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    60 Million Americans Can't Be Wrong

    Christopher Kulendran Thomas and Annika Kuhlmann

    Could citizenship be erased through cloud technology?

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    A Different Type of Church

    Ryan Cardoso

    I want to be soft…Can I be a petal?…I’m tired of being a demon

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    A Good Crisis

    DIS

    You wasted a good crisis.

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    A New Face in Hell

    Emily Allan & Leah Hennessey

    Cultural theorist Mark Fisher (RIP) vs. Mark E. Smith (RIP) from The Fall.

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    A New Nature

    Mark Dorf

    Does nature have a future? Not just the stuff of it—plants, megafauna, whatever—but the concept itself.

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    Abandoned Factories

    Riccardo Benassi

    Today we dance in emptied out factories and warehouses, what role do these party-protests serve?

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    After Scarcity

    Bahar Noorizadeh

    After Scarcity explores cybernetics in the USSR when computation ≠ total financialization.

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    All Bleeding Stops Eventually

    Will Benedict

    A response to the IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate.

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    Always On My Mind

    Daniel Felstead with Jenn Leung

    Master linguist Nicki Minaj considers the significance of Elon Musk's first successful Neuralink brain chip implant.

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    Art's Properties

    Derek Larson

    How can we live freely without pious devotion to celebrities and status objects?

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    Assidule

    Julien Creuzet

    Assidule is a poetic consideration of racialized corporeality by Julien Creuzet.  

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    Beijing

    Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman

    Everyone has their opinions. Our computers soon will have theirs.

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    Benign Violence

    Derek G. Larson

    Jon has coffee with a revolving cast of thinkers.

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    Bina48

    DIS

    Before ChatGPT and Bing AI (aka Sydney) there was Bina48.

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    Blueberry World

    Will Benedict & Steffen Jørgensen

    Are you hungry or deeply sad––or sangry?

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    Bob: A job is a job is a job

    Amalia Ulman

    Bob goes to work.

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    Building a New Road

    Simon Dybbroe Møller

    The abstraction of the infrastructure we rely on hides a history of work.

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    CALL TO ARMS

    PentHouss

    Mirrors ring a claustrophobic space. Lights flash. Enter the riot police. Obscured behind darkened face shields, they menace. And then they begin dancing.

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    Carceral Capitalism by Jackie Wang

    Ada O'Higgins & Semiotext(e)

    Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism, durationally read by Nico Fuentes.

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    Casey and her Mom

    Casey Jane Ellison

    Casey and her mom go head to head in episode one of MAD.

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    Casey and Her Unborn Daughter

    Casey Jane Ellison

    You’ve never seen mothers and daughters like this.

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    Chantal Mouffe

    DIS

    Wark summons Chantal Mouffe, explaining how the “liberal” and the “democratic” are pulling apart.

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    Charles Manson, Timothy Leary, & the Animals of NIMH

    SOFTETHIX

    Experience a day in the life of “The Control,” a rat living at NIMH

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    Classrooms

    Shawn Maximo

    If architecture mediates learning, what does that mean in the era of remote schooling, where a technologically-dependent student body has become increasingly decentralized?

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    Controlled Opposition

    Matt Goerzen & Ed Fornieles

    Investigating the tricks trolls play.

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    Counterfeit Poast

    Jon Rafman

    Take a moment to exit your usual filter bubble and algorithmic echo chamber to enter the universe of Jon Rafman's Counterfeit Poast.

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    Couture Critiques

    Mandy Harris Williams

    Are you ready for these looks and these reads? From artist, essayist, and community working pop star, Mandy Harris Williams comes a brand new series — Couture Critiques. 

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    Dancing Online

    Riccardo Benassi

    Digital-music meets MDMA hangovers, police fines, and the ventilator beat of respiratory disease.

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    Degrees of Disgust

    Will Benedict & Steffen Jørgensen

    What are the ethics of getting a ton of milk to make nasty cheese in the age of global warming?

