Category: A Tale of Today

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.

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, […]

The second part of our meditation on journalism in Gilded Ages, then to now.

The finale of Act II of “A Tale of Today.”

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 […]

Fighting for what information gets archived, preserved, digitized, and historicized.

An episode inspired by “The Teaching Archive.”

The finance of Higher Ed in the New Gilded Age.