Living in the End Times
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Whether the subject in question is a democracy, climate change, biomedical engineering, or the American university, it is clear that the society we have known will soon no longer be. As humankind stares into an abyss the bottom of which we cannot yet see, the producers of Living in The End Times thought it prudent to discuss the tumult around us and our species' prospects for the future. We..
Living in the End Times
5M ago
The first of two episodes on the BAP book Bronze Age Mindset (2018 ..read more
Living in the End Times
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A&E use Juel Taylor’s 2023 film They Cloned Tyrone as a way into talking 21st century biopolitics, necropolitics, Haiti, and revolution ..read more
Living in the End Times
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Found this lost episode from June 2023 while scrounging the couch cushions deep for change wherein A&E discuss the political scene as it had been unfolding to that point in World History. Plus: the neoliberalism of Cormac McCarthy’s fiction ..read more
Living in the End Times
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Time to chat the next of several selections in this season of the mass market communist film: Chris Nolan’s Oppenheimer, wherein labor organizing gets more screen time than quantum physics ..read more
Living in the End Times
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A&E chat Maria Demopoulos’s and Jodi Wille’s 2012 doc The Source Family, discussing how state agencies were always-already part of the American counterculture ..read more
Living in the End Times
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A&E discuss Daniel Goldhaber’s 2022 film How to Blow up a Pipeline, asking if it’s really true at this point that it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism ..read more
Living in the End Times
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The second of two conversations on David Lynch’s Twin Peaks franchise, A&E here discuss the conclusion of season 2 and the start of season 3 ..read more
Living in the End Times
11M ago
A&E resurrect the discussion of Alex Garland’s film Annihilation as a way into a chat about Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, and paperclip maximizers, which, you know, will soon be running the show ..read more
Living in the End Times
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In this first of (at least) two discussions revolving around David Lynch, the gents focus on the director’s underrated 1997 film Lost Highway. But first! A brief encore discussion the postpunk band Silkworm and the new article on this at PopMatters ..read more