SpotifyApple PodcastsThe finale episode of our miniseries on corporate allegory was recorded hot on the heels of the publication of Anna Kornbluh’s Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late Capitalism (Verso, 2024). With numerous allusions to the book, Matt Seybold asks...
Category: Corporate Allegory Binge
iLiberalism, The Morning Show, & The Sheeny Blandness of Apple TV+ with Anna Shechtman & Michael Szalay
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on January 22, 2024SpotifyApple PodcastsOur series on corporate allegory continues with an extended discussion of Apple TV+, both its film and television offerings, as well as the relationship between such “content”...
Close Reading, Conglomerate Authorship, & Qween Danielle Steel with Dan Sinykin & Johanna Winant
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on January 1, 2024Apple PodcastsSpotifyIn an episode which operates as both coda to “Criticism LTD” and herald of 2024, Matt Seybold is joined by two scholars working on the complex history and sometimes conflicting...
Netflix Necrocapitalism & The House of Usher with Jane Hu & Phillip Maciak
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on December 22, 2023Apple PodcastsSpotifyA new season on corporate allegory, business melodrama, and new releases from academic presses kicks off with a discussion of the recent Mike Flanagan adaptation of Edgar...