web01.fireside.fm Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:50:57 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Outsider Theory - Episodes Tagged with “Technology” https://outsidertheory.fireside.fm/tags/technology Fri, 03 Feb 2023 12:00:00 -0500 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 The Automation of Midwittery with Brian Chau https://outsidertheory.fireside.fm/automation-of-midwittery 49ef145b-8849-45f9-8d51-aa4b9bf93697 Fri, 03 Feb 2023 12:00:00 -0500 Geoff Shullenberger full Geoff Shullenberger Brian Chau returns to Outsider Theory to discuss ChatGPT's woke catechism. 1:02:12 no Brian Chau returns to Outsider Theory to discuss ChatGPT's woke catechism. https://cactus.substack.com/ artificial intelligence, chatGPT, ideology, wokeness, bias, technology Brian Chau returns to Outsider Theory to discuss ChatGPT's woke catechism.

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]]> 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/

]]> The Reactionary Counterculture with Angela Nagle https://outsidertheory.fireside.fm/nagle c9e9524b-4c81-43b4-ba7e-33221a70faa3 Sun, 31 Jan 2021 08:00:00 -0500 Geoff Shullenberger full Geoff Shullenberger Angela Nagle on countercultural values on the right, the shifting tech consensus, and the institutional capture of the left. 1:28:00 no For the inaugural episode of the Outsider Theory podcast, I speak to Angela Nagle, author of Kill All Normies, about the Capitol riot and what it reveals about the right-wing embrace of transgression and subversion; the shift in the liberal consensus from celebratory views of technology to more censorious attitudes; and the ongoing weaponization of the left's countercultural energies by the neoliberal center. Links: Angela Nagle, Kill All Normies (https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/kill-all-normies) Geoff Shullenberger, "Theorycels in Trumpworld (https://outsidertheory.com/theorycels-in-trumpworld/)" Geoff Shullenberger, "Goodbye Trump, our carnival king (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/goodbye-trump-our-carnival-king)" Angela Nagle, capitol riot, counterculture, transgression, subversion For the inaugural episode of the Outsider Theory podcast, I speak to Angela Nagle, author of Kill All Normies, about the Capitol riot and what it reveals about the right-wing embrace of transgression and subversion; the shift in the liberal consensus from celebratory views of technology to more censorious attitudes; and the ongoing weaponization of the left's countercultural energies by the neoliberal center. Links:

Angela Nagle, Kill All Normies

Geoff Shullenberger, "Theorycels in Trumpworld"

Geoff Shullenberger, "Goodbye Trump, our carnival king"

]]> For the inaugural episode of the Outsider Theory podcast, I speak to Angela Nagle, author of Kill All Normies, about the Capitol riot and what it reveals about the right-wing embrace of transgression and subversion; the shift in the liberal consensus from celebratory views of technology to more censorious attitudes; and the ongoing weaponization of the left's countercultural energies by the neoliberal center. Links:

Angela Nagle, Kill All Normies

Geoff Shullenberger, "Theorycels in Trumpworld"

Geoff Shullenberger, "Goodbye Trump, our carnival king"

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