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Reading, Sleep, Attention, Grief (Vandal Live at UC-Berkeley)
Jun 18, 2026
Unknown duration
The Production of Oil & Knowledge in Iran with Mattin Biglari & Katayoun Shafiee
Jun 2, 2026
49m 59s
Beyond The White Suit with Kerry Driscoll, Ann Ryan, & Barbara Snedecor (Vandal Live in Elmira)
May 28, 2026
1h 38m 02s
This Guy Sucked with Claire Aubin & Erin Bartram (Vandal Live at Mark Twain House & Museum)
May 21, 2026
1h 20m 44s
After OpenAI (Vandal Live at Wake Forest Humanities Institute)
May 12, 2026
1h 22m 46s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/18/26 |  Reading, Sleep, Attention, Grief (Vandal Live at UC-Berkeley) | An episode recorded as part of the Modes of Reading Today Symposium, hosted by the Townsend Center For The Humanities begins with a discussion of John Donne's insomnia and Wilfred Bion's undigested nightmares, followed by a vigorous discussion of attention, sleep, and immersion as they relate to literature and criticism [39:00], after which the symposium's organizer (and host of the Psychoanaliterature podcast) flips the studio for some analysis of The American Vandal's creator [90:00].Cast (in order of appearance): Matt Seybold, David Marno, Yael Segalovitz, Jonathan Kramnick, Toril Moi, Emma Lieber, Nicholas Baer, Dora Zhang, Anne-Lise François, Farah Bakaari, Sina Dell'AnnoDates Recorded: February 19-20, 2026Music: Danny Weiss Quartet, Moby, L. D. MillerFor more about this episode, please visit TheAmericanVandal.com | — | ||||||
| 6/2/26 |  The Production of Oil & Knowledge in Iran with Mattin Biglari & Katayoun Shafiee✨ | Iranian Oilhistorical trajectory+4 | Katayoun ShafieeMattin Biglari | Edinburgh UPMIT Press+2 | Strait of Hormuz | Iranoil+6 | — | 49m 59s | |
| 5/28/26 |  Beyond The White Suit with Kerry Driscoll, Ann Ryan, & Barbara Snedecor (Vandal Live in Elmira)✨ | Mark TwainOlivia Langdon Clemens+3 | Ann RyanKerry Driscoll+1 | Center For Mark Twain StudiesThe American Vandal+2 | — | Mark TwainOlivia Langdon Clemens+3 | — | 1h 38m 02s | |
| 5/21/26 |  This Guy Sucked with Claire Aubin & Erin Bartram (Vandal Live at Mark Twain House & Museum)✨ | Mark Twainlegacy+4 | Claire AubinErin Bartram | This Guy SuckedMark Twain House & Museum+1 | Hartford, Connecticut | Mark TwainThis Guy Sucked+5 | — | 1h 20m 44s | |
| 5/12/26 |  After OpenAI (Vandal Live at Wake Forest Humanities Institute)✨ | AI speculationfuture of AI+4 | Jennifer GreimanDerek Lee+6 | Wake Forest Humanities InstituteDanny Weiss Quartet+1 | — | AIspeculation+5 | — | 1h 22m 46s | |
| 4/6/26 |  Muskism with Quinn Slobodian & Ben Tarnoff✨ | Muskismhistorical research+4 | Quinn SlobodianBen Tarnoff | Muskism: A Guild For The Perplexed | — | MuskismElon Musk+4 | — | 1h 17m 23s | |
| 3/24/26 |  The Secret History of Canvas LMS, Corporate Raiders, & The Chatbot Bubble (Vandal Live at UVU)✨ | Canvas LMSGenerative AI+4 | Christa Albrecht-CraneAngie McKinnon Carter+1 | InstructureDragoneer+3 | Utah Valley UniversityUniversity of Albany | Canvas LMSInstructure+6 | — | 1h 52m 00s | |
| 3/17/26 |  Close Reading Is Not A Luxury (Vandal Live at Emory)✨ | close readingteaching strategies+4 | Johanna WinantBrian Glavey+14 | Emory UniversityClose Reading For The 21st Century Symposium | — | close readingteaching+5 | — | 1h 47m 30s | |
| 2/17/26 |  Close Reading Is A Conversation (Vandal Live at Emory University)✨ | close readingliterary studies+3 | Johanna WinantFarah Bakaari+15 | Emory UniversityClose Reading For The 21st Century Symposium | — | close readingconversation+4 | — | 1h 36m 57s | |
| 2/10/26 |  Close Reading For The 21st Century Symposium (Vandal Live at Emory)✨ | Close ReadingSymposium+4 | Dan SinykinJohanna Winant+13 | Emory UniversityClose Reading For The 21st Century Symposium | — | Close ReadingSymposium+8 | — | 1h 35m 04s | |
