Sitemap - 2024 - Reality Studies

Art Berman: Oil, How the Economics of Energy Impacts Global Populism, & the Huge Problem We Must Address | #37

Peter Brannen: What You Need to Know About the Five Mass Extinctions (to Understand the Sixth Extinction) | #36

Phoebe Barnard: The Human Behavioral Crisis is the Coordination Problem Underlying Overshoot and Climate Crisis | #35

Rodolfo Dirzo: Understanding Mass Extinctions, The Gift of Biodiversity, Plant-Animal Relationships, and 'Defaunation' | #34

Harry Yeff (Reeps100): The Future of the Voice—Human, Machine, & Otherwise | #33

Simon Michaux: Is the Green Transition Doomed? Why We Need the 'Purple Transition' Instead | #32

Trump's Election, the End of the World Order as We Know It, & Where We Go From Here | Urgent Futures Rapid Response #1

Bradley Rydholm: Why Nature is Metal—and Why it's Not | #31

Renée DiResta: The Evolution of Propaganda & its 'Invisible Rulers': Influencers, Algorithms, & Crowds | #30

Philip V. McHarris: A World Beyond Police—Utopia? | #29

Taryn Southern: The Peril & Promise of Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI), Generative AI, and Spatial Computing | #28

Nora Bateson: Warm Data, 'Combining,' and "Who Can You Be When You Are With Me?" | Urgent Futures #27

Al Hassan Elwan: Edgelording a New Avant-garde (POSTPOSTPOST™ Admin Reveal!) | #26

Gerardo Ceballos & Paul R. Ehrlich: 'Before They Vanish'—All The Life We Can Still Save from the Sixth Extinction | #25

Nina Jankowicz: Why Disinformation Is Still a Critical Issue for Democracy | Urgent Futures #24

Michael Mezzatesta: Why Isn't the Economy Working? An Economist's Case for Post-Growth | #23

What Ted Chiang’s New Yorker Essay Gets Wrong About Art and AI—and Why It Matters

Noelle Perdue: What Everyone Gets Wrong About Pornography—According to a Porn Historian | Urgent Futures #22

William E. Rees: The Disconnect Between Ecology & The Economy is Driving us Toward Collapse—What Should we do About it? | Urgent Futures #21

Günseli Yalcinkaya: Internet Folklorist Explains Reality Shifting, Dolls, Incels/Femcels, Cryptids, Memes, & AI | Urgent Futures #20

Meredith Broussard: How 'Technochauvinism' Leads to Bad AI | Urgent Futures #19

Margaret Wertheim: How do Coral Reefs Teach us About Curved Space? How are the Multiverse and AI Connected? | Urgent Futures #18

Landon Ross: Examining Consciousness, Evolution, AI, and Physics Through Art, Storytelling, and Philosophy | Urgent Futures #17

Autumn Breon: Reimagining Broken Systems through Art, Activism, Radical Self-Care, & Speculative Worlding | Urgent Futures #16

Nita Farahany: Neurotech, the Latest Skirmishes in the 'Battle for Your Brain,' and Your Right to Cognitive Liberty | Urgent Futures #15

Laura Forlano & Danya Glabau: Living Well with Machines, Real-World Cyborg Futures, and Critical Cyborg Literacy | Urgent Futures #14

Hodor is the Hero Archetype We Need Now

Eryk Salvaggio & Caroline Sinders: Glitching AI, Algorithmic Resistance, Labor Activism, Art as Research, & Feminist Technology | Urgent Futures #13

Danielle Stevenson: Using Mushrooms to Heal Polluted Places | Urgent Futures Ep. 12

Explaining the Degrowth Movement. Is Degrowth Economics Possible?

Reading List: 8 Books for Understanding Degrowth Economics

Emily Segal: Trend Forecasting, 'Normcore' Ten Years Later, & Not Being Scared of AI (Yet) | Urgent Futures Ep. 11

Brittan Heller: Can Human Rights Law Adapt to the Era of AI & Spatial Computing? | Urgent Futures Ep. 10

Legacy Russell: The Black Meme in Visual & Viral Culture | Urgent Futures Ep. 9

Lisa Messeri: Unreal Realities in Los Angeles and VR | Urgent Futures Ep. 8

Dennis Yi Tenen: The Hidden History of Modern AI & Machine Learning | Urgent Futures Ep. 7

Idris Brewster: Why AR Matters

The Drake-Kendrick Beef and Musings on the Future of AI-Generated Content

Eric Czuleger: What's...a Country?

Cherie Hu: What's Next for the Music Industry? AI, Blockchain, and More

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