The Gilded Network (A Tale of Today, Episode #13)
What does the metaphor of “Gilded” mean as critical theory, political economy, and media ecology?
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The Apocryphal Twain: “Data is like garbage. You’d better know what you’re going to do with it before you collect it.”
A management theorist’s ideas reformulated and misattributed to Mark Twain.
“A First-Class Fool: Mark Twain and Humor” Exhibit Opens in NYC
Exhibit runs from January 15 to April 5, 2025
CMTS Announces the 2025 Class of Quarry Farm Fellows
Join us in honoring the 2025 Quarry Farm Fellows!
A Journey of Curiosity (A Tale of Today, Episode #12)
The finale of Act II of “A Tale of Today.”
The First Curriculum is Work Without Wages (A Tale of Today, Episode #11)
Apple Podcasts Spotify Following Jelani Favors’s description of how the second curriculum of HBCUs has been compromised since the 1980s, we look back at the origins of Howard University in the Freedman’s Bureau [10:00], discuss the labor history of literature instruction [28:00], and mark the college football playoffs by discussing the dehumanization of athletic workers with the authors of “The End of College Football” [44:30]. To receive transcripts and other […]
Fake Work, Fucking Models, & The Archive of Empire (A Tale of Today, Episode #10)
Fighting for what information gets archived, preserved, digitized, and historicized.
Half Castle ‘Gainst The Scott Walkers (A Tale of Today, Episode #9)
An episode inspired by “The Teaching Archive.”
CFP: Mark Twain Circle at 2025 ALA in Boston, MA (May 21-24, 2025)
CFP deadline is January 15, 2025.
CFP: AHSA Panel at 2025 Critical Humor Studies Association Conference in Claremont, CA (April 25-26, 2025)
CFP Deadline is January 6, 2024.