10 episodes
Living in the End Times Amos & Ex
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Whether the subject in question is democracy, climate change, biomedical engineering, or the American university, it is clear that the society we have known will soon no longer be. As humankind stares into an abyss the bottom of which we cannot yet see, the producers of Living in The End Times thought it prudent to discuss the tumult around us and our species’ prospects for the future. We hope you will join in the conversation.
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Bronze age perversions 1
The first of two episodes on the BAP book Bronze Age Mindset (2018).
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Once a clone, always a clone
A&E use Juel Taylor's 2023 film They Cloned Tyrone as a way into talking 21st century biopolitics, necropolitics, Haiti, and revolution.
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Cormac McCarthy and neoliberalism
Found this lost episode from June 2023 while scrounging the couch cushions deep for change wherein A&E discuss the political scene as it had been unfolding to that point in World History. Plus: the neoliberalism of Cormac McCarthy's fiction.
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Chain reaction
Time to chat the next of several selections in this season of the mass market communist film: Chris Nolan's Oppenheimer, wherein labor organizing gets more screen time than quantum physics.
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The deep state gets groovy, or The Source Family
A&E chat Maria Demopoulos's and Jodi Wille's 2012 doc The Source Family, discussing how state agencies were always-already part of the American counterculture.
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How to Joe Biden a Pipeline
A&E discuss Daniel Goldhaber's 2022 film How to Blow up a Pipeline, asking if it's really true at this point that it's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.