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| 1/7/26 |  Theory At The Bargaining Table with Dominique Baker & Anna Kornbluh (Vandal Live at UIC)✨ | higher educationlabor organizing+5 | Anna KornbluhDominique Baker | University of Illinois-Chicago United Faculty | — | higher educationlabor organizing+5 | — | 1h 25m 04s | |
| 9/18/25 |  Inside Slow Civil War with Jeff Sharlet | A chance to reflect, with journalism professor Jeff Sharlet, on his book, "The Undertow: Scenes From A Slow Civil War," the looming threat of acceleration, the methods and media of lingering, documentary modernism, and monsters within. For a bibliography of this episode, please visit TheAmericanVandal.Substack.com/Lingering | — | ||||||
| 8/18/25 |  Cruel Futurism | The finale of "A Tale of Today," the eleventh season of "The American Vandal." Matt Seybold offers his journey of curiosity from the end of "Criticism LTD" to "The Technofeudal Text." Cast (in order of appearance): Matt Seybold, Nathan Wolff Soundtrack: DownRiver Collective Narration: Nathan Osgood & SNR Audio For more about this episode, including a complete bibliography, please visit TheAmericanVandal.Substack.com/CruelFuturism | — | ||||||
| 8/5/25 |  "Models of Ideological Analysis" by Fredric Jameson (1977 Institute On Culture & Society) | Remastered audio of Fredric Jamesons opening lecture at the 1977 Institute On Culture & Society sponsored by the Marxist Literary Group and hosted by St. Cloud State University. For further context, consider listening to "The Jameson Tapes, Side A" which precedes this episode in The American Vandal Podcast feed. For a bibliography, please visit or subscribe to Matt Seybold's newsletter at TheAmericanVandal.Substack.com | — | ||||||
| 8/4/25 |  The Jameson Tapes, Side A | The first of two installments contextualizing Fredric Jameson's lectures at the 1977 Institute On Culture & Society begins with a discussion of "Marxism & Historicism," followed by conversations about historicizing the lectures [8:00], the process of recovering them [33:30], a key passage about commodity as its own ideology [55:00}, and the long arc of Jameson's thought and influence [71:30]. Cast (in order of appearance): Robert Tally, Matt Seybold, Anna Kornbluh, Caleb Smith, Fredric Jameson, Isabel Bartholomew Soundtrack: DownRiver Collective For more about this episode, including a complete bibliography, please visit or subscribe to Matt Seybold's newsletter at TheAmericanVandal.substack.com | — | ||||||
| 7/18/25 |  Spitesgiving in Flyover Country | Analysis of the Gilded Age tropology of alienation precedes discussions of Hubert Humphrey & Tim Walz [9:00], the reception of "Hillbilly Elegy" and its aftermath [38:00], and "The Mismeasurement of Orcs" [78:00]. Cast (in order of appearance): Matt Seybold, Andie Tucher, Samuel Freedman, Douglas Dowland, Dan Sinykin, J.D. Connor, Robert Tally Soundtrack: DownRiver Collective For more about this episode, including a complete bibliography, please visit MarkTwainStudies.com/TheAmericanVandal/Spitesgiving, or subscribe to Matt Seybold's newsletter at TheAmericanVandal.substack.com | — | ||||||
| 7/1/25 |  Literary Sociology a.k.a. The Institutional Turn a.k.a The Spreadsheet School of Literary Criticism | A so-called Spreadsheet Man responds. Does the institutional turn have a distinctly feminine ethos? [27:30] How is it rooted in the Post45 Collective? [49:00] What are its debts to New Historicism and Marxist Literary Criticism? [69:00] And to Fredric Jameson? [84:30] And what has become of Economic Criticism? [94:00] Cast (in order of appearance): Dan Sinykin, Matt Seybold, Brandon Taylor, Rachel Sagner Buurma, Laura Heffernan, J. D. Connor, Alexander Manshel, Fredric Jameson, Leigh Claire La Berge Soundtrack: DownRiver Collective Narration: Nathan Osgood & SNR Audio For more about this episode, including a complete bibliography, please visit MarkTwainStudies.com/TheAmericanVandal/SpreadsheetMen, or subscribe to Matt Seybold's newsletter at TheAmericanVandal.substack.com | — | ||||||
