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Landon Ross: Examining Consciousness, Evolution, AI, and Physics Through Art, Storytelling, and Philosophy | Urgent Futures #17
🎙 Jesse sits down with artist Landon Ross for a wide-ranging conversation about transcendence, beauty, DIY chemistry experiments gone wrong, "fame in…
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1:59:04
Autumn Breon: Reimagining Broken Systems through Art, Activism, Radical Self-Care, & Speculative Worlding | Urgent Futures #16
🎙 Jesse sits down with multidisciplinary artist Autumn Breon for a wide-ranging conversation about art and speculative fiction as civic interventions…
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1:24:04
Nita Farahany: Neurotech, the Latest Skirmishes in the 'Battle for Your Brain,' and Your Right to Cognitive Liberty | Urgent Futures #15
🎙 Jesse sits down with Professor Nita Farahany to talk the promise and peril of neurotechnology, brain-computer interfaces, and AI—and why it's…
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Nita Farahany
1:08:44
Laura Forlano & Danya Glabau: Living Well with Machines, Real-World Cyborg Futures, and Critical Cyborg Literacy | Urgent Futures #14
🎙 Jesse is joined by professors & co-authors of 'Cyborg' (MIT Press) Laura Forlano & Danya Glabau to discuss the figure of the cyborg & how it can…
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1:42:49

June 2024

Hodor is the Hero Archetype We Need Now
From climate change to rising authoritarianism, we need to 'hold the door' for collective problem-solving in the polycrisis—and we should valorize those…
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Eryk Salvaggio & Caroline Sinders: Glitching AI, Algorithmic Resistance, Labor Activism, Art as Research, & Feminist Technology | Urgent…
🎙 Jesse is joined by polymath artists/researchers Eryk Salvaggio & Caroline Sinders for a wide-ranging conversation about the role of artists in…
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Eryk Salvaggio
2:13:49
Danielle Stevenson: Using Mushrooms to Heal Polluted Places | Urgent Futures Ep. 12
🎙 Strap in for this one! Jesse chats with scientist, mycologist, & educator Danielle Stevenson to discuss the politics of pollution, the role fungi can…
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1:40:08
Explaining the Degrowth Movement. Is Degrowth Economics Possible?
A primer on degrowth as an alternative economic model to current late capitalism. Plus: unpacking terms like degrowth communism, ecological economics…
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Reading List: 8 Books for Understanding Degrowth Economics
Curious to learn more about degrowth? Whether you're just getting started or looking to go deeper, check out the following subject overviews…
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Emily Segal: Trend Forecasting, 'Normcore' Ten Years Later, & Not Being Scared of AI (Yet) | Urgent Futures Ep. 11
🎙️ Jesse chats trend forecasting, dissociative digital identities, indie book publishing, futures of AI and blockchain, and so much more with polymath…
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NEMESIS
1:49:57
Brittan Heller: Can Human Rights Law Adapt to the Era of AI & Spatial Computing? | Urgent Futures Ep. 10
🎙️ Jesse sits down with pathbreaking human rights lawyer, ethicist, and professor Brittan Heller to dig into privacy, online harassment, spatial…
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1:24:41

May 2024

Legacy Russell: The Black Meme in Visual & Viral Culture | Urgent Futures Ep. 9
🎙️ Jesse sits down with celebrated writer, curator and theorist Legacy Russell to discuss her new book 'BLACK MEME,' how modern visual culture is…
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