff! Keep at it and please continue delivering what you’re doing
Cast no shadow

Interesting topics

Enjoying your podcast. The discussions about media, McLuhan, the digital age, and so on are insightful and thought provoking. Thank you.