Unlocked | The Redescribers w/ political scientist Kevin Munger (NM57)

05/24/23 • 57 min

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First released: 29 Jan 2023 | To join New Models, you can find us via https://patreon.com/newmodels & https://newmodels.substack.com Situated amid political communication theory, social media information economics, and the vanguard of social science methodology, Kevin Munger (Assistant Professor of Political Science and Social Data Analytics at Penn State University) visits NM to share his post-2010s framework for understanding the future of networked culture. Kevin is the author of Generation Gap: Why the Baby Boomers Still Dominate American Politics and Culture (Columbia U. Press, 2022). And on this new ep, he discusses media technology’s role in the migration of big organizing concepts such as conservative, liberal, autonomy, and progress; as well as how technological change, which is inevitable, impacts the very foundations of literate/liberal culture. Bonus: Excerpt from Vilém Flusser's 1986-92 Artforum column, "Curie's Children" For more: http://www.kevinmunger.com/ “Why I am (Still) a Conservative (For Now)” (Jan 2023) https://kevinmunger.substack.com/p/why-i-am-still-a-conservative-for “Why I am (Still) a Liberal (For Now)” (Jul 2022) https://kevinmunger.substack.com/p/why-i-am-still-a-liberal-for-now NM46: Boomacracy w/ Kevin Munger (Jun 2022) https://soundcloud.com/newmodels/boomocracy-w-kevin-munger-on-generational-power-in-america-nm46

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