John T. Lewis & Mark Twain: A Friendship
“This wearer aggrandizes the watch, not the watch the wearer”
Tag: Mark Twain
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?
Ponzi Austerity In The Age of Cultural Abundance (Criticism LTD, Episode #3)
How has the systemic defunding and deprofessionalizing of humanities academia impacted literary criticism? Why is there such a flourishing culture industry if demand for cultural education is supposedly declining?
Hungover From The Bad Old Days of High Theory (Criticism LTD, Episode #2)
What is criticism? Why should it matter? Can it be saved from the gun-toting businessman? A crossover episode with the High Theory podcast.
The Golden Age of The Working Critic (Criticism LTD, Episode #1)
The premiere of a new series, “Criticism LTD,” on the contemporary state of criticism.
The 2023 Summer Teachers Seminar: “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg”
Join us for the 2023 Summer Teachers Seminar!
Working Conditions with Christopher Newfield & Anna Kornbluh (50th Episode #MLA2023 Special)
On the eve of the largest annual gathering of literary studies scholars, a discussion of the presidential theme of this year’s convention with the MLA President who chose that theme.
The Twitter Elegies (& Mastodon Scolds) with Rebecca Colesworthy & Jeff Jarvis
In the finale episode of “Social Problems,” a (slightly more) optimistic look at the present and future of social media.
Reckless Monetization, Surveillance Kleptocracy, & Olivia Snow’s Villain Origin Story
As the Elon Musk era at Twitter descends ever further into chaos, we discuss the canaries in the coal mine of surveillance, shadowbanning, algorithmic censorship, and deplatforming: sex workers.
The Plausible End of Social Media, Downscaling, & The Latent Celebrity Mindset with Ian Bogost
New episode of The American Vandal Podcast inspired by Ian Bogost’s editorial in The Atlantic on “The Age of Social Media is Ending.”