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    60 Million Americans Can't Be Wrong

    Christopher Kulendran Thomas and Annika Kuhlmann

    Could citizenship be erased through cloud technology?

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    A Good Crisis

    DIS

    You wasted a good crisis.

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    A New Face in Hell

    Emily Allan & Leah Hennessey

    Cultural theorist Mark Fisher (RIP) vs. Mark E. Smith (RIP) from The Fall.

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    A New Nature

    Mark Dorf

    Does nature have a future? Not just the stuff of it—plants, megafauna, whatever—but the concept itself.

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    Abandoned Factories

    Riccardo Benassi

    Today we dance in emptied out factories and warehouses, what role do these party-protests serve?

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    After Scarcity

    Bahar Noorizadeh

    After Scarcity explores cybernetics in the USSR when computation ≠ total financialization.

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    All Bleeding Stops Eventually

    Will Benedict

    A response to the IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate.

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    Assidule

    Julien Creuzet

    Assidule is a poetic consideration of racialized corporeality by Julien Creuzet.  

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    Beijing

    Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman

    Everyone has their opinions. Our computers soon will have theirs.

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    Benign Violence

    Derek G. Larson

    Jon has coffee with a revolving cast of thinkers.

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    Bob: A job is a job is a job

    Amalia Ulman

    Bob goes to work.

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    Building a New Road

    Simon Dybbroe Møller

    The abstraction of the infrastructure we rely on hides a history of work.

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    CALL TO ARMS

    PentHouss

    Mirrors ring a claustrophobic space. Lights flash. Enter the riot police. Obscured behind darkened face shields, they menace. And then they begin dancing.

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    Carceral Capitalism by Jackie Wang

    Ada O'Higgins & Semiotext(e)

    Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism, durationally read by Nico Fuentes.

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    Casey and her Mom

    Casey Jane Ellison

    Casey and her mom go head to head in episode one of MAD.

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    Casey and Her Unborn Daughter

    Casey Jane Ellison

    You’ve never seen mothers and daughters like this.

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    Chantal Mouffe

    DIS

    Wark summons Chantal Mouffe, explaining how the “liberal” and the “democratic” are pulling apart.

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    Classrooms

    Shawn Maximo

    If architecture mediates learning, what does that mean in the era of remote schooling, where a technologically-dependent student body has become increasingly decentralized?

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    Controlled Opposition

    Matt Goerzen & Ed Fornieles

    Investigating the tricks trolls play.

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    Couture Critiques

    Mandy Harris Williams

    Are you ready for these looks and these reads? From artist, essayist, and community working pop star, Mandy Harris Williams comes a brand new series — Couture Critiques. 

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    Dancing Online

    Riccardo Benassi

    Digital-music meets MDMA hangovers, police fines, and the ventilator beat of respiratory disease.

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    Degrees of Disgust

    Will Benedict & Steffen Jørgensen

    What are the ethics of getting a ton of milk to make nasty cheese in the age of global warming?

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    DKP is Market Socialism

    Joshua Citarella & Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman

    How virtual socialism works in massive multiplayer online games like World of Warcraft.

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    DOMESTIC/STANDARD

    Nicholas Korody

    The home is not where you go when you leave the factory, it is a factory. 

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    Donald Anthonyson and Families for Freedom

    Hannah Black

    Donald Anthonyson, Director of Families for Freedom, comes on to talk about immigration.

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    Donna Haraway Reads 'The National Geographic'

    Paper Tiger Television

    How do relationships between human and non-human animals reveal how we think about ourselves?

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    Dust

    Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman

    Boundaries have always been porous, mistaking them as anything but may just be our undoing.

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    Emergence

    The Institute of Queer Ecology

    Mykki Blanco guides us out of our straight, fossil-fuel soaked cocoon.

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    Eulogy for a Black Mass

    Aria Dean

    Exploring the black creative labor put into memes and the evolving theory of the poor image.

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    Everyone is a Worker

    Simon Dybbroe Møller

    Do you have to wear a uniform? Or are you free to wear what you want?