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    DKP is Market Socialism

    Joshua Citarella & Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman

    How virtual socialism works in massive multiplayer online games like World of Warcraft.

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    DOMESTIC/STANDARD

    Nicholas Korody

    The home is not where you go when you leave the factory, it is a factory. 

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    Donald Anthonyson and Families for Freedom

    Hannah Black

    Donald Anthonyson, Director of Families for Freedom, comes on to talk about immigration.

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    Donna Haraway Reads 'The National Geographic'

    Paper Tiger Television

    How do relationships between human and non-human animals reveal how we think about ourselves?

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    Duchamp pisses on graphic design

    Gilbert

    How Duchamp’s undisciplined graphic imaginary inspired his artistic acolytes to become graphic designers.

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    Dust

    Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman

    Boundaries have always been porous, mistaking them as anything but may just be our undoing.

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    Elysia marginata

    Allyson Packer and Jesse Fisher

    Close your tabs.  This is the Sleep-In Movement.

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    Emergence

    The Institute of Queer Ecology

    Mykki Blanco guides us out of our straight, fossil-fuel soaked cocoon.

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    Eulogy for a Black Mass

    Aria Dean

    Exploring the black creative labor put into memes and the evolving theory of the poor image.

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    Everyone is a Worker

    Simon Dybbroe Møller

    Do you have to wear a uniform? Or are you free to wear what you want?

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    Extraterrestrial Rave

    Riccardo Benassi

    Dance can be a playground or a battleground.

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    Eyes of the Nation

    Nicholas Korody

    Eyes of the Nation explores the work of vision, power, and obscurity in the project of Israeli state-making through its media images.

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    Fanfictional Politics

    Pedro Gossler

    What if the fans know what’s really going on, better than the haters and those who don’t really care? 

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    Feminism with Christen Clifford

    DIS

    Christen Clifford tackles the expansive and intersectional nature of gendered oppression.

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    Flo Kennedy Reads U.S. Press on South Africa

    Paper Tiger Television

    Lawyer, actor, and activist Florynce “Flo” Kennedy investigates how the U.S. media uses a language of neutrality to obscure its ideological commitments.

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    From Courbet to the Kardashians with Jacolby Satterwhite

    DIS

    From Courbet to the Kardashians with Jacolby Satterwhite

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    Garage Conspiracy

    Olivia Erlanger and Luis Ortega Govela

    The garage is the domain of reality disconnect, re-invention, and self-fulfilling prophecies.

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    Good Company: Noam Chomsky

    Derek G. Larson

    Jon travels to Mexico City to talk with Noam Chomsky animated as a monkey in tourist apparel.

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    Green Dragon

    Riccardo Benassi

    If the art world places the party or the protest within its institutional frames, do they maintain their potency?

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    Gretchen Bender: TV, Text and Image Focus Group

    Dis

    Gretchen Bender’s TV, Text and Image was the precursor to today’s ever-present memes and Tweets.

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    Grub Economics

    The Institute of Queer Ecology

    Capitalism forces us into a perpetual larval stage, an incessant need to consume and accumulate resources.

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    Hardly Working

    Total Refusal

    Total Refusal’s meditation on the Non Playable characters that populate the 2018 Western game Red Dead Redemption 2.

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    Horizons

    Anastasia Davydova Lewis with Eno Swinnen

    A meditation on questioning and universal truths.

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    How To Disappear, Deserting battlefield

    Total Refusal

    You’ve played a FPS game before. But have you ever tried to desert, abandon the fight mid battle?

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    Human Design

    Ilana Harris-Babou

    An exploration of personal and collective histories and the ways design shapes our lives.

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    I Don't Know Her

    Emily Allan & Leah Hennessey

    Susan Sontag in 1992 told Entertainment Weekly that she had never heard of Camille Paglia.

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    Inside Pionen

    Emma Charles

    Preservation and paranoia, inside Pionen; an interview with its architect, Albert France-Lanord.

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    Jayne and Her Mom

    Casey Jane Ellison

    Casey prompts a mother and a daughter to discuss their relationship and help her save the world.

