This is the first of two episodes on Jenny Odell’s book (and talk) “How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy.” Barry and Mike discuss the broad outlines of Odell’s project and attempt to connect it to Daisy Alioto’s understanding of the Taste Economy.

In/Visible Talks 2018: Jenny Odell - How To Do Nothing

In this episode Barry and Mike continue their discussion on

the “Taste Economy” and the evolution of the internet from 2.0 to 3.0.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUnYbLoyplo

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/11/style/dirt-newsletter-daisy-alioto.html

In this episode Barry and Mike discuss Kyle Chayka’s essays and offer a primer on the new online “Taste Economy.”

How to Cultivate Taste in the Age of Algorithms

The New Generation of Online Culture Curators

In this episode Barry and Mike talk about Heidegger and what comes after philosophy and how that helps us to think about the role of the contemporary university.

In this episode Barry and Mike take a different approach to Heidegger's The Question Concerning Technology. Rather than a traditional "what does all this mean" approach grounded in historical context, they look at the essay with a specific eye towards understanding what Heidegger can teach us about our current digital media culture and the essay's relevance for our interactions in the age of the internet and near total interconnection.

This episode focuses on Harold Innis’ 1947 presidential

address to the Royal Society of Canada, “Minerva’s Owl” and his appendix to the

address. Barry and Mike discuss how Innis charts the relationships among power,

knowledge, and technologies and their relations to the durability of imperial

systems.

In this episode Barry and Mike revisit Gilles Deleuze’s essay “Postscript on the Society of Control.” They attempt to reframe the central arguments of the essay in terms of our current digital culture.

In this episode Barry and Mike discuss Alan Turing’s 1950 essay, “Computer Machinery and Intelligence” and discuss whether or not Turing’s concept of machine intelligence is a contradiction in terms.