Close Reading Is Having A Moment (Vandal Live at UC-Berkeley)

<p>The second episode derived from the <a href="https://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/events/close-distant-embodied-artificial-modes-reading-today" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">⁠Modes of Reading Today Symposium⁠</a>, hosted by the <a href="https://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">⁠Townsend Center For The Humanities⁠</a> assesses what it means that "close reading is having a moment" through papers titled "What is Close Reading?" [8:00], "Finding The Right Place For Close Reading" [30:00], "The Affected Fallacy" [56:00], "On Generalizing" [77:30], and "Close Reading as Field-Making" [100:00]</p><p>Cast (in order of appearance): Yael Segalovitz, Matt Seybold, Jonathan Kramnick, Toril Moi, Joshua Gang, Dora Zhang, Farah Bakaari</p><p>Dates Recorded: February 19-20, 2026</p><p>Music: Danny Weiss Quartet, Moby</p>