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A chance to reflect, with journalism professor Jeff Sharlet, on his book, The Undertow: Scenes From A Slow Civil War (Norton, 2023), the looming threat of acceleration, the methods and media of lingering, documentary modernism, and monsters within.
Jeff Sharlet is Frederick Sessions Beebe '35 Professor in the Art of Writing at Dartmouth University and the author of the Scenes From A Slow Civil War newsletter.
Matt Seybold is Associate Professor of American Literature & Mark Twain Studies at Elmira College, as well as resident scholar at the Center For Mark Twain Studies and executive producer of The American Vandal Podcast.
Episode Bibliography:
-, “Speak Your Piece” The Mountain Eagle (September 17, 2025)
James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941)
Geoff Bennett & Sam Lane, “Why The U.S. Is Experiencing Heightened Political Violence” PBS NewsHour (September 11, 2025)
Chip Brownlee, “Narratives About the Killing of Charlie Kirk May Be More Powerful Than The Facts” The Trace (September 12, 2025)
Eric Francis, “Another Day, Another Overdose” Daybreak (September 5, 2025)
Zora Neale Hurston, Mules & Men (1935)
Clare Malone, “Is The Media Prepared For An Extinction-Level Event” The New Yorker (February 10, 2024)
Matt Seybold et al., “The Black University Concept & The Second Curriculum” The American Vandal (October 31, 2024)
Jeff Sharlet, The Undertow: Scenes From A Slow Civil War (Norton, 2023)
Jeff Sharlet, “The Mourning Suit” (with Ann Neumann) Scenes From A Slow Civil War (September 15, 2025)
Jeff Sharlet, “Radioactive” Scenes From A Slow Civil War (September 12, 2025)
Jeff Sharlet, “The Struggle is Long” Scenes From A Slow Civil War (September 10, 2025)
Jeff Sharlet, “The Longform of Lingering in a Place Just To See How It Is…” Scenes From A Slow Civil War (August 22, 2025)
Jeff Sharlet, Johanna Roth, & Xifan Yang, “The Real Danger Always Comes From The Military” Die Ziet (September 16, 2025)
Jeff Sharlet, Amy Goodman, & Nermeen Shaikh, “Moment of Great Peril” Democracy Now! (September 11, 2025)
Nick Srnicek & Alex Williams, “#Accelerate: Manifesto For An Accelerationist Politics” Critical Legal Thinking (May 14, 2013)
