About this episode

This episode explores media, mediation, and machine-generated texts through various presentations from a symposium.

The final episode recorded at the ⁠Modes of Reading Today Symposium⁠ , hosted by the ⁠Townsend Center For The Humanities⁠ focuses on media, mediation, and machine-generated texts. It opens with Nicholas Baer and Pardis Debashi's "Unattainable Texts," followed by David Bates's "Reading and Writing" [20:00], Nina Beguš's "Novel Audiences in 'Finnegan's Wake'" [37:30], Hannes Bajohr's "Surface Reading LLMs" [57:00], Matt Seybold's "The Technofeudal Reader" [81:00], and a brief Q&A [100:00]. Cast (in order of appearance): Yael Segalovitz, Nicholas Baer, David Bates, Nina Beguš, Hannes Bajohr, Matt Seybold, Jacob Gaboury, Deniz Göktürk, Jonathan Kramnick Dates Recorded: February 19-20, 2026 Music: Danny Weiss Quartet, Moby

People in this episode

Host: Matt Seybold

Guests: Nicholas Baer, Pardis Debashi, David Bates, Nina Beguš, Hannes Bajohr

Topics covered

• media
• mediation
• machine-generated texts
• reading
• literature
• symposium

Keywords

• reading machines
• media
• machine-generated texts
• literature
• symposium
• reading
• mediation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Modes of Reading Today Symposium, Townsend Center For The Humanities, Danny Weiss Quartet, Moby

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