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An ever-growing collection of conversations about literature, humor, and history in America, produced by the premier source for programming and funding scholarship on Mark Twain's life and legacy.
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Critical AI & The End of Mass Media with Lauren M.E. Goodlad & Jeff Jarvis (Vandal Live @ Elmira College) (opens the original)
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From the 10th International Conference on the State of Mark Twain Studies, hosted by the Center For Mark Twain Studies, comes a conversation about how scholars nineteenth-century culture and media technology analyze the contemporary AI boom and broader changes to the media ecosystem of the 21st century. Cast (in order of appearance): Matt Seybold, Lauren Goodlad, Jeff Jarvis, Gregg Camfield, Jess Goldberg Date Recorded: July 30, 2026 Music: Danny Weiss Quartet, Moby
AI, FOIA, & The Public Good (Vandal Live from Labor@Wayne) (opens the original)
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Our second episode from the "Public Bugets, Public Good" workshop, hosted by Wayne State University and co-sponsored by Labor@Wayne, AAUP , HELU , and Public Good U features Christopher Newfields "AI & The Public Good," followed by a lengthy Q&A [21:00], then the Bluestone Labor Workshop helps us make the most of FOIA requests [45:00]. Cast (in order of appearance): Elizabeth Faue, Jamie McQuaid, Christopher Newfield, Bruce Simon, Brian Deyo, Matt Seybold, Sean O'Brien, Sofya Aptekar, Yasme
A Moral Document (Vandal Live at Wayne State) (opens the original)
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The first of two episodes recorded at the "Public Budgets, Public Good" workshop hosted by Labor@Wayne , and co-sponsored by AAUP , HELU , and Public Good U . This episode features presentations on the Lend & Rule approach to campus debt, the bourgeois coldness of budget models, the Locus of Authority playbook for university presidents, and a pro-friction approach to EdTech. Cast (in order of appearance): Sofya Aptekar, Matt Seybold, Brian Deyo, Kelly Grotke, Stephen Hastings-King, Justin Flores
Vectoralism, Vulgar Marxism, & General Intellects with McKenzie Wark (Vandal Live at e-flux Brooklyn) (opens the original)
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On a hot Summer night in Brooklyn, Matt Seybold is joined by McKenzie Wark to launch the "Intellectuals" issue of e-flux Journal . They discuss the legacy of the public intellectual (and other mythic species), the belated reception of the vectoralist hypothesis, education and other other spaces, the practice and pleasures of being vulgar. Followed by an energetic Q&A. Cast (in order of appearance): Brian Kuan Wood, Matt Seybold, McKenzie Wark Date Recorded: June 11, 2026 Music: Danny Weiss Quart
Reading Machines (Vandal Live at Berkeley) (opens the original)
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The final episode recorded at the Modes of Reading Today Symposium , hosted by the Townsend Center For The Humanities focuses on media, mediation, and machine-generated texts. It opens with Nicholas Baer and Pardis Debashi's "Unattainable Texts," followed by David Bates's "Reading and Writing" [20:00], Nina Beguš's "Novel Audiences in 'Finnegan's Wake'" [37:30], Hannes Bajohr's "Surface Reading LLMs" [57:00], Matt Seybold's "The Technofeudal Reader" [81:00], and a brief Q&A [100:00]. Cast (i
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