Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on March 30, 2022Apple PodcastsSpotifyResonate RecordingsSpecial Artwork For This Episode Provided by Siteations Studio | Meg StuderToday the Center For Mark Twain Studies and Elmira College join many schools around...
Category: The World’s Work
Bullshit Jobs, Fuck Work, & The Legacy of David Graeber with James Livingston & Corey McCall
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on March 18, 2022Apple PodcastsSpotifyResonate RecordingsIs is possible to imagine a world without work? Or, at least, a world in which work is not romanticized, is not treated as defining element of social and...
Working For The New Yorker: Putting The Historicity Back In The French Dispatch with Nora Shaalan & Dan Sinykin
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on March 8, 2022Apple PodcastsSpotifyResonate RecordingsWes Anderson’s acclaimed new movie, The French Dispatch, draws inspiration from the Golden Age of The New Yorker magazine, a period from roughly the early 1940s...
Decommodified Labor, Selling Out, & Other Compromises of The Great Resignation with Leigh Claire La Berge & Rachel Greenwald Smith
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on February 23, 2022Apple PodcastsSpotifyResonant RecordingsHow do we explain the so-called “Great Resignation”? Or, for that matter, other mysteries of our contemporary economy, like the high prices charged for...
Bootstrapping Across Dystopia: Autofiction, Autotheory, Autoeverything with Merve Emre & Anna Kornbluh
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on February 14, 2022Apple PodcastsSpotifyResonant RecordingsMark Twain began compiling his autobiography in 1905. He described it as a “systemless system” resting on three motives. Writing, especially free-writing,...
“Are We All Porn Workers Now?”: Gigwork & Radical Flexibility with Heather Berg & Michelle Chihara
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on February 7, 2022Apple PodcastsSpotifyResonant RecordingsThis is the second episode of “The World’s Work,” a series on the “tiresome history, exasperating present, and potential futures of work,” as Matt Seybold...
A Hedge Fund With A Drone Fleet: EdWork in 2022 with Annie McClanahan & Asheesh Kapur Siddique (An American Vandal Podcast Season Premiere)
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on January 31, 2022Apple PodcastsSpotifyThe American Vandal Podcast returns today for its fourth season. Over the next two months, we will be releasing seven episodes under the title of “The World’s Work.”The World’s...