This week’s episode is a conversation with the brilliant Michael Garfield. We talk about his concept of the Glass Age, which I think puts our obsession with identifying each intellectual generation against its predecessors (from modernism to postmodernism to post-postmodernism to hypermodernism) in the right perspective: we are all living in an age of glass, a world defined by glass’s “material agency,” and this involves a perpetual need to “see through” things. As comes clear in the convo, however, there is a kind of darkness that only total transparency can reveal.