Cultural Technologies

Download: Cult_Tech_Ep006_Mitchell_Iconology_Today.mp3 Literary critic and theorist of visual culture WJT Mitchell talks to us about his classic book Iconology, as well the fear of images, John Locke, digital media, ideology, the life of images, images as life, and more. For more on visual culture today,  consider checking by the "Now! Visual Culture" conference being held at NYU in late May, where WJT Mitchell, myself, and a variety of scholars and artists will be giving talks. More info here.

Download: Cult_Tech_Ep005_Meillassoux_Spec_Realism.mp3(Note: Audio quality improves after the first few minutes of the lecture!)

Download: Cult_Tech_Ep004_Harman_Object_Lesson.mp3 Philosopher Graham Harman, one of the major figures in the philosophical movement known as speculative realism, talks about object-oriented philosophy and his book The Quadruple Object. We also chat about Bruno Latour, the Egyptian revolution, Foucault, Freud, animal rights, and whether or not guns kill people.

Download: Cult_Tech_Ep003_Benson_Parikka_Animal_Media.mp3 In this episode dedicated to animals and media, historian Etienne Benson discusses the electronic surveillance of wildlife and media theorist Jussi Parikka talks about insects as technology. We also chat about animal studies, surveillance, biopolitics, Deleuze & Guattari, and why tracking technology isn't so creepy.

Download: CultTech_Ep002_Zizek_Animals_Final.mp3 Slavoj Žižek gives a lecture entitled “The Animal Doesn't Exist.” He also discusses Lacan, Derrida, Badiou and definitions of the human. This is the first in a two-part podcast on animal studies, as well as our first “bootleg” episode.

Download: Cult_Tech_Ep001_Cassin.mp3PDF: Download: CassinDeutscherInterview_Website.pdfIntroduction to the podcast and a conversation with French philosopher Barbara Cassin about Google, Aristotle, the politics of knowledge, Heidegger and more. For more on her work, see the enclosed PDF featuring Cassin interviewed by Penelope Deutscher. ...................... Download audio file here or click at the bottom of the page. RSS feed here.