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"Who Can You Be When You Are With Me?"—Warm Data and 'Combining' with Nora Bateson | Urgent Futures #27
🎙 Jesse sits down with polymath Nora Bateson for a wide-ranging conversation about Warm Data, ecologies of communication, the Polycrisis, cognition…
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Jesse Damiani
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Nora Bateson
1:43:38

September 2024

Al Hassan Elwan: Edgelording a New Avant-garde (POSTPOSTPOST™ Admin Reveal!) | #26
🎙 Jesse sits down with POSTPOSTPOST™ admin & instigator Al Hassan Elwan for a wide-ranging conversation about digital culture, memes, politics…
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Jesse Damiani
2:39:33
Gerardo Ceballos & Paul R. Ehrlich: 'Before They Vanish'—All The Life We Can Still Save from the Sixth Extinction | #25
🎙 Jesse sits down with legendary conservation scientists Gerardo Ceballos & Paul R. Ehrlich to discuss their new book 'Before They Vanish,' the…
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Jesse Damiani
1:38:48
Nina Jankowicz: Why Disinformation Is Still a Critical Issue for Democracy | Urgent Futures #24
🎙 Jesse sits down with American Sunlight Project CEO Nina Jankowicz to discuss the ongoing realities of disinformation, the role of technology in…
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Jesse Damiani
1:28:14
Michael Mezzatesta: Why Isn't the Economy Working? An Economist's Case for Post-Growth | #23
🎙 Jesse sits down with economist & communicator Michael Mezzatesta to discuss sustainability, alternative economics, degrowth, post-growth, wellbeing…
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Jesse Damiani
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Michael Mezzatesta
2:06:25
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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August 2024

Noelle Perdue: What Everyone Gets Wrong About Pornography—According to a Porn Historian | Urgent Futures #22
🎙 Jesse sits down with porn historian Noelle Perdue to discuss how pornography intersects with Internet freedom, privacy, and obscenity law—and why…
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Jesse Damiani
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Noelle
1:49:10
William E. Rees: The Disconnect Between Ecology & The Economy is Driving us Toward Collapse—What Should we do About it? | Urgent Futures #21…
🎙 Jesse sits down with legendary ecologist & ecological economist Bill Rees to discuss ecological footprint analysis, the human eco-predicament, the…
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Jesse Damiani
2:11:05
Günseli Yalcinkaya: Internet Folklorist Explains Reality Shifting, Dolls, Incels/Femcels, Cryptids, Memes, & AI | Urgent Futures #20
🎙 Jesse sits down with Dazed Features Editor, writer, and artist Günseli Yalcinkaya to discuss the weird, chaotic, psychedelic, and uncomfortable…
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Jesse Damiani
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Günseli
1:22:09
Meredith Broussard: How 'Technochauvinism' Leads to Bad AI | Urgent Futures #19
🎙 Jesse sits down with data journalist and AI ethics expert Meredith Broussard to discuss how AI is developed, its role in society, confronting bias in…
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Jesse Damiani
1:04:53

July 2024

Margaret Wertheim: How do Coral Reefs Teach us About Curved Space? How are the Multiverse and AI Connected? | Urgent Futures #18
🎙 Jesse sits down with artist-science communicator Margaret Wertheim for a mind-bending & multidimensional conversation about art, math, science…
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Jesse Damiani
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Margaret Wertheim
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2:45:12
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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Jesse Damiani
1:59:04
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