This episode focuses on Harold Innis’ 1947 presidentialaddress to the Royal Society of Canada, “Minerva’s Owl” and his appendix to theaddress. Barry and Mike discuss how Innis charts the relationships among power,knowledge, and technologies and their relations to the durability of imperialsystems.

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.

In this episode Barry and Mike discuss “The Indoor Plumbing Test” by cultural critic Freddie deBoer and ponder the question:  Is AI only hype?

In this episode Barry and Mike discuss Derek Thompson’s Atlantic essay, “The Anti-Social Century.”  They discuss how the evolution of media technologies over the last 50 years, culminating in the development of AI  have produced our current state of technologically enhanced solitude. The Anti-Social Century I’m In Love With Chat GPT