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Cultural Technologies

Cultural Technologies

Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan

Cultural Technologies features conversations with scholars, artists and scientists on current topics in media, art, science and technology. It is hosted by Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan, a researcher in media and cultural studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin. For more information visit www.bernardg.com.
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Cultural Technologies - Barbara Cassin on Google (Episode 1)
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11/02/11 • -1 min

Download: Cult_Tech_Ep001_Cassin.mp3PDF: Download: CassinDeutscherInterview_Website.pdf

Introduction 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.

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Cultural Technologies - Speculative Futures: Steven Shaviro and Alexander Galloway
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11/26/14 • -1 min

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It's a speculative accelerated realist bootleg throwdown! This episode features Steven Shaviro and Alexander Galloway discussing their recently published books The Universe of Things: On Speculative Realism and Laruelle: Against the Digital.

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Cultural Technologies - Tom Gunning on the Moving Image

Tom Gunning on the Moving Image

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11/22/14 • -1 min

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This episode features a bootleg recording of film historian Thomas Gunning delivering the lecture "Inventing the Moving Image (and then Forgetting It)" in June 2010 at the workshop On the Periphery of Cinema: Practices, Materials, Objects organized by Katja Müller-Helle and Alena J.

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Cultural Technologies - Petra Loeffler on Distraction

Petra Loeffler on Distraction

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10/21/14 • -1 min

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Cigarettes, cycling, gawking, gandering, and imbibing. These are a few of the forms of distraction or "distributed attention" that Petra Loeffler--a film and media scholar currently teaching media philosophy at Bauahus University -- discusses with us in this episode. Drawing examples from her recent book Distributed Attention: A Media History of Distraction, Dr.

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Download: Cult_Tech_012_Shaviro_What_is_Postcinema.mp3

Film and media theorist Steven Shaviro discusses postcinema, the meaning of the affective turn in the humanities, non-continuity in contemporary film cultures, digital technologies, neoliberalism, the place of politics in the academy, Harmony Korine's SPRING BREAKERS, and the aesthetics of Disney Stars gone bad. This discussion elaborates on Dr. Shaviro's lecture available as episode 11 of the CULTURAL TECHNOLOGIES podcast.

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Download: Cult_Tech_011_Shaviro_Spring_Breakers.mp3

This episode features film theorist Steven Shaviro's lecture "'Every time I try to Fly': Hamony Korine's Spring Breakers," held on Nov 22, 2013 at the Post-Cinematic Perspectives conference (organized by Dr. Lisa Åkervall and Dr.

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Download: Cult_Tech_010_Ripley_Street_Music.mp3

In this podcast DJ Ripley (aka Dr. Larisa Mann) draws on her experience as a DJ, ethnographer, and student of public policy to examine how the history and present-day cultures of Jamaican street dance challenge familiar conceptions of artistic control and cultural appropriation. Tracing out political, economic, and technological itineraries that traverse US-American and Jamaican music cultures, DJ Ripley offers a genealogy of distinct (and intertwined) remix cultures as they develop at the margins of liberal jurisprudence and outside corporate control.

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Download: Habermas on the Political www.cultural-technologies.com_.mp3

Another Cultural Technologies Bootleg: This episode features German philosopher and social theorist Juergen Habermas's 2010 lecture on "'The Political': The Rational Meaning of a Questionable Inheritance of Political Theology" held at NYU. Habermas unpacks the merits and shortcomings of Carl Schmitt's concept of the political and flaws in Schmitt's account of the relation between European secularization and the rise of political liberalism.

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Download: CultTech_Ep008_McCormick_Schmitt_Tech.mp3

John P. McCormick, author of Carl Schmitt's Critique of Liberalism: Against Politics as Technology, discusses renowned political theorist and fascist Carl Schmitt's troubling critique of liberal politics. We also discuss technology, Martin Heidegger, the Weimar Republic, Catholicism, Marxism, and why climate change can't be solved by a czar.

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Download: Cult_Tech_Ep007_Stiegler_Hansen_Mitchell_on_Kittler.mp3

Another Cultural Technologies Bootleg: This episode features a chat among French philosopher Bernard Stiegler, media theorist Mark B. N. Hansen, and literary critic W. J. T. Mitchell on the work of German media theorist Friedrich Kittler, following which Stiegler muses about time, technology, love, and death in the age of electronic media. And Hansen chimes in about Amazon algorithms stalking his desires. (Original recording took place in Mark Hansen's and W. J. T. Mitchell's 2004 media theory course at the University of Chicago.)

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How many episodes does Cultural Technologies have?

Cultural Technologies currently has 15 episodes available.

What topics does Cultural Technologies cover?

The podcast is about Culture, New, Humanities, Society & Culture, Media, Cultural, Art, Podcasts, Technology, Digital, Science, Philosophy and Visual.

What is the most popular episode on Cultural Technologies?

The episode title 'Speculative Futures: Steven Shaviro and Alexander Galloway' is the most popular.

How often are episodes of Cultural Technologies released?

Episodes of Cultural Technologies are typically released every 36 days, 23 hours.

When was the first episode of Cultural Technologies?

The first episode of Cultural Technologies was released on Nov 2, 2011.

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