| 6/9/25 |  The Mutational Romances of Silicon Valley Speculation | Our ideology critique of contemporary tech fascist SciFi begins with the first selections from Fredric Jameson's 1977 seminar at the Institute On Culture & Society, followed by a journalists narration of the tech fascist turn in Silicon Valley [10:00], ideological analysis of Alt-Right speculative fiction [37:00], and technofeudal yearning to convert probability to prophecy [70:00]. Cast (in order of appearance): Fredric Jameson, Matt Seybold, Jacob Silverman, Jordan S. Carroll Soundtrack: DownRiver Collective Narration: Nathan Osgood & SNR Audio For more about this episode, including a complete bibliography, please visit MarkTwainStudies.com/Mutants, or subscribe to Matt Seybold's newsletter at TheAmericanVandal.substack.com | — | ||||||
| 5/16/25 |  Vandal Live: Affordances of Enclosure & The Ends of Empires | Our inaugural installment of "live" podcasting was recorded with a small audience in the library at Quarry Farm. It features Caroline Levine and Jed Esty discussing their recent books, "The Activist Humanist" and "The Future of Decline," as well as responding to the themes of "A Tale of Today" and "Criticism LTD," and discussing the roles of humanities educators in addressing climate crisis, declinism, superpower nostalgia, and shock doctrine. Cast (in order of appearance): Matt Seybold, Caroline Levine, Jed Esty Soundtrack: DownRiver Collective For more about this episode, including a complete bibliography, please visit MarkTwainStudies.com/Affordances, or subscribe to Matt Seybold's newsletter at TheAmericanVandal.substack.com CowbRfXHSk9FO9SFUoho | — | ||||||
| 5/14/25 |  Solidarity & Speculation | The finale of our trilogy centered on Technofeudalism begins with the intersection of political economy with aesthetics and literary forms, followed by a synthesis of financial and fictive definitions of speculation [18:00], what can be done with the technofeudal thesis [27:30], the role of solidarity in the age of insecurity [33:00], the Panic of 1873 as a model [41:30], panics to come [53:00], and some final words from Yanis Varoufakis [72:00] Cast (in order of appearance): Matt Seybold, Yanis Varoufakis, Jordan S. Carroll, James Livingston, Astra Taylor, Leigh Claire La Berge Soundtrack: DownRiver Collective Narration: Nathan Osgood & SNR Audio For more about this episode, including a complete bibliography, please visit MarkTwainStudies.com/Speculators, or subscribe to Matt Seybold's newsletter at TheAmericanVandal.substack.com | — | ||||||
| 5/5/25 |  From Technostructure To Technofeudalism | An exploration of the political economy of technofeudalism begins by defining the technostructure and introducing its personification, followed by testimony from a skeptic [26:00], competing periodizations of the present [48:00], and media praxis under the rein of the cloudalists [73:00]. Cast (in order of appearance): Matt Seybold, Yanis Varoufakis, James Livingston, Astra Taylor Soundtrack: DownRiver Collective For more about this episode, including a complete bibliography, please visit MarkTwainStudies.com/Technofeudalism, or subscribe to Matt Seybold's newsletter at TheAmericanVandal.substack.com | — | ||||||
