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Ponzi Austerity in The Age of Cultural Abundance
Ponzi Austerity in The Age of Cultural Abundance
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Length:
85 minutes
Released:
Aug 21, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
How has the systemic defunding and deprofessionalizing of humanities academia impacted literary criticism? Why is there such a flourishing culture industry if demand for cultural education is supposedly declining? We look to megatrends like U.S. hegemony, organizations like the MLA (6:30), analogues like the Eurozone Debt Crisis (19:30), mechanisms of funding and distribution (28:00), and potential futures of disruption and declinism (1:01.30).
Cast (in order of appearance): Jed Esty, Matt Seybold, Anna Kornbluh, Christopher Newfield, Yanis Varoufakis
Soundtrack: Joe Locke's "Makram"
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Cast (in order of appearance): Jed Esty, Matt Seybold, Anna Kornbluh, Christopher Newfield, Yanis Varoufakis
Soundtrack: Joe Locke's "Makram"
For episode bibliography, please visit MarkTwainStudies.com/PonziAusterity, or subscribe to our newsletter at TheAmericanVandal.SubStack.com, where you will also receive episode transcripts.
Released:
Aug 21, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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