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    Le Suicide

    Will Benedict & Steffen Jørgensen

    Siri, how do you make chicken?

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    Liquidation

    The Institute of Queer Ecology

    Capitalism hides its shape from us, so let’s give it one.

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    Literally No Place

    Daniel Felstead & Jenn Leung

    Julia Fox avatar is back. Now she takes us on a journey into the AI utopian versus AI doomer cyberwarfare bedlam. Watch this video before picking a side.

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    Marge's Intro

    Olivia Erlanger and Luis Ortega Govela

    How a food distributor named Joseph Eichler remade America.

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    Martha Rosler Reads Vogue

    Paper Tiger Television

    Vogue Magazine's role in creating and recreating class power.

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    Maya Binyam and Bail Bloc

    Hannah Black

    Posting bail is not just about pretrial freedom, but for ensuring freedom going forward.

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    Medium Design with Keller Easterling

    DIS X PIN—UP

    Infrastructure is all around us, which is precisely why it’s so hard to see.

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    Metadata

    Christopher Meerdo

    Artist Christopher Meerdo’s searing film weaves an emotive vignette on the state of contemporary politics and socialities.

     

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    Mincome

    Whitney Mallett

    For 3 short years no one lived in poverty.

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    Money with Babak Radboy

    DIS

    Babak Radboy explains the ruthlessness of capital to children.

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    Moscow Hotel is sick of your tears

    Ruba Al-Sweel

    Ruba Al-Sweel connects our physical and spiritual enmeshment with tech to a collage of ancient, esoteric knowledge.

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    Mother

    Will Benedict & Steffen Jørgensen

    Plato's Cave was a Pizza Oven.

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    Murray Bookchin Reads Time Magazine

    Paper Tiger Television

    Murray Bookchin demonstrates how Time magazine obliterates time.

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    Narrative Devices

    DIS & Babak Radboy

    Imagine the end of the contemporary.

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    Natural Gods

    Korakrit Arunanondchai

    This is a nature show about the least natural thing of all: God.

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    Neighborhood Goggles

    Meriem Bennani

    The homes of Rabat, Morocco come to life to tell their tales.

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    Neophiles versus Amnesiacs

    Gilbert

    After PageMaker the gatekeepers of graphic design went missing and a bloody territorial graphic arms race ensued.

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    No More Tuna In The Tuna Sandwiches

    Will Benedict & Steffen Jørgensen

    We’ve had a long run as civilized predators; perhaps we will again become prey.

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    Noam Chomsky Reads the New York Times

    Paper Tiger Television

    In order to responsibly read the news, one must ask oneself three questions...

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    Notes on Fortnightism

    Carson Chan and Gustav Düsing

    An architectural response to the pandemic.

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    Obama Baroque

    DIS

    Gossip Girl here, you're one and only source into the scandals of financial capitalism.

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    On Platforms

    Joshua Citarella & Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman

    How the platforms we use every day consolidate the worst extremes of neoliberal ideology.

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    Operation Jane Walk

    Total Refusal

    We are inside Tom Clancy’s The Division multiplayer game. Follow us on an architecture tour that uncovers the hypocrisies behind the making of the New York landscape.

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    Panera's Basilisk

    Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman

    Soon he began to realize where there’s knowledge, there’s a knower.

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    Paul B. Preciado

    DIS

    McKenzie Wark summons Paul B. Preciado and explains Pharma-Porno Capitalism.

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    PENUMBRA

    Hannah Black, Juliana Huxtable, And Or Forever

    An animal, representing all animals, on trial for crimes including “being disgusting,” in a dream-like confrontation between being and the law. 

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    Permanent Event

    Riccardo Benassi

    Voyeurism and viewership have accrued new meanings during the pandemic.

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    POSTPOSTPOST

    Al Hassan Elwan aka POSTPOSTPOST

    Me & Also Me got so avant-garde that they literally teleported into the future. 