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    Extraterrestrial Rave

    Riccardo Benassi

    Dance can be a playground or a battleground.

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    Eyes of the Nation

    Nicholas Korody

    Eyes of the Nation explores the work of vision, power, and obscurity in the project of Israeli state-making through its media images.

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    Feminism with Christen Clifford

    DIS

    Christen Clifford tackles the expansive and intersectional nature of gendered oppression.

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    Flo Kennedy Reads U.S. Press on South Africa

    Paper Tiger Television

    Lawyer, actor, and activist Florynce “Flo” Kennedy investigates how the U.S. media uses a language of neutrality to obscure its ideological commitments.

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    From Courbet to the Kardashians with Jacolby Satterwhite

    DIS

    From Courbet to the Kardashians with Jacolby Satterwhite

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    Garage Conspiracy

    Olivia Erlanger and Luis Ortega Govela

    The garage is the domain of reality disconnect, re-invention, and self-fulfilling prophecies.

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    Good Company: Noam Chomsky

    Derek G. Larson

    Jon travels to Mexico City to talk with Noam Chomsky animated as a monkey in tourist apparel.

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    Green Dragon

    Riccardo Benassi

    If the art world places the party or the protest within its institutional frames, do they maintain their potency?

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    Gretchen Bender: TV, Text and Image Focus Group

    Dis

    Gretchen Bender’s TV, Text and Image was the precursor to today’s ever-present memes and Tweets.

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    Grub Economics

    The Institute of Queer Ecology

    Capitalism forces us into a perpetual larval stage, an incessant need to consume and accumulate resources.

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    Horizons

    Anastasia Davydova Lewis with Eno Swinnen

    A meditation on questioning and universal truths.

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    Human Design

    Ilana Harris-Babou

    An exploration of personal and collective histories and the ways design shapes our lives.

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    I Don't Know Her

    Emily Allan & Leah Hennessey

    Susan Sontag in 1992 told Entertainment Weekly that she had never heard of Camille Paglia.

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    Inside Pionen

    Emma Charles

    Preservation and paranoia, inside Pionen; an interview with its architect, Albert France-Lanord.

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    Jayne and Her Mom

    Casey Jane Ellison

    Casey prompts a mother and a daughter to discuss their relationship and help her save the world.

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    Le Suicide

    Will Benedict & Steffen Jørgensen

    Siri, how do you make chicken?

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    Liquidation

    The Institute of Queer Ecology

    Capitalism hides its shape from us, so let’s give it one.

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    Marge's Intro

    Olivia Erlanger and Luis Ortega Govela

    How a food distributor named Joseph Eichler remade America.

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    Martha Rosler Reads Vogue

    Paper Tiger Television

    Vogue Magazine's role in creating and recreating class power.

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    Maya Binyam and Bail Bloc

    Hannah Black

    Posting bail is not just about pretrial freedom, but for ensuring freedom going forward.

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    Medium Design with Keller Easterling

    DIS X PIN—UP

    Infrastructure is all around us, which is precisely why it’s so hard to see.

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    Metadata

    Christopher Meerdo

    Artist Christopher Meerdo’s searing film weaves an emotive vignette on the state of contemporary politics and socialities.

     

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    Mincome

    Whitney Mallett

    For 3 short years no one lived in poverty.

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    Money with Babak Radboy

    DIS

    Babak Radboy explains the ruthlessness of capital to children.

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    Mother

    Will Benedict & Steffen Jørgensen

    Plato's Cave was a Pizza Oven.

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    Murray Bookchin Reads Time Magazine

    Paper Tiger Television

    Murray Bookchin demonstrates how Time magazine obliterates time.

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    Narrative Devices

    DIS & Babak Radboy

    Imagine the end of the contemporary.

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    Natural Gods

    Korakrit Arunanondchai

    This is a nature show about the least natural thing of all: God.

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    Neighborhood Goggles

    Meriem Bennani

    The homes of Rabat, Morocco come to life to tell their tales.

