web01.fireside.fm Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:15:48 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Outsider Theory - Episodes Tagged with “Neil Postman” https://outsidertheory.fireside.fm/tags/neil%20postman Wed, 21 Apr 2021 16:00:00 -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 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/

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

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