Solidarity & Speculation (A Tale of Today, Episode #17)
Finale of the Technofeudal Trilogy within the A Tale of Today series features Yanis Varoufakis, Jordan S. Carroll, James Livingston, Astra Taylor, and Leigh Claire La Berge.
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From Technostructure To Technofeudalism (A Tale Of Today, Episode #16)
Apple Podcasts Spotify An exploration of the political economy of technofeudalism begins by defining the technostructure and introducing its personification, followed by testimony from a skeptic [26:00], competing periodizations of the present [48:00], and media praxis under the rein of the cloudalists [73:00]. To receive transcripts and other updates related to The American Vandal Podcast, […]
Newspapers Worse Than Dead, But Print Is A Rent Strike (A Tale of Today, Episode #15)
The second part of our meditation on journalism in Gilded Ages, then to now.
The Facebook Files & The Gutenberg Parenthesis (A Tale of Today, Episode #14)
The first of a two-part meditation on investigative journalism in Gilded Ages, then to now.
The Gilded Network (A Tale of Today, Episode #13)
What does the metaphor of “Gilded” mean as critical theory, political economy, and media ecology?
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 […]