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    No More Tuna In The Tuna Sandwiches

    Will Benedict & Steffen Jørgensen

    We’ve had a long run as civilized predators; perhaps we will again become prey.

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    Noam Chomsky Reads the New York Times

    Paper Tiger Television

    In order to responsibly read the news, one must ask oneself three questions...

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    Notes on Fortnightism

    Carson Chan and Gustav Düsing

    An architectural response to the pandemic.

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    Obama Baroque

    DIS

    Gossip Girl here, you're one and only source into the scandals of financial capitalism.

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    On Platforms

    Joshua Citarella & Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman

    How the platforms we use every day consolidate the worst extremes of neoliberal ideology.

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    Panera's Basilisk

    Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman

    Soon he began to realize where there’s knowledge, there’s a knower.

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    Paul B. Preciado

    DIS

    McKenzie Wark summons Paul B. Preciado and explains Pharma-Porno Capitalism.

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    PENUMBRA

    Hannah Black, Juliana Huxtable, And Or Forever

    An animal, representing all animals, on trial for crimes including “being disgusting,” in a dream-like confrontation between being and the law. 

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    Permanent Event

    Riccardo Benassi

    Voyeurism and viewership have accrued new meanings during the pandemic.

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    Prelude: Serotiny

    The Institute of Queer Ecology

    Climate control is preparing us for a new doomsday economy, where even a green response could be an ecofascist wolf in environmentalist sheep’s clothing.

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    Queer Architecture with Andres Jaque

    DIS

    What is queer architecture? Well, what is architecture? Andrés Jaque explores.

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    Real Mass Entrepreneurship

    Simon Denny

    The entrepreneur is cast as a high-tech hero but may be latest victim of precarious labor.

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    Red Sourcebook

    Ilana Harris-Babou

    Tracing the racist legacy of land ownership.

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    Reparation Hardware

    Ilana Harris-Babou

    Furniture restoration tutorial and a proposal for the delivery of reparations to African-Americans.

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    Sea Lovers

    Ingo Niermann

    How can we replace fear and exploitation of the ocean with intimate love?

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    Seasonal Associate By Heike Geissler

    Ada O'Higgins & Semiotext(e)

    10,000 Words from Seasonal Associate, Heike Geissler's labor memoir for the Amazon Era.

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    Seduced by Suburbia

    Olivia Erlanger and Luis Ortega Govela

    Without the car, there’d be no suburbs.

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    Sentimental Education

    Riccardo Benassi

     Can a movement be a memorial?

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    September 5th, 2006

    Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman

    Are Mark Zuckerberg and his silicon valley tech bro progeny the modern incarnation of Ronald Reagan, Pastor Jerry Falwell and the 1980s conservative Moral Majority movement?

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    Shakedown Directors Commentary

    Leilah Weinraub

    Witness Shakedown alongside Leilah Weinraub.

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    Sianne Ngai

    DIS

    McKenzie Wark summons Sianne Ngai and considers a new set of aesthetic terms.

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    Social Practices by Chris Kraus

    Ada O'Higgins & Semiotext(e)

    10,000 words from Chris Kraus’s Social Practices (2018).

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    Southern Gothic

    Derek G. Larson

    Imagine William Faulkner had access to lysergic acid diethylamide and lived in an abandoned mall.

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    Spite

    Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman

    The A.I. embodied in Casey Jane Ellison wants us to know she’s in charge.

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    Sugar is Coke

    Will Benedict & Steffen Jørgensen

    Siri, How do I make apple cider?

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    Syzygy

    Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman

    Meta’s self-betraying Super Bowl commercial explained.

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    The Average Chef

    Will Benedict & Steffen Jørgensen

    There is something for everyone in this gastronomic high rise.

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    The Bots (Arab Market)

    Eva & Franco Mattes

    The following interview is a true account using words from the workers social media keeps hidden.

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    The Bots (English Market)

    Eva & Franco Mattes

    The following interview is a true account using words from the workers social media keeps hidden.