| 4/4/25 |  Newspapers Worse Than Dead (But Print Is A Rent Strike) | Episode opens with journalism's "race to the bottom," described by a journalist who lived it, followed by what "The Facebook Files" revealed about social media's relationship to news [8:00], the tactics of parallel journalism [27:00}, the difference between fake news and fake journalism [38:00], the fate worse than death for periodicals, but not books [48:00], what the acquisition of Twitter taught us about technofeudalism [65:00], and a call to return to institutional media [82:00]. Cast (in order of appearance): Samuel Freedman, Matt Seybold, Jeff Horwitz, Gil Duran, Andie Tucher, Jeff Jarvis, Yanis Varoufakis, Tressie McMillan Cottom Soundtrack: DownRiver Collective For more about this episode, including a complete bibliography, please visit MarkTwainStudies.com/Newspapers, or subscribe to Matt Seybold's newsletter at TheAmericanVandal.substack.com | — | ||||||
| 4/1/25 |  The Facebook Files & The Gutenberg Parenthesis | A two-part meditation on the history of journalism and the fate of investigative journalism under tech fascism begins with the model of Ida Tarbell, the epochal Wall Street Journal reporting on Facebook in 2021 [6:00], the professionalization of journalism during the Gilded Age and interbellum periods [38:00], the relationship between Silicon Valley and news organizations in the 21st century [54:00], the legacy of newspapers [63:00], and a periodization of print media [71:00]. Cast (in order of appearance): Gil Duran, Matt Seybold, Jeff Horwitz, Andie Tucher, Jacob Silverman, Jeff Jarvis Soundtrack: DownRiver Collective Narration: Nathan Osgood & SNR Audio For more about this episode, including a complete bibliography, please visit MarkTwainStudies.com/Gutenberg, or subscribe to Matt Seybold's newsletter at TheAmericanVandal.substack.com | — | ||||||
| 3/20/25 |  The Gilded Network | Our 150th anniversary celebration of Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner's "The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today" turns to political economies of mass media, then and now, beginning with a close reading of the novel's title. We are then introduced to the tech fascist fantasy of the Network State [21:00], theories of post-capitalism [47:00], ways of reading from the right [58:00], and a more optimistic technofuturism [77:00} Cast (in order of appearance): Matt Seybold, Jeffrey Insko, Anna Kornbluh, Gil Duran, Eleanor Courtemanche, Jordan Carroll, Douglas Dowland, Jeff Jarvis Soundtrack: DownRiver Collective Narration: Nathan Osgood & SNR Audio For more about this episode, including a complete bibliography, please visit MarkTwainStudies.com/GildedNetwork, or subscribe to Matt Seybold's newsletter at TheAmericanVandal.substack.com | — | ||||||
| 1/30/25 |  A Journey of Curiosity | The second act of "A Tale of Today," focused on HBCUs and the political economy of education in Gilded Ages old and new, concludes with a journey of curiosity through the unschooling movement, a historicist close reading of Ruth Bolton's time at Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania [24:40], analysis of the transition from secondary schools to higher education [35:00], a summary of this part of the series [82:00], and hope from the forgotten migration [87:30]. Cast (in order of appearance): Astra Taylor, Matt Seybold, Laura Heffernan, Rachel Sagnar Buurma, Alexander Manshel, Annie Abrams, Crystal Sanders Soundtrack: DownRiver Collective Narration: Nathan Osgood & SNR Audio For more about this episode, including a complete bibliography, please visit MarkTwainStudies.com/JourneyOfCuriosity, or subscribe to Matt Seybold's newsletter at TheAmericanVandal.substack.com | — | ||||||
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