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    Prelude: Serotiny

    The Institute of Queer Ecology

    Climate control is preparing us for a new doomsday economy, where even a green response could be an ecofascist wolf in environmentalist sheep’s clothing.

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    Queer Architecture with Andres Jaque

    DIS

    What is queer architecture? Well, what is architecture? Andrés Jaque explores.

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    Real Mass Entrepreneurship

    Simon Denny

    The entrepreneur is cast as a high-tech hero but may be latest victim of precarious labor.

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    Red Sourcebook

    Ilana Harris-Babou

    Tracing the racist legacy of land ownership.

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    Reparation Hardware

    Ilana Harris-Babou

    Furniture restoration tutorial and a proposal for the delivery of reparations to African-Americans.

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    Sea Lovers

    Ingo Niermann

    How can we replace fear and exploitation of the ocean with intimate love?

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    Seasonal Associate By Heike Geissler

    Ada O'Higgins & Semiotext(e)

    10,000 Words from Seasonal Associate, Heike Geissler's labor memoir for the Amazon Era.

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    Seduced by Suburbia

    Olivia Erlanger and Luis Ortega Govela

    Without the car, there’d be no suburbs.

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    Sentimental Education

    Riccardo Benassi

     Can a movement be a memorial?

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    September 5th, 2006

    Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman

    Are Mark Zuckerberg and his silicon valley tech bro progeny the modern incarnation of Ronald Reagan, Pastor Jerry Falwell and the 1980s conservative Moral Majority movement?

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    Shakedown Directors Commentary

    Leilah Weinraub

    Witness Shakedown alongside Leilah Weinraub.

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    Shelter

    Nicholas Korody

    Does distance save us from the violence of our own actions?

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    Sianne Ngai

    DIS

    McKenzie Wark summons Sianne Ngai and considers a new set of aesthetic terms.

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    Social Practices by Chris Kraus

    Ada O'Higgins & Semiotext(e)

    10,000 words from Chris Kraus’s Social Practices (2018).

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    Southern Gothic

    Derek G. Larson

    Imagine William Faulkner had access to lysergic acid diethylamide and lived in an abandoned mall.

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    Spite

    Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman

    The A.I. embodied in Casey Jane Ellison wants us to know she’s in charge.

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    Sugar is Coke

    Will Benedict & Steffen Jørgensen

    Siri, How do I make apple cider?

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    Syzygy

    Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman

    Meta’s self-betraying Super Bowl commercial explained.

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    The Average Chef

    Will Benedict & Steffen Jørgensen

    There is something for everyone in this gastronomic high rise.

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    The Bots (Arab Market)

    Eva & Franco Mattes

    The following interview is a true account using words from the workers social media keeps hidden.

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    The Bots (English Market)

    Eva & Franco Mattes

    The following interview is a true account using words from the workers social media keeps hidden.

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    The Bots (Greek Market)

    Eva & Franco Mattes

    The following interview is a true account using words from the workers social media keeps hidden.

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    The Bots (Greek Market)

    Eva & Franco Mattes

    The following interview is a true account using words from the workers social media keeps hidden.

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    The Bots (Italian Market)

    Eva & Franco Mattes

    The following interview is a true account using words from the workers social media keeps hidden.

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    The Bots (Spanish Market)

    Eva & Franco Mattes

    The following interview is a true account using words from the workers that social media keeps hidden.

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    The Bots (Turkish Market)

    Eva & Franco Mattes

    The following interview is a true account using words from the workers social media keeps hidden.

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    The Drone is the Message

    Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman

    It’s not the laptop nor phone that best typifies our relationship to the internet. It’s the drone.

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    The First Fat

    Will Benedict & Steffen Jørgensen

    You can’t Seamless and Grubhub your way out of this.

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    The Future of Life

    Jonas Lund

    Embrace the security of AI systems dictating every decision, from what to eat to how much you sleep

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    The Influencing Machine Presents: Spooky Castle

    Aaron Moulton, Jak Ritger, Abbey Pusz

    How macro-political shifts became visualized in Contemporary Art after the Iron Curtain crumbled.