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    The Bots (Greek Market)

    Eva & Franco Mattes

    The following interview is a true account using words from the workers social media keeps hidden.

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    The Bots (Greek Market)

    Eva & Franco Mattes

    The following interview is a true account using words from the workers social media keeps hidden.

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    The Bots (Italian Market)

    Eva & Franco Mattes

    The following interview is a true account using words from the workers social media keeps hidden.

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    The Bots (Turkish Market)

    Eva & Franco Mattes

    The following interview is a true account using words from the workers social media keeps hidden.

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    The Drone is the Message

    Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman

    It’s not the laptop nor phone that best typifies our relationship to the internet. It’s the drone.

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    The First Fat

    Will Benedict & Steffen Jørgensen

    You can’t Seamless and Grubhub your way out of this.

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    The New Family

    Simon Dybbroe Møller

    What do people do all day? They work.

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    The Rainforest Inside Us

    Will Benedict & Steffen Jørgensen

    Are you an Oatly drinking vegan libtard or a red-pilled edgelord chugging goat milk with a side of raw deer heart?

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    The Seasteaders

    By Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman and Daniel Keller

    How do you build a libertarian future? The Seasteading Institute thinks it knows.

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    The Slow Red Pill

    Joshua Citarella & Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman

    How does the Far Right get run-of-the-mill conservatives to cross over?

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    The Swedish Troll Factory 

    Kybernein Institute

    Undoing the neoliberal paradigm shift in Sweden as the result of a vast and carefully orchestrated plot.

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    The Venus Monologues

    DIS

    The 30,000-year-old mainstay of art history 101 courses speaks.

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    Tyler

    Women's History Museum & Daffy Scanlan

    Fashion label Women’s History Museum is here to (re)teach us how to dress.

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    UBI: The Straight Truvada

    DIS

    Is Universal Basic Income the left's utopian holy grail or an oligarch distraction?

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    Unholy Matrimony

    Emily Allan & Leah Hennessy

    Based on a true story, Allen Ginsberg & Andrea Dworkin face-off as godparents in unholy matrimony.

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    Universal Basic Income with Clio Chang

    DIS

    Clio explains the basics of basic income.

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    Unstoppable Feat: The Dances of Ed Mock

    Brontez Purnell

    Brontez Purnell reconstructs the life and movement of the late visionary choreographer Ed Mock.

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    Vile Days by Gary Indiana

    Ada O'Higgins & Semiotext(e)

    10,000 words from Gary Indiana's Vile Days: The Village Voice Art Columns, 1985–1988

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    Violence Entrepreneurs

    Derek G. Larson

    Neolib consumer culture explodes into a dark and anxious continuum from brand obsession to recreational warfare.

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    Water

    Simon Dybbroe Møller

    For some, water might barely get a thought even as it structures our existence.

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    We Have To Meet Things Halfway: Graham Harman

    Derek G. Larson

    Jon challenges Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos while speeding through a data center.

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    We Need To Invent A Different Kind Of Love: Michael Hardt

    Derek G. Larson

    Can we invent a new kind of love? What do objects experience? How much connection is too much?

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    What is artificial intelligence? With Constant Dullart

    DIS

    How do you teach a computer to think? It's not that different from a child.

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    What is Blockchain?

    Simon Denny

    Are networked nodes working together really the same as equal political participation?

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    What is Social Ecology?

    DIS

    The biological, ecological, and socio-cultural are not separate, Brigitte Baptiste explains why.

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    Where do Local and Global Meet?

    DIS

    Brigitte Baptiste asks, where do local and global meet? And explains how neural ecology may be the key to understanding.

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    Whose story is told?

    DIS

    Who are ecological narratives for? Who are they by? Who do they leave out?

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    Ylang Ylang

    Women's History Museum and Daffy Scanlan

    Fashion label Women's History Museum is here to (re)teach us how to dress.

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    Zahira Kelly and The Politics of the Internet

    Hannah Black

    Discussing the supercharged and interconnected political landscapes of Twitter and Tumblr.

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