Download: Cult_Tech_015_Shaviro_Galloway.mp3 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.By Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan

Download: Cult_Tech_014_Gunning_Moving_Image.mp3 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.…

Download: Cult_Tech_013_Loeffler_Distraction.mp3 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 …

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 Disn…

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.By Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan

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,…

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 shortco…

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 …

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, te…

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 Cultur…

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

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…

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 te…

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.By Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan

Download: Cult_Tech_Ep001_Cassin.mp3 PDF: 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. ........…