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How Venture Capitalists Built A For-Profit "Micro-University" Inside Our Public Flagships
You can graduate any time, but you can never leave.
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Spitesgiving in Flyover Country (A Tale of Today, Episode #21)
with J.D. Connor, Douglas Dowland, Samuel Freedman, Dan Sinykin, Robert Tally, and Andie Tucher
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Literary Sociology a.k.a. The Institutional Turn a.k.a. The Spreadsheet School of Literary Criticism (A Tale of Today, Episode #20)
with Rachel Sagnar Buurma, J. D. Connor, Laura Heffernan, Fredric Jameson, Leigh Claire La Berge, Alexander Manshel, Dan Sinykin, & Brandon Taylor
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Against Technofeudal Education
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Gordon Gee's Draw Check Scheme
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What The MLA Is...
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Putting The "If" In "Enrollment Cliff"
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Authoritarianism is the Bailout
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Actually, Mark Twain Knew There Were Palestinians In Palestine
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Pillars For Protecting Our "Core Infrastructure" From OpenAI
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The Mutational Romances of Silicon Valley Speculation (A Tale of Today, Episode #18)
with Jordan S. Carroll, Jacob Silverman, and...Fredric Jameson
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Solidarity & Speculation (A Tale of Today, Episode #17)
with Jordan S. Carroll, Leigh Claire La Berge, James Livingston, Astra Taylor, & Yanis Varoufakis
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From Technostructure To Technofeudalism (A Tale of Today, Episode #16)
with James Livingston, Astra Taylor, & Yanis Varoufakis
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Asymmetric Information: The A.I. Broligarchs Hope Will Save Them From Overconfidence In A.I.
In brief: It won't.
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Newspapers Worse Than Dead, But Print Is A Rent Strike (A Tale of Today, Episode #15)
with Tressie McMillan Cottom, Gil Duran, Samuel Freedman, Jeff Horwitz, Jeff Jarvis, Andie Tucher, and Yanis Varoufakis
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The Facebook Files & The Gutenberg Parenthesis (A Tale of Today, Episode #14)
with Gil Duran, Jeff Horwitz, Jeff Jarvis, Jacob Silverman, & Andie Tucher
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