web01.fireside.fm Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:10:47 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Outsider Theory - Episodes Tagged with “Marshall Mcluhan” https://outsidertheory.fireside.fm/tags/marshall%20mcluhan Mon, 18 Jul 2022 12:00:00 -0400 Outsider Theory is an interview-based podcast exploring the mutations of theories outside of the authorized spaces of intellectual life as well as theories of that ever-alluring figure, the outsider, and related subjects. en-us episodic Theory on the outside, theory of the outside, outside of the theory Geoff Shullenberger Outsider Theory is an interview-based podcast exploring the mutations of theories outside of the authorized spaces of intellectual life as well as theories of that ever-alluring figure, the outsider, and related subjects. no critical theory, conspiracy theory, outsider intellectuals, outsiders, the outside Geoff Shullenberger gshullenb@gmail.com RIP Reality with Jon Askonas https://outsidertheory.fireside.fm/rip-reality 850f5686-0dda-4a33-a557-048995b306ce Mon, 18 Jul 2022 12:00:00 -0400 Geoff Shullenberger full Geoff Shullenberger Jon Askonas joins me to discuss his ongoing series of essays, "Reality: A Post-Mortem." 1:35:46 no Jon Askonas joins me to discuss his ongoing series of essays in The New Atlantis, "Reality: A Post-Mortem." Read the series here: https://www.thenewatlantis.com/collections/reality-a-post-mortem reality, consensus reality, television, the internet, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, fake news, adbusters, Kalle Lasn, Marshall McLuhan, media theory Jon Askonas joins me to discuss his ongoing series of essays in The New Atlantis, "Reality: A Post-Mortem."

Read the series here:

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/collections/reality-a-post-mortem

]]> Jon Askonas joins me to discuss his ongoing series of essays in The New Atlantis, "Reality: A Post-Mortem."

Read the series here:

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/collections/reality-a-post-mortem

]]> Theorizing the Culture War with Michael Cuenco https://outsidertheory.fireside.fm/culture-war b1b27f01-a7d7-4a67-8833-5b186b3205dc Mon, 25 Apr 2022 12:00:00 -0400 Geoff Shullenberger full Geoff Shullenberger Writer and policy researcher Michael Cuenco joins me to discuss his recent American Affairs essay "'Victory is not Possible': a Theory of the Culture War," and two related essays. 1:50:56 no Writer and policy researcher Michael Cuenco joins me to discuss his recent American Affairs essay "'Victory is not Possible': a Theory of the Culture War," and two related essays on post-material politics and post-literate epistemology: https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2022/02/victory-is-not-possible-a-theory-of-the-culture-war/ https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2021/05/immigration-and-citizenship-the-canadian-model-and-the-american-dream/ https://palladiummag.com/2021/04/17/americas-new-post-literate-epistemology/ culture war, elites, postmaterialism, post-literate epistemology, George Orwell, James Burnham, Marshall McLuhan, Ronald Inglehart Writer and policy researcher Michael Cuenco joins me to discuss his recent American Affairs essay "'Victory is not Possible': a Theory of the Culture War," and two related essays on post-material politics and post-literate epistemology:

https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2022/02/victory-is-not-possible-a-theory-of-the-culture-war/

https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2021/05/immigration-and-citizenship-the-canadian-model-and-the-american-dream/

https://palladiummag.com/2021/04/17/americas-new-post-literate-epistemology/

]]> Writer and policy researcher Michael Cuenco joins me to discuss his recent American Affairs essay "'Victory is not Possible': a Theory of the Culture War," and two related essays on post-material politics and post-literate epistemology:

https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2022/02/victory-is-not-possible-a-theory-of-the-culture-war/

https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2021/05/immigration-and-citizenship-the-canadian-model-and-the-american-dream/

https://palladiummag.com/2021/04/17/americas-new-post-literate-epistemology/

]]> Technology's Non-Technological Essence with Michal Sacasas https://outsidertheory.fireside.fm/sacasas fc556940-4d05-431f-8673-5107b4125e0f Wed, 21 Apr 2021 16:00:00 -0400 Geoff Shullenberger full Geoff Shullenberger Michael Sacasas joins Outsider Theory to discuss what the tech critics of earlier generations – Ellul, McLuhan, Illich, and Postman – have to say to us today. 1:27:23 no The writer Michael Sacasas joins Outsider Theory to discuss what the tech critics pre-Internet generations – especially Jacques Ellul, Marshall McLuhan, Ivan Illich, and Neil Postman – have to say to us today as well as what contemporary tech criticism tends to miss, and how he understands his own critical and philosophical project. We also explore two of his essays from the past year, "Narrative Collapse" and "The Paradox of Control." Michael is one of my favorite contemporary writers on tech, and I hope you find this as rich and stimulating a conversation as I did. Subscribe to his substack here – you won't regret it: https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/ Jacques Ellul, Marshall McLuhan, Ivan Illich, Neil Postman, Martin Heidegger, Frankfurt School, technology, technology criticism The writer Michael Sacasas joins Outsider Theory to discuss what the tech critics pre-Internet generations – especially Jacques Ellul, Marshall McLuhan, Ivan Illich, and Neil Postman – have to say to us today as well as what contemporary tech criticism tends to miss, and how he understands his own critical and philosophical project. We also explore two of his essays from the past year, "Narrative Collapse" and "The Paradox of Control." Michael is one of my favorite contemporary writers on tech, and I hope you find this as rich and stimulating a conversation as I did.

Subscribe to his substack here – you won't regret it: https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/

]]> The writer Michael Sacasas joins Outsider Theory to discuss what the tech critics pre-Internet generations – especially Jacques Ellul, Marshall McLuhan, Ivan Illich, and Neil Postman – have to say to us today as well as what contemporary tech criticism tends to miss, and how he understands his own critical and philosophical project. We also explore two of his essays from the past year, "Narrative Collapse" and "The Paradox of Control." Michael is one of my favorite contemporary writers on tech, and I hope you find this as rich and stimulating a conversation as I did.

Subscribe to his substack here – you won't regret it: https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/

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