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Urgent Futures with Jesse Damiani

Welcome to the Urgent Futures Podcast, the show that finds signal in the noise. Each episode, I sit down with leading thinkers for dialogues that clarify the chaos, from culture to the cosmos.
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The (Department of) War on American Cities, Ukraine, Gaza, and the Imperial Boomerang
Historical lessons for American citizens on how colonial violence returns home.
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Jesse Damiani
Historical Fascist Parallels: Why Tech's Kiss-the-Ring Dinner with Trump at the White House is Worse Than You Think
Even if you already thought it was gross!
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Where Will All the CDC Chaos Take Us? Polycritical Foresight Analysis
An exercise to better understand how the upheaval at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention might unfold, what it means for vaccines in the…
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Liam Young: A Texas-Sized City for 10 Billion People? Rewilding the Globe with 'Planet City' | #50
Amid cascading crises, art & storytelling must provoke new ways of thinking about the human enterprise. Across his work as an artist, filmmaker…
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Polycritical Foresight: Combining Futures Studies, Threat Modeling, and Systems Thinking for Robust Strategy
From climate finance to biosecurity, polycritical foresight equips leaders with tools to anticipate emerging threats and safeguard resilient futures.
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Age Verification Laws: Surveillance in Disguise? - Noelle Perdue | Rapid Response #9
Though they may be well-intentioned, there are major problems with age verification laws—and if/when implemented, they will change your digital life for…
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Nora N. Khan: Language for Technology | #49
Technologists often define how we talk about technology. What if that's leading us in the wrong directions? A conversation with new media art critic…
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Trump’s Bitcoin Reserve & Crypto Stockpile: Innovation or the Ultimate Grift? What are the Long-Term Implications?
Is President Trump’s pro-crypto play a fast-path to corruption or an overdue embrace of a maligned technology? Here's a full breakdown, including…
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What You Need to Know About Trump's 'U.S. Crypto Reserve'
Why Trump announced this reserve, why he chose the cryptocurrencies he did, and what that means for the global economy (and everyday people).
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What Ted Chiang’s New Yorker Essay Gets Wrong About Art and AI—and Why It Matters
3 responses to the legendary writer's recent claim that AI will never make art.
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The Drake-Kendrick Beef and Musings on the Future of AI-Generated Content
As one of the world's biggest popstars, Drake AI "covers" have proliferated since last year. Last week he turned the tables, signaling how we'll…
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AI at the Intersection of Instinct, Intuition, and Feelings
'SMALL V01CE' opens in Los Angeles this weekend. It's an exhibition full of questions about the ecologies of AI.
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More Liquid, More Solid: Generative AI and The Future of Genre Under Postreality
Through generative AI, the role of genre in creative canon(s) is simultaneously liquifying and solidifying—softening genre boundaries while reasserting…
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How Future Histories Of ‘Other Intelligences’ Clarify Today’s AI
In The Institute for Other Intelligences, Mashinka Firunts Hakopian combines speculative fiction and media theory to propose equitable futures for…
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Critical Readings in AI: The Bigger Picture, vol. 2
A new series focused on AI literacy outside the hype-doom binary. For the second installment, Reality Studies looks at the future of health and medicine…
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