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    The Metaverse in Janky Capitalism

    Daniel Felstead

    This is a grotesque, cringe, messy, perverse, and sublime analysis of the future of the internet.

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    The Method

    DIS x LUAR

    Acting class is the networking in-club of the moment. Find out if YOU should join one by watching “The Method,” where Emily Allan and Leah Hennessey direct a group of hungry, desperate thespians through warm-ups, scene work, and screen tests.

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    The New Family

    Simon Dybbroe Møller

    What do people do all day? They work.

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    The Rainforest Inside Us

    Will Benedict & Steffen Jørgensen

    Are you an Oatly drinking vegan libtard or a red-pilled edgelord chugging goat milk with a side of raw deer heart?

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    The Seasteaders

    By Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman and Daniel Keller

    How do you build a libertarian future? The Seasteading Institute thinks it knows.

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    The sensei’s subscription services will never subcreate the sensei

    Gilbert

    From the beginning... it was graphic design.

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    The Slow Red Pill

    Joshua Citarella & Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman

    How does the Far Right get run-of-the-mill conservatives to cross over?

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    The Swedish Troll Factory 

    Kybernein Institute

    Undoing the neoliberal paradigm shift in Sweden as the result of a vast and carefully orchestrated plot.

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    The Television Will Not Be Terrorised

    Paul Lemaire and Vincent Burger

    A new take on the French Revolution, via campy star-studded 80s cable TV

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    The Venus Monologues

    DIS

    The 30,000-year-old mainstay of art history 101 courses speaks.

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    Tyler

    Women's History Museum & Daffy Scanlan

    Fashion label Women’s History Museum is here to (re)teach us how to dress.

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    UBI: The Straight Truvada

    DIS

    Is Universal Basic Income the left's utopian holy grail or an oligarch distraction?

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    Unholy Matrimony

    Emily Allan & Leah Hennessy

    Based on a true story, Allen Ginsberg & Andrea Dworkin face-off as godparents in unholy matrimony.

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    Universal Basic Income with Clio Chang

    DIS

    Clio explains the basics of basic income.

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    Unstoppable Feat: The Dances of Ed Mock

    Brontez Purnell

    Brontez Purnell reconstructs the life and movement of the late visionary choreographer Ed Mock.

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    Up Next

    Eva & Franco Mattes

    Sahar Tabar's image may be undeclared parody, but it's also the story of competing powers and unlikely alliances.

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    Violence Entrepreneurs

    Derek G. Larson

    Neolib consumer culture explodes into a dark and anxious continuum from brand obsession to recreational warfare.

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    Water

    Simon Dybbroe Møller

    For some, water might barely get a thought even as it structures our existence.

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    We Have To Meet Things Halfway: Graham Harman

    Derek G. Larson

    Jon challenges Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos while speeding through a data center.

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    We Need To Invent A Different Kind Of Love: Michael Hardt

    Derek G. Larson

    Can we invent a new kind of love? What do objects experience? How much connection is too much?

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    What is artificial intelligence? With Constant Dullart

    DIS

    How do you teach a computer to think? It's not that different from a child.

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    What is Blockchain?

    Simon Denny

    Are networked nodes working together really the same as equal political participation?

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    What is Social Ecology?

    DIS

    The biological, ecological, and socio-cultural are not separate, Brigitte Baptiste explains why.

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    What the graphic designers wore

    Gilbert

    Gilbert excavates the remains of the canonical Euro male graphic designers.

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    Where do Local and Global Meet?

    DIS

    Brigitte Baptiste asks, where do local and global meet? And explains how neural ecology may be the key to understanding.

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    Whose story is told?

    DIS

    Who are ecological narratives for? Who are they by? Who do they leave out?

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    Ylang Ylang

    Women's History Museum and Daffy Scanlan

    Fashion label Women's History Museum is here to (re)teach us how to dress.

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    Zahira Kelly and The Politics of the Internet

    Hannah Black

    Discussing the supercharged and interconnected political landscapes of Twitter and Tumblr.

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