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Announcing: The Urgent Futures Podcast 🎙️
The show that brings you today’s urgent ideas—to help you orient to tomorrow.
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Explaining Polycrisis and Metacrisis
Framing humanity's interconnected crises, existential risk, the prospect of collapse, and differentiating polycrisis vs. metacrisis
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Plotting the Polycrisis: Post-Collapse Storytelling
ANNOUNCING: an all-new presentation and workshop is heading to SXSW 2024
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Lia Halloran & Kip Thorne: A Trip Through the Warped Side of Our Universe | Urgent Futures Podcast Ep. 3
Listen now (84 mins) | In the latest episode of the Urgent Futures Podcast, Jesse sits down with Lia Halloran and Kip Thorne to talk about their new…
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Asad J. Malik: Fighting for the Future of Augmented Reality | Urgent Futures Podcast Ep. 2
Listen now (95 mins) | In the latest episode of the Urgent Futures Podcast, Jesse Damiani sits down with Asad J. Malik to talk about his cutting-edge…
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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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Taylor Lorenz: A Brief History of Being 'Extremely Online' | Urgent Futures Podcast Ep. 1
Listen now (58 mins) | In the debut episode of the Urgent Futures Podcast, Jesse Damiani sits down with Taylor Lorenz to talk all things creator culture…
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Taylor Lorenz
Vivek Ramaswamy is Right About One Thing
Where climate denialism horseshoes into climate realism—and how we might use it for more sustainable futures
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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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Jesse Damiani
On the Apple Vision Pro and Progress Narratives
The Vision Pro might be the future of XR, but what is XR's role in the future?
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Invite your friends to read Reality Studies
New referral rewards for the Reality Studies community
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Postreality Poetics
A philosophical approach to poetry and technology; musings from the 'POÈME OBJKT/POÈME SBJKT' exhibition
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Transformers and the Attention Schema Theory—Musings at the Intersection of Deep Learning and Consciousness Studies
The underlying architecture of large language models like GPT-4 has already upended the world of AI, and it's only six years old. What does it mean for…
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