Reading Machines (Vandal Live at Berkeley)

<p>The final episode recorded at the <a href="https://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/events/close-distant-embodied-artificial-modes-reading-today" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">⁠Modes of Reading Today Symposium⁠</a>, hosted by the <a href="https://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">⁠Townsend Center For The Humanities⁠</a> focuses on media, mediation, and machine-generated texts. It opens with Nicholas Baer and Pardis Debashi&#39;s &quot;Unattainable Texts,&quot; followed by David Bates&#39;s &quot;Reading and Writing&quot; [20:00], Nina Beguš&#39;s &quot;Novel Audiences in &#39;Finnegan&#39;s Wake&#39;&quot; [37:30], Hannes Bajohr&#39;s &quot;Surface Reading LLMs&quot; [57:00], Matt Seybold&#39;s &quot;The Technofeudal Reader&quot; [81:00], and a brief Q&amp;A [100:00].</p><p><br></p><p>Cast (in order of appearance): Yael Segalovitz, Nicholas Baer, David Bates, Nina Beguš, Hannes Bajohr, Matt Seybold, Jacob Gaboury, Deniz Göktürk, Jonathan Kramnick</p><p>Dates Recorded: February 19-20, 2026</p><p>Music: Danny Weiss Quartet, Moby</p>