Netflix Necrocapitalism & The House of Usher with Jane Hu & Phillip Maciak
A new season kicks off with a discussion of the recent Neflix adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Fall Of The House of Usher.”
Category: The American Vandal
The Empire of Criticism (Criticism LTD, Episodes #14-16)
The tripartite finale of “Criticism LTD.”
EdTech, AI, & The Unbundling of Research & Teaching (Criticism LTD, Episode #13)
A sometimes uncanny Halloween week exploration of the EdTech griftopia.
Podcasting Criticism (Criticism LTD, Episode #12)
An appropriately rangy discussion of the podcast medium and its debts to existing print and audio forms.
Criticism In The Conglomerate Era (Criticism LTD, Episode #11)
As mass-market literature has been consolidated into a small handful of publishing conglomerates, the critical work once done by publicity and editorial departments has been offloaded.
BookTube, BookTok, Wattpad, & Audible Creation Exchange (Criticism LTD, Episode #10)
What is literary knowledge? And, for that matter, what is literature? A survey of new literary media.
Brittle Paper & The Blogossance (Criticism LTD, Episode #9)
What is the relationship between literary criticism and media studies? How has criticism adapted to the digital revolution?
Politics & The Paracademy (Criticism LTD, Episode #8)
An attempt to triangulate politicization, professionalization, and publication by examining several periods in the history of criticism.
The Chicago Fight (Criticism LTD, Episodes #6-7)
A deep dive into the Chicago Critics who inspired John Crowe Ransom’s 1937 essay, “Criticism Inc.”
The Racist Interpretation Complex (Criticism LTD, Episode #5)
What is the political economy of New Criticism? Are the racist and reactionary Cold War politics of the New Critics immanent to their trademark